My mom brought her camera and documented a few things of the house from my previous post. I think my dad had in mind to sell off a couple of the lots so the yard wasn't so big but the house was awkwardly placed so you would have had to move it over 20 ft in order to develop the rest of the land. Which is apparently what the current owners are going to do if no one bites. Too bad, it was a super, super neat house. Maybe if the current owners get it moved over to a manageable lot size and put it up for sale again it will go back on the maybe list. Or a developer will buy it and rip it down. Darn it! It is priced for the land. If it was simply the house, on a normal lot it would probably be 100K? Maybe?
If one remembers from the last post, it was an architects house so it had a lot of "modern" features for that time. The poured foundation was one of them. My mom didn't get a picture of that? Hmm, I think I should have been in charge of documenting. It was very interesting to see how primitive it looked compared to today's poured foundation but it had worked (probably better than today's) and the house was still very straight.The chimney in the kitchen was kind of ugly. (she didn't get a picture of that either?) as the stove fit right inside so the stove pipe would have been right inside and it had 2 little glass block windows.
The final kicker to why they probably won't be moving in: The walls and
ceilings are all cardboard! My parents had this in their basement and
servant quarters so we know this was used in the early 1900's.
But in the entire house? and I thought my house was cold/hot prior to insulating! We went back to the architect using modern
materials. He must have thought this was great. Slap it up and put up
the wallpaper. No need for lathing or waiting for plaster to dry!
However, this can not be up to code as we also know (from my dad's test when they first moved to their house) it is definitely not
fire resistant. The daunting task of removing it all and putting up
plaster board did not appeal to my parents nor did the idea of paying
someone. I tried to get them to look at the bright side. It would be
easy to fix pipes and wiring!
Lets see what my mom took pictures of anyways:
This is the front porch ceiling. Lots of little Details.
The outside view of a leaded glass window.
The front entry had marble trim (which I wasn't impressed with the way they attached it) and terrazzo tiles. Love those and very mod for 1900. I think, for around here anyway.
Lots of fancy light fixtures everywhere showing off those new fangled electric light bulbs. All of the woodwork (some seen here) in the last post, even the painted stuff, is quartersawn oak. Oh, and you can see one of the cardboard seams on the ceiling, right above the fixture.
My favorite part. Green bathroom fixtures! They were in good shape, just lots of calcium residue. I wanted to clean them so bad to see them all shiny again - that is weird....isn't it....yeah... The main/only bathroom was on the main level, away from the bedrooms. We finally decided this was added in the 20's? (dating the fixtures) in the kitchen pantry and there was no bathroom when it was originally built. This house was way out in the middle of nowhere when it was built so I doubt the city sewers reached this far.
They had a sink (old) and a toilet (newer) upstairs stuffed in a closet and I guess they didn't feel the need to put the pipes/drains inside the walls? Another reason we guessed the bathroom was not original.
One of the ornate vents dated 1900.
The servants quarters were still set up in the attic. Yikes! I'm guessing it wasn't so depressing back then? At least it would have been cleaner.
The house was full of old odds and ends of things - including food from the 60's still in the main cupboard! This was in the basement and made me laugh. Do not spray this on animals but feel free to spray it all over your bed.
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