History Lost & Found

Riddle: Climbing a fence with a gun, can give you a hole and not much fun.

Answer: Addison-Gandy House

 

The Addison-Gandy house is located at 104  Prairie St . in the town of Mongomery and was built in 1892. It is a cottage type house that was built for Martha Gandy's grandparents J.B. and Martha Davis Addison. The most interesting  features of this house are the unique wood graining on the door and mantles . This work was done by an old German painter only known by the name of Mr. Patch who always left a portrait of himself as a signature. There is a portreit of Mr. Patch in the wood graining on one door. The house was given to the  Montgomery Historical Society in 1997.

 

The riddle is about Beau Addison who was hunting. When returning home he accidently shot himself when crossing a fence. They did surgery on him on the table that is in the room behind the windows in the picture to the right. The pan that the bullet was put in is in the room also.