Victorian Potosi

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The elegance of the Long-Banta home goes without saying! It has graced North Mine and Clara Streets since 1865, when a business man named James Long built it. A daughter, Minnie Hutchison continued to live there and then later a granddaughter resumed residency. It was donated to the Mine Au Breton Historical Society and continues to be preserved and a stunning bright reminder of Potosi past!

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Jeff(non-registered)

great photos...love your work!

Jeff
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Kim Bollinger

Thank you all for the comments and added facts!! The more - the better!!! I was surprised by the primer/paint amounts! Thanks to those who put the labor into keeping the place in tip top shape after all these years!! Mark, maybe those "ghosts" loved having you guys in there taking care of the upkeep! :)

Aaron Eye(non-registered)

My dad, Dennis Eye did a lot of work on this around the time it was painted also...he also restored to coreen house across from auto zone built in 1906

Mark owens(non-registered)

The banta house was professionaly painted in 1998 by mark /charles owens and joe rone.
it took 55 gal, of primer and 50 gal of paint, and about 6-8 weeks we sighned our names after we were finished behind the flu stack of the kitchen.also this house is haunted one morning me and joe was getting started working and we were standing on the back porch and i un locked the door and walk thru the kitchen went down in the basement and opened the doghouse door that comes out of the basement to throw out our ele. cord that we had been using. the hole time i could hear joe walking behinnd me right down the steps and up the other set of steps that led outside, when i opend the dorr there stood joe out side. mark owens

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