YORKLYN, Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania has all kinds of lodging options: quaint bed and breakfast homes, massive resorts, rustic mountain lodges. There is nothing, though, like a little lodging option near Hallam, Pennsylvania. It just may be the weirdest, quirkiest, kitschiest rental in America.
Welcome to The Haines Shoe House , a Pennsylvania landmark that has more questions than answers, more gasps than praise and more photo opportunities than anything else in central Pennsylvania. Mahlon Haines, the self-proclaimed "Shoe Wizard," built this home in the late 1940s and now, generations later, Naomi Brown and husband Waylon share it with the world. "I actually knew the former owner," Naomi said.
"He came to me when it was time for him to sell and move on in life. And I, of course, fell in love with the Shoe House, like most people do. We started talking and the rest is history.
Here we are as the owners of the Shoe House." Chuck's Big Adventure in Pennsylvania: The Haines Shoe House 1/15 WTHR 2/15 WTHR 3/15 WTHR 4/15 WTHR 5/15 WTHR 6/15 WTHR 7/15 WTHR 8/15 WTHR 9/15 WTHR 10/15 WTHR 11/15 WTHR 12/15 WTHR 13/15 WTHR 14/15 WTHR 15/15 WTHR Naomi said the Shoe House was put into service in 1949 and was originally built with the intention of being a guest house for the builder, who owned a chain of shoe stores. "He actually bought it with the intention of raffling off stays in the Shoe House to people who would buy his shoes in his stores," Naomi said.
"There were many guests who.