Abandoned house source of frustration for Yankee Ridge residents
By Kirby Pringle
Sunday November 12, 2006
John Dixon
Trees grow over, around and through abandoned cars in the driveway and garage at the Henri Merkelo home on Pine Circle in the Yankee Ridge subdivision south of Urbana.
There's nothing unusual about a vacant house. But one that has sat empty for nearly 30 years in the heart of a swank Urbana subdivision raises eyebrows.
The home owned by Henri Merkelo not only has raised eyebrows, but also the ire of neighbors living on Pine Circle in Yankee Ridge. The neighborhood, on the outskirts of Urbana, with its architecturally distinctive homes, is not the sort of place you would expect to find a long-abandoned house.
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