Can you believe that this Abandoned Victorian House in Indiana is sold for $20,000 was the gathering place for the social set all through the 1950s? Yes, the six-bedroom, two-bath home’s inlaid wood floors were gleaming back then. Sunlight streamed through the stained glass to make rainbows on the plaster walls, and built-ins held delicate bone china. That’s when the Spice family lived here. Back then, Miss Mary Spice hosted events here for the Flora-Studi Garden Club, the education committee of AAUW, the Red Cross, and the Progress Club.
Miss Mary Spice would be aghast at the condition of the house now. It even looked worse, covered in vines, in the 2018 Google Map view.
Family History
This house had been renting rooms out since the 1920s. Sometime after 1940, after her parents had both passed away, Mary Spice moved into the home. She was a school teacher in the public school system, and later she came a principle. Miss Spice belonged to numerous clubs and organizations and loved to entertain in the home. You wouldn’t know by looking at the grounds now, but she especially loved gardening.
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