Our home is "Gothic Revival" 1855 ish
VM
Our home is "Gothic Revival" 1855 ish
VM
At an age most might think of down-sizing, we just moved into a 112 year-old Victorian with twice the square footage of our old place. Owner did it up beautifully with a period look maintained including some of the original intricately carved brass hardware on the doors, embossed, "tin-type" kitchen ceiling, faux silk wallpaper. The walk along both sides of our property is the original brick sidewalk from that era and the only place in this town where it still exists. The brick walk extends up to our front door and then around to the side garden area. 1 of the bricks in the walk leading to our front door is inscribed "don't spit on the sidewalk," no doubt a reference to the century old ordinance prohibiting spitting on sidewalks. If I was good with posting pics, would have done so. Even have a land abstract of the property detailing every transaction going back to the platting of it in 1872. Interesting in itself as it is an historical chronology in small snippets of the founding of this community including an entry noting the deeding of the property to the town's company by president US Grant. Earl
Last edited by earl; 06-17-2012 at 07:11 PM.
Earl, you really must learn how to post pictures. I'm quite confident I'm not the only one here who would love to see pictures of this "new" place of yours.
I would love to see more of Earls' home!Originally Posted by tonyb
"Fashion fades...only style remains the same".
Coco Chanel
I appreciate your curiosity Miss Stella and Tonyb. My wife had gotten the urge for a larger place because our immediate family has long gotten together for several days monthly at our home for a long time and we were starting to feel like we were living on top of each other and she talked me into looking. Nothing tripped my fancy until we looked at this home and we fell immediately in love with the place. One thing not "period" is its siding but I'd never buy a place I had to paint, especially via a 2 story ladder. Am not necessarily into Victorian furniture but we do have this lovely dark walnut early 20th century suite of dining room furniture I fell in love with and insisted we buy years ago in an antique shop that my wife didn't like until this place because now we have it in a dining room big enough to give it the space it needed to show properly. Earl
Earl, if my tech challenged hubby can learn how to post pictures on a forum then you can too!!
Its okay if its not all 'period' and 'perfect', share pics of the parts of the house they spoke vintage to you
"Fashion fades...only style remains the same".
Coco Chanel
I am interested as well, earl.
VM-I love the clock.
At 67 we decided to upsize !!
VM
With all this encouragement, will give it a go sometime. Just checked out the instructions posted here and seems doable. When I get the gumption to sign up for 1 of those image hosting sites will try to return to this thread and post it here -sometime. thanks all. Earl
I had to take some updated pics of my place and figured I'd share some.
The laundry room (one of the few rooms I've done nothing with since I've lived here)
Guest Bedroom (another I've done nothing with)
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