Culpepper House is loosely based on a modern house that adjoins Highgate Cemetery, overlooking it. Do you think it would be a pleasant place to live? Why or why not?
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Absolutely yes! (See previous comments about my interest in cemeteries.) When I’m in the midst of these memorial sites, the rest of world dissolves away. I don’t hear traffic or other “outside” noises. The cemetery where Mohammed Ali is buried has some of the most magnificent sculptures and greenery I’ve ever seen. It’s designated as an arboretum, too. Louisville, KY
Am I alone or do others find cemeteries fascinating?
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Nan, cemeteries are indeed fascinating, however, to visit only not live in or nearby. I do not think it would add any pleasures to my lifestyle.
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Yes, the neighbors are quiet. Cemeteries do not bother me. They are a place of rest and remembrance.
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I find old cemeteries interesting; however, to live with an open view of gravestones and to see visitors mourning would be very depressing.
As Olivia_G says, the neighbors are quiet. Plus, imagine the bird-watching in the neighborhood!
I do think it would be a nice place to live. When I was young , I was scared of cemeteries. They were creepy to me
I now love cemeteries . They are peaceful and I love visiting them.
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I would probably enjoy it for the opportunity toI look at the headstones and admire the craft as well as research who was buried.
As an amateur photographer, I gravitate to cemeteries for their mystery and serenity. The author’s fascination with burial grounds was one of the reasons I selected “ All Her Beautiful Deaths”. I took a photo of my mother in her coffin, and wished I had done likewise with my father. Edith as a photographer of dead people interested me. The staging of her art pieces was very illuminating and reminded me of how real estate is now staged. Allison Rushby was terrific at making the Culpepper House have a life of its own and in seeing the merging the old with the modern architecturally as a key vein in her novel.
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I’d love it. It would be quiet, peaceful, and beautiful wrapped in a gothic atmosphere. Sounds perfect. Plus the house had character and personality. Can’t fault that.
Years ago, I lived a short walk to a cemetery, so I could not see it from my home. It did not bother me but maybe if I saw people mourning and at funerals I would think differently, as that should be a private moment for friends and family…not be peering into their lives.
I would absolutely love living in this setting. I think I would need too much support to realistically keep up with an historic house like that but without considering practicalities like that it would be my dream really.
I have a son and a daughter who would be fascinated by living in a house that overlooks a cemetery. I wouldn’t enjoy it at this stage of my life, but when I was a kid, my best friend and I used to ride our bikes through a cemetery that was down the road from our houses. It was a large one with several paved roads. We used to read the headstones, and some even had sort of mounted lockets on them which showed a photograph of the deceased person when you opened them. That used to fascinate us, and we’d make up stories about them and their families.