This old house
 

Here's a neato old picture of our house.

Is that you in the carriage?

Looks like a buckboard.

Its interesting how styles change... Is it just the photo or had they parged some kind of concrete over the stones?

It's hard to tell, I can't see the photocopy of the photo clearly enough. There are lots of stone houses with stucco over it around here though. It looks pretty when it's in bad shape and you can see stone thru it...

And no, it's not me. Smartass.

One of the styles that seems to be unique to this area is using small stones and having more morter than stone showing. I've seen a number of houses and barns built that way.
Jinx, I agree the missing patches of stucco on the stone or brick buildings looks cool. I have however seen some new houses where they tried to replicate that look and it just didn't look right. It look too contrived.

Ok, I'll try...

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Yes! There's a brand new castle-sized home not far from here with the 'stone showing thru' look.... looks like it belongs at disney or something...

Jinx, how the hell did you ever get the picture? And how old is the house?

We have never been able to learn much history of our place, no date even on the title or other docs. Some old timer did tell us that when a house down the road was built in 1896 ours was already standing. When knocked out a wall to make the living room bigger (using a "porch" that was a "recent" addition), all of the newspapers that were stuffed around the windows for insulation were local papers with news that we had dropped the A-Bomb on Japan. Pretty cool but I have yet to find anything of interest in the "main" house.

Also I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of some of one of our outbuildings (there are 4) with a second story loft type door (going to nothing....no second story) and cement floor, with a sort of wainscotting about 2' high all around the inside.

Anyway, hell of a cool picture there.

Do you have any pictures?
We looked at a house built in 1817, with a cement floored attic with a large window - it was for storing bodies during the winter. The caskets would be raised and lowered thru the window. Sounds like what was going on in your outbuilding....

We've seen several dates for this house, and best we can figure is the original stone section is from the 1830's, and the cedar addition is from 1865.
The previous owners gave us a copy of the picture, an article about one of the previous owners (doctor who used this as a home and office), the national historic register certificate thingy, and a magazine in which the house is featured.

I'll post some interior shots I tooks the other night when it was clean....

I don't have any pictures at the moment, will post one when I can get them converted.

"storing bodies during the winter"

Geez, I thought maybe it was for grain or something, I'll be thinking of you tonight while not sleeping because I'm all freaked out.

They had to put 'em somewhere, lol....
Post pics when you can - I love looking at these old places.

Here are some interior shots
http://tinyurl.com/2xdb6

Can we have a picture with either brighter lights or one taken during the daytime? :rolleyes:

oooh, I'm lovin that bathtub! Looks like a nice place to hide :)