When was your house built?

[Egon]

I get to live in a three story with walk outbasement built in 1934. There have been a few modifications since then but nothing drastic.

It was built using rough dimensional lumber, lathe and plaster with no plywood or other processed sheet products. The owner used his own woodlot for all the lumber used including flooring. [pine, oak, maple] the kitchen floor had canvas on it. All the doors; inculding the French Doors, were locally made.

It don't creak in strong winds. [16 inch centers or less for walls and joists.]:thumbsup:

Six inch walls are code up here in Canada.

 

[ultrarunner]

Hard question because multiple answers...

First home 1927 followed by 1910 and several 1921 and later 1956 and the last one 1978...

Along with an assortment in between that were projects over the years...

I really find the old stucco mediterranean and craftsman bungalows fun to work on... they were very well built at a time when horse carts were still being used in the city...

Had one old wood-sided home, the 1927... it needed painted every 4 to 5 years... with today's requirements on stripping and sanding paint... I am very glad I sold it... even though it was my first...

I guess the newest would be the cabin started in 1982 and it is still a work in progress...

 

[QRTRHRS]

First house was a way station (tavern/hotel) close by the Delaware River. Travelers would lay over until morning and raft across the river. It was built with a red oak post and beam frame with split hickory wedged between the posts then plastered with mud and horse hair. The original centrally located heating system had four fireplaces with slate lined flues.

The exact age could not be determined by the town records but we had occasion to have an archiologist versed in early American buildings who felt that it was built between 1720 and 1750.

In those days, when a piece of pottery got broken, often as not it was tossed out an open window. When central sewage came to town, we found several examples of period china and pottery aloing with cannon balls that were forged in a close by town for George Washington's army though they could have been buried at anytime.

Occasions of high water had ravaged the house so the focus was on stabilizing and not restoring. The fireplace had settled badly during a flood in 1955 so reinforced concrete was placed around the base in the basement and the top was removed from the attic and roof. The attic had 5/4 inch thick "pumkin pine floor boards upwards of 40 inches wide. They were removed and stored away for future use. (Too bad they went to auction when my ex and I divorced.)

Since then it has been onward and upward age wise. My next house was twenty years old then thirteen and the present house was five when we purchased it.

I hope to eventually build or at least design my next house so then the only person to blame for the defects or bad design will be myself.

 

[Lloyd_E]

1820... Could be a little earlier maybe 1790's I know the land(100 acres) was surveyed in 1760. So a piece may have been chunked off for the son or daughter. I spent a day at the land registry and could only get back to an 1820 transaction.

It is post and beam: 8"x8", lots of 6"x6" and the odd 10"x10" in the basement. All hand hewn. The exposed beams in the kitchen are 6"x6"x27' - one piece. The house has the original pine and hemlock flooring on all levels... some modern narrow T&G has been placed over them in two rooms - house has 9 rooms. Has the original fireplace and bake oven in the kitchen plus double cross or bible and cross doors along with a few beaded wide plank ones. It retains the original windows(6 over 6) with lots of waves and bubbles in the glass... Ceilings are 7.5 feet which is ok by me... doors are short though - under 6' and narrow which is a challenge for bringing in modern appliances and furniture - we usually have to remove the door and some trim.

Place feels like a rock especially in a n'easter @ -20c though!!!

 

[ronjhall]

1938. We have owned it 40 years. It has been remodeled inside and out several times.

 

[Marveltone]

Our house in town was built in 1899 out of hand-hewn cedar logs. Very solid. It was built by a former Minnesota Secretary of State by the name of Albert Berg, who was very instrumental in the building of our small town in the early years, and is registered as the oldest surviving structure in Warroad. Even though it is a log structure, it was sided over with traditional lap-board siding, as in those days, proper people didn't live in log houses... that was for the poor pioneers. Mr. Berg, however, knew that the log homes of the day were warmer than the frame construction, so he wanted the warmth of logs with the "proper character" of siding; the best of both worlds.

Our house at the farm is much more difficult to pin a date on. The farm was homesteaded in 1910, but it is unknown exactly when the present house was actually built, as the barn was probably built first, while a makeshift log cabin (the rotting remains are out back in the woods) was hastily constructed for temporary use un til a proper home could be erected. As was the custom, the present home was built rather modestly and added onto over the next many years and decades.

Joe

 

[scoutcub]

Built in 2008. Haven't lived in it yet. Just get to visit and keep it up for now.

?? Sounds like a story there.....

 

[scoutcub]

2007. Wife just informed me it needs new carpet & new countertops. This is after the new garage, rear concrete patio, front concrete sidewalk, concrete landing, concrete (170') driveway, etc. etc.
Does it ever end, even with a new(er) house??:laughing:

 

[tmajor]

1884, as near as I can tell. I found an 1884 newspaper in an interior wall, when I was remodeling. I added the left addition in 1997. I believe, the first indoor plumbing was installed in 1967.



The house, where I grew up, may have been older.
1821 - Thomas Nelson Major Sr. (my great grandfather) bought 160 acres from David Perkins at $4.00 an acre on July 21st 1821. (Date on Deed)
This land was owned by Bryce Major (my father) until his death in September 2005.

 

[DAY]

1783.

The left half is the house, the right is the grist mill. The miller could walk to work, without going outside.:thumbsup:
When we bought it in 1999, there was a claw foot bathtub- in the middle of the kitchen.