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December 31, 2021: Link Exchange & Discussion

Added to OHD on 12/31/21 - Last OHD Update: 1/7/22 - 73 Comments
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Happy Friday! The link exchange is where you share your old house finds, articles, and general chit-chat.

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MJG
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

Oh I see it now. Whoops. I just flagged this one.

Uniqueandamazing
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

Trying to post a link to a home. I’m not at all tech savvy. Hopefully I’m doing it correctly and it’s an acceptable link. Would go in the unique homes I think.

Uniqueandamazing
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

It is.. Or was. I guess I was going more for the unique then the old. Lol. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10226822339400424&id=1109300419

Kimberly62
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

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Very nice, thank you Kelly!

And Happy New Year to all of you! Cheers! I have enjoyed your shares and knowledge over the past year.

SallyC
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

Best 2022 to you!

hearsetrax
1 year ago

keep a bit of blind faith Mrs Kelly

no one knows 4 100% certain what 2022 has instore for us humans as yet

a friend of mine sent me a most curious place to hunt houses and they had a few doozies for up 4 grabs https://www.historicalhomesofamerica.com/

Kate
Supporter
1 year ago

Dear all,
I’ve loved reading this group’s postings over the past year and am so impressed with the knowledge that is shared in this forum; I’ve learned so much!
Kelly, I really appreciate all the work you do – THANK YOU!
I hope everyone’s 2022 is incredible, unbelievable, wonderful, fantastic, outstanding, marvelous, and **insert synonym of “amazing”!
Happy New Year to everyone!  😎 

Anne M.
Supporter
1 year ago

Healthy New Year, All!
1891 shingle Queen Anne in Penn Yan, NY $424, 9000 now a B&B but retains much of its original charm. Check out the fireplace surround& the light fixtures
.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/145-E-Main-St-Penn-Yan-NY-14527/246742685_zpid/
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1922 in Dundee, NY $599,000 also currently used as a B&B, across the street from Seneca Lake, lots of old pictures of house, owners(?) and surrounding area
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/254-Dundee-Starkey-Rd-Dundee-NY-14837/53800566_zpid/
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1875 Italianate in Sherburne, NY $499,000 gorgeous exterior not as crazy about the “upscale renovations”
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2451-Route-80-Sherburne-NY-13460/2070778600_zpid/

Alexx
Reply to  Anne M. | 1524 comments
1 year ago

The 1875 Italianate IS gorgeous outside but what happened inside? Holy cow. Very disjointed. Such a shame!

CindyH
Reply to  Anne M. | 1524 comments
1 year ago

That chandelier in the first house – isn’t that great??

Kimberly62
Reply to  Anne M. | 1524 comments
1 year ago

Anne, I do love the dining room of the Dundee house, and like you that fantastic exterior on the Sherburne house, I wonder about that taxidermy collection? It is interesting to see, though I am not found of it. We have a mounted deer in our cabin that goes back to the early days, but it is not something I added, it is just a part of the history. I guess I just see it as an interesting collection.
thank you Anne

Anne M.
Reply to  Kimberly62 | 4098 comments
1 year ago

have to agree with you, Kimberly, not my favorite form of home decor!

Anne M.
Supporter
1 year ago

1860 Greek Revival in Waterville, NY $315,000 so lovely outside & in! nice carriage house and almost 10 acres of land.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2707-Sweet-Rd-Waterville-NY-13480/30826254_zpid/
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1815 Colonial in East Springfield, NY $85.000 – someone come rescue this handsome house
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5484-Us-Highway-20-East-Springfield-NY-13333/31639122_zpid/
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1920 Colonial Revival in Holyoke, MA nice built-ins, though the kitchen is very narrow there is cute breakfast nook & spacious dining room, den with stone fireplace
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1140-Northampton-St-Holyoke-MA-01040/56176498_zpid/

Kimberly62
Reply to  Anne M. | 1524 comments
1 year ago

https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/27a0cce500481cda6b162673fc15aeb9-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp
Colonial Revival: like the radiator cover
The Greek Revival has a wonderful exterior and I am very entertained by the colored paynes in all of those windows.

liesl
1 year ago

This is a link to our beautiful old home that needs lots of love for sale in Vermont

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21-Main-St-Saxtons-River-VT-05154/92037719_zpid/

Barbara V
Reply to  liesl | 1 comments
1 year ago

Lovely – especially that upstairs porch! Would sure love to see a better view of the staircase!

