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Same!!

From the other thread about the siding, also - It's so interesting to me the very different construction methods around the country. For instance, I don't have any idea what the two methods are the op is considering on the siding thread.

August 9, 1997




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1927

I built it in 1997.

1900, then expanded in 1952. The original part is very small.

1884. 3 story Victorian.

1820...

So that is 213 years if my ciphering is correct.

Bout the same number of years that Wabi has been a dumbass.

The original part is a 2 story log cabin. A frame addition was added in the late 1890s. Nothing is square or level. Was a cold drafty house. Then in 1994 I got divorced , and the chimney caught fire and the house sustained pretty severe damage. Had good insurance. It's now insulated, new wiring and plumbing , vinyl siding now covers the logs.

Built in 1975.

Finished mine in 1998. Total in was 162K.
During the floods of 2016, took better than 250K to put the thing back togther.

^^^^This^^^^

Sub'd the concrete, the roof and the rough in, pre-concrete plumbing. We don't have a cellar! About the only difference!
Except I didn't have a "real" job. Drove a tractor for my
b-i-l for hunting rights and a little mad money. 😉

10gamag

First off, I wasn't here in 1904, so how would i know? LOL!

All of SW Oklahoma is laid out in the "township" method. All roads run north and south and east and west. All roads are a mile apart. Each "section" is 640 acres, or a "section"!
From the air, it looks like a patchwork quilt. Getting lost is insane! You can't get over 1/2 mile from a road. ....and I have NO idea when they came in and bladed out roads. Presumably, it was done with horse drawn equipment. (?)

Where I grew up in East Texas, directions were given using landmarks, road names and know locations.
"... Turn at Pat Cook's store. Take a left at Watson Springs cemetery. Their driveway is the second one on the right past the holly tree that sits in the middle (literally!) of the road! ..."
I've made many a mile following directions scribbled on the back of an envelope!
Directions to my home were; "From the city limit sign, 9/10ths of a mile south, turn left, it's the second house on the left."
To get to my grandparents house, it was the same directions, except: "....turn left, follow that road until it T's. Take a right, it'll be the first house on the left."

Up here in Oklahoma, you get: "... From Empire Rd and Hwy 63, go 3 south, 2 east, quarter south and it's on the east side of the road! ..."

We had it built in the Summer of 1985, two story with walk-out basement for just under 75K
2,500 sq. ft. finished. Today the value is close to 600K,
Good part of the country, good part of the state, great neighborhood, great location,.

One of them turned 100 this year.

1953

114 years old.