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If walls could talk
Oct. 22nd, 2004 10:52 amThere's this show on at around 5:00 on the Home and Garden Channel with the same name as my subject here. They showcase families that have old homes and have done research to find the origins of said home or the people that used to live there. I'm always jealous of the things they've found.
Our house was built in 1900. We know that the previous owners were only in it for a little while. I have the name of the person that owned it before then, who according to our next-door neighbors were in the house "for a really long time" and didn't do much work to it. They had a daughter or granddaughter or something that was friends with my brother (my brother had actually been in the house before hanging out with her years ago). That's about it.
I know if I go to the registry of deeds I can trace back and see who owned it and when. It would be neat to see who has lived in it and try and figure out who they were, and what they did. I could also pick the brains of the people next door some more (the woman there has lived in their Victorian house for ever . . . and she's in her 60's I believe).
A while ago when we were in the middle of doing costume prep for Dragoncon and Brian was spending a lot of time in the basement (working on my Arwen crown) he found an old dirty jingle tap (you can see some here http://carriebs.com/TAPS.html , though they don't have the brand that this one is on the site). At one point a dancer lived in our house! What's really funny, is that Tiggerette (who has a sense for feelings of houses) said that she sensed people dancing in our Attic, and suggested that we try and make it usable space (rather than just storage). Hmm. I wonder if our jingle tap dancer used to practice up there or something. It would be a perfect space for a little studio since its pretty roomy.
The house isn't old or "cool" enough to involve the historical society . . . but I'd still like to find out more about it. Original plans would be really cool . . . we could figure out where our original main bathroom was (because right now its in what would have been a walk in closet . . . which is just annoying. My Dad's guess is off of the kitchen (and said that investigating plumbing in the basement ceiling may give us a clue).
I can't wait till school's over and we can start playing - putting a closet in the craft room, making our kitchen more what we'd want on purpose, updating some wiring, and making more smart use of our limited space. I can't just leave a place alone, I have to rip it apart, rebuild, and explore :)
Our house was built in 1900. We know that the previous owners were only in it for a little while. I have the name of the person that owned it before then, who according to our next-door neighbors were in the house "for a really long time" and didn't do much work to it. They had a daughter or granddaughter or something that was friends with my brother (my brother had actually been in the house before hanging out with her years ago). That's about it.
I know if I go to the registry of deeds I can trace back and see who owned it and when. It would be neat to see who has lived in it and try and figure out who they were, and what they did. I could also pick the brains of the people next door some more (the woman there has lived in their Victorian house for ever . . . and she's in her 60's I believe).
A while ago when we were in the middle of doing costume prep for Dragoncon and Brian was spending a lot of time in the basement (working on my Arwen crown) he found an old dirty jingle tap (you can see some here http://carriebs.com/TAPS.html , though they don't have the brand that this one is on the site). At one point a dancer lived in our house! What's really funny, is that Tiggerette (who has a sense for feelings of houses) said that she sensed people dancing in our Attic, and suggested that we try and make it usable space (rather than just storage). Hmm. I wonder if our jingle tap dancer used to practice up there or something. It would be a perfect space for a little studio since its pretty roomy.
The house isn't old or "cool" enough to involve the historical society . . . but I'd still like to find out more about it. Original plans would be really cool . . . we could figure out where our original main bathroom was (because right now its in what would have been a walk in closet . . . which is just annoying. My Dad's guess is off of the kitchen (and said that investigating plumbing in the basement ceiling may give us a clue).
I can't wait till school's over and we can start playing - putting a closet in the craft room, making our kitchen more what we'd want on purpose, updating some wiring, and making more smart use of our limited space. I can't just leave a place alone, I have to rip it apart, rebuild, and explore :)