JimH
Moderator
1 year ago

1836 Greek Revival – Hudson NY – $1.8MM – National Register listed

“Oliver Wiswall was a public man of great energy and activity. He was mayor of the city of Hudson in 1827 and 1828. His old homestead was located on Mount Merino, and most beautifully situated. The mansion is a solidly-constructed building, erected for use and domestic comfort rather than for show. In the rear of it rise the cedar-crowned heights, southward is the garden, and beyond the garden are the spacious barns. In front of the mansion is a fine billiard-parlor, mistaken by many for a rural Episcopal chapel. A little south and opposite the garden is a deep glen, through which a small rill tumbles to the Hudson. Beyond the river, westward, the slopes of the opposite shore rise in quiet beauty, and blend with the loftier heights of the Catskills.”
From an 1878 history.

2015 listing:
http://peggylampman.com/prop281.html

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/127-Mount-Merino-Rd-Hudson-NY-12534/30010516_zpid/

Jason47384
Reply to  JimH | 8411 comments
1 year ago

Omg the views for that one are breathtaking. If it was a fixer upper then I’d be considering it for sure.

Barbara V
Reply to  JimH | 8411 comments
1 year ago

The second photo in the 2015 listing is fascinating: The Athens Light House vs. that massive tanker – Yikes!

JimH
Reply to  Barbara V | 2336 comments
1 year ago

It’s scary that they allow those huge ships up the river. That’s a famous view from Wiswall’s farm painted many times – Mt. Merino is named for the sheep he raised there.

http://peggylampman.com/images/PG281-2Whitbeck-Ary-Mt-Merino-Vu-1849.jpg

They’ve made a mess of the house and the owner was arrested for drugs last year!

Jkleeb
Reply to  JimH | 8411 comments
1 year ago

That explains a lot I guess. The house was for sale on and off the past few years but the interior was intact. If they had to start gutting it it’s too bad they didn’t tackle the modern addition. For me the gutting reduced the value.

Barbara V
Reply to  JimH | 8411 comments
1 year ago

He should have been arrested for what he did to that house – another fabulous old structure ruined forever.

cyan
1 year ago

time-capsule 1940’s kitchen in a 1900 house

https://ap.rdcpix.com/36efdc3cbf6dbbbf6a45aa10220fe3f5l-m3140560892od-w1024_h768_x2.webp

total of nine photos of the kitchen at the listing

Google map-view before there was butchering around the exterior entrance: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6906462,-77.7465044,3a,37.5y,129.16h,94.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSyu_p1zLgWw8oYTz3lhvig!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

$200,000 https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/13707-Village-Mill-Dr_Maugansville_MD_21767_M63123-86082 There is a video tour

Looks like the living room and dining room entrance archways were made also in the ‘40’s, so I’m guessing that that is when the original stairway banisters were enclosed, too.

Mimi
Reply to  cyan | 112 comments
1 year ago

WOW!! That kitchen is absolutely amazing!

Jason47384
1 year ago

Happy new year all! 2022 will be the year that I find my dream old house to restore.

KC in TC
1 year ago

Yes Kelly– I can’t thank you enough for all the work you do! OHD is such a bright spot in my day! Happy New Year to everyone else too! Let’s hope for a beautiful year ahead!!
-Kate

PS i hope you are feeling better and that “brain fog” is all gone!!

cyan
1 year ago

Exquisitely restored Queen Anne John I. Jones House, 1887, designed by Chicago architect Cicero Hine

full screen slideshow with previous exterior color and a gas range that is a converted authentic 1916 Glenwood cast iron cook stove
http://www.smartfloorplan.com/p/t/shell5.php?id=v384782&idx=yes

Sold, but whoever bought this got a steal when they got it for $800k
209 S Grove, Oak Park, IL 60302
https://www.urbanrealestate.com/property/209-S-Grove-Oak-Park-IL-60302-6WqFBSK5kaXE.html

MJG
Reply to  cyan | 112 comments
1 year ago

Holy cripes! That’s quite a house. They have some nice pieces. Those dining room chairs look like the “modern gothic” in the style of Kimble & Cabus which pushed style as early as from 1860s through the 1880s until their firm was dissolved. So much to love here.

The blue bathroom wallpaper is the copy of Candace Wheelers Carp design I believe. It also comes in lace.

So much about this place I love besides a few aesthetic changes I’d make. So much original left. Im just wondering if the front doors were altered in the twentieth century to make big glass doors. I don’t usually see that style front door yet in the late 80s.

Kimberly62
Reply to  cyan | 112 comments
1 year ago

Wow, very nice and entertaining, thank you. Exterior is wonderful.

Lancaster John
Supporter
1 year ago

In memory of Betty White, take a look at the ¨real¨ Golden Girls house which was sold in 2020. https://hookedonhouses.net/2020/07/18/real-golden-girls-house-california/ Yes, it is in Brentwood area of Los Angeles, not in Miami. But then the Bewitched house which was supposedly outside New York had tropical landscaping. I digress.

Actually, I like this video of the home better than the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyC-jBQN3gc

It was sold by the original owners and is a wonderful MCM design.

The show actually only used the facade in the opening credits. The interior was stage sets, and different from this home.

MJG
Reply to  Lancaster John | 1187 comments
1 year ago

I felt bad to learn she died. She was the last on left from the gang. My parents loved that show and we would all watch it together. Ground breaking topics too.

I thought the bewitched house was a fake house on the lot in the old neighborhood they would film Dennis the menace or other TV movies like the great Los Angeles earthquake. (I’m not expert though. I never liked that show. My sister loved it. It got blown up in the tv earthquake movie though clearly just through the windows)

MJG
Supporter
1 year ago

Happy New Year OHD’ers!!

Anne M.
Reply to  MJG | 7072 comments
1 year ago

and to you, M.G.!

Tony Bianchini
1 year ago

Happy New Year!

Goldthwaite, TX, roomy 1958 ranch house time capsule, on nearly 40 acres! $675K:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/511-US-Highway-84-W_Goldthwaite_TX_76844_M96226-21402

Intricately detailed Chadds Ford, PA Fairytale, on nearly 9 acres, shows 1920 built, looks more like 1885 to me. $1.35M to live the dream:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/160-Stabler-Rd_Chadds-Ford_PA_19317_M42528-68000

Lancaster, PA, rock solid gem for $1.3M, built 1887:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1023-Marietta-Ave_Lancaster_PA_17603_M44195-35480

Franklin, PA, an impressive façade here, built 1904, $630K:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/612-Adelaide-Ave_Franklin_PA_16323_M48420-74558

Rose Valley, PA, built 1909, $1.45M, sharing for all the unique interior and exterior tile work:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1-Roylencroft-Ln_Rose-Valley_PA_19063_M44815-02444

Marietta, PA, built 1860, $690K (heavily remodeled 20 years later?), Interesting external massing with a somewhat disappointing interior:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/580-E-Market-St_Marietta_PA_17547_M93055-42737

Philly, PA, built 1783! Looks like just sold for $865K, before I could share!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/125-E-Bells-Mill-Rd-Philadelphia-PA-19118/10212838_zpid/

Scranton, PA, built 1890. Lots of craftsmanship for the $499K ask! Is that parquet wainscoting?? Or lincrusta? The parquet floors are AMAZING:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/920-Electric-St_Scranton_PA_18509_M36819-10594

MJG
Reply to  Tony Bianchini | 297 comments
1 year ago

That Chadds Ford house in PA has great detail work. I hate the kitchen and how overly rustic it was made. But besides that everything else is incredible. Yeah I agree. Just clearly a generic default town hall build date clearly.

The Scranton PA house has wonderful floors and a beautiful exterior.

cyan
Reply to  MJG | 7072 comments
1 year ago

The Chadds Ford house has a gorgeous setting and is quite beautiful, but I agree about that kitchen – it is a nightmare.

JimH
Reply to  Tony Bianchini | 297 comments
1 year ago

Late Christmas gifts – thanks Tony! (I might regift a couple.)

Roylencroft, and the related Schoenhaus at Rose Valley PA, are Will Price beauties built as part of his utopian Arts & Crafts community there. Moravian (Mercer) tile and (I suspect) Samuel Yellen ironwork survive there although the interior updates are more suburban tract house than Price’s original vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valley,_Pennsylvania

https://www.oldhouseonline.com/house-tours/an-arts-crafts-gem-restored/

Tony Bianchini
1 year ago

McAlester, OK, heroically executed Logan’s Run era Mid Mod/Brutalist house, built 1976, nearly 35 acres, $1.3M:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3101-Hardy-Springs-Rd_McAlester_OK_74501_M85172-80406

Another heroic 1970s JR Ewing set-up, again in Oklahoma, Ponca City – on 136+ acres, asking $1.35M:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/500-S-Prentice-Rd_Ponca-City_OK_74604_M94295-83143

Keeping on the 1970s bender – 1970, Shawnee, OK, $950K. Don’t miss the leopard carpeted spiral stairs:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3615-N-Union-Ave_Shawnee_OK_74804_M82104-74001

Brilliant 1850 built house in Greencastle, IN. I think previously shared, pending at $400K:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/505-W-Columbia-St_Greencastle_IN_46135_M45735-07287

Quite a house here, although built in 2007, takes construction and design cues straight from the Gilded Age, lots to enjoy here. Fayetteville, AR, $4.78M:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2991-S-City-Lake-Rd_Fayetteville_AR_72701_M78361-16512

At the other end of the price continuum, Creston, IA, built 1875, $125K, lots of potential here:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/600-S-Pine-St_Creston_IA_50801_M83835-78949

I’ve got a lot more, but will save them for another day. Enjoy!

Tony Bianchini
1 year ago

HUGE price reduction on Italianate masterpiece in Pella, IA, from $1.25M to $850K, completed 1871, and previously posted here at that. Worth another look:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1261-185th-St_Pella_IA_50219_M73596-77860

JimH
Moderator
1 year ago

They saw it on OHD and bought it – another notch in Kelly’s belt!

https://www.oldhousedreams.com/2021/05/05/1909-centerville-ia/

Tony Bianchini
1 year ago

ROARING 20s mansion, I think been on here a couple times – worth looking again. Seminole, OK, built 1928, $1.8M:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/612-E-Wrangler-Blvd_Seminole_OK_74868_M90205-54138

CindyH
Reply to  Tony Bianchini | 297 comments
1 year ago

You gotta love any house with three pinball machines in it…

MJG
Reply to  RuralDreamer80 | 21 comments
1 year ago

This one is really nice. Love that Moorish window on the staircase landing and the staircase architecture. I wonder if there was art glass in there at one point or color glass. I have seen some clear glass but many had art glass.
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Love this safe.
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Surprised they didn’t photographed the main hall! The first floor stair case looks great.
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MJG
Reply to  JimH | 8411 comments
1 year ago

It’s been high on my list to see but I’ve not been to that state. Yet! I will some day.

JimH
Reply to  RuralDreamer80 | 21 comments
1 year ago

Fratt-Link House on the National Register. Designed by local architect John G. Link for cattleman David Fratt; later purchased and moved from the downtown area by Link.

https://news.mt.gov/Montana-Historical-Society/Billings-Home-Nominated-for-Listing-in-National-Register-of-Historic-Places

Barbara V
Supporter
1 year ago

Here’s something a little outside the box – a huge antique fixer on 26+ acres in Stamford, NY, with a 2008 doublewide to live in while doing the restoration. No interior photos of the fixer – too bad. asking $325,000:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/226-County-Highway-30-Stamford-NY-12167/305239415_zpid/

Jkleeb
Reply to  Barbara V | 2336 comments
1 year ago

I hope this finds the right niche buyer and kudos to the realtor for not labeling the house a tear down.

Barbara V
Reply to  Barbara V | 2336 comments
1 year ago

Bad news. I contacted the realtor, who took the time today to go to the property, and take several photos of the old house’s interior. (Thanks again to her in the event she reads this.) Sadly, it has been completely gutted inside – not surprising, I suppose, given the homeowner’s preference for a doublewide. Anyone brave enough to look will find the photos at the end of the realtor’s listing, along with some articles regarding its history, here:

https://delcountyrealestate.idxbroker.com/idx/photogallery/a554/132240

Anne M.
Supporter
1 year ago

Just came across this “double house” 1871 Italianate in Salem, MA $1.3 million – owner’s residence and 2 apartments, the exterior trim on the windows & roof is wonderfully ornate and the interior quite grand:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/24-Forrester-St-2_Salem_MA_01970_M38393-89985
Love this little niche with the marble sink & vanity cabinet:
https://ap.rdcpix.com/bfea08859ae4097a4705b973b3b249e3l-m2794353966od-w1024_h768_x2.webp

Cora
Moderator
1 year ago

1918. This is a mansion by any definition…but still seems quite cozy and comfortable to me. Gorgeous murals, breathtaking windows in the dining room. Glorious staircase.

It sits directly in the shadow of downtown Tulsa, which would not bother me in the least…but may be an issue for some. $1.5million

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1610-S-Carson-Ave-Tulsa-OK-74119/178990668_zpid/

Kimberly62
Reply to  Cora | 3166 comments
1 year ago

https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/c7e138da0e78b1620640b8f326a9da20-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp

Wow, what a staircase, and the Wedgewood breakfast room is really neat too.

Anne M.
Supporter
1 year ago

What the heck is this? (from the Sand Creek, MI Queen Anne on the front page) If it was on the first floor I would assume a gardening sink but it actually looks like it is on the second floor.
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Chessie
1 year ago

The realtor said the sink was used by the servants – maybe to wash baby clothes…

Chessie
Reply to  Chessie | 34 comments
1 year ago

This was for the beautiful Horton house just listed and now pending!

Anne M.
Reply to  Chessie | 34 comments
1 year ago

it is very cool!

Brian
1 year ago

Happy and healthy new year to everyone!

Kelly, sure hope you’re continuing to feel better! Thanks for everything you do to make OHD the great and enjoyable resource it is!

Here’s one not far from me that I’ve admired for years. I’ve researched the street and found that this home was built for $7,000 in 1935. (Zillow has it at 1940). A simple, but nicely detailed ’30s home that is still mostly original.

Among the fine features are the Colonial front door surround, original windows, six panel doors, lots of plaster arches (even one in the basement) and various built-ins, breakfast room, etc. Kitchen is an older remodel (circa 1970?) complete with a pink Sub-Zero refrigerator.

Vintage ’30’s bath with subway tile and checkerboard B & W hex tile floor. Knotty pine finished basement with arch that appears to be original.

Buffalo, New York. 1935 Center Entry brick Colonial (Zillow says 1940).
$325,000

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/26-Grosvenor-Rd-Buffalo-NY-14223/30397391_zpid/?

Snarling Squirrel
Supporter
1 year ago

“Want to Bring an Old Home Into the Modern World? Here’s Where to Start: A self-proclaimed lover of historic buildings tells us all about unlocking the hidden potential in timeworn abodes”

This is a pleasant read with some nice photos of one of the “influencers” of historic renovation today. Although purists might cringe a bit with the details, it’s good to see a fresh interest in tackling old houses in popular media:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-to-bring-an-old-home-into-the-modern-world

Kimberly62

Rather than coming in with preconceived ideas about