Not to be outdone by Chapel Hill, which has been puzzling over what W.S. Roberson is going to put up next to the Strowd building, Carrboro has a “mystery house.”
It is a brick building one story high, with a street frontage of only 9 feet, just beyond J.D. Webb’s store and this side of the railway station. It has a broad front door, and several windows along the east wall. It has a depth of about 50 feet.
Cleveland Lindsay, who lives in the Damascus section, is the owner. People’s curiosity seems to be giving him much amusement. When anybody asks him what the building is for, he just smiles and says he doesn’t know yet. His friends are continually joking him about it. One of them says that it is being erected to serve as a home for boll weevils. Another ventures the guess that it is intended as a vault for a certain citizen whose thinness and length are famous in the community.
From page 4 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 6, 1924
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