Mysterious swimming pool found in abandoned Baltimore townhouse

Inner Harbor Homes highlights a foreclosed home in Baltimore with an unusual feature for an urban townhouse: a deep indoor swimming pool. The home is hardly large enough to contain a hot tub, yet now accomodates a 15-ft pool on the ground floor. As this video makes clear, the interior is extensively modified around the pool: the kitchen is gone to make way for the pool itself and the floors above opened to create a multi-storey open space. There is a diving (?) platform up there. There's a disquieting quality to the place. It maybe now exists only to serve the desires of the pool, which I propose we file under Euclid.

Someone spent a lot of money on this place, and whatever they were doing didn't work out. The house, modernized but weird and blatantly dangerous, is on offer for $139k.

The MLS listing is a masterpiece of brevity: "Town house close to Inner Harbor attractions and dining. Pool/ Jacuzzi in house."

Fells Point looks like a run-down but fun neighborhood, all beautiful old brick houses, rowdy pubs and no parking. Seems from the real estate sites that the house in proper condition would fetch around $200k--and maybe double that if it still had, well, floors and rooms.

UPDATE: A local journalist, Hallie Miller, found the previous owner. They don't want to talk about it.

Dimitris M. Spiliadis ... is the manager and a co-owner of the neighborhoods Black Olive restaurant, which has been owned and operated by his family for over two decades.