Abstract:
Kernersville, North Carolina is home to a very unusual building. In the 1880s, Jules Gilmer Korner constructed a unique house that the locals nicknamed \"Korner's Folly.\" The red brick building stands 100 feet high, has seven stories, and is a wonder of opulence, oddity, detail, and combined architectural styles, and contained such things as a theatre and an indoor stable that later converted into a garage. Korner continued to alter the house significantly during his lifetime, adding on to the structure until his death in 1924.