"What has been called "the strangest house in the world" is in this hamlet 90 minutes northeast of Charlotte. Can't miss it: It's the gigantic and gothic Victorian mansion on Main Street. It's what's inside that achieves fantasy level - waves of over-the-top elegance by an artist-owner not restrained by money. His eccentric residence has raised eyebrows for more than a century."

 Charlotte Observer (6/6/2011)