Dr. William Henry Burritt was a lot of things: a homeopathic doctor, a car guy, an inventor, a world traveler, and the eccentric brains behind one of Huntsville's weirdest homes. In part one of this two-part show on Dr. Burritt, I'll be discussing his "origin story" as well as the construction and destruction of the first of his two X-shaped mansions (spoiler).

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