Converting a Church (Yes, With Its Own Cemetery) Into a Home
Sure it’s got high ceilings and amazing stain glass windows but wouldn’t you feel a little bit intimidated taking showers and sleeping in this house? After all, it used to be the House of God …
Apparently, it didn’t bother Sally Onions and Ian Bottomley – the couple converted a Georgian church in Kyloe, Northumberland, England (complete with its own cemetery outside) into a residential house.
All About You has a gallery of photos of the converted house (from the House Beautiful magazine): Link (if you don’t like clicking through the photos, SwipeLife has kindly um, "borrowed" all the photos)
Previously on Neatorama: Man Converts Church Into a Home
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Colorful Tombstones in Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Photo: susanhardman [Flickr] – via ok bye, the blog
Who says that cemeteries have to be all somber? Check out these colorful tombstones in the cemetery outside of Chichicastenango in Guatemala, as taken by photographer and avid traveler Susan Hardman.
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World
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Cemetery in Foreclosure
The funeral industry is usually recession proof. After all, as Arvin Starrett, spokesman for the National Funeral Directors Association, said "The honest-to-goodness truth of the matter is that everybody does die."
So it goes to show how bad the current economic situation has become: a cemetery on Highway 86 in Imperial, California, is in foreclosure!
Annika Mengisen of Freakonomics Blog has the answer to the question I’m sure you’re all thinking of: will the …, um, occupants be evicted? Link
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The Cemetery of No
The Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery, located between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens, take themselves very seriously. They’ve got strict rules regulating … well, everything!
It seems that about the only thing you can do at the cemetery is be dead. Oh, wait – they’ve probably got a rule against that too.
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Cemetery in Parking Lots
There’s a spot in a Lowes movie theater parking lot in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where you’ll never forget where you parked your car: the grave of Mary Ellis. Yes, a cemetery right smack in the middle of a parking lot!
Not only is the grave of Mary Ellis embedded in a parking lot, it’s also the focus of a terrific legend. Mary, who came to New Brunswick in the 1790s to live with her sister, fell in love with a sea captain who promised to marry her once he returned from his next voyage. The captain then left Mary his horse and sailed off down the Raritan River.
Every day, Mary rode her lover’s steed down to the river, hoping to meet him at the water’s edge. For years, she gazed at the river, waiting for his return. In 1813, she purchased a plot of land overlooking the river, where she maintained her vigil until her death in 1826. And there she was buried, forever waiting for her captain.
Meanwhile, commercialism swept through, establishing a series of retail businesses, including a popular flea market, all sharing space with Mary. Today, Mary’s grave is entrenched in the parking lot of a Lowes movie theater.
Wesley Treat’s Roadside Resort has more on Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots – via
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World
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