King Solomon Rathel’s Saltford House: The Ship House for a Shipbuilder

Posted on April 7, 2024 | Leave a comment

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I never expected to see a photograph of the mysterious King Solomon Rathel, the outsider architect who built strange houses on the Trout River. It was Becky Saltford’s grandfather who sold Rathel the land where he built most of his houses. Rathel built for the shipbuilder, or maybe for the shipbuilder’s future daughter-in-law, a house that looked like a ship.

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