The Spirit of the Stained Glass House
Here's another jewel from our recent vacation - Stained Glass Manor in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Stained Glass Manor was built between 1902 and 1908 by Fannie Vick Willis Johnson (The "Vick" in her name is because she is a descendant of the city's namesake). It was designed by George Washington Maher, Frank Lloyd Wright's teacher; the house looks as if Wright might have done it himself. Thirty-six original stained glass panels adorn the house, and gives it the unique name. The following ghost stories come from Shirley, the lady of the house.
Some believe that Fannie may be coming back to visit. Several people have seen a lady standing in Fannie's bedroom, and even out on the front lawn. The current owner believes that when Fannie died she carried with her a terrible secret - that she had helped a friend of hers suffocate a crippled or retarded child up in the attic, out of the misguided notion that they were doing the young boy a favor since he could not take care of himself.
In the attic loft, many people have reported seeing a young man who was impaired in some way. A young boy told his parents that he had been playing with a young boy up in the attic, and still another took his parents up the stairs because he had been locked out of the attic where they were staying. As the family stood at the door trying to figure out what to do, it unlocked and opened from the inside. The parents were shocked, but the boy told his folks that it had been opened by the crippled boy inside.
The Stained Glass Manor was built between 1902 and 1908 by Fannie Vick Willis Johnson (The "Vick" in her name is because she is a descendant of the city's namesake). It was designed by George Washington Maher, Frank Lloyd Wright's teacher; the house looks as if Wright might have done it himself. Thirty-six original stained glass panels adorn the house, and gives it the unique name. The following ghost stories come from Shirley, the lady of the house.
Some believe that Fannie may be coming back to visit. Several people have seen a lady standing in Fannie's bedroom, and even out on the front lawn. The current owner believes that when Fannie died she carried with her a terrible secret - that she had helped a friend of hers suffocate a crippled or retarded child up in the attic, out of the misguided notion that they were doing the young boy a favor since he could not take care of himself.
In the attic loft, many people have reported seeing a young man who was impaired in some way. A young boy told his parents that he had been playing with a young boy up in the attic, and still another took his parents up the stairs because he had been locked out of the attic where they were staying. As the family stood at the door trying to figure out what to do, it unlocked and opened from the inside. The parents were shocked, but the boy told his folks that it had been opened by the crippled boy inside.
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