Greensboro’s Historic Julian Price House (Hoarder House)

Southern Lights had the privilege of creating the lighting designs for this property and work with the client who was particularly interested in a full service design build installation including the landscaping, hardscaping, an on-going maintenance. This meant combining forces with Southern Exposure Landscape Management and Southern Lights. Built-in 1929 by Julian Price, founder, and president of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, The Julian Price House also know as Hillside is a house like no other. Designed by Greensboro star-architect, Charles Hartmann, the home is a mix of Downton Abbey and Southern Living Magazine.  The 31-room mansion is marked to be one of the grandest Tudor Style homes in North Carolina. Every room was designed to be just as elegant as the next. The landscape is equally detailed, containing stone retaining walls, serpentine flagstone walkways, and mature evergreen feature trees. But over the past decade, the home and landscape have deteriorated. The damage reached a climax last year when the home was featured in A&E’s infamous T.V. show ‘Hoarders’. Over 1.2 million households across the country watched the heavy-wrenching episode unfold as the ‘Hoarders’ T.V. crews emptied the enormous home, packed from floor to ceiling with contents accumulated by the former owner. The landscape was also left in shambles. But since then, things have drastically changed. The home was bought by Michael and Eric Fuko-Rizzo last year. Who have tasked Southern Lights with restoring the architectural and landscape lighting.