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Hello WavyGlass Gang!
By way of introductions, I own a wooden Foursquare home way down South in Mississippi. We bought it about 6 years ago and knew nothing of the house type at the time--it was just old and pretty to us. After living in it a couple of years and having the "bug" really get in under my skin, I am starting to learn about FourSquares and trying to learn about the history of the home. When we bought it, the previous owners (2nd owners) had grown up in the house and were of the understanding that it was a kit home that was brought in by rail and assembled on site in around 1903. But as it turns out, the home was actually MOVED to this location, and was likely built much earlier--the house was actually built on the one older street nearby and moved here when the current street & neighborhood was subdivided into lots in 1903. Tax records indicate 1887, and I am working to find additional source records to pinpoint a construction date. Also, no signs of timber assembly markings/lettering/codes/etc on beams in the attic to suggest it is a 1900s catalog home version either--my first of a string of clues that this might not be a kit home. (I orignially thought it was neat that this was a catalog home--very Americana!)
I was reading in the Old House Journal Compendium of the history of old house sash arrangements. The oddly huge 1/1 sashes in this house seems to corroborate an earlier late 1800s build, with Victorian influences as opposed to later Colonial Revival influences. Other details are beginning to make better sense too for an 1880's build as opposed to the early 1900s.
I'll post more photos later if ya'll want to see more, but here's a shot taken from the front.
Nice to meet ya'll! I look forward to making new friendships here.
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