I call 4421 Purdue a Broody Hen house. Why?
I had a salad by that name tonight at Streets Fine Chicken, and it was deelish. I asked what a “Broody hen” was, after I consumed the salad, of course.
It’s a hen that sits on her eggs until they hatch. And protects them. Apparently, hens give some sort of a warning to others to stay away from their nest when they are brooding, like fierce mothers:
Her warning means, “Stay back, this nest is mine for hatching!” Actually, we find it charming when our hens are broody–they are beautiful when they’re angry! Once a day or so your hen may emerge from her nest like a whirling dervish: all her feathers will be ruffled out so she will look VERY BIG. She will hold her wings out from her body to give herself even more apparent size. She will rise with a terrible screech, and run at anyone that gets in her way. In my head, I sort of imagine that if my hens were hatching eggs in the wild, all the to-do she’d be making as she gets up would be meant to distract anything nearby from getting her eggs while she couldn’t look after them. Also, she acts so tough, I wonder if some predators would be intimidated by her fierceness?
Then I saw this house, on a street that just verbally reminded me of chickens.
I know, the street is named after Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where my father actually went to college.
And Perdue Farms is the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, spelled differently. See what that “Broody hen” salad did to me?
Still, I see this precious red-brick with a front porch screaming-for-Broody-Hen charmer as the perfect place to nest and protect your growing chicks.
The location is in the heart of the Highland Park Independent School District: Hyer, McCulloch and Highland Park High School.
In fact, you can hear the football games on Friday nights in the fall, walk to the football games, walk to the cute shops on Lovers Lane, park your car in the two-car garage and leave it.
The home has an open floor plan and downstairs master suite with large bath, jetted tub. The kitchen is pristine with new appliances, granite countertops, great storage, and a laundry room with sink. The home has ten-foot ceilings, crown moldings on both the first and second floor, hand-scraped hardwoods, three bedrooms upstairs plus a game room with a study nook. There are three full baths, one half.
The backyard packs a lot into a typical, low-maintenance UP backyard: built-in grill station, large covered porch, and a peaceful water fountain-spa for a focal point and relaxation. The home was built in 1994, is over 3400 square feet on a .19 acre lot, scrupulously maintained, and boasts one of the friendliest neighborhoods in town. This nook of UP is well-known for street parties and fairs! Those two Adirondack chairs on the front porch will be filled with happy derrieres and glasses of vino and/or brewskis for years to come.
Broody hens, yes, but happy ones. Very recently listed with Chari Oglesby at Allie Beth Allman for $1,299,000.
