Brownstone Detectives on TV
OK, all you house history fans!
A certain TV network will be at Brownstone Detective H.Q. in May to begin filming an episode of a television series.
The show will focus on the first family that lived in the house, The Corletts, and the “unfortunate occurrences” that seemed to emanate from the house in its early days.
BAD LUCK? YOU DECIDE…
It all started when the initial architect/builders of 738 Macon Street purchased the lot for the house and began building. About halfway through its construction, though, the house would go into foreclosure.
About a year later, the man who would eventually finish building the house, Wilfred Burr, A.K.A. “Lucky 13,” would buy the foreclosure property in a tax sale. After the sale was completed, Burr had saved enough money in the purchase that he was able to add an additional floor to the home, increasing its number of rooms from 9 – to 13.
Finally, after Burr completed the house, it would become the 13th house on the block.
But the the odd luck didn’t end there.
When the Corletts moved into 738 Macon Street, all seemed to be smooth sailing until the family matriarch, Margaret, passed away. Like dominoes, every year thereafter, until 1900, a Corlett would die – Margaret’s son, John; her son-in-law, Robert; and her daughter, Eleanor.
At this point, Margaret’s remaining child, Robert, decided presumably to get his family away from the house. He sold the property to a flipper and moved the family to a new home on Long Island. That summer, their nephew, Clinton, who’d been living with them since they moved into the Macon Street house, drowned himself in a river – just a few blocks away from their new Long Island home.
It appears, at that time, that all of the house’s bad luck departed with the Corletts when they moved.
Perhaps they took it with them to Long Island?
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