From 1893 until her death from pneumonia in 1927, the infamous alleged murdereress lived in a three-story Queen Anne Victorian mansion in her hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts. At the time, the house was considered “modern,” having been built seven years before Borden moved in with her live-in maids, a housekeeper, and a coachman.
Borden, who started going by “Lizbeth” after her jury-trial acquittal, dubbed the house “Maplecroft,” most likely because of the maple trees that were on the property. She even had the word engraved into the top step of the granite staircase that leads to the front door.
And now that very house — located at 306 French Street — is for sale, listed for a cool $890,000.
To be clear, it is not the building where the grisly double homicide of 1892 occurred, for which a then-32-year-old Lizzie Borden may or may not have committed. That house, located on 230 Second Street in the same New England town, has operated as a destination bed and breakfast since 1996.
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