By: Emily Heffter
May 2, 2014
Despite reports of being haunted, this historic mansion at 206 N. Broadway in Joliet, Ill., sold in a week in a bidding war. And the enthusiasm hasn’t ended. Listing agent Maria Cronin is still planning to hold an open house this weekend — mainly to accommodate ghost hunters who are traveling in to view the property and try to contact the spirits that reportedly dwell in the home.
“I didn’t know what I was getting into when I took this listing,” Cronin said.
Hiram Scutt, a Civil War veteran who later became a barbed-wire magnate, built the beautiful Victorian outside Chicago in 1882. It was known as “Barb Villa.” After Scutt died in 1889, his son, Frank, took over and the home was eventually sold to Daniel Watson, who turned it into a girls’ school and a home for women who came to the city to work, according to the application for historic status.
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