TheReview Wednesday, October 10,1990 — All

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“Show home shadowed by past

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by Valorie Lennox
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If ever a house suffered from
character defamation, it is the
house at Moses Point.

The rebuilt cottage was owned
by Helen Radok until last spring,
when Radok and common-law
husband Raymond Joubert went to
trial on charges of conspiring to
import cocaine into Canada.

Radok was acquitted but Joubert
w@iound guilty and sentenced
May 31 to 20 years in jail.

Meanwhile, the house was
signed over to Joy Maxham, a
long-time friend of Radok.

“T took over an empty barn,”
Maxham said, explaining that the
house was unfinished last spring
and the family were living in a
small wing of the 3,000 square
foot structure.

Maxham moved into the loft
over the 3,000 square foot garage
in July and has worked to com-
plete three of the bedrooms for use
as a bed and breakfast facility.

She has a deadline — the fed-
eral crown plans a forfeiture hear-
ing next year to seize any of
Joubert’s assets obtained through
the commission of crime.

Depending on the outcome of
that hearing, the house may be
lost.

Maxham has taken out a mort-
gage on the property to complete
the interior of the house.

“I certainly am taking a
chance,” she said. “It interrupted

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by whole other life.”

Friendship for Radok and a
glowing admiration for the house
prompted her decision to try and
save the structure, Maxham said.

“Tm taking this opportunity, at
great risk to myself, to say the
house stands. What can we do that
is SO good that it will change the
house, so whatever reputation it
has is cleansed.

“The house itself is beautiful.”

In remodeling the cottage,
Radok wanted to create a showcase
for craftsmanship, Maxham said.

The result is massive wrought-
iron gates and eaves dripping with
wood gingerbread trim, most of it
cut on Site.

The kitchen beams are carved
and gilded in imitation of the
beams in the Netherlands and the
cherry wood fireplace is carved in
Renaissance style.

The kitchen floor is inlaid with
patterns formed of wood and brass.
The kitchen cabinets were built
on-site of deep red satiny cherry
wood.

There is an entrance door taken
from a Welsh castle and an elabor-
ate 18th Century carved fireplace
in the main hall, which doubles as
a living and dining room.

The upstairs butterfly suite is
named for the butterfly panels,
painted by Radok, set into the
walls.

Pastel paint rubbed like stain
into the wood creates an iridescent
finish for the walls. There are huge
windows on three of the walls,

A PAVED COURTYARD leads in steps to the gingerbreag-

overlooking the ocean, and a pink
and crystal chandelier from Italy.
An adjoining washroom features
mirrors frosted with peacocks,
birds and flowers plus an old-
fashioned claw-footed bathtub.
“The house was meant to be a
showpiece of people who did all
these fine crafts,” Maxham said.
“Look at the house itself. How
can it be tured to good?”
The location is one of the prime
spots on the Peninsula, she added.

“With all the fancy work inside,
there is nothing quite to compare
with the beauty of the view.”

She hopes to open the house to
use by more people — as a bed
and breakfast, a meeting place for
seminars or even a drug rehabilita-
tion centre — both to finance the
property and to share the work-
manship.

“The house has to work. I’m not
independently wealthy by any
means,’ Maxham said. “I won’t,
however, open up the driveway to
Greyhound buses.”

If she succeeds in keeping the
house through the forfeiture hear-
ing, the property’s past may
become an asset.

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