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The famous author Robert Louis Stevenson spent a large part of his honeymoon squatting in an abandoned cabin.After their marriage in San Francisco on 19 May 1880, Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson set off on an adventurous honeymoon to the Napa Valley. Stopping briefly for a night in Vallejo, the Stevenson’s then boarded a train to carry them (and their dog Chuchu) to Calistoga at the northern end of the Valley. They spent the remainder of May in Calistoga, at one of the Hot Springs Hotel cottages. Then, once joined by Fanny’s son Lloyd Osbourne, the family made their way up the grade of Mount St. Helena to the Toll House, from which they found their way to the abandoned Silverado Mine bunkhouse where they would squat until the end of July.
You can read his account of that time, THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS, here.
Or, you can visit the state park named after the writer.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 18, 2018 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Nature, Unauthorized Dwellings, Marriage, Nineteenth Century
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Source of article.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 05, 2018 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1990s
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Keeping one's lover in the attic, hidden from the resident husband, has to require some chutzpah.
Full story here.
Dolly Oesterreich, 33 at the time, first became friendly with 17-year-old Otto Sanhuber (Jul 16, 1888 - ?)around 1913 and described him as her "vagabond half-brother." The two quickly became lovers and met clandestinely at Sanhuber's boarding room or at a nearby hotel. They also arranged trysts at Dolly's home but, when neighbors began noting Otto's increasingly frequent comings and goings and alerted her husband, Dolly suggested to Otto that he quit his job and secretly move into the Oesterreichs' upstairs attic to allay any further suspicions. He readily agreed to the arrangement. Not only would this put him in closer proximity to his lover but it would also give him time to pursue his dream of writing pulp fiction stories. Sanhuber would later describe himself as Dolly's "sex slave".
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 30, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Unauthorized Dwellings, Death, Sexuality, Twentieth Century
Unauthorized dwelling at Yale
Here's one for Paul's unauthorized dwellings theme:Able to afford tuition at Yale, but not housing, 22-year-old Allan Kornfeld lived surreptitiously in a ventilation shaft for seven months, from 1963 to 1964.
Appleton Post-Crescent - Jun 18, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 20, 2018 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1960s
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Houseboats have always been a prime source of contention as authorities try to police dwellings. The Amsterdam article is from 2016. The other news report hails from 1924.
Source.
UPDATE: now behind CHICAGO TRIBUNE paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 08, 2018 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1920s, Twenty-first Century
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 04, 2017 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1980s
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"BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say a Louisiana woman living illegally in a vacant home in Florida answered the door naked when a sheriff’s deputy stopped by to investigate..."
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 19, 2017 -
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The theme of people living secretly where they should not be living is a perennial one. Here is an instance from the Sixties.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 16, 2017 -
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Category: Crime, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1960s
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