Roosevelt Heading to Charlotte Sept. 10, 1936

Here Franklin Roosevelt is in his limousine, soon to give his "Green Pastures Rally" address to Dedicate the Veterans Memorial Stadium which now is our present Memorial Stadium just behind Central Piedmont Community College. He is just outside Asheville, and waves to his viewers with his hat.

This is a photo taken during the Green Pastures Rally with President Franklin Roosevelt. Just above the arrow symbol in the crowd is the 1925 House =Blue Heaven=
It sits so happily in its focused centrality and this is taken from a somewhat larger picture taken in September 1936. The house is central in the original also.

Circa 1908 John Nolen

Here is our ever intrepid Independence Park designer on his way to San Diego to design the complete city! This was a project that would involve him from 1908 and through 1925. This was a busy man whose reputation was just starting with our Independence Park. Nolen sits rather proudly as rear passenger in an admittedly fabulous auto.

Ghosts of the House

My upstairs neighbor witnessed her small box-fan that was positioned on a kitchen table actually be THROWN out of the window, over 3 feet away from the table. I was downstairs and I certainly heard it hit the ground as I then went out into the back yard and retrieved it by putting it at her door's step. The next morning she described the ghostly scene. I and she as well as most of the tenants of the house have seen and heard quite a few odd things as well as having to deal with the quirky (re-read the April 27th kitchen ceiling message!) way that the house exists day to day--playful but melancholy, the ghost/s seem to be a little stir-crazy and just want some excitement !

I have discovered a map of Charlotte in the very late 1940's that shows the local bus routes as they stood at that time for my neighborhood. It is exciting, that the city is bringing back the trolleys and they will be running right by the house again, just as they did from the 1890s through until 1938.