Lizzie Borden’s House!

Lizzie Borden’s House!

Lizzie Borden's House!

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Lizzie Borden’s trial for supposedly axe murdering her mother and father was the trial of the 19th Century. As legend has it, Lizzie’s natural mother died when Lizzie was just a toddler. Her father remarried. As a successful merchant, he became quite wealthy but still preferred to live in an average house considered to be under his social status and means. This, of course, meant that Lizzie would be unlikely to meet young men of her own social status. After her parents died and she was acquitted in court, with her inheritance from her father, she purchased this house in a neighborhood she felt befitting to her social rank. Though she was acquitted by the jury, she was ostracized from society and therefore lived out her life in this lovely house as a spinster until her death in 1927. The house where the murder took place is now a museum and B&B, but this, her own home is now on the market. The current seller has owned the home for 30 years.

Maplecroft is a stately Victorian home built in 1889 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Within its 3,697sf are 7 bedrooms, 4 baths, a grand entry foyer, a billiard room and 2 sunrooms. The eat-in kitchen has a breakfast room. Original to the house are the 6 fireplaces, the parquet floors, tin ceilings and mahogany moldings. Also on the property is a detached 3-car garage.

To this day no one knows for sure if Lizzie was the axe murderer or if it could possibly have been her father’s brother who was visiting them at the time. The brother had left the house to visit some other relatives in town, but did he double back to the house and do the deed himself? Likely we’ll never know, but it’s still a fascinating whodunit!

The home where axe lady spent her final years. Priced at $650k.

Source: www.redfin.com