QUITMAN, Ga. – This imposing farmhouse has attracted photographers from all over the Southeast. Fronted by old oaks and surrounded by fields, it’s a perfect embodiment of what some would call Southern Gothic, characterized by a tension between realistic and supernatural elements.
As it turns out, there’s nothing particularly unsettling in the history here, though an architectural historian and I did our best to connect it to an infamous 1937 murder that had all the elements of a Southern Gothic novel.
Sometimes, you just want a house to have a spectacular story and it’s just a house, albeit a great one.
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