Old Houses

They look great. Are you turning your own spindles or is someone doing it for you?

Any prizes for the house with the most bricks ? It's about 50 x 40 inside and solid brick top to bottom. It was built in 1850 as a modern roller mill.
We started in 1970 with a new roof and windows. Been at it ever since. Thank God for coal.

TSB

That's beautiful. It looks like it belongs on a postcard.

I had a local woodworking company (they do work for Ethan Allan) make the Die and turn them out.

tsb wrote:Any prizes for the house with the most bricks ?

If there was, you would certainly win. Based on your dimensions the house is around 6000 square feet? What do you have for a heating system in that place?

139 to go , wow. looks nice WNY. tsb , is that house 3 floors with a big attic? thats alot of bricks.

Because of flooding, the ground floor is just utilities, coal and storage. During Agnus in 1972 the water was above the guard rails on the bridge.
The second and third floor are living space heated with two Seay coal stoves ( Hanover l and Hanover ll ) on the second floor. We have a wood stove on the third floor that keeps one room very toasty regardless of the temperature. The attic is just full of 38 years of junk.

Heating is not too bad. We actually built a house within a house. The walls and floors were studded out and insulted. The brick walls are 24" thick at the base and drop a brick each floor. Once they are cold they stay cold, but they don't really get cold until late December. They don't warm up until about the first of July.

The creek is the Manatawny. It's a good bass stream that they insist on fouling with trout. It's good for canoes a few times a year.

TSB

Yes, walk up attic, but only 1/4 of it has a floor (in the back), the rest has 18-24" of blown insulation.

Wow. Awesome brick and stone houses....
Here is our house. More pics and a virtual tour at my website: http://www.ntvictorian.com

Inline,

Holly crap! What a nice place. Way too neat for me. If you did the restore, you did a great job.

TSB

Inline - VERY Nice, either restored nicely or kept quite nice over the years....!!

I like the vintage stuff along with modern updates.

Love the old style bath/wall toilet. Our tank is mounted lower on the wall, but has the connecting pipe too, and the old clawfoot tub. !! We are going to use an old antique Buffet for the sink once I get the hole cut and modify the drawers to clear the plumbing.

Inline, very nicely kept home. 5 stars to you In fact, all of the homes in this thread are neat.

Here's a question for you. What is the difference between a parlor and a living room I noticed the fireplace in the parlor. Is this it?

Thanks for the compliments guys. We did a lot of the work. One previous owner did do some nice work in the early 90's.
Then the next owner decided purple would look good on cast iron radiators....
I had to remove a few walls upstairs to turn the house back to a single family home.

WNY - I love the old fixtures too. Tough to find repair parts but worth it (just ordered a new faucet for the tub). Nice work on your porch, it turned out great!
Cap - Parlors were formal rooms used to receive guests. Pretty much the same thing as a living room.

Very nice, Inline. I can only hope that someday this place might look 1/2 as good as yours. I'm interested in the stove in the dining room. Is it an Andes? Looks similar to the one I have.

Actually after looking at the photos again, I'd be happy if my house looked 1/4 as good!

Very nice house inline.