For Sale Traditional Cache
Strike Anywhere: This one has run its course... AND IT WASNT missing as THAT GUY already found it and has no interest in taking this one...
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FOR SALE : CHECK IT
OUT!
Just a quick pull over and grab!
I was driving by here on the way home from caching today and saw
this place and it got me so interested I pulled around and got out
and took a look from the street. I could just imagine this back in
the day when everything was working, nice and in the summer... man
that would be one cool spot!
Since virtuals cant be hidden any longer on GC.com, this was my way
of bringing you to this unusual place. The cache is a smiley and
rather insignificant and you may wonder why you are here but I
thought it would be of interest to some and just a smiley to
others. Have it they way you want it and enjoy your day!
I love it when a cache comes together, Strike
Anywhere!
Info supplied by a kind cacher!
Anyone who has traveled Rte. 232 through Wrightstown, Bucks Co.,
more than a few times, has noticed the unusual property between
Swamp Rd. and Chain Bridge.
Sliding Board and Bridge
Moister Steel Co.
More than six acres with two houses, one yellow capped by a
Spanish-tile roof. A five-car garage, a tennis court, a gazebo,
many pillars scattered around the property, and, in the center of
the huge expanse of lawn, a concrete structure with a sliding board
coming down into what looks like used to be a pond and a concrete
"bridge to nowhere".
I'm sure more people than myself have asked themselves "What did
that place used to be?" Many guesses - a camp, a playground, a
swimming hole, an amusement park?
The estate was built by Martin Moister in the 1920s. Mr. Moister
was a wealthy Philadelphia electrical contractor. He owned the
Moister Steel Co. in Phila.
In 1929, Mr. Moister bought "hundreds" of decorative tiles from
Henry Mercer's tile works in Doylestown. Today, the property is
dotted with as many as 2000 Mercer tiles. He expanded his original
estate by adding a masonry tower, other decorative elements, and,
for his children, the front lawn playground including a pool with a
sliding board and a bridge.
The tiled pool is now just a "grassy hole", but the sliding board
and bridge still stand for all to see.
Mr. Moister later sold the estate to Wolfgang Lohrbeer. Mr.
Lohrbeer later partitioned the estate and sold the front house
separately from the larger property in the rear.
The present owner of the larger property, another Philadelphia
businessman, bought it 17 years ago.
"Martin Moister was considered an eccentric" says the present
owner, who jokingly puts himself in the same category.
"I'm the only guy who mows my pool."
This is Private Property
Please Respect the Owner's Privacy
Additional Hints
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