Also, I’ve never seen a house with plaster walls in the BASEMENT! Plaster walls in the little storage shed too. I will say that the basement is clean, and probably one of the most “smell free” basements I’ve ever been in, especially for a 160 year old house. You can just tell it stays bone dry.
That's great that your old house even has a basement! Looks like a new concrete floor. You will be happy that you took pictures now, because in a couple years it will be completely full!
Your going to live how quiet it is inside, crazy how when it’s windy you won’t notice it, rain storms, same thing, just quiet. here’s ours, front side and the side the driveway goes past looks like this the opposite sides are like this From what I’ve learned is these are the sides guests wouldn’t see. Spent the extra time/money on the sides people would see. The limestone was mined not far away. Found a few homes that are the same as ours in the area. Basement still has the log supports
A couple guys from my church put together a door to cover the cellar stairs today. I can’t have visitors falling down the stone stairway. They used some square cut nails my wife pulled out of a barn her family demo’ed. The one guy has a sawmill, so he used some 1” Oak to build the door. I wanted it kind of rough looking. I like the way it came out.
Great thread, it just popped up this morning, like magic after scraping paint, sanding, and priming three windows on Mon & Dads house they built up the street after WWII, my sister owns it now. Lots of great memories. Bob
According to the deed it was built in 49, but some of the old timers say it's older than that and moved to its current location after the rest of the property was sold for development.
1....maybe to the right is all utilities. Finally got carpet in this summer with no AC it made the summer much more bearable.
I agree with the old timers. That was a popular style in the 1920’s. It was a common plan book house. Here’s one north of me for sale with a 1925 build date. Not EXACTLY like yours, but similar. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20467-State-Highway-27-Sparta-WI-54656/113668753_zpid/
Mine from August, 1971 built in 1952...just got married to my 18yr old bride...put $100 as the down payment...$16,800 full price. And still married to her after 51yrs. Here is picture of my '61 Corvette in the driveway....good times... .
I know that this does not appear to fit this topic but I really think the house does. Our home, in the photo, is actually an Army nurses barracks that was built about 1940. It was bought by the previous owner in the 1960s, when they closed the fort near here. He had it moved to the current location. The previous owner made improvements before he sold it to us for $36,000. I have worked on it for 45 years or so. The first barracks I was assigned to at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, when I entered the Navy in 1967, was of the same design.
Hello, When we moved from a small 20 foot long trailer to our first real house, it was an eye opening event. Our dad had a big surprise for the whole family. We had adapted well to living in the small trailer since 1946, but by late summer of 1948, we now lived in what would be called a classic “Craftsman” house. 2335 Webster Ave Long Beach The farthest in the Westside of Long Beach area, as it was the last known street before the end of the city limits. Beyond our backyard was a buffer giant empty field that separated the homes from the Terminal Island Freeway. Then the railroad tracks from the harbors was a common area prior to being in Wilmington, CA to the West. Within a year, our white picket fence yard was an obvious choice for a new family Collie to make itself a part of the daily two brother’s adventures. By current standards, it was a very small house, but it had the typical Craftsman features. Built in bookcases, triangular corner cabinets with glass inserts, a covered brick patio with French doors were some of the highlights. The whole yard was fenced in with the White picket fence. The backyard was huge and it actually had a rear alley entrance, separate garage structure with a “bachelor pad” extra playroom attached to the garage. Our dad’s big Buick cars could not fit into the small door garage spaces. So, he parked outside in front everyday. 1947-49 with our dad and his 41 Buick Fastback Sedan parked out in front. Across the street was a large park and a row of similar homes. We stayed in that small 2 bedroom/one bath house until 1953, when we moved to our last larger home about three blocks away. (Larger is a misnomer as 900 sq. ft. is not large, but larger than the old Craftsman House.) In the years we lived there until 1998, we expanded to about 1200 sq. ft. 1941 Buick in the real garage. (lived from 1953-1998) Jnaki The tall electrical grid structure(s) in the background of the empty lot is the Southern end of Lion’s Dragstrip from 1955 to 1972. The destruction of the whole city neighborhood blocks was done to make room for a park, three schools, (including a new high school ) and a maintenance yard. All of the western side of Webster Avenue homes was torn down for the new construction. The large electrical structures as seen from the Lion's Dragstrip filming locations... Our Craftsman House was near the big structure on the far right of the photos. The large electrical power structure is in the top middle of the photo... The Lion's Dragstrip used to be located on the far upper right of the photo. Our address was in the lower right corner. The huge baseball fields are part of the attached neighborhood park with the same address as the school. On top of the photo is the Terminal Island Freeway going right-left. Behind the freeway is the berm for the railroad tracks and beyond is the massive harbor container area that brings in all of the goods we have the stores where we all shop. 2335 Webster Ave. address from our old Craftsman House. Now used as the address of the whole school district complex and specifically the elementary school.
Thank you, Bought it in 1985, stripped down to bare wood and painted took 35 years to find the Capitals that sit at the top of the Columns made of Terracotta they are very easily broken.
Hello, Thank you for the nice comment. My brother and I were growing up and getting taller/bigger. It must have been the great food our mom used to make. But, we were ok with that old Craftsman House that is no longer standing. It was small, but, so were we. So, the fenced in yard, the huge public weed/grass infested field between us and the old freeway/train tracks gave us plenty of places to play. Walking distance to schools, gas stations and grocery stores was a nice place to grow up. But, when we moved to the next and last house in the Westside a few blocks away, it was like a big change. There was more room and a fully functioning recreation room that was called a Rumpus Room. My brother and I could go back there and spend hours reading, drawing, listening to a portable radio, etc. all a distance away from our mom and the real house. It was our play room, lunch room, party room and nap room all rolled into one, without parental supervision like a helicopter mom. It was built in 1946 and was one of the first big tract home groupings in the area. But, by today’s standards, it was a tiny place. When my wife and I got our first apartment it was about 600 sq. ft. that seemed larger than the Craftsman house. Our next apartment was an upstairs 700 sq.ft. place that had two bedrooms and a huge living room/dining area. But, as little as we were, that small 1946 house was heaven and we grew into it well. When I was a pre teen and my brother was a full on teenager with a car, we were thinking of adding on a bedroom and bathroom to make it a longer house and smaller yard. Then both of us would have our own bedrooms and share a bathroom. Jnaki Instead, what we did was to remodel the Rumpus Room into our hot rod speed shop and engine building business. We also were able to use the space to build our first hot rod/drag race 1940 Willys 671 SBC from the ground up to compete in the B/Gas + C/Gas Coupe class. Our mom stayed in that house until 1998. We had already chosen a new build condo near us in the big OC and she was finally ready to move 50 miles away nearer to our own house. It was a nice house to experience our teenage years and when we see those old house shows on TV, every time we see a fully tiled bathroom from floor to ceiling, it was back to old home week in the Westside of Long Beach. Small, but comfy... Thanks…
I've been perusing the old house plans again. Looking for a retirement house to build. It needs character. I'm feeling a very MCM type of build. Not sure if the financial advisor feels the same way. She may want the farmhouse cottage vibe.
Well built homes, if you can get one built before 1960 the materials used were at their peek Yellow pine was often used, my dad was a carpenter by trade he said yellow pine was much better than oak for building homes
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