April 30, 2008 - High Point, NC

Went to Kernersville (about 12 miles from the Cummins service center). Once in town, we found the Korner’s Folly which is a house that was built by Jule Korner. Mr. Korner was an interior designer, decorator, and painter. He became famous as the painter of the Bull Durham bulls advertising campaign across the nation. In 1878 he built the house as a bachelor’s quarters, artists’ studio, office, billiard room, carriage house and stables. While the house was being built, a neighbor said the house will surely be Jule Korner’s Folly. Jule so enjoyed the concept that he dubbed the building “Korner’s Folly.“ In 1886 he got married and he and his wife decided that they wanted to make the house their permanent home. She did insist that the carriage house and stables be removed. The house has 22 rooms spread out over three floors and seven levels, with ceiling heights ranging from six feet to 25 feet. No two doors are alike, it has 15 fireplaces, cubbyholes, trap

doors and pivoting windows. All the floor and patio mosaic tiles took about two years to complete. Each piece was installed one at a time. Most of the furnishings were actually from the Korner collection. He designed most of the furniture and used the house to display his different designs for his interior design company. The house was fun and the furniture was unique.

































Aunt Dealy’s Cottage was built in 1885 right behind the Korner home. Jule built this house for his beloved former slave-nanny, Clara, known by everyone as Aunt Dealy. She raised Jule after his mother passed away when Jule was two years old. The house was originally only two rooms, but when the property was sold away from the folly grounds, it was enlarged and used as a rental property. The Korner’s Folly Foundation reclaimed the house and used it as the Foundation office.





We drove back to Greensboro and had lunch at Paneras. After lunch we took care of some errands including getting hair cuts. Then we went back to Furnitureland South to take some pictures of a few pieces of furniture that we liked. We had to hurry back to Cummins before they locked us out.