DRUNKEN HOUSE

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 5

DRUNKEN HOUSE

AN OLD TIME ROMANCE FAMOUS EDIFICE TO GO Rome. January 9. iFoggia’s ‘Drunken House” which possessed one of the most curious liistones of sitfiv structure in *tlie j wurld, lias been swept away by ai to w h -piam; ning scheme. Il was built in 1850 by Anmnio; Buoei, jt rich wiho merchant in order j to rpit.e Don Francesco Saverio, a; local magistrate. Bin ci mvnvd n wineshop near Sa.verio’s palace, and decided t-c* build n house on the site in order to sP°’l tli£ view. Saver io, discovering the scheme, warm'd Bueei that, lie must hot bui’Td without consent of ihe authorities, namely, himself. A lawyer however, told Bueei that if ho could build uninterruptedly, lie would he all rnghi| Bueei Fought materials, hint Snveri*o forbade th© labourers to* work for him. Bncci 6tilistC(] the aid of a imigt.cir huilddf and his 11 sons, whereupon Saverio placed guards ai the city weUs to prevent Bueei getting water. Tlie la’te r then decided to mix til© mortar with wine. ahd. with the master builder and the latter s sons toiled all night. Although the fumefe of the w’np made the workers drunk, b-r the morning the walls of a twostorey building had ber*n completed, and Save no «ir°se to find hi? view completely destroyed.