Area residents who have put off visiting Wolfe Manor, Clovis’ own ‘haunted house’, are out of luck because the scary old house has been torn down.
The 92-year-old Wolfe Manor, a favorite among investigators of the paranormal, was deemed a dangerous building. The label had nothing to do with ghosts, however, and more to do with its condition.
The mansion was considered so unsafe that the local fire department made the decision that any future fires there would be battled only from the outside.
During the last five years, Clovis city officials have tried working with the owner, Todd Wolfe, who bought the house in 1997. Opposed to demolition, he did not have the funds available to repair the structure and bring it up to code.
Originally a private residence, the building has been a sanitarium, mental health facility, and nursing home. After buying it, Wolfe operated it as a Halloween attraction, until noise complaints from neighbors in 2004 put a stop to that enterprise. After that, Wolfe focused on ghost-hunting tourism.
Wolfe Manor was torn down on November 8, 2014. Postcard printing services may be the last to benefit from the house as some entrepreneurs may wish to make their photos of the old house into Postcards, remembering a site that held plenty of interest to locals.
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