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19 and 68. Lived in a few for brief periods built when Lee and Jefferson were about.

My parents bought a farm, 500 acres with a barn built with timber cut on the farm and house built of bricks made from the clay of the Conoquenessing Creek. There were seven hand-dug wells and one windmill. Inside the attic of the three story house was a fifty foot long 9 foot diameter copper water tank.\

The house was built in 1806-7-8 (It took that long.) by a retired sea captain from New Bedford, Mass a couple of free-men, and for sure a pair of local American Indian brothers. The original cistern, on the side of a VERY steep hill, wads made of what looks like granite, was four feet deep - six long - and six wide. The water was always very, very cold and as sweet as a mouth full of honeysuckle blossoms. I wish that it was still in the family but, like much that I was blessed to be a part of ads a youngster, it is no longer what it once was.

Terry

1902. Old Doctors mansion of 13,128 sq ft.
Full of ghosts too.

We don't know exactly. It's not on a 1822 map, but it is on a 1837 map. We guess around 1830.

My house was built in 1895.
I've also owned one other that was built before 1891.
This is the one I have now:

I owned a small farm in Md. back in the 1980s. The original house was on the county plat of 1858. I never did find how old it actually was.

Current house, built in 1930.

I live in a brick bungalow with a field stone foundation from 1923.

It has it's drawbacks,...but I'd have a hard time leaving here.

It's like living in an antique.

The street out front is a bit narrow, because there were more horses patrolling it than cars when it was laid down.

It sags here and there,...but it'll last me as long as I'm going to need it.

It's seen a lot come and go.

The great depression,...WW2,..the beat generation,..Vietnam,...

No tellin' how many people have died here,..and I'll probably be yet another one.

I can barely close the French doors in the summer that separate the great room from the dining room. In this cold as window, they are 1/2" apart when closed.

I love living, breathing houses.

I've never stayed in one place too awful long,...but I've been here 15 years.

That's the longest that I've even been in one place.

The houe "High Brass" was raised in. Built around 1917 for workers in the Nitro, WV powder plant. Moved in the 20's or 30's to Dunbar, WV by barge. I bought it in 1977. Ex owns it now.

oldest that I have owned?

the one I've lived in since 1990. Never thought we'd still be in it by this point.

the original was built sometime in the 50's, it's been added on to, we've done some stuff to it, but it's basically functionally obsolete.

cast iron plumbing in some places, old electrical wires, have replaced all the windows, siding roof, etc.

I've made some mistakes, but the worst was when we had it resided not to put up another 2x4 wall so that we'd have 8 inch staggered walls


it's a great location, good well for our area, but it's a constant headache.

My present residence built in '76.

I built all three of my places. My house I live in now is 4 1/2 yrs old.

One of my aunts lived in a house built after the civil war in NW PA.

1894, current house.

Bought it from M-I-L, was added on to and indoor plumbed in 53' remodeled in early 80's then new windows and siding 2005.

Still needs more work, I'm not a carpenter so gets done when money permits.

Mike

The one I live in now. I've lived here 37 years, and they just paved the road last summer.

Built 1866 (The pole barn's newer, 1996) ...




Here's what we did with the old barn..



New barn..



We find a lot of interesting old newspapers that people have stuffed in the house walls over the years for insulation. Here's one I found...



That one's from 1886, about 2 game wardens murdered in Maine.

I like the house, works for me...

Our first, built in 1953. That was five houses ago.

We still own a house in a small town in rural Minnesota that was built in the 1890s.
It's really beyond restoration, but it still has charm, and is a very comforting place to be.

A dungeon for a basement with stone walls, a dirt floor, and a massive old cistern to catch rain water.

We found an old heavy stock photograph of the original owner and his daughters in the basement -
that the last surviving daughter probably stuffed in there between the foundation and the structure,
to keep out the cold winds and snow, in her old age.

There is also an old newspaper between some rafters up in the attic that tells of Custer's battle at the Little Big Horn -
even though that was long before this house was built. A previous owner told me he found it up there and 'put it back'.

I've yet to go up there myself in all these years - but I know a couple roofers were up there after I found out ...

But I know one of them is an honest man.