A new roof for the old house

[rickr]

Thank you for the nice comments everybody!

BTW, You cannot hear the rain on the roof at all. In fact, I asked about that before purchasing, and was told the roof would be very quiet because of the stone coating. I thought that might be an issue, but it was not.

Sometime I will post some photos of the inside. I have posted some before, but it has been years ago.

 

[gus]

That house!

Rick, although I don't know you, and almost everything is said about that beauty house I can see you're a careful "curator" of your home. Congrats and enjoy it for many years to come in health. Hugs Gus

 

[pulltostart]

Rick,

The house looks great.  I love the 4-square look of the front elevation!  Either well-built, well-maintained, or well-restored; or some combination of these.  I am familiar with the roof product you've used, but never had an occasion to use it.  That's an interesting 'plus' that it is also quiet.

 

lawrence

 

[dynaflow]

love the house

the house and a few of my fave things there the cobalt blue weather vane and of course the roadmaster sitting on the street

 

[joelippard]

Rick that's a beautiful house you have there!  Definetly something to be proud of!

 

[rickr]

Thanks guys! I do love this house. I have lived here since 1979, and the house has been in my family since it was moved to this location in 1930. My mother grew up in this house. It was owned by my grandparents. A lot of family history happened in this house, so it is special to my family.

The top photo is of my mother and uncle who grew up here.This photo is from the 1930's.

The lower photo is of my great grandmother, who lived here, and my mother and dad. This photo was taken in 1947. The infant is my aunt, who also grew up here. She is the only one still living, and is now 65 years old.

 

[tolivac]

That is a wonderful home--loved how you have researched the history about it and the relatives that used to live in it.The new roof looks so nice!!Like the house was brand new!!

 

[polkanut]

Rick,

I see your great-grandmother wore the same type of orthopedic shoes that my grandma and her 2 sisters wore.  It must have been a requirement of that generation.

  That style is still available, but now they cost around $150+ per pair.  Love the pics btw. 

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[fido]

You say the house was moved to it's present location. This does not happen in UK except for historically important buildings or ones used to create open air museums. I did hear of "off the shelf" houses in New Zealand, as I was looking at relocating there at one time. There you can buy some land and go to a dealer who sells used houses like they were used cars. I'm impressed that such a structure can last so long. In Scotland a lot of the new houses were what they call "kit houses" timber frame houses with rendered blockwork or brickwork as a non structural outer façade.
The window cleaners had to be very careful when leaning ladders against such houses as the blockwork was quite thin and could collapse inwards. The older houses were all built of stone, usually granite and I often wondered if the new ones would last as long.

 

[rapunzel]

"I did hear of "off the shelf" houses in New Zea

Also available in Australia. In Queensland and rural NSW there are companies that will move complete homes to new locations. A lot of older fibro and timber houses can be purchased and moved cheaply in one go.

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[circlew]

Looks great

It's easy to tell you put a lot of thought into anything you do to your house. So many people just select any old thing, with less than suitable results.

 

[whirlaway]

Great House!!!

Mine was built in 1938,looks very similar in the front,I had Green shingles put on mine it is a dutch colonial.The 2 people on the porch in the second picture appear to be very sharp dressers.Could this have been at Easter? My Grandmother had similar shoes only hers looked like the ones Eunice and Mama wore.

 

[rickr]

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Could this have been taken at Easter? Very possible, and I never thought of that. The couple on the porch are my parents, and they were not yet married until Oct. 1948.

The old woman with the shoes, is really not that old in the picture. People just looked older back then. She was born in 1878, so she was 69 years old in the photo. She died at 92 years old in 1970. She was quite a looker back in her day though. This is scan of an old tin type photo I have of her. I don't know what year it was taken, but most likely before the turn of the 20th century.

The house purchased for $400.00 in 1930, and was moved during the depression. My grandparents had purchased the lot it now sits on in 1927 before the stock market crash, and intended to build a new house. The cost of moving the house was $900.00,and that included digging the basement. If you look at the limestone caps on the porch, chip marks can be noticed at the bottom of the stones. This was from the the brickwork being pryed apart with crowbars during disassembly of the porch for the move. The bricks were cleaned up as best as possible and re-used. This included the bricks for the basement as well. I have no photos of the house being moved, these were hard times, and people couldn't afford luxuries like cameras and film. Too bad, as photos of that would be really cool to have. I do know where the house was located originally. It is about 2 miles from here, and is a church parking lot now.

 

[rocky2]

Rick

The house is looking great as usual!

 

[polkanut]

Do you have all of the house's history documented such as the previous owner before your family purchased it, the builder etc?  This would make for a very valuable archive for the next owners if, God forbid, the next owner should happen to be outside of your family. 

 

[danemodsandy]

Rick:

I'm wondering if the woman in the tintype is really your great-grandmother - if perhaps it's another relative.

The reason is her dress, which is more from the 1860s, before your great-grandmother was born. Women's fashion changed dramatically in the years after the Civil War, going from the hoop-skirted look seen here, to narrow skirts with a bustle in the back. The movie version of Gone With the Wind shows the change very well - Scarlett loves her hoopskirts until the war, and then afterwards, begins dressing in the new fashions.

The hairstyle seen in the photo is also pre-war; it's called a chignon, meaning that the hair was pulled back and gathered into a large bun at the nape of the neck. After the war, hair was worn more on top of the head. The woman's lace mitts (the fingerless, decorative gloves) are another pre-war touch.

Women everywhere in America were as fashion-conscious as they could possibly afford to be back then. There was Godey's Ladies' Book and the Woman's Home Companion to show them the latest styles from Paris, and the new widespread availability of the Singer sewing machine made it possible for them to make what they saw.

There are, of course, other explanations for the fashion in the photo - it could be a case of a young woman dressing up for a costume party in something of her mother's, or similar (people were very social back then; there were not many amusements nor much entertainment, so social events were what they did for leisure). But the dress is way more 1860's than 1890's, when your great-grandmother would have been a young woman. And by the 1890's, a tintype is not likely.

So, it makes me wonder. Whoever she is, she's beautiful. And she has your eyes.

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[rickr]

I have the names of the previous owners of the house, and I have the original address also. And it is documented. I found that information at the local library years ago.

Hi Sandy, I can assure you that the woman in the tin type photo, and the old woman with the shoes, are in fact the same person. It is documented also. Her parents came from Germany in the mid 1860's, and I have a copy of the ships name, and passenger lists. The woman in the pictures grew up in a log house in the country. That house still stands, but has been abandoned since the 1940's.The land is still rural to this day. These people were not wealthy, or up with fashion at all. They were country people. I have pictures and other items from my family history, from even prior to this time.

 

[pulltostart]

I think the 1947 photo of the older lady is very cool. Maybe it was taken on an Easter Sunday, as these people were dressed up. I would never say that the lady in question was wearing orthopedic shoes, rather, I think this would be how a woman of her age, at that time, would dress. Think about it - what would be her options? In 1947 you would not find a 69-year-old wearing high heels; these were her dress shoes. I love the modesty and simplicity of those earlier times. Thanks for sharing the photos!

lawrence

 

[jeb]

Tintype

I too am puzzled by the tintype. Could this be your great,great grandmother ? I work at two museums and I really think this is pre 1870. We do get this from time to time, were family history is off by a generation. Just a thought Jeff

 

[rickr]

Great-great grandparents

And the parents of the girl in the tin type photo/old woman with the shoes.

They changed their last name from Munch to Minick after moving from Germany to the USA.