This is the house I grew up in, built in 1890 , Sheridan Wyoming. Had a little electrical fire in the attic. But it turned out OK
I appreciate that. I'm just getting into the gas station collecting thing so I have no idea yet what a sign like that would cost. I have been looking at Carlisle and Hershey, but have yet to go to any swap meets just for the gas station collectables. Of course if you did find a sign that was reasonable, I would still have to figure out how to get it back to Maryland. I was looking at TRJ last night checking out your 55. That's a neat shot.
Original house (with the large Chimney) built in 1670. Lived here from '54 til '73. That's my '39 Dodge pick-up that I dropped a DeSoto hemi into in '63. Photo shot in 'summer of '64 Same house from other side. That's my dad watering his garden. His '60 Chrysler, kid brother's 55 Chrysler and my '34 under the maple tree. That was our garage. I built 4 of my own cars under that maple tree and worked on countless others for my brothers and their friends under that tree. Photo shot in 'summer of '64 ...and from the front in '54 or '55. That's my younger brother on the left. In Feb '68 with my less than a month old GTX in front. Still own that car, BTW. Dec 05 at my current circa 1910 place. Garage was a Studebaker dealership in the twenties. Addition on the house replaced a similar, but, smaller section 17 years ago. Aug 06.
I too love old homes...esp frank lloyd wright and Rm Schindler design..I love the industrial design (ie LARRYs home)...I haven't decided yet what my dream home is...something obviously with a shop..I currently live in a barn..yes a barn...with lots of built in storage...someday...
Dude you're my Hero!! I Love cigars and antiques, your place is amazing. I come out to reading PA every once in a while to visit the girlfriends Grandma can we visit?? LTR Dave
Our home downtown Denver, Colorado. Congress Park, east of the capitol. Built in 1901-1906, the model T garage was built in the early 20's, and the first in the neigborhood (so I've been told). Staying true to the times, I have the Chick'n Pen Roadster tucked inside.
What an incredible bunch of houses,thanks for sharing.Larry have you thought of finishing another floor as a B&B along the same theme??? HOT ROD MECCA!! Wish i lived closer so i could check it out in person.
piled up in my backyard is a disassembled and tagged mountain of chestnut logs that are a 25' X 35' two-story log house built in 1790 in SE Penn. the "Juniata House", it was trucked down here and the previous owner died, probably when he saw the huge pile of shit he paid so much money for. all the window frames,door frames,staircases, were made by hand over two hundred years ago..It is mortise and tenon, square nails. and has a formal downstairs room that is floor and wall planked with honest 1x14 longleaf pine tongue and groove..you know, if I live long enough to put half my crap together I'll be lucky......
we just sold this one: http://www.obeo.com/Public/Viewer/Default.aspx?ID=227282 built in in 1931 renovated in mid nineties by a realtor (argh) we bought it and sold it after 2 years love the old stuff, but like the maintenance-lessness of a new hose so I can "maintain" my autos. so now, we're building a new one. the first house was built in '51 and had a killer 25x30 insulated shop in the back with 220, gas, phone, plenty of lights, shelves, loft space... then this old house had a plain jane 18x18 garage with NO amenities. We finally broke down and ditched the roll-to side garage door for a conventional over head. My new place will have adequate garage to get me by until the new shop is built.
Here's mine. I tried to track its lineage, but I got as far back as 1866, and it goes back further than that. The frame is all ax-cut wood, with wood pins and dowels holding it together, and a stone foundation with no mortar in between the stones. There's trees used as beams in the basement. When we bought it, there was no plumbing, no bathroom, only an outhouse and an old pump well. I found a couple very rusted old pony shoes in the backyard, and one very huge old oak in the backyard had barbed wire embedded deep into it, and the barbed wire was about 40 feet up the tree. My wife's uncle, who's 92, says he remembers the house being the only house on our road, back when the road was a dirt horse path, and he says when he was a tot, our house was still mega-old! There are structures around us dating back to the 1700s, and he said he wouldn't be shocked if our house goes back that far or close. Renovating this is the reason more of my rusty rides aren't done! Hey, the price was too good...
