Take a tour of Aunt Bee's home in Siler City
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View photos of 503 West Elk Street in Siler City, N.C. The house is best known as the former home of Frances Bavier, who is best known as Aunt Bee from “The Andy Griffith Show.” The home is now for sale for $425,000.
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Far cry from when she lived in this house. During the end of her life, I understand her cats took over the house and it was a stinking mess. But when she first bought this house, it must have looked similar to the new, except the kitchen, and floors. Nice house!
Lovely
What a beautiful home. It would be an honor to live in Aunt Bee's former house. Wish I could buy it!
@@Mrs_Sue_L_21381 One more thought...I don't blame her for not liking Andy. If you notice in the opening of the show they say....starring Andy Griffith....Ronny Howard and Don Knotts. She is not mentioned in the opening of the show as being one of the stars. I thought that was so wrong. Frances Bavier should of been mentioned as one of the stars of the show.
@@charmed2u2 I agree.
It was over ran with cat urine when she died
Such a beautiful home, not some ugly, oversized, unusable mansion!
She was absolutely beautiful, infact stunning as a young woman.
RIP Miss Francis 🙏🏼
This was definitely considered a mansion back then lol
FB was an 'eccentric' HERMIT after she retired, and her 'beautiful home' was in SQUALOR filled with the 'ESSENCE' of cat pee and feces! That image/STENCH is hard to get out of my head, bcuz I am a senior myself who lives in a humble but immaculate home with the SWEET ESSENCE of ozone. I also have ONE well-cared for and healthy cat...
Absolutely beautiful
So lovely
Beautiful !!!
That's a beautiful house.
Beautiful home 💖💖💖
I know the man that bought it and remodeled when ant b lived there it was a total dump
Thanx for sharing that Jerry! I read a few years ago, about that SQUALOR BAVIER existed in at the end , but I wasn't sure how true it was?
Like the old tile and hardwood floors
I wasn’t expecting something so large. Thought she’d live in a somewhat smaller home. Things that belonged to her, from the house, were available on eBay not too long after her death.
I heard she spent most of her time in a large back room with a bed and her desk. She wasn't a good housekeeper. She had 14 cats and they used her basement for a cat box. Andy Griffith and Ron Howard gave her a surprise visit one day. Needless to say she didn't answer the door. Maybe Andy should of called before going. lol. I love Aunt Bee.
@@charmed2u2 Foolish gossip.
Not her house inside...
@@billhosko7723 No it's not. She came to the door but would not let them in. The house smelled of cat feces and urine and she was reclusive. The house was filthy and delapidated when she passed. I've been there and I've talked to people who knew her and worked for her.
@@MsLiberty101 yes it is
Beautiful home! Who has it now? She never had a family that I know of?
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GUDJUAN!!!
I was in that house and the basement while it was being sold and it was not a dump and it certainly wasn't as beautiful as the video. She had a white piano that was gorgeous. There was a separate concrete ish shower stall in the basement that was probable used to take c are of the animals. (Just guessing). After all people had lived there after she had. Either way, it is absolutely gorgeous now.
It was reported just after she died, she never let in visitors in, and the house was in bad decline. She had a dozen or so cats
and neighbors were chased away. When she opened the door cat pee was so over bearing .When she died it was said the
place was filthy and the outside grounds hadn't been cut in years. The photos are Real Estate pictures after the clean up.
Yes...I read the same thing. Also...Andy Griffith and Ron Howard paid her a surprise visit. They went all the way to her house for a surprise visit. She didn't answer the door. I think they should of called first. lol
Ignorant poster and gossip.
@@charmed2u2 Ideat 'lol'.
@@billhosko7723 😁 Diane, Bill is the Grammar Police 👮♂️🤠⭐ ...
@@charmed2u2 🏆Yes, heard the same🐈... She was not in good health and lived on the first floor🛏... Maybe she did not have good eyesight either🧐... Her backyard was beautiful and she had all those windows... Arthritis probably prevented her mobility, so if she did not answer her door, she just was not up to having company... Before she died, she phoned Andy to apologize for her rude treatment [she did not like him, maybe because of his affair(s)?] ...I thought calling Andy was 🆒️... And, she resented her career being identified as just "Aunt Bea"... Because, as an actress with many other roles, she did not like being stereotyped... She sure was an important character on Andy's show, like Barney and Lloyd, and Gomer, etc. EVERYBODY loved Aunt Bea! 🧡 ...Barney's TV girlfriend died "recently" and lived in Mt. Airy, NC...she was old, and would sometimes give tours... Am not sure if she was ever married, but she and her character seemed "sweet to the bone"...🥀
This is high end furniture. I bet most of it wasn't there when she was alive. I kind of imagine her with more modest furniture. I watch a lot of shows on house flipping for profit. When they took these pictures they were intended to resale. In other words it's been staged like a model home. Her house was up for sale for seven hundred thousand but that doesn't mean they got that much.
That's NOT the interior of that house. I've been in that house!! It's plain small low ceiling and poorly laid out. Nothing like those pictures.
This must be after her death. i read a statement from Ron Howard who dropped by unexpected to find her house to be a trove of clutter. He said that she was quite the hoarder
And had like 16 cats!
Ron Howard and Andy Griffith showed up and she didn't want to see them. They didn't go into the house. She loved Cats and wanted to be left alone as she aged. I have some of her personal items given to me after her death.
another ignorant gossip...
@@billhosko7723 elaborate or SHUT UP.
Weird because pictures of Aunt Bee's house are that it is a small house that was overrun with cats. This is not that house
This her house. You can Google the street and see it on street view.
This makes me so sad, I had all the paper work ready to sign to buy this house for $350k about 2 years ago, I wasent sure about living in Siler City, im in the Mountains of WNC I had so much I wanted to do with the house and make it like Frances liked "Green" Eveythime I see this I get sad,I really wanted it. for my retirement ,
SO, WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY IT? No 'cement pond'? L0L
She sunk all her money into this house the reason she didn't leave the place she hated. She was far from rich because it's easy to imagine a early 1960s sitcom like Andy Griffith not paying that much. She may have had a little money in the bank used for emergency survival money but I even doubt that. She was alive today she would be celebrating her 118 th birthday. R.I.P
Stupid gossip.
@@billhosko7723 REWIND your tape, it seems STUCK and repeating itself............
I heard the house was in terrible condition when she died
Was Frances married? The house is beautiful.
No, she never married. Look her up on Wikipedia for a biography.
@@Mrs_Sue_L_21381 Foolish gossip.
I think she was married for a few years.
@@patriciaguth6882ussell Carpenter Was Her Husband In Her Youth/per say Her n Andy Actually Didn't Get Along In The Show But I Loved Aunt Bea An You'd Have *Never* Known On The Series May She RIP 😅
Yet No Actual Proof 🤷🏻♀️
I was honestly hoping this would be a video of the house as she had it with all of her things. I guess not.
Maybe they found it hard to videotape wearing GAS MASKS?!? :P
I read where she left her house to a hospital foundation of some kind...now it says a lady owns it ...which is true?
Both. The hospital foundation sold the house and put the funds to good use.
It smells like cats
Wonder if she ever was able to waddle through that little brick and stone house.
ideat
Looks a bit austere. Staged.