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The house I am sitting in. Built in perhaps 1900,--1914.
A balloon type, 2x4 studs sill, to top story plate.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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loghouse , dovetail corners Cedar logs built as a bath house by the Doukabours some time early 1900s ,became a cabin then a chicken house then a garage , somebody cut the end out 8' wide , I bought it for 500 dollars worth of work , work party to dismantle it loaded into my gravel truck and flatdeck. dumped it between 2 heavy fence posts 8 ' wide, all the logs were numbered and stacked as they came off the house ,then when dumped were in the right order to reassemble. 16 by 30 and once I had the foundation poured and the base logs trimmed to sit on concreat instead of rocks a one day work party reassembled it to wall hight in one day , Good neighbours i'll tell ya
norm
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
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Norm, then what use did it find?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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1920 2 story house was my 1st home I purchased when I was 23 yrs old
My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
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Campfire Greenhorn
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dont own it but the one we are in now was 1892, built of sandstone. walls are about 20 ins. thick takes a while for it to get warm but once it does holds heat for quite awhile
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Campfire Greenhorn
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The one I am now. Built in 1790. Chestnut post and beam construction. Horse hair plaster. I think the floors are yellow pine but I am not positive about that.
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Norm, then what use did it find? instead of the original roof I put o 12 in 12 pitch trusses 26' wide offset 10' to the south had a conc deck and an dining room extension under that . trusses were room stile bedroom being 12' by 26' with closets between trusses, sloped ceiling started at about 5' high, tin roof , hole cut for garage became the fireplace with a 2' window on either side, wood heat off the grid ,propane stove fridge lights instant hot water. eventualy a 15000 gal water tank above the house for gravity feed with the bottom 5000 reserved for fire fighting if need be. Helps to have your own equipment and a bartering attitude norm
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
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A late 1800's house, 2 story,had the lathe and plaster interior with lots of horsehair in the plaster, basement had been hand dug after the house had been built, it was in a really nice quality house in an old historic Montana town.
I sold it after 2 years because it was haunted. Afterwards I found out that it sold about every 2 years because that is all the time people could stand it. Sure enough the folks we sold it too moved out in about two years. My kids who are in their 40's now still talk about all of the weird things that went on the house.
Didn't mean to digress too much from the age of the house theme but sometimes you get more than you bargain for when you buy one. After that one all of my houses have been newly built.
drover
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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House in Missouri. Was on land given for service in the war of Northern aggression. Built about 1875 but added to through the years. It's an interestng house but has reminded me of the movie "Money Pit". Still have the abstract back to the beginning.
I'm not cheap, I'm frugal.
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Campfire Kahuna
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1902. Old Doctors mansion of 13,128 sq ft. Full of ghosts too. I think I remember you talking about it years ago.
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Current home. Built 1940. Noticeably more solid than a family member's home built in 1976. Brothers house built 2011 isn't more solid either.
Oddly enough, very little updating to the house and my energy bills are lower than either of theirs as well. That has a whole lot more to do with who built than when it was built. The house we live in now I built in '08-'09. It's a heck of a lot more solid and better built house than the one we moved out of which was built back in the 20's.
Black Cows Matter!
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I'm living in the newest house I've ever owned right now, built in 1954. Built hell for stout.
Jim
"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson
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Small farm in upstate NY, house built 1847, cut stone steps and walls in basement, dirt floors. I did fine with cows, poor in divorce court.
You can't hit the target if you don't take the shot.
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Oldest that I've owned is my current one in western NC, it's built ca. 1945.
House that I grew up in, in the outskirts of Bethlehem in upstate NY, oldest map showing it was from ca. 1769 IIRC.
The house was originally a 2 room stone house with hand hewn beams and t&g boards with a shake roof, in the early 60's my great grandfather, a carpenter for the D & H railroad, built an additon that doubled the size.
The old part was awesome, the beams were easily 16" square, the walls were field stone, 2 feet thick packed with mud and horse hair, most of the window panes in the 3 8 x 8 windows were still that old wavy, bubbly glass. Many places the mortar has cracked out and many birds nested in the walls, my bedroom was on the second floor, it used to be the hay mow, but my GGF raised the roof to make the second floor, and on summer mornings, when they started singing before sunrise it would drive me nuts.
-Brian- Whatever you do, do well.
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My current home. Built in the early 20's.
"I Birn Quhil I Se" MacLeod of Lewis I Burn While I See Hold Fast MacLeod of Harris
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I think the first house I owned was originally built in the 1920's. I lived there for about 2 years. Just thinking about it now, the place had an attic that I never even bothered to look in. Wonder if I missed something.
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I owned a plain rectangle two story brick house with slate roof, copper gutters and downspouts;two stone fireplaces. Floor joists etc. 3X12" rough lumber. Freeport , Long Island N.Y.in 1972.
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Our Galveston House was built in 1912
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The first house I owned. It was built in 1962 and I bought it for $69K. It was hell for stout, just small. 970sf. Man I wish I still had that house!
Camp is where you make it.
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