Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1915 — FOUR-ROOM DWELLING HACKED FROM ROCK [ARTICLE]

FOUR-ROOM DWELLING HACKED FROM ROCK

Unique Homo Being Made In the Mountain’s Side by a Resolute Kentuckian James Homer, of Inez, Ky., is building or rather making one of the strangest houses ever heard told of in this section of the country. He has undertaken to pick and hack a fourroom dwelling place out of a solid rock, which is seventy-five set high and projects out of the mountainside some forty or fifty feet. Homer claims he will have it finished by 1916. Ho said In a recent interview: “Some people may think I am crazy, but I am perfectly sane. This is a vast undertaking, but I consider nothing is Impossible to the man that has a will. ‘Where there’s a will there’s a way,’ you know. “I think this will be an Ideal home for my wife and four children, and when I have It finished I am going to give a house party, one that will be a surprise Indeed to the people of Rockcastle Creek, for this will be the only house of the kind that I ever heard of and probably the only one that any of my neighbors have ever seen.”