Monday, December 15, 2014
One of John D. MacDonald's Homes Is For Sale
The Trap of Solid Gold: Point Crisp Road House is for Sale: John and Dorothy MacDonald's old Point Crisp Road house is for sale! For a cool $3.2 million you can own what can be truly called a literary shrine. Here is a great article from a West Coast Florida newssite called Your Observer. There's some interesting stuff here about subsequent owners I hadn't known, along with the revelation that the house, with a few nice additions, is still in pretty much the same shape as it was when the MacDonalds lived there.
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Puts me in mind of something Shelby Foote claimed--once everyone got air conditioning, social connections started to fray. When windows were open all day, people could and would talk to each other all the time.
/Hate to think of that nice place becoming a garish "Queen of Versailles" style McMansion. Maybe I'll find a spare 3.2 million under the couch cushions.
Foote had a great point.
I'd love to buy that house and keep it as it is. Not going to happen, though.
I'll wait for the Busted Flush to come on the market.
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