# A house only Prince & the Grapist could love. Newslink

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**Created:** [January 15, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140 "2010-01-15T23:51:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/21 "2010-01-17T06:30:48Z")

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> [@a35362](#):
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> [Barbie’s Haunted Mansion](http://www.summitlane.com/1127)
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> Somebody painted and decorated a beautiful 1880s Victorian house in nauseous Barbie pink. These rehabbers have bought it and are determined to restore it to its 19th century beauty.

There’s a house in La Crosse, WI (or maybe in Onalaska, WI) that has the entire exterior painted that shade of pink, but it’s stucco…well, I’m not sure if stuck is the right term, it’s like stuck but…errr, bigger? Almost as if you covered the house with a thick layer of plaster and then used…hmmm, I’m having a hard time describing this. The house looks like a giant frosted cake.

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