The Third Floor
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The room of Irish housemaid, Bridget Sullivan, the small spare room (now a bathroom) and the two storage rooms, locked on the day of the murders and now bedrooms.
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I really love this new series of yours. It's almost trance-like. Thank you for making them.
Thank you. I wanted to document the house as it is now. Changes are always coming it seems. Sometimes not speaking in a video allows for the viewer to put themselves in the space. The Maplecroft series will be going up soon.
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Somewhat different layout since the murders. Bordens didnt have a bathroom in the house. And there were several large closets that are not there anymore.
am i right in thinking the bordens didn't have indoor plumbing? i noticed the basin and fittings in the bathroom which i feel might have only been a portable bowl etc then
In 1892 there was a pull chain toilet in the cellar which Lizzie and Emma used. The house did have city water. There was an outhouse in the barn which Abby and Andrew used. There was a sink room in the back hall which had a sink and running water taps. That room today has become a bathroom off the kitchen. Upstairs there was no bathroom. The bathroom there today on the second floor was a dress closet. The bathroom off the master bedroom was once a pantry and sinkroom when the house was a two-family prior to 1872 when it was owned by Charles Trafton. There was a well in the side yard by the barn and a pump out by the barn. Running water taps in the cellar.
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What happened to Bridget Sullivan? Did she ever comment on the murders after she left employ of the Bordens?
Word from her great nieces is that she did not refer to the murders. As you may know, Bridget ended up in Montana, married to John Sullivan, a smelter man in an ore mine. She became blind in old age and very sour in temperament. Stories have gone around that she confessed something to her priest and was going to tell something to a friend, Minnie Green when she thought she was dying, but hard to know what that might have been or if it truly happened. Most agree that Bridget knew more than she was saying in 1892-3.
@@LizzieBordenWarpsandWefts Seems hard to believe she could have been cleaning the windows and not heard something going on.
@@pimpompoom93726 Well the windows were all down and she was on the outside of the house on the first floor outside, on the south end while Mrs. Borden was being killed on the other side of the house on the second floor, north end with windows closed. When Mr. Borden was killed she was two floors above the sitting room taking a nap. The door to the sitting room from the kitchen was closed so after doing some tests in the house, it's not surprising no noise was heard. Both victims were taken unawares by the attacker and were most likely dead or rendered unconscious in the first blows to their heads and did not cry out.
@@LizzieBordenWarpsandWefts Lizzie knew what she was doing. That’s why she got away with it. She planned it almost perfectly.
She moved out to Montana and married John Sullivan (same last name!). There were a lot of Irish out in Anaconda and Butte, working the copper and silver mines. I had the pleasure of meeting her two great-nieces. Apparently Bridget did not speak about that Borden business. Some say she confessed something to a priest before she died. Others claim she was going to tell her friend Minnie Green something to get off her chest when Bridget thought she was going to die. She recovered however and never told what it was. She died an old lady, blind and very dour and is buried out in Montana.
Stayed there last night....