The Mysteries of King Solomon Rathel’s River House

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King Solomon Rathel and his wife Marvel built this river house by hand. Where Rathel learned to build houses and where his Folk-Art-Deco style came from, no one knows, and nobody seemed to know who’d built these strange houses before Glenn Weiss became obsessed with finding out. One man, 96 years old, remembers the Rathels from 80 years ago.