'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Except for Dan Sisson. He’s not like us. He's scrounged for free bricks and cheap timber, flooring and marble to build his dream home: a replica of Monticello ...naturally.
Except for Dan Sisson, this 82-year-old guy in the Pacific Northwest. He’s not like us.
Sisson has slowed since. But he keeps working. He’s writing a fifth book, about what he sees as the destruction of democracy and American institutions, and he’s still scavenging for the neoclassical dream house he’s erecting, brick by pillar by 22,186 used bricks.June mornings in eastern Washington can seem scripted by God, as was a day Sisson recalls from 2001. Brilliant sunshine flooded the building site as he reached a joyous milestone. He had begun putting up walls.
“Once you start something like this, how do you stop?” Dan Sisson says. He figures the home is about 90% complete. Little, now 65, recalls that he arrived to find Sisson entirely lost. “I thought he was crazy,” Little says. “He didn’t have the money to work with.”“You ever framed a house?” Sisson asked.I haven’t gotten that for 30 yearsBut the next morning, taken by Sisson’s vision, the Viking of Nine Mile Falls began working for $12 an hour.
Sisson graduated in 1955 from St. John’s College military prep school in Washington, D.C., and went straight into the Army for three years. The decades that followed were a hodgepodge.
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