Where the magic happens

[MissPrissy]

My house was built in 1909. Just a couple months after we bought this house I met the daughter of the man who built it. She was in a nursing home at the age of 103. She had lovely conversations. She told me all about the happy childhood she and her brothers and sisters spent here. She told me about her father building the house and who slept in which room. She let me walk through her memories to see my house brand spanking new and smelling like pine and varnish and bees wax.

 

[orlandoluv1]

wow miss P that is awsome. i would love to have an experience like that one day. isnt it amazing how someone elses memories can bring a new life to something. that is very cool!

 

[Katy]

Coloradochick....here's a picture of the painting. The barns in the picture are still here. Ours is still a working farm and has been since 1874.

 

[orlandoluv1]

wow Katy thats awsome! really a beautiful house

 

[MissPrissy]

You are very fortunate to have that painting! I love my old barns as much as my old house.

 

[coloradochick]

What a wonderful experience Miss P. The man who's family built our house came to the door right after we moved in and told me what was where and about the ponds that were in the yard were my DH now parks his truck

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I would love to go back to the simpler times. And posts like these allow me to do that. So thanks everyone for posting pics and stories about the past. I wish now that I would've sat with my Gramma and Grampa more and talked to them. They were from Missouri and some of the stories they did tell.....

 

[Katy]

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I wish I had the house!!

 

[coloradochick]

OMGosh Katy, this is really silly but it brings tears to my eyes. How wonderful to have such history in your family.

You did see the house before it was torn down? Was it in such dis-repair? It looks like it was quite the place. Did they have chickens?

Thanks for sharing Katy!!

Cara

 

[Katy]

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No.....I wasn't born yet when it was torn down and my husband (it's his family home) was only one at that point in time.

His dad told him that the basement walls were caving in and they couldn't hold them. That was back before they jacked houses up and put new basements under them.

My FIL reused the windows in the house we have now and most of the doors in our house are from the old house. The flooring in our upstairs is from it too.

I suppose they had chickens.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I'm with you Katy...would love to have the house!!......thats a shame its gone....

We travel to DD alot and always pass an old farmhouse that is very large but not used anymore...I always tell DH if we would ever win the lottery we would gather that old place up piece by piece and set it on 15 rolling acres...with a barn and henhouse!!...