1800s Goodman House
Residents

HORACE GOODMAN
and
GEORGE VOGELSANG

Chico historic home may be first to enjoy tax break
(Chico Enterprise Record, November 16, 2003 Chico, CA)
Article by ARI COHN, Staff Writer

Since the turn-of-the-century Goodman House once again has become a home, the ghost of George Vogelsang may be finally content.

Legend has it that the 92-year-old Mr. Vogelsang, a retired rancher who used to own the house, fell down its stairs and died from the injuries. For the last 30 years, while the building was used as a law office, there were rumors of the wanderings of his restless spirit.

"A lot of people would say to us, that's the haunted house," said Margo Graham, who with her husband Tom bought the historic Goodman House, on the corner of The Esplanade and East Fourth Avenue, in February 2002. Just after the couple moved in last spring, she felt a little nervous sleeping in the house alone while Tom was away. "A branch would brush the house and I didn't sleep too well," she said.

But since the Grahams began transforming the place into the Goodman House Bed and Breakfast last spring, Mr. Vogelsang has quieted down, Tom said. The theory is that he's still in the house. He haunted the attorneys, and who wouldn't? But he's happy that we came back and made it into a residence," Tom said. "He doesn't bother us." (MORE)