This is how you move a pool table from Maplecroft

[Stefani]

Ever wonder how you get a pool table out of the third floor? Wanna see it being done today from Lizzie Borden's Maplecroft?

Watch it here:

http://lizzieandrewborden.com/MondoLizz ... aplecroft/

[MysteryReader]

Well, that's one way to move it.

[Constantine]

Ever wonder how you get a pool table out of the third floor?

Not really.

[twinsrwe]

Stefani, that's an amazing video! Was that pool table taken out threw a window, or did Mr. Dube knock out part of the wall? The pool table appears to be too big to go through the window on the 3rd floor.

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[debbiediablo]

What comes out has to have gone in.....

[Curryong]

Thank heavens Lizzie didn't play pool! Why was the pool table up on the third floor, I wonder? It would have been much less awkward moving it on ground level.

[mbhenty]

Yep, table went out the front window on the third floor.

Moving has started at Maplecorft.

I for one will not be sorrowful to see dube go.

He didn't care about the neighborhood, the neighbors, fall river, or Maplecroft. Pestilence, just pestilence. Treated Maplecorft like a ghetto. Put on a cheap roof over an existing one, doctored the back porch, placed new facia boards over rotted roof rafters on the garage, gave the place a cheap paint job, stole a stained glass window from the house. Pestilence, just pestilence.

Some may feel uncomfortable reading my words, but thank your lucky stars you didn't live next door to him.

Sorry Stefani, just had to get it out.

[twinsrwe]

I know what you mean, MB. Mr. Dube did NOT take care of Maplecroft. Granted, it was his home and he had the right to do with it as he wished, but to allow a Fall River historical house to deteriorate in the manner as shown in the two photos below, is down right disgraceful.

Maplecroft in 1940.

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Maplecroft in 2011.

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Pretty sad, don't you think?

[Constantine]

Very sad indeed! (My apologies for my earlier frivolous post. I couldn't resist.)

Couldn't the pool table have been brought to the house in parts and assembled on the third floor?

[mbhenty]

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Yes, Constantine:

The pool table was indeed dismantled. It has a base with legs which were removed before the table went out the window.

When I first saw the crane in the yard I thought that perhaps it was a piano that he was moving. No such luck. In fall river it is "game" before "culture."

As you must well know, pool tables are made of one large slate bed. Very, very heavy. Professional tables are usually 9 feet by 4 and a half inches in size. Some are 8x4 feet. I assume that is the size of the "dube" pool table.

If you have ever taken a queen bed box spring up the stairs you know how impossible it can be in some homes. Though a Queen size bed is less than 7 feet long, it is much wider than a pool table. Still, both are big pieces to make corners or turns up or down a stairwell. A Queen size box spring will not make it in most windows.

The average window in fall river homes are just short of 5 feet. So the pool table went out the window quite easily.

[mbhenty]

Though I hate snow...... hate it.

It can look very beautiful. Even neglected buildings look beautiful in the snow.

One shot is the front of Maplecroft, and the other is looking across the lawn, over at the Davenport house.

(taken two years ago)

[twinsrwe]

I also dislike the snow, however, it is absolute beautiful before all of the road crime is splashed upon it. These pictures of Maplecroft are breathtaking; I especially like the front view one. Thank you for posting them, MB!!!

[Curryong]

It is very very sad when a beautiful building is neglected. I suppose it was lack of money in the end. Hope the new owners lavish some tender loving care on the house and restore Maplecroft to its former glory. Have you seen the new owners out and about at all, Mb?
Houses can look very nice in the moonlight or when covered in snow. It transforms them. I'm still happy I don't have to live through winters with snow and ice, though.

[debbiediablo]

We own several late 1800s houses one if which is an historic home. People underestimate the money and time involved in keeping up property like this, especially when attempting to replace or replace with correct period construction.

[mbhenty]

Yes Curryong:

You say: "It is very very sad when a beautiful building is neglected. I suppose it was lack of money in the end."

You are half right. He does have the money, and lot of it. He's makes Andrew Borden look like a high roller. He paid 60 thousand for that house over 30 years ago. He had another property on Cherry Street he sold not to long ago. Last year he purchased a house lot in Swansea for around 35,000 and sold it for 60,000 after owning it for several months. (I for forgot the exact numbers) Believe me, he had the money.

I am the only person you hear from because I live next door to the guy. But I have met numerous people and city officials that think he's a crack-pot. When you bring him up in conversation you usually receive a roll of the eyes or a crooked smile. The only people who have anything good to say about him either, A. don't live in fall river, or B. has been let onto the property or into maplecroft.

He just doesn't give a good crap, he really doesn't. And he really does have the money. Now he has more than ever.

[Curryong]

Thanks, Mb. Well, one can only hope that this man doesn't get his hands on any more wonderful old houses and keep them for a long time, allowing them to rot.

[patsy]

It is sad to see how things have changed. I follow some sites that focus on the architecture of different cities and it pains me to see how many beautiful structures are gone or damaged beyond repair.

My FF blocks the video so I'll have to go to IE I guess to view it. I do want to see how they moved a pool table from the 3rd floor. Yikes