Risen From the Dead: The Victorian Mansion Frankenstein’ed from Bunker Hill Homes and a Catholic Poor House

2026-05-06 21:17

From blog Atomic Redhead

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Risen From the Dead: The Victorian Mansion Frankenstein’ed from Bunker Hill Homes and a Catholic Poor House

The other day Patrick and I were driving in an area of the Valley we don’t often find ourselves in, and we stumbled upon the most bizarre Victorian monstrosity. A quick turn around and we stood beneath a towering building simply dubbed The Victorian. My brain was boggled, because while elements certainly seemed genuine from the turn of the century, its size and shape just seemed too weird to be real. That’s when I learned it is nothing short of Frankenstein’s Monster but in architecture form. The story of the Victorian begins in 1839 in France of all places. That is when the Catholic organization Little Sisters of the Poor was...

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