2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWant to see the little house Bill bought to lure Hillary into marrying him? Here you go.
http://oldworldnew.us/bill-hillarys-first-home-fayetteville-ar/Visiting museums and learning history from curators is like a big exciting grown-up story time for me. Scott (pictured below) volunteers his time to give tours of this presidential abode turned museum. He told my friend and I all about the history of the home while it belonged to our 42nd President of the United States of America and current Secretary of State. He absolutely made the presence of Bill & Hillary in this home and come to life.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Cute! Thanks for posting.
Chimichurri
(2,911 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)if it had been a typical tract home. Not that she married him for a house, lol.
ismnotwasm
(42,030 posts)Really cute
SunSeeker
(51,824 posts)It looks like a cottage out of a fairy tale.
PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)It would be a cool place to live. Like the brick. And the way the picture windows reflect the day.
Yard needs a bit of work, but not much.
Not real thrilled about the sculpture of the...what do you think that thing IS?
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)JSup
(740 posts)...the not Winter pic. I used to live in Fayetteville and its surroundings are pretty. A shame Fayetteville keeps paving over them.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)I knew someone who collected clinker brick buildings, especially apartment buildings. Great investments.
What are clinker bricks?
When fired in early brick kilns, the surface of bricks that were too close to the fire changed into volcanic textures and darker, EDMONTON 138often purplish colors. Typically they were discarded but around 1900, these bricks were discovered to be usable and distinctive in architectural detailing, adding a charming earthy quality to buildings. The hardened residue of coal fires is called clinker, thus these mutant bricks found a name. In Europe, it is spelled klinker.