We bought our current home 6 years ago, knew it had some history but never really bothered to find out about it, that was until we saw a women standing in our front garden taking pictures. Turns out she lived in our home in the late 50's early 60's and was taking the pictures to show to her family as she was in the area. She said she had the history of the house and would send it to me, never really expected to hear from her again but, true to her word she sent me a long e mail giving the history up to 1971 when they moved out. Turns out it was originally built in 1936 for a guy called Peter Enders, his wife and 3 children. The house was completed but was never moved into as Peter left his wife to move to Hollywood. He was either the director or owner of Ilford films (they used to make photographic paper and film for the movie industry, in fact they still do) and went to Hollywood to become a director at MGM. His wife and children were so disgusted with him that they refused to move into the house and it was left empty up inthil the late 50's early 60's when the women taking the pictures family bought it. She told a great story that the deal was that if they were ever to sell the house they had to sell it back to Enders family for £1000 more than the market price! It took her father and brothers 2 days to cut down the trees and undergrowth that had grown over the years to enable them to put a caravan on the front lawn where they lived for two years whilst her father made the house habitable. Her father sold off the land at the back of the house to pay for the refit, it was originally on 110 acres. I think he just didnt fancy moving the grass... She seems to think that they paid £3000 for it and sold it for £20,000 in 1971 when they moved out, not a bad deal back then. The house then had 3 other owners up until we moved in early 2000. It is quite eclectic in its design, has high ceiling and the most ornate staircase, in fact it was the entrance hall that sold it to us. Well, thats what I tell non car guys. To you I can tell the truth. It was the triple width garage House is quite run down, had to replace the roof, electrics and heating and am now trying to make some money to bring the house upto scratch. Makes it very difficult to justify spending money on cars when the doors are hanging off the kitchen! Living in an old house is great, we have loads of space, no neighbours and the kids can do pretty much what they want without ruining anything, but sometimes I think living in a new place would be so much easier. Have to say that you all have really cool houses, now where can I find myself a Cigar factory!!
Wow, so many cool homes! I live in a 1920 fourplex in Los Angeles. It's actually the only one of its kind left in the area (looks like a Colonial mansion), and it keeps getting sold to people who want to tear it down to build condos, but each new owner soon finds out that the place isn't zoned to be anything bigger than it currently is. BUT, it just got sold again! Three times in as many years. Makes me sick that anyone would want to destroy a place that has been home to many artists, writers, and movie starlets just to make a buck. If anyone has any background in getting homes/buildings designated as historical, please let me know. I'd love to keep these clowns from tearing it down.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153678 If you hadn't seen it, this thread shows the problem with a determined land owner. The owner has to sign the papers to make it a historical landmark.
No, I hadn't seen it. Thanks for the link! I can't believe how little people seem to care about our past.
If you do the research you can usually get it placed on the National Register, but the irony is that such a national designation doesn't actually provide any demolition protection, what counts is being in a historic district under your local government body (usually city) and even then that depends on how strongly your historic district ordinances are written. Some cities with good (from a preservation perspective) ordinances will allow single significant buildings to become their own historic districts, but most are not that flexible. It would be better if your entire neighborhood were historic enough to rate protection. I rarely hear about historic preservation out West. Maybe it's just because I live east of the Mississippi, however, but I suspect it's because the westward movement is one of the underpinnings of our disposable, consumer culture. Los Angeles, California would be sort of the pinnacle of that. If you're really serious, get in touch with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (should come up easily in Google, Yahoo, etc.) and your local historic preservationists (whom the Nat'l Trust should be able to put you in contact with). -Dave
I wish I could afford a house, of course I want a mid century modern style. Anyway, I'm bringing this thread back just to show pics of stuff I have. Got more things but hard to get pics in a crowded apartment.
This is where I live in LONDON.... I own a Loft appartement in this 1930 Art Deco building, originaly they was building Airplane part in the 30's for the Dehavilland's plane. I love the 30's style and this is a good exemple.....
Evilchevy, that is one cool building! That is a fantastic Art Deco / Art Moderne style and it's in Europe! I didn't think that style was very popular over there. At least I didn't see much of it in Germany.
The British did a lot of good Streamline Moderne stuff. Hitler hated modern art, though, remember, so Germany didn't get much of it. Plus there was this little thing called WWII that caused a lot of remodeling in Continental Europe in the '50s. -Dave
This is my house in the UK, it was built in 1903 as the Manse for the Methodist church next door. Was totally derelict when we bought it 10 years ago, all boarded up etc. This is my holiday home in south west France, we don't know exactly how old it is as theres no date stone anywhere which is quite unusual but from some of the architectural details and the fact that all the roof timbers are hand sawn and wooden pegged together we think its somewhere around 200 years old, but it could be a lot older. It has had some modifications made, the steps and terrace at the front are a new addition as the old stone ones probably collapsed as did the original chimney/stone fireplace. It does still have the original stone sink inside and the plumbing involves a hole through the wall with a projecting stone behind it so the water doesn't run down the wall! This was also semi derelict when we bought it two years ago. Inside when we bought it Inside now, still not finished but better.
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