Auction Raises Enough Money To Save 'Superman's Home'
The month-long auction where everything from art to a role on 'Heroes' was bid on raised a total of $101,744 to save the Glenville home in which Superman was dreamed up more than seventy years ago. The Siegel and Shuster Society will oversee the renovation, which initially aimed to merely replace the home's leaky roof and repair the wood-sided exterior at a cost of about $50,000 to keep the house from rotting away. But the group now has money for future years and also complete a few repairs inside the house. Novelist Brad Meltzer says when he first discovered the house while researching a novel, he wasn't sure if people would be interested in restoring the red-and-blue house but the response has been overwhelming. "We're all Clark Kent," he says. "We all know what it is like to be boring and ordinary and we all want to be able to rip open our shirt and do something beyond ourselves. That's what happened here. Ordinary people made a difference."
Loyal Superman fans have raised enough money to save the rotting home where the Man of Steel was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
October 1, 2008 | |
