Little Nadine Earles was only four years old in 1933. Christmas was coming in just a week and she told her young mother and father that all she wanted for Christmas was a dollhouse.
Unfortunately, the young child, of Lanett, Alabama, died of diphtheria on December 18 that year; but her 24-year-old father had promised his precious little girl that she would have a dollhouse, and Julian Earles was not about to break his promise. It took him almost a year and a half to finish the job but he eventually constructed a child-sized permanent brick house to contain not only Nadine s tricycle, baby buggy, and high chair, but her crypt as well.
Little Nadine Earles was only four years old in 1933. Christmas was coming in just a week and she told her young mother and father that all she wanted for Christmas was a dollhouse.
Unfortunately, the young child, of Lanett, Alabama, died of diphtheria on December 18 that year; but her 24-year-old father had promised his precious little girl that she would have a dollhouse, and Julian Earles was not about to break his promise. It took him almost a year and a half to finish the job but he eventually constructed a child-sized permanent brick house to contain not only Nadine s tricycle, baby buggy, and high chair, but her crypt as well.
Little Nadine Earles was only four years old in 1933. Christmas was coming in just a week and she told her young mother and father that all she wanted for Christmas was a doll house.
Unfortunately the young child, of Lanett, Alabama, died of Diphtheria on December 18 that year; but her 24 year old father had promised his precious little girl that she would have a dollhouse, and Julian Earles was not about to break his promise. It took him almost a year and a half to finish the job but he eventually constructed a child sized permanent brick house to contain not only Nadine s tricycle, baby buggy, and high chair, but her crypt as well.