Very nice home. I like what you did with the landscaping. Got good talent there. Got pictures of the garage and any projects?
Thanks Zenor!!! I always love your contribution to home threads. You definitely get to tour some stunning homes!
Heres one. It Aint Mine, but sure-as-shit it's old! It's near the Idaho Montana Border. I was cruisin' up I-15 in the Lincoln one sunday, and had to stop and snap a couple of this ol' beauty. I've pulled heaps out of junkyards 'weren't this bad off!
My sisters house built in the 1860's by my great, great grand father. He built several homes in the town. ( Taylors Falls, Mn.) I lived in it when i was a little guy. It was in my family all but about 30 years of it's life. My sister bought it several years ago when it was in very bad shape and is slowly redoing it.
I dont think I've posted a picture of this since I finished the fence and other details. Its a rental I built last year to harken back to the old storybook homes of the 20's
Don't think I've ever posted this one, and of course it isn't mine. It's the Ben Rose house in Highland Park IL, which you may recognize as Cameron's house from the movie Ferris Bueler's Day Off... the one where the Ferrari crashes through the window and into the ravine. I had the chance to see it this spring. Here's the exterior view... Living room From one of the bedrooms the famous Ferris Bueler Ferrari scene actually took place in the pavilion, a separate sleek glass box building behind the main house that overhangs a deep ravine. Mr. Rose was a textile designer by trade, and built the pavilion to house his studio and a few of his sports cars (he collected Bugattis, MGs and Jags). It was also used to host big parties. It has its own kitchen... ... and here's the window the Ferrari crashed through Incredibly, the house was built in 1953 and the family lived in it until just last year when Mrs. Rose died. The architect was a student of Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology, and it was one of only 3 houses he ever designed. He went on to become the curator at the Museum of Modern Art.
Love this thread and the wide variety of "vintage" pads... Awesome and awe inspiring, from simple to high end. Just like cars...
Heres some of my House (Thats up for Rent if any one is interested! ) Sorta mid century sorta ranch... built in 54 it's my first house and I'm going to miss it very much!!! I'm currenty redoing the "Updated" Kitchen witch they tore out the fantastic birch cabinets and replaced them with the cheapest home depot pieces of crap cabinets... were also laying down some cork floors in the kitchen aswell...
Nice Piero!!! Your house looks really cool, clean and uncluttered and it has one hell of a view. There's a lot less Rat Rod paraphernalia then I thought would be there but you probably took that to Austin so it'd be close right?
Here you go: "Vintage" !!! All jokes aside, I dig those old houses. My wife and I own the house that my great-grandparents bought in 1939 with the farm. We've remodeled, and love it!
All the sweet rat rod stuff is packed already....I took down all the spider webs / skulls / iron crosses / flames / rebel flags off the wall to rent it
A little clean up, some paint and it's ready to move in! Too bad they let it deteriorate, looks like it was a nice place at one time. Located on Rt 3 near Searsport Maine. Fred
This is a great thread! I bought what was left of this 1940-era house in 1995, for $5000. There wasn't much left. All the wiring, plumbing and interior walls were long gone and a big garage door was cut into the back so the owner could park his tractor inside! I quickly made it habitable and moved my family into it. Four years later we lifted it up, turned it around and put it on a new cement foundation. I then jacked the second floor up, removed each exterior wall and replaced them with new - one by one. Three years later, all that was left of the original house was the floor joists and the roof. I got rid of those when we built the addition. All the while we lived in it....never again shall I do anything this stupid. But it's an beautiful house now!
Damn, I hate seeing abandoned places like this! That would probably have been a stunning house back in it's day. I feel the same about old abandoned houses as I do about old abandoned cars. Makes me sad.
iT looks worse now. The whole place is really sagging. It's about 10 miles from my relatively new house.
At least the Felt Mansion appears to have a happy ending. A lot of very cool old buildings are languishing in Michigan, and the typical municipal solution is wholesale bulldozing. -Dave
I have this 1918 Brunswick record player in my living room, 122 vintage records ranging from 40's & 50's country & western,30's & 40's big band & jazz to first press 50's rock n roll. The sound is controlled by closing the front door on the cabinet, it has a swing arm needle. Including the entire first press catalog of Hank Williams.
Mine is 1880's with the newer 1910 carriage house as my shop. Here is a before and current on the house. The property only had a 60 amp nob and tube system for three buildings when we bought it. I soon started to replace all the electrical in the house then we put in a 400amp system with 200 amps going in to the basement of the house and 200 amps right into the shop. Then the old drive was about 75' long but was only two strips of concrete so the buggies would not fall in the mud. We poured 35 yards for the 12x75 drive and the 40x30 pad between the house and shop. Then their are a few pics of the shop and the tin building in the rear is the original out house and is 12x20 and 2 story. I am in the middle of converting my shop from a fab/paint booth to a dedicated hand built hot rod shop were I will be building one body at a time from scratch. I will start a shop thread after it is set up. Also our property is zoned commercial / residential and when I applied for the business licenses and showed them what I would be building they said no problem because it is "Historically correct" for the use of the building. It was used for horse and buggy repairs from 1910 to the mid 30's. The 10' door on the right of the shop is a pull through so the horse and buggy would pull straight in, they would un hook the horse and take them around the corner to the black smith. Then bring them back around and hook back up and pull out. Then in the early 20's they put in an in ground pit for the model T's at the left end of the shop since they could back them selves out. Hope you enjoy the pics. Kevin LFD Inc.
Very cool, I like the carriage house. I have plans of this kind of look for ours down the road but on a 25x45 scale Kevin LFD Inc.
That must have been spectacular for Estancia back in it's day. Even though it's the County seat Estancia has always been a small town. Any History on it?
That's not too much smaller . I would say the one in the picture is about 60 x 30. There was a 3 story 30x30 dissembled carriage house for sale by one of those barn restorers. I wish I kept a picture as it was freakin cool. It would look great but 30x30 seemed too small for all the work and money it would take to reassemble it.
Here is my place. Built in 1864 by the mill owner in town, the servants lived on the 3rd floor and the dumb waiters are still in the closets. Their are 15 rooms and a big 3 car garage that were horse stalls and a large room up top.
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