Comments on: John Edwards’s Shantytown House

By: GreatHairGuy

GreatHairGuy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:47:04 +0000

Is there enough room to hide from Elizabeth?

By: Sharley

Sharley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:18:02 +0000

as much as I dislike the Edwards family, what he’s done here is not all that unusual. In New England, it is commonplace to build “connected” farms, where the outbuildings and house are connected with a variety of different looking sheds and outbuildings. It’s the style and probably serves them very well in the frigid winters of New England… go to all the shops and barns without braving the freezing ice and snow storms. In Edwards’ case it serves to provide much desired privacy from airplane photographers such as the one who hovered around and took the pictures used in this article.

By: CAReal

CAReal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:43:24 +0000

Cool. I’ve always wanted a barn, and I’m just thinking about all the large scale paintings that I could do there!

By: Jon May

Jon May — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:40:21 +0000

Reminds me of the uffizi gallery in Florence. They built a series of buildings to connect their offices with their castle.

By: DoorFrame

DoorFrame — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:30:54 +0000

The part hanging out in mid-air is pretty good. The whole thing is good.

When I was growing up we had neighbors who built an entire fence, several thousand feet long (maybe more than a mile in total liner distance) out of twigs. It was like a mile-long birds nest. Whatever they found lying around got thrown into the nest/fence and just got bigger and bigger over time.

If they were rich, John Edwards’s crazy connection is what they would build.

By: nach

nach — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:19:12 +0000

you’d think for all that money, he could afford some landscaping. what’s the big divot in the woods for? an extended parking lot for several hundred cars?

that connection is really odd, especially the last red sections before the big red barn. two slanty roof parts and even better.. a segment that doesn’t appear to have a foundation. rather, it’s just hanging out above a nonexistent creek.

By: jbg.

jbg. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:39:16 +0000

i looked at the bigified photo before reading further. here’s what i noticed:

if you trace the driveways and the lawn area around the main part of the house, it sort of looks like U.S.!