BEEBE PLAIN, VT (WCAX/CNN) - A house for sale in Vermont has an American address, but part of the home crosses the border into Canada. The owner says it was built that way for a good reason.
It has wooden floors, dozens of rooms and border patrol agents standing nearby. The house is for sale in Beebie Plain, VT, but take a step to the other side of a post and the house also sits in Quebec.
"A lot of people are afraid of it because they don't understand it," said Brian DeMoulin, who owns the house. He says the home was originally called the Stewart Estate after the man who built it. His aunt bought it in the 50s and DeMoulin grew up on the border of the U.S. and Canada.
“I had many Christmases in the section when I was 1, 2, 3 years old, and she lived here a long time. She bought this particular property for the very same reason Mr. Stewart built it in the first place: So he could do business on both sides of the border,” DeMoulin said.
The house was eventually divided into five apartments but it now sits empty. It's going to take work to get the border home back to its former glory.
“The bones are sound. If you want to take a look downstairs you've got beams that are 12 by 12 with 2-foot granite walls. And all the structures in between these walls, this is a post in beam house,” DeMoulin said.
He and his wife say they've received offers on the house but they haven't accepted one yet.
People like Claire Stroudsburg are still taking a look. “I think we would like to get, local people involved. Particularly if it really is, you know from the late 1700s,” she said.
Lost in the house you can forget it straddles two countries, but a look from the window at the two welcome signs is a quick reminder.
“There are your guards, I mean imagine that, you probably have four armed guards standing in front of your house every day 24, seven. How safer can you get?” DeMoulin said.
Residents of the house don't have to flash passports to use the bathroom, but DeMoulin says he does pay taxes proportionally to both the U.S. and Canadian governments.
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