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This was Bill’s own home during his first marriage. The 1918 cottage was set on a floodplain of the Euclid creek, which wound around the home in a large lazy semicircle. During heavy rains, however, the creek flooded the home repeatedly during the first few years, leading to the moniker “Morris’ Folly”. In response they built an earthen berm to protect the house. The creek would sometimes overtop the berm however, or make its way through a neighbor’s lower yard, flowing, as water does to a lower place.
Bill then designed an addition on stilts (his first take on this approach) that included an open plan kitchen and dining room, a master bath, a bedroom for his (as yet unborn) son, and a large all purpose closet (that housed, among other things, a cat door). This was chronicled in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article in 1961 that is linked in the tabs above.
