Lizzie Borden was put on trial for the brutal murder of her father and stepmother in 1892
The home where Lizzie Borden lived after she was acquitted in the murder of her stepmother and father in 1892 is on the market for $850,000.
Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
Lizzie was the police’s first suspect because of her strange actions in the days after their death.
The trial gained national attention because during that time it was very uncommon for women to be accused of murder.
After the very public trial she was acquitted of the murder charges in 1893. The deaths remain a mystery to this day.
Lizzie and her sister, Emma, inherited most of their frugal father’s wealth which would have been around $10million today.
They bought a mansion in 1894 with the money and named it Maplecroft.
Lizzie was shunned by Fall River society who believed she was guilty.
Despite becoming an outcast in the community where children regularly taunted her and a falling out with Emma, Lizzie lived at Maplecroft for over 30 years until she died of pneumonia in 1927.
Lizzie and her sister Emma Borden bought the home above with their inheritance and named it Maplecroft. Lizzie lived there until she died of pneumonia in 1927. It is now on the market
The name ‘Maplecroft’ was carved in stone on the top step of the Victorian-style home on French Street
The walls of the home are still covered with the original heavily-detailed wallpaper that has been kept in good condition
The house is being sold fully furnished. Some of the pieces are original and some were added by owners after Lizzie
A stained glass window sits above the landing of the original spiral staircase
The 4,000-sq-ft home has eight bedrooms, three and a half baths and six fireplaces. It still has the original windows, wall paper and wood parquet floors.
There are several Victorian attributes including a spiral staircase with carved maple leaves, tin ceilings, French doors and stained-glass windows.
The original wooden fireplace from Lizzie’s bedroom was moved to another room and replaced with a marble one.
Lizzie’s bathroom has all of its original fixtures, including the claw-foot tub and even the mirror that dates to the 1910s or ’20s over the sink.
The 4,000-sq-ft home has eight bedrooms, three and a half baths and six fireplaces. It still has the original windows, wall paper and wood parquet floors
Lizzie lived in the home from 1893 until 1927 despite being considered an outcast in the community
The murder that made Lizzie famous occurred on the morning of August 4, 1892.
Lizzie, then 32, alerted the maid when she found her father Andrew’s dead body. He had been hacked to death in the parlor while sleeping on the sofa.
Abby Borden’s body was discovered soon after in an upstairs bedroom. Investigators determined that Abby was killed first.
Policemen called to the scene suspected Lizzie immediately but did not arrest her until a week later.
A crime scene photo of Lizzie’s father Andrew Borden sits in the room of the former family home where he was hacked to death while sitting on the sofa in Fall River, Massachusetts
Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered and mutilated with a hatchet on the morning of August 4, 1892. Their deaths remain a mystery to this day
The handle-less hatchet believed to be the murder weapon is shown on display at the Fall River Historical Society
A drawing shows Lizzie in the courtroom at her murder trial next to her defense lawyer
During the week between the murders and her arrest, Lizzie’s story changed several times.
The Sunday School teacher burned a dress that she claimed was stained with paint after household work.
Prosecutors alleged that the dress was stained with blood, and that Lizzie had burned the dress in order to cover up her crime.
She had also unsuccessfully attempted to purchase prussic acid, a highly poisonous liquid, in the days before the murders.
At the time there were rumors that the couple were killed because of Andrew’s shady business dealings.
People also believed that Lizzie committed the murders because her father was so frugal that she and her sister, both considered spinsters by that point, didn’t even have access to indoor plumbing.
Lizzie’s trial was described as a circus. The prosecution even presented the hatchet-crushed skulls of Abby and Andrew in the courtroom.
Children even came up with a jump-rope rhyme that said it took 40 strokes to kill Abby and 41 to kill Andrew.
The home where the murder occurred has been turned into a bed and breakfast where murder-mystery buffs like can sleep in the room where Lizzie grew up.
Shown above is the home where the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place. It has since been turned into a bed and breakfast for murder-mystery fans
An image from Lizzie’s trial shows the neighborhood where the murders occurred. The Borden home on Second Street is labeled I. in the center
Maplecroft sat just minutes away from the home where the murders occurred. It was built in 1889 by Charles Allen.
While many homes of this size in the area have been split up into multiple-family dwellings, Maplecroft has stayed in tact.
Dallas-native Kristee Bates purchased the home on a 0.41 acre lot at 306 French Street for $500,000 in 2014.
Bates never planned to live in the home, but briefly considering turning it into a bed and breakfast for other murder-mystery fans like herself to experience.
She renovated the property with strict attention to period details in each room. It is now listing for $849,000, nearly $350,000 more than what she bought it for.
The listing company is Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty.
The house at 306 French Street was bought by Kristee Bates in 2014 for $500,000
Bates considered turning the home into a bed and breakfast after renovating the property with period details
There are a total of six fireplaces throughout the 4,000-sq-ft home that does not have central heating
In Lizzie’s formal room there is a newer marble fireplace that took the spot of a wooden one
Bates, a Dallas native, never planned to live in the home but was fascinated by its history
Lizzie’s bathroom has all of its original fixtures, including the claw-foot tub and even the mirror that dates to the 1910s or 20s over the sink
Light pours through one of the original windows in the house that was built in 1889