Historic Home That Straddles US-Canada Border Up For Sale

CBS MIAMI ^ | 04 JULY 2017 | CBS MIAMI

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BEEBE PLAIN, Vt. (CBSMiami) – A historic home for sale in New England is getting a lot of attention, but not for its size or beauty. Step inside and you can visit another country, just by walking down the hall.

“This is the stairway that leads to the Canadian apartments,” said Brian DeMoulin, who inherited the home 30 years ago.

You heard him right. His house is literally in two places at once: Beebe Plain, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.

He even has tape on the floor in the upstairs room indicates approximately where the border runs through it.

[Hieronymus]

Drinking age is 18 in Quebec—19 in most of the rest of Canada. One may import a certain amount without paying duty (in this case it would be U.S. duty) if one has been out of the country for 48 hours.

[Tanniker Smith]

I believe they did a story on this on the old TV show “Real People” back in the 80s.

[o-n-money]

I would only buy it if it were in the US. I couldn’t take one of those cold Canadian winters.

[NCC-1701]

I wonder how the developers got that house built. Splitting two coutries had to be a bear to get approved. Or did the border move after the house was built? How many other structure share the US/Canada border.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

In ON, the bumped the drinking age to 19, two weeks before I turned 18. I lived in Ottawa, so it was no biggie (even two years before I turned 18).

[HenpeckedCon]

Massachusetts changed the drinking age from 20 to 21 on June 1, 1985. It was five days after I turned 20. I was grandfathered so I could still drink.

[Hawthorn]

>> did the border move after the house was built? <<

The original surveys of the property were probably wrong, due for example to compass errors, mistakes in transcription, or just plain incompetence on the part of the surveyors. You’ll see that sort of thing a lot in very old deeds.