In the past, I've followed the posts on the Old House Web and Wavy Glass websites. I'm happy to have found everyone once again!
Last April, we purchased our circa-1860's farmhouse. We're fortunate that one of the former owner's great-grandsons lives just up the lane from us, and he was able to provide a couple pictures of the house from 1915. The house and surrounding farmland seems to have remained intact until the mid-1950's, when lots were carved out in order to allow for new home construction. The house was sold out of the family and was used (and abused...) as a rental property for many years. The couple we purchased it from bought it and saved it from being a rental property about twenty years ago.
Although we moved in this past July, we haven't had an opportunity to do a lot of cosmetic work to it, which it needs a lot of, because a number of 'unseen' items have needed attention - a new water heater, running a new water line from the street to the house in order to connect to city water, new plumbing, having a number of large trees cut down (one of which had pulled the electrical service off of the house numerous times), etc.
I'll post more pictures as we actually make some progress. Since these pictures were taken this past summer, we've removed the arbor out front, cleaned out the garden, and had a lot of the large trees cut down. We also had to replace the dining room window because, for some reason, it was never replaced when the rest of the windows were. About the only original piece in the house is the banister.
Anyway, we're looking forward to having the front porch re-constructed, replacing the old vinyl replacement windows, and having the house re-sided hopefully next summer. Until then, we're just going to chip away at some projects inside the house.
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