Lake Erie Winds: Benson Ford Shiphouse to be featured on MTV

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Benson Ford Shiphouse to be featured on MTV

The Benson Ford Shiphouse will be featured Friday on MTV's new spin-off program "Extreme Cribs," according to the Port Clinton News-Herald.

The newest edition to the "MTV Cribs" franchise, "Extreme Cribs" is a 16-episode series that will showcase homes with peculiar features and design quirks that are unique, unusual, alternative and extreme. From scaling living spaces suspended in tree tops to crawling through cozy caverns built inside caves, viewers will be whisked away to the doorsteps of some of the most distinctive dwellings across the globe and meet the families who call these places home.

Friday's episode of the program will include a segment on Put-in-Bay's Benson Ford Shiphouse, owned by Bryan and Emily Kasper, of Sandusky. [read more here]

This house has a huge cool factor. The owner has a really neat website that has the house's history, floor plans, and lots of photos. Check out the site here.

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AnonymousDecember 25, 2011 at 9:29 PM
beatiful !! saludos soy de chilee
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UnknownFebruary 3, 2016 at 4:50 PM
Having worked on those types of ships and maybe even the Benson I find it ironic that anyone would want to live on one out of anything other than being a merchant seaman working the lakes!!!
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About Lake Erie

9,940 sq mi (25,745 sq km), 241 mi (388 km) long and from 30 to 57 mi (48-92 km) wide, bordered on the N by S Ont., Canada, on the E by W N.Y., on the S by NW Pa. and N Ohio, and on the W by SE Mich. and NW Ohio.; fourth largest of the Great Lakes. It is 572 ft (174 m) above sea level with a maximum depth of 210 ft (64 m), making it the shallowest of the Great Lakes and the only one with a floor above sea level. It is part of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system and is linked to Lake Huron by the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and St. Clair River, and with Lake Ontario by the Niagara River (Lake Erie's only natural outlet) and the Welland Canal. The New York State Canal System links the lake with the Hudson River. Several small rivers, including the Maumee, Sandusky, and Cuyahoga, flow into the lake from the south; the Grand River enters from Ontario. Lake Erie is partially icebound in winter and is usually closed to navigation from mid-December to the end of March. Rich agricultural lands border the Canadian shore, where the chief towns are Port Colborne and Port Stanley. The principal U.S. cities on the lake are Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, and Toledo; all are ports with heavy industry. Untreated industrial and municipal wastes from lakeshore cities-and from Detroit, whose wastes enter the western end of the lake-polluted the waters and rendered surrounding areas foul smelling. A U.S.-Canadian pact (1972) ended the discharge of contaminating materials into the water, and the environmental damage has since abated. Numerous recreation facilities are provided at national (Point Pelee and Fort Malden in Canada), provincial, and state parks located on the lake's islands and shores. The first European to see the lake was French explorer Louis Jolliet in 1669. The British and the French, and later the British and the Americans, fought for its control. The battle of Lake Erie (Sept. 10, 1813), a naval engagement in the War of 1812, led successfully by the U.S. leader Oliver H. Perry against the British, was fought at Put-in Bay. (Courtesy the Columbia Encyclopedia)

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Benson Ford Shiphouse to be featured on MTV

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