Ghost tales, love stories fill grand Victorian in Easton (PHOTOS)
Older Easton homes are often associated with their former owners.
Mine, in my family for 58 years, is David Bishop Skillman's house.
But after they put his name on Lafayette College's new library in 1964 and he passed away a year later, he was out of our lives, if not our memories.
Rob and Amy Collins own Oliver Fehr's home at 19 S. Fifth St. The Italianate Victorian is big and it's welcoming and it wears its history well in all its decay and bloom.
Fehr and his wife, Christina Louisa Seyfried Fehr, bought the place the year after it was built in 1869 by a merchant named Lane. They raised daughters Dagmar, Anna and Carrie there. It didn't leave the family until 1969, not long after Carrie's death.
But as Amy, 36, and Rob, 46, said Wednesday afternoon while sitting around the kitchen table in the not-nearly-finished home they've owned for 11 years, Oliver might have checked out in 1932, but, as the Eagles suggested, he could never leave.
At least until he was politely asked.
