This is how you move a pool table at Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft
Today, moving has begun for the former owner of Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft. A pool table was removed from the third floor via crane and moving men. The video below is speeded up 2X normal. Ever wonder how you move a pool table from Maplecroft? Here’s how!
A Peek Inside Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft
Finally, we who have never been invited into Maplecroft now get a little peek into the interior. The Fall River Herald News has a lovely article on a tour that Deb Allard took just yesterday. There are a few photos of the interior as well. The first two photos are by Dave Souza of the […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft has been SOLD!
Yes, it is finally official. Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft has been sold. Robert Dube sold the house for $500,000 to Kristee Bates of Houston, Texas. A story on the sale is here, and will be updated as information becomes available. Welcome to the neighborhood, Miss Bates! The newspaper promises a photo gallery of the inside of […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft For Sale Again
It appears that the rich person from the south who came all the way up here to look at the house, hire a private home inspector, and “think about it”, has decided not to purchase Maplecroft after all. Her car was in the driveway this morning, and then when she left, Mr. Dube put out […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft Sold?
Notice something missing? The FOR SALE sign is no longer in front of the house. A birdie told me that a prospective buyer from a certain part of the country came to Fall River on the 12th of September to look at the house and now the sign is gone. The person was there all […]
Lizzie Borden Novel: Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
So far, so good. Lizzie Borden is a monster killer, protecting sister Emma from strange beasts with her iron hatchet. I am enjoying the story and author Cherie Priest’s take on the tale of Lizzie Borden, taking her to great heights of “nightmare and madness.” Of particular interest to me, besides the use of Lizzie […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft Painting Complete
The headline here is an assumption on my part, of course. But a great deal of work has been done on this grand home that it looks finished…. The garage is even sporting new panels and facia boards! The house has been painted a pale yellow with white trim. According to Borden historian Bill Pavao, […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft is being painted — yellow
It is about time! Lizzie Borden’s home on “the Hill” on French Street, where she and her sister Emma moved to following Lizzie’s acquittal for the murder of their father and stepmother, is getting quite a facelift. The home has been in terrible disrepair (on the outside that we could see–don’t know about the interior) […]
Lizzie Borden Inspired Book Drive
In the “Most Unique Mention of Lizzie Borden” category we find an item from Pocatello, Idaho. A theatre company has produced a play about Lizzie and the murders titled Over The Fence: Hearsay, Hatchets, and Homicide while at the same time asking for donations of books for women in prison. The Old Town Actor’s Studio […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft: Preserved or Neglected?
When the current owner of Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft, the home she purchased with her sister Emma Borden following her acquittal in 1893, bought the property in 1980 for the reduced price of $60,000, an article appeared in the local Fall River Herald News discussing the sale and offering a few details of the new owners, […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft Significant Price Drop
Every year, around the August 4th anniversary of the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, the current owner of Maplecroft, Lizzie Borden’s home on the hill (which she purchased with her sister Emma Borden following her acquittal of the murders), places his home on the market. Each time he has asked an outrageous price, starting […]
“Borden Plot” at the Ancient Riverside Cemetery
I finally paid a visit to the Ancient Riverside Cemetery in Rhode Island to visit the grave of Hannah Nelson, who was Lizzie Borden’s most beloved housekeeper. The story of her life is poignantly written in Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River, by Michael Martins and Dennis Binette. […]
Maplecroft in the Snow
The morning after the Blizzard of 13.
Lizzie Borden eBay Photos on Sale
While perusing eBay for Lizzie Borden and Fall River items, as I do quite frequently just in case, I happened upon a few really choice items that I wanted to share with you. I have no intention of bidding on any of them as the prices are a bit high in my opinion, but it […]