Found this great site with lots of kit homes and fabulous color images of ranch plans. Pick the perfect house for your vintage appliance collection
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That's a great website.. I'll have to go back and spend hours looking
Saw this one....looks like the house that backs onto mine and just sold the other week.. I was disappointed because I was hoping for an open house and I'd get to have a peek inside.
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Saw this one....looks like the house that backs onto mine and just sold the other week.. I was disappointed because I was hoping for an open house and I'd get to have a peek inside.
Aladdin House Plans for 1961 - Old Houses For Sale
The 1961 Aladdin catalog reflects the trends of the early 1960s in this catalog. Most of the homes are "modern" and heavily influenced by the California ranch style. Carports and garages are often attached. Most plans are a single level, but designed with basements in mind. Practical as ever...
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Pipe "Double Purpose Kitchen/Laundry"
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Queen Anne
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Queen Anne
55 Most Popular American House Styles & Architectures
Here's a complete A-Z list of the 55 most popular American house styles and architectures that people LOVE TO LIVE IN...
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Jon's Gyromatic!
That is a very cool website - had fun perusing the pages from the 30's!
That is a very cool website - had fun perusing the pages from the 30's!
I like the way the gas water heater is given a place of honor in that dual purpose kitchen/laundry. I suppose it WAS a thing of pride - 20 gallons or more of piping hot water at the turn of a faucet - no need to stoke the wood stove linked heater coils. These days such an appliance is hidden away behind louvered doors, or, better yet, put into the basement or garage.
I recall one flat we lived on in the mid-60's, on Stanyan Street in SF. It was the first floor of a three story building. Typical SF "railroad" or "shotgun" flat. Long central hallway, with rooms off to either side. The toilet was in its own separate little "water closet", no sink. Sink and shower down the hall, lol. Pushbutton light switches, remnants of old gas lighting on the walls as well. $110/mo rent! The kitchen was quite antique, with a spurting 20 gallon gas water heater in the middle of it, next to the stove. Old cracked linoleum on the floor, as well. The kitchen sink looked out on a dingy stairwell between buildings. Even worse was how it emptied into a kind of square cast iron strainer trap on the enclosed landing. I will not attempt to describe what it was like to try to clean it out.
I recall one flat we lived on in the mid-60's, on Stanyan Street in SF. It was the first floor of a three story building. Typical SF "railroad" or "shotgun" flat. Long central hallway, with rooms off to either side. The toilet was in its own separate little "water closet", no sink. Sink and shower down the hall, lol. Pushbutton light switches, remnants of old gas lighting on the walls as well. $110/mo rent! The kitchen was quite antique, with a spurting 20 gallon gas water heater in the middle of it, next to the stove. Old cracked linoleum on the floor, as well. The kitchen sink looked out on a dingy stairwell between buildings. Even worse was how it emptied into a kind of square cast iron strainer trap on the enclosed landing. I will not attempt to describe what it was like to try to clean it out.
Actually hot water heaters in the kitchen were long popular, especially where the range also supplied the heat for heating hot water. Many kitchens in the UK/and Europe had this set up and some still do with AGA ranges supplying heat for hot water.All one needs is a heat exchanger to transfer heat between the two units.
Personally wouldn't like a hot water heater in my kitchen. One more thing for me to dust/polish and keep clean. *LOL*
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Personally wouldn't like a hot water heater in my kitchen. One more thing for me to dust/polish and keep clean. *LOL*
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OMG!
Just what I needed, a website to spend even more time on. LOL
Just what I needed, a website to spend even more time on. LOL
Hi Donald, I'm fine! And how are you and your wife? And your wonderful house? Can't get enough of pictures of it!
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That water heater looks just like my RUUD, but mine is in a closet. I like how it is given a prominent spot in the laundry area in the plan. I noticed that many of the fridges pictured in the '50s kitchens are Servels - they look like the one I found on the roadside earlier this year.
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It was common to have the water heater as just another appliance in the house. I like it. It's quaint and real.
You think of "the farmhouse" which wouldn't bother with such petty concerns as hiding a heat source such as a water heater. And some places didn't have basements or if they did, they were wet or no cement floor.
Think of the shows that had exposed water heaters.
In the 80s "The dukes of Hazard" had one in their kitchen. Also in the mid to late 80's on "As the world Turns" there was a character who lived on a farm(in Illinois), Holdens mother(Holden was hot then and for quite a while after). She had the typical gas water heater in the corner set-up.
Didn't they have that on "the Waltons"?
Maybe it was because it gave off heat and it was a way to capture that heat directly.
You think of "the farmhouse" which wouldn't bother with such petty concerns as hiding a heat source such as a water heater. And some places didn't have basements or if they did, they were wet or no cement floor.
Think of the shows that had exposed water heaters.
In the 80s "The dukes of Hazard" had one in their kitchen. Also in the mid to late 80's on "As the world Turns" there was a character who lived on a farm(in Illinois), Holdens mother(Holden was hot then and for quite a while after). She had the typical gas water heater in the corner set-up.
Didn't they have that on "the Waltons"?
Maybe it was because it gave off heat and it was a way to capture that heat directly.
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Ohh, thanks for the links, too.!
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If I could afford any one of these beauties, the only other "improvements" I'd make beyond wiring and plumbing would be good vintage appliances in my kitchen, and restore any ruined or missing fixtures with something period appropriate or even original. This will not win me any friends here, but I cannot see living in a beautiful 1903 mansion and turning it into a 2008 chrome and glass abomination. Or any other variation of turning a home into something that is the polar opposite of its original flavor. If one wants that in the first place, buy it to start with. Bulldoze an Eichler neighborhood to put up pseudo classic McMansions? NO!!! Sorry about babbling, but I am passionate about originality.
Great link. My house is a Queen Anne built in 1897 as a wedding present. Gary
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Walton's water heater
During the first few seasons, the Waltons' water heater was part of the wood-burning kitchen stove. I don't remember the correct term for it, but somehow, the piping went through the firebox and heated the water in the tank. Later, (after the fire on the series) the water heater became a "modern" gas fired one.
During the first few seasons, the Waltons' water heater was part of the wood-burning kitchen stove. I don't remember the correct term for it, but somehow, the piping went through the firebox and heated the water in the tank. Later, (after the fire on the series) the water heater became a "modern" gas fired one.
My partners home growing up in 50's Newfoundland had their hot water tank as part of the coal stove. I remember as well visiting my old Aunt Mary 1967 over in Manchester UK..she lived in an old Vic type rowhouse with a fireplace in every room including the kitchen. They were all converted to gas except the kitchen was still coal, her water heater was built into the wall behind the firebox.
We would call that house a raised ranch here..or a bi-level, maybe even a split entry but not a split level..LOL Split levels have the bedrooms on an upper floor from the main living room/dining/kitchen
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