When I first started researching Körner’s Folly, a historic home in Kernersville, NC, I assumed that it was haunted. Or at least had a tragic history or an eccentric owner. A 22 room house where no two windows are the same, the ceiling heights have no uniformity, that was continuously renovated until the owner died and then sat abandoned for years deteriorating had to have some kind of macabre history.
Alas, the home has no sordid past whatsoever. The trap doors in the floor are not for vanquishing enemies but for cooling the home in the summer months. The home’s varied array of design features and finishings are the result of its owner, Jule Körner, being an interior designer and decorator who used the home to show off his work to clients. The strangest thing about his family is that his children had a pet raccoon named Bob.
Despite the lack of ghosts or tragedy, this is still a fascinating place to visit. It’s currently in the middle of of being renovated, so some rooms are restored to their former Victorian glory while others still retain a paint peeling eeriness. And it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so, since my fellow bloggers over at Batch and Narrative visited as well!
I was lucky to have the house to myself during my visit, which allowed me to take an excessive 112 photos of this house without anyone straying into a shot.
The owner must have had a good sense of humor, too, with that “witches corner.” Great pics!
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Yes! The whole house was very whimsical.
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Wow! Such a cool story and great pictures! You visit the most interesting places strange. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you! That what I love about NC, so many interesting little places tucked away.
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Love the pictures thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you for visiting!
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Such beautiful photos!😍
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Thank you!
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Wow, did we visit at right around the same times?!?! Good take on this!
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Thank you! I think our visits were a week apart… I loved the photo in the children’s room, those ceilings were crazy!
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We might have to do a “strange” joint post some day! Great pics by the way, too.
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Thank you, we should!
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Very cool!
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So cool! I love old historic places, oddities and strange things! You got a new reader!:) & Those decorative tile “rugs” are becoming popular again!
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Thank you!
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LOVE your story and the pics are fab! What an amazing house. I’d love to see a post after the renovation is complete 🙂
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Thank you! I’m very interested to see how the large reception room looks after being restored, so I’ll have to return at some point!
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wow 112 photos…that’s a lot! Such a beautiful old house, I would have though it was haunted too.
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Thank you! I did go a little overboard, but it was a fun place to visit!
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Wow–gorgeous.
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hehe shame about the lack of sordid past 😉 But this does look like a great place to visit anyway!
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I know, right? It was a really interesting place, full of all these small little details.
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Yes!!
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Great photos! Too bad no ghosts or a sordid past though 🙂
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Thank you!
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😊
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