Looks like they did do nice cement work....but I notice your house more than the new concrete...that is really beautiful...are you in New England?...I think brick houses are just magnificent
...the porch with its columns and those windows on the house certainly add to it also ....you must be very proud of that house
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Thanks, we love the house and it was only the 2nd house we viewed (first house with our realtor). We live in Western New York, about 45 minutes north of Buffalo, 30 minutes of Niagara Falls. We went with the exposed aggregate sidewalk as it is a more modern version of a stone path that fits the house well. Would have liked that for the driveway, but not at the price tag. Think the white concrete looks better than blacktop.
We had got some info from the PO and our town historian. Land was purchased in 1825, house believed to be built in 1835. Maybe a few years older since we do not have lintels atop the windows and rather have a brick arch. That, or the original owner/farmer was very wealthy. The PO had walked here from Maine to purchase this property. The porch posts are not original and are fiberass, but I have what I believe may have been an original or two, along with 3 or 4 porch posts that were used in the back porch prior to the barn addition. Cannot tell what they say, but there was an ink stamp with our.towns name on one of the back porch posts (square base).
Two weeks ago we had an elderly couple stop by around 4:30pm. It was the great great great (maybe one more great) grandson of the 2nd owner of the home. Was in with his wife from Michigan seeing family. He had a whole family tree book with him, including and uncirculated picture we have in our living room, which the PO estimated to be from the 1930s, but could be sooner along with pictures of grave stones. I recognized the name from the town historian. That family purchased in 1864 after the first owner passed.
The back of the home had a barn addition at some point (was not original) and then torn down in the late 80s/early 90s. We have a picture from 1984 with the addition.
The interior has been renovated and the oldest thing inside (aside from beams and joists) is some newspaper used as installation in the basement.
Picture from 1984. Found this on
Vintage Aerial | historic aerial photography of rural American farms and homesteads I did buy a quality picture of it.
The attached barn and detached barn are long gone. We have the bell from the cupola in the barn. It was hidden under some ivy underneath the back porch when we moved in. It now sits in our garden out back. Would need some work to hang on a post. The property was originally 120 acres. The PO's father was swindled out of 110 acres back in the mid-2000s for about $50k. The rest was sold off throughout the years for our now neighbors. The property is now mostly wooded though some field plots remain free from trees. Think someone still bailed hay through the mid 2000s sale.
