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I'd have jumped on that house too. I'd get the wiring checked though, if you haven't already; it originally had knob and tube running everywhere, and it wasn't meant for modern equipment.

 

I'm anti-cookie cutter as well.
We are getting ready to move and I've found a home built in 1909.
My father told me I better not due to the electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc etc.
My significant other told me it's too close to in town (it's in the square), but I'll fight for it till the end!

It's not nearly as elaborate as your beautiful home.
I'm so jealous!

Is it really drafty?


There is a HUGE gold mirror from France, I believe, in the antique mall I have my booth in.
It's been there for YEARS. I think the starting price on it was around $5000. I think it's at $2500 now.
Next time I'm in there I'll take a picture for you.
It's a little skinnier and a tad more ornate.

 

Hi SeaGoat,
My last house was a 1909 farmhouse. I was really worried about the wiring in the place. I got the house so cheap that I was able to replace all the wiring, the water piping, a new roof with real copper gutters and down spouts. Copper snow guards. this was in 1990 before the price of copper went sky high. In fact is was only 250 dollars more than the usual aluminum gutters. I miss that place so much but the stairs would have killed me by now. I must say the steam heat was so good, there was NEVER any knocking or rattling. An old plumber told me to replace the usual little steam valves with much more expensive ones. They were about 10 dollars more each. With them I NEVER had hissing or any noise. The secret was to keep the valves open all the way and let the new valves do the opening and closing. No one ever heard the furnace click on or close. The rads stayed hot for hours even when the furnace turned off. I cut my gas bill in half using those valves instead of running around shutting off or turning the valves half off or less at the pipe.
greg

 

This home's last owner purchased it around the 50s I believe. He died in the late 90s and his wife remained in the house until a few years ago. It's front porch has been rebuilt and it has a new roof. It was resided, in the 90s I believe, with vinyl siding, the original wood is still there.

It says it was "remodeled" in the 80s. From pictures it looks like the kitchen and bathroom, so I'm sure the plumbing would need to be redone.

The man who owned it owned 2 business in town. A grocery store and a laundromat.
I'm hoping this means he took care of the house, lol.

They are asking premium price on it, despite its lack of "remodel" and it being on the market over 200 days.

2 years ago the house next door went for more than $40,000 less and is bigger!
I could do a lot with that extra $40000

 

Certainly looks like a pier mirror , but must have come from huge house . In style it looks far older than an early 1900's farmhouse . Pier mirrors went on the pier between two windows , usually mounted on a pier table , which often had a marble top . You can imagine what the ceiling height would have been in the original house

 

somehow duplicated my post , so removed one

 

When I lived in the Back Bay in Boston, many of the apartments had these large mirrors in the bedrooms. My landlord has 30 buildings that he converted from single family homes to apartments. The original bedrooms had large dressing rooms with floor to sealing mirrors. The bedrooms became the main living space and the dressing rooms, became the bedrooms of the converted apartments. A few of the buildings had these mirrors in the main entry to the building. I lived in several apartments over the years and most had these types of mirrors, some more elaborate than others.

I lived next door to this building, which, I think, is one of the most spectacular residences in Boston. Scroll down to see the living space and elaborate entry stair case. They don't show the entire entry hall which has the most elaborate carved wood details.
http://www.realtor.com/news/historic-burrage-house-unit-for-sale-in-bostons-back-bay/

 

Mill Cove Treasures, thank you for posting the link. Beautiful (times 10).

 

I finally got a picture of the one in our mall

 

WOWZER!!!!

 

Hi,
Is the mirror 10ft tall? That is almost the exact match to the one I took on the Amtrack train from Philly to Manhattan. Then on the subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn. It had a tiny shelf on the bottom about 6" high.
It fit like a dream into my 1860 brownstone in Brooklyn.
greg

 

I, too, LOVE that house. Makes me very sad, though.

Many years ago, moving in from out of state, fell in love with this ~


~and had it under contract of sale for $18,000. A STEAL. The elderly lady owner passed away and the heirs were very happy a new family would be moving in.

It had been converted to a two family, but the original sweeping front stairs were in the barn. Upstairs family had a year left on their lease. With 4 children I needed and got a quote to put a two room addition on the back with a removable center wall. We could move in and wait a year. Then take over the whole house and the addition would be a fam. Rm. The furnace was OK, but only one heating system for the whole house.

When I called the bank to check on the mortgage found that the real estate agent screwed up and never gave them a copy of the contract. They said they would expedite it. Called me back the next day with a “ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BUY THAT?” YES!!!!!!!
Do you know what the heating bill was last year? HUH, what’s that have to do with it?
Heating oil, back then was ------------ fifteen cents a gallon. Yes, 15 CENTS! In the previous season the heating bill for this house was over nine hundred dollars.

I didn’t buy the house.

About fifteen years later met this young lady 50 miles from home on a business trip. She asked where I lived, and then said she used to live there. ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THAT HOUSE. She laughed, and said the elderly owner kept the thermostat SO HIGH that they had to open all the upstairs windows, all winter just to breathe.

 

My daughter went to architectural school because, she says, she remembers our walks through Boston when she was little when I used to point out all the beautiful homes on Comm Ave and Beacon St.

 

Nice houses; I'm looking forward to the party.

 

I'll bring the lobster.

 

Sorry, but did you mean lobsterS? Or is that how islanders say it?

BTW. That picture is from current records. Didn't look that nice back then. Inside was a bit neglected. But that was when I was a lot more agile, too. It's still a two family. Been about 3 owners. One put an addition on back for a new kitchen. New town valuation is $487,500.

Question, please. Back then, heating oil was 15 cents. Gasoline was 25 cents. Both have gone down, but heating oil is now about twenty five percent higher than gasoline. Anyone know why? Last time I asked my oil company they said is because I "pick up my gas." They have to deliver my oil.

 

Actually, it's lobstah. I'll also make a pot of chowdah to go with.

 

Um, I'm not sure.
I want to say the walls are 7 or 8 feet high so it's probably 10ft

 

I too am curious about the (seemingly singular) word "lobster." Is there a plural form of "lobster" ("lobsters")?

Is it rather like my going to a gathering of 15 people and saying "I'll bring the 'dessert' (knowing full well that I will be bringing multiple desserts for a group requiring/desiring more than one cookie)?

 

We'd just say lobster if it's prepared in something because you don't know how many it will take to make a gazillion rolls. However, if we're having steamed lobsters then it would be plural.