When was your house built?

[JDgreen227]

Original house was built in 1949, an Aladdin kit house sold in Bay City, Michigan...first picture...added on and gutted and rebuilt interior and exterior of original house in 2002-2003. I have a copy of the original purchase order dated 5/20/49....$3633 with tax and the 5% cash discount. :laughing:

 

[tmajor]

Oh, yeah! .. I can tell it's the same house. :laughing: You did good.

My first house, which I built in 1967 was $14,000 .. complete.. appliances and all. I did the construction work, farmed out wiring, plumbing, & plaster. The house was was a "pre-cut" .. outside and inside walls framed, rafters cut.
I don't expect to see that again, real soon.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Oh, yeah! .. I can tell it's the same house. :laughing: You did good.

My first house, which I built in 1967 was $14,000 .. complete.. appliances and all. I did the construction work, farmed out wiring, plumbing, & plaster. The house was was a "pre-cut" .. outside and inside walls framed, rafters cut.
I don't expect to see that again, real soon.

Yeah, I built my first house cash out of pocket from my wages building bridges in the mid '70s. 1150 sf, free and clear. The way prices have gone up and wages have gone down, you could never do that today. I figured once I would have to make more than $50/hour to match what I was earning in 1976.

 

[cmhyland]

This has been a great thread....

Our house was built in 1721...

 

[mjarrels]

New house we live in was built in 1998/1999. Never rained on during construction until under roof/shingles. Paid in full in 2008, 21 years early, thought CITI morgage was going to fail and didn't want any part of that mess.

Old house built about 1870 along with the large bank barn. Not a level floor in the whole house. But, alot of charcter.

mark

 

[Localmotion]

Our current "house" was built in 2004, but landed here in 2011 :laughing:

Take a look: Spanish House Move (part 2) - YouTube


Have lived in a few older places though - our old pub in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England was built in 1767. Before that I had a farm near Abergavenny, where the house dated from around 1845...

 

[KubotainNH]

Our house is not as cool as some of these, love the one on the water. Ours was started in the summer of 2003 and we moved in 2 weeks before Christmas the same year. I was amazed that the actual structure was built in 4 days by a contractor. We did a ton of the finish work (still doing some) so that we could afford extras like solid doors, radiant heat and a 10' deep farmers porch. We also had it built the way we wanted it, that makes for lots of decision making on placement for things like doors, outlets, switches and the like. After 7 years it needs repainting and all the 7 year old appliances are breaking at the same time. Still love it there though.

 

[Gordon Gould]

This has been a great thread....

Our house was built in 1721...

Amazing - almost 300 yrs old. Must be on some oldest houses list. Our first house was in Enfield. Built in 1865 and looked it. Yours is very nice.

 

[bruceha2000]

Our house was built in 1721...

VERY nice. Looks as though the owners through the centuries have been very considerate of the house's origins. I suspect those dormers are a lot newer than 1721 though

 

[feedjake]

My house was built in 1840, and to my understanding was on 150 acres which sold (land only) in 1827 for $25.

 

[JDgreen227]

My house was built in 1840, and to my understanding was on 150 acres which sold (land only) in 1827 for $25.

Lol...just imagine how much land you could get for $25 today.....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

House built in 1997. Designed and built it myself. Here is picture framing roof of family room. Added Garage in 2002-2003, also built myself.

 

[BrianR]

My house was built in 1880. Granite and Feldspar foundation built from local rock/boulders located here via ice age, from the Niagara Escarpment (Canada). Foundation walls are 5ft deep, 24" wide with house framed in actual 2x8 rough sawed oak (floors/roof) and actual 2x4 rough sawed oak for walls.

None of the original windows remain, but I still have all of the interior doors, decorative hinges, porcelin door knobs, and the ol' skeleton key style locks.

House obviously pre-dated electricity and indoor plumbing. That appears to have been added sometime in the late 50's. The original spot where the outhouse used to sit is a sunken spot in the yard. In fact my property record with the county still has the outhouse building on the print and the dimensions match the sunken spot in the yard.

I had to abandon the old hand dug well in 2007 and drill a new one. Old well originally had a hand pump and was, to my amazement, only 10 feet from the outhouse. Well was 30ft deep.

 

[two_bit_score]

1920 with a complete demolishion and redo of everything that was not 1920.

What does that say about 1920?

Hey, I've got a house built in 1923 that a family member still lives in. Really cool old wood frame house that rarely needs a/c except in the hottest part of summer. My other house was built in 1981 and a farm house built in 1940's.

 

[cmhyland]

Amazing - almost 300 yrs old. Must be on some oldest houses list. Our first house was in Enfield. Built in 1865 and looked it. Yours is very nice.

Thanks Gordon,
Surprisingly there are houses around here that are older, going back to the 1680's.
The front part of the house was built in 1835 when Benjamin Green converted the house to a Tavern, Green's Tavern.... I've been told it was a brothel at one point as well....

In 1721 it was a stage/carriage stop or public house....

The house was built by a guy named Asahil Marcy who built a Bloomery down the road which made Bog Iron, some very early shoots of the Industrial revolution...

Regards,
Chris

 

[czechsonofagun]

House in fifties and the crappy addition in seventies.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Lol...just imagine how much land you could get for $25 today.....

In my grandfather's papers was a letter describing how he traded a team of horses for 160 acres on the Siuslaw River. When he went to inspect the property, he found it was totally worthless land. It had never been logged, and was covered with timber 8' to 12' in diameter. He allowed as how he hadn't been taken too badly, because the team of horses was worthless too.

This was only a little over 100 years ago. Values change.

 

[Archer EV]

Our house was finished and we moved in on April 1, 2005. It was the day before my wife's birthday. Ours is a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, 2,100 sq. ft. plus with 2 1/2 car attached garage. Our children are grown so it is plenty of space for the two of us. We have 2" x 6" wall framing. The additional insulation makes the house very efficient to heat and cool. The best things we did were the nine foot ceilings and my 8 ft high shower head in the master bath. I am 6'5" and I was sick and tired of low ceilings and shower heads that sprayed my belly instead of my head. I also have large mirrors hung so I don't have to bend over to see when I shave or comb what's left of my hair.

 

[71bronco]

I built my house in 1994. We did everything but the electrical,heating,rough framing and drywall. I'm a bricklayer so it's all brick and stone.

Jeff

 

[scoutcub]

I built my house in 1994. We did everything but the electrical,heating,rough framing and drywall. I'm a bricklayer so it's all brick and stone.

Jeff

Jeff -

Beautiful place! Do you own your own company or do side work?