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May 04, 2007
bull durham house is on the market
there was certainly a time when an elegant and completely overblown Victorian would have been my total fantasy house, but i'm more of a bungalow girl these days.
but if fantasy victorians are your thing, the house they used as susan sarandon's house in bull durham is on the market and it can be yours for about $123/sq ft. you'll also get to live mere blocks from the charming english cottage o' death which is, arguably, depending on the circles in which you move, the more famous of the two houses.
Posted by lisa at May 04, 2007 11:39 PM
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Whoa, wait a minute ... how many "Bull Durham" houses are there? Because there is a house on the Preservation Durham Home tour today that is also supposed to be the "Bull Durham" house--officially called the "Eakes Mabry House" at 301 Watts St. I'm going to have to rent the movie again and see. Even before it was on the tour I thought it was the Watts St. house because that was what other people had told me. (Photo of Eakes-Mabry house here: http://www.preservationdurham.org/hometour/tour2007_details.html )
Posted by: lisa b on May 5, 2007 08:41 AM
i believe they used the front porch of the house in OND for the exterior shots and may have used a different house for interiors.
Posted by: lisa on May 5, 2007 08:52 AM
Lisa L's theory sounds right to me. I helped the current owners with some early cleaning / straightening when they bought it in 1996 for $120k. They've done lots and lots and lots of work since then. Friends thought they were nutbags when they bought it -- not that it was a bad deal, but that it would take so much work that they'd have to quit their day jobs just to get the house livable. But all seems to have worked out in the end.
Posted by: Phil on May 5, 2007 01:58 PM
I've never heard of the Watts St. house as the 'Bull Durham' house. While I can't speak for all the interior shots, the majority were done at 911 N. Mangum.
Posted by: GK on May 10, 2007 07:56 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.