THE YORK HOUSE

Yes I bought the "York House" in August, 1992 for $43,000.00. It was a good buy because it was already set up as a duplex with an apartment on the lower floor and an apartment on the upper floor. After one year there I intended to stay there in Moravia for the rest of my life. It also looked like then that I was going to marry Kathy Shen. The York House was built in about 1850....the year that Millard Fillmore became the US President. The original owner was a guy named "Porter" who was a blacksmith. It passed through other owners over the years until some time in the 1950's when a schoolteacher (Moravia School District) named Cora York became the owner for a long time. Heating oil or also coal was delivered to Cora York's House for years and years and the delivery people started calling it the "York House". After Cora York passed away the house was purchased by Hewitt Brothers of Locke, NY. When I bought the property I assumed a mortgage from Mr. Buzz Hewitt and I had to meet with him before the transaction took place so he could figure me out. Later when all the problems started happening to me in August, 1993 onward Mr. Hewitt helped me greatly in life by buying the property back from me at face value. He could have foreclosed on me but he didn't do it. The York House was on Main Street in the middle of a quaint village in a pastoral Finger Lakes setting. I owned the house for almost 3 years and I was devastated when I had to leave it. Cora York would sit out on the porch watching people walk around the village for years after she grew old and became the village spinster. The York House was haunted I think and there were things that happened in that house that I can only explain as supernatural....waking up one morning and smelling fresh violets in my bedroom when there were no violets to be seen....a lamp in the front room making odd clicking or snapping noises....the decidedly eerie feeling of being watched in the bathroom and the shower by someone who was not there really....etc. Moravia was the most beautiful place I have ever lived. I will never forget living there with Kathy Shen and the few tenants that I rented to. I want to go back there some day...but I think it is impossible now and it would all be different now and not as I remembered it then.