When was your house built?

gemlady

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My maternal grandfather built this house about 1930 with an addition and renovations in 1955 when Mom and Dad bought it.
 

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Ours was built in Nineteen Seveny Tree


The previous owner put up new wallpaper, painted, refinished the cabinets, carpet etc.. Apparently it wasn't taken care of very well by subsequent owners.
 

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Our house was built in 1915. A few years ago we were remodeling the basement and we found stacks of old newspapers in the walls. They were in really good condition and some of them were complete. I think the date on them was around 1935 or so, we had a blast reading them
. I've also found plate shards when digging around in the garden and strangely enough, a horseshoe in the garage.
 

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Ours was built in 1894. We haven't found anything real interesting (old) yet...but I'm sure we will sometime. We haven't been here very long yet...just moved in September.
 

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We built(literally, dad built it) our house in 1998-1999. Old house was put together with wooden pegs.
Maybe built in the early 1900s???
 

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My house that I bought almost 10 years ago was built in 1923. Just last year when I was gutting a hall closet to re-do the interior, I found a couple of brown paper bags above the door frame. The contents were 1 vaginal speculum and 4 pairs of hemostats (1 curved pair and 3 straight tipped pairs).
What was obvious about this is that they were not just left behind......these items were definitely hidden!!!
 

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1876, moved in 1984. There's a horseshoe that's nailed in the basement with the ends pointing up. I've been told that is so the luck doesn't run out.
 

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2005. The previous owners built the house, but only got to stay in it a few months before they had to move for family reasons. So we got an almost new house


I wanted something older with a little charm that comes with older places, but you don't really see that around here. The old houses in this area are kind of squat and boring. Ahh... someday I'll get my old charming house
 

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Old houses creep me out. I'm always afraid there might be a body hidden somewhere in the house, or there was a murder there. I used to live in a old-ish house with my parents when I was younger, we were tearing down one of the walls to make two small bedrooms into one big family room, and we found a suicide note in the wall. Took my parent's couple days of digging and asking around, but they found that there was indeed a suicide in the house many years ago. We moved out a few years later, but even before we found that note I always had an uneasy feeling while I was there. When we finally moved out it was like a huge burden left my shoulders.
 

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Originally Posted by white cat lover

We built(literally, dad built it) our house in 1998-1999. Old house was put together with wooden pegs.
Maybe built in the early 1900s???
My house the foundation is still big slabs of stone/rocks put on top of each other with some weird looking (old) cement stuff in between the first half. The back half is just rock on rock. Also dirt floors.
 
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