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Psycho/baity hill/chapel hill, nc 

CGastonC at aol.com CGastonC at aol.com 
Sat Apr 24 22:52:54 EDT 2004 

Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] are you the 
one who lived in the baity house??

i lived there from 1981 to 1989 and i bought those gold fish for the lilly 
pond/and was best friends of chesley baity/fascinating lady and family.

i have a friend in durham who is going by to try to rescue them if they kept 
it/from the trees on the right of the house it seems they could be alive.

so sad/so sad

charlie in nyc

i was shocked when i saw it.  i actually lived there when i was a student 
andwhen it was the russian house (friend and i painted the red mailbox when 
wemoved in:-)  it was really an amazing house and only needed, at the 
time(1991-ish) some plumbing and electrical renovation as the structure was 
quitesound.  
the old wood paneling was exquisite.  as i remember, it was builtaround the 
20's 
(definitely that style) so i would have thought that it couldbe historically 
protected.  there was a goldfish pond that weuncovered-probably hadn't been 
tended in about 15 years at the time and thesebeautiful giant japanese 
goldfish 
were still thriving after being covered inyears of leaf piles.poor little 
fish-after surviving all of that i guess they finally met theirend with a 
bulldozer.ironically, i was just about to take some friends new to town over 
for 
the'check where i used to live' tour and saw the carnage...nice.beth 
turner-mosher
 
Picked up an old thread here. I've just seen the building plans and have 
mixed feelings - mostly grateful that the house will be left standing.
My dad, Prof. H. G. Baity built the house himself with one or two laboror 
helpers in 1940 in French Normandy style. I have some pictures if anyone 
cares. 
The panelling inside is pecky cypress. The beams in the porch came from my 
grandfather's farm in piedmont N. Carolina. It was a wonderful house to grow 
up 
in!
Bill Baity