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Article: Historic house filled with odd, old finds
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 29, 2006
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Marcia and Walter Greenhowe's "hobby" house is furnished with
treasures she's found at estate sales and in antique shops or rescued
from garage bins and junkyards.
But her biggest coup is probably the house itself. The two-story
Craftsman-style house was in ruins and overgrown with shrubbery when
she first saw it 10 years ago.
She and Walter ignored their first clue.
The house on the corner of Washington Avenue and Chestnut Street
in Institute had been vacant for years and was filled with rubbish.
So in the initial cleanup, the couple just tossed the photograph of
Booker T. Washington onto a pile, not noticing that the famous black
educator had signed his portrait.
Steve Michael of Quality ...