Jeremy Mayfield's 12,000 Sq. Ft. House to be Burned to Ground Saturday

Dave Fulton
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11 years ago
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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS...

Jeremy Mayfield's $1.8M mansion to be burned down

CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C.


THURSDAY UPDATE:
Rain won't stop burning of Jeremy Mayfield's former mansion

A million dollar mansion once owned by former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield will be burned to the ground this weekend.

Mayfield was evicted from the property last year after financial troubles stemming from a failed drug test in 2009 that banned him from racing.

Channel 9 reporter Dave Faherty was the only reporter allowed in the house that at one time was valued at $1.8 million.

The 12,000-square-foot house isn't worth that anymore and by Saturday afternoon, much of it will be gone.

Everything in the seven-bedroom, seven-bath house is stripped down from the windows to the wiring.

Chris Shook and his mother Crystal Shook live across the street and watched as it went downhill after Mayfield bought the home and surrounding property for $3.8 million in 2006.

Back in the day it looked pretty good, Shook said. It was one of the best-looking houses in the county and one of the biggest too.

I hate to see it go. I wish it could have been saved, said Crystal Shook.

Neighbors said Mayfield tried to renovate the home, but when he was banned from racing and arrested for possession of meth and stolen property work on the home came to an abrupt halt.

Catawba Fire Chief Donald Robinson remembers it when it was first built back in the 1990's.

"It was beautiful and to see it like this is a shame," Robinson said.

Now Robinson will oversee the controlled burn.

He said the new owners no longer want the home that is worth just over $300,000 dollars.

Burning it will take it off the tax books while providing training for firefighters in the county.

"Everything we can do to better our training and skills, that's what we are going to be doing with this house, said Robinson.

Mayfield told Channel 9 he has no plans to watch the home burn.

Mayfield is scheduled to go back before a judge early next month where he faces several felony charges.




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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
bill mcpeek
@bill-mcpeek
11 years ago
820 posts

sad, that is the only word I can think of about this situation....

Leon Phillips
@leon-phillips
11 years ago
626 posts

WOW how can something like that happen how can somebody blow that much money

Charles Ray Stocks
@charles-ray-stocks
11 years ago
222 posts

this is such a shame

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
11 years ago
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Fire training exercise on Jeremy Mayfield's former mansion cancelled
AP 7:25 p.m. EST December 13, 2013
Former NASCAR driver lost house in November 2012
12-13-2013

CATAWBA, N.C. (AP) The scheduled burning of the million-dollar home once owned by former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield as part of a fire training exercise has been canceled.

Chief Donald Robinson of the Catawba Volunteer Fire Department said Saturday's scheduled burning was called off because of the threat of rain. Firefighters had said previously that rain would not prevent the burning from taking place.

Robinson said the house was in such bad shape firefighters couldn't conduct any of the practice drills inside. He also said the new owner doesn't want to keep the house, adding that the house will either be burned down or torn down.

State officials kicked Mayfield off the land in November 2012. Catawba County sheriff's deputies changed the locks on the doors. Carolina Farm Credit received an order that month transferring the land and buildings to the company. Court records show the bank bought the land for $1,725,000.

The windows and the wiring have been stripped from the home. Drywall and other building materials are now exposed.

Mayfield was suspended from driving in 2009 after testing positive for methamphetamine. He is facing a variety of charges.




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Johnny Mallonee
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11 years ago
3,259 posts
Looks like the rain is going to win over-- the burn was put off and no plans for a date to burn
Dave Fulton
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11 years ago
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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
James Boyle
@james-boyle
11 years ago
12 posts

One thing ppl dont mention is Jeremy and his wife never moved into this house. They kicked him off the land, it was in the process of being remodeled and after the NASCAR vs Mayfield battle began it was foreclosed on. the house and it sat for about 2 year in limbo before someone bought the house. It was their choice to burn it down and this would wipe off the tax lien on the house. Rumors of it being a Meth-house and no one could live in it safely was not true.

Andy DeNardi
@andy-denardi
11 years ago
365 posts
I didn't fully believe the original drug allegations and thought NASCAR may have been lying to cover up a faulty drug testing plan. But then more stuff began piling on and Mayfield got dug into a deeper hole to the point where I couldn't take his side either. I never thought he was any more than an average driver but it was a shame to see how a man can be brought to his knees so quickly and thoroughly. He wasn't great but had been making a nice living doing siomething fun.NASCAR seems to have improved testing and retribution since Jeremy, in order to minimize the publicity that came out of this story. So that's a positive. Somebody should drug test those guys on Wall Street and in Congress.