This leaning French home featured in The New York Times dates to the 12th-century — and it gives us the willies! Looking like a witch's chateau, the house is in Louviers, France (about 60 miles north of Paris) and is the home of chef and food writer Susan Herrmann Loomis...
The home is 3,800 square feet of living space and was a convent for 300 years. Loomis has modernized the kitchen and writes her books in one of the seven bedrooms (converted to an office).
Read all about the legends of this ancient home:
In France, a Labyrinth of a House and see more pictures in the slideshow.
(Images: Owen Franken)
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Comments (13)
The best part of the house: the Obama sign in the yard...
MFlick - ha! good eye....I hadn't noticed
First thing I saw was the Obama sign too!
lovely. it's nice that there are people out there committed to maintaining these treasures.
how amazing
Am I doing the math right, a house they bought for 60,000 is now over 7 million? I remember a magazine story about this house and her commissioning of the custom built stove. Curious about the spirit inhabitants that the article mentions. Who does she think is in her house?
I would be so paranoid about ghosts.
Here's an AMAZING tour of a faux Bavarian Castle outside Toronto, complete with secret passageway: http://stylenorth.ca/blog/2009/01/folly-bavarian-castle-in-mississauga/
Beautiful!!!!
I am so very fond of these old treasures.
Beautiful house. So much atmosphere and character. I'd love to live in this old beauty.
Kate (NC): You've got an extra zero in there, I think. It'd be about $750,000 now. Great price appreciation, for sure, but not quite as crazy as you thought.
I live in an old house in Houston and every room slopes in a different direction and it drives me crazy.. had to take the wheels off of the bed because it would roll into the center of the room .. this house would push me over the edge, I guess the spirits are the long departed still looking for something that rolled away...No Thank You...
The best thing about the house is that it is a house, not a museum. I love the Obama sign, but I love the lived-in quality more, and the fact that it appears to be falling down. That it is not falling down makes it so much more appealing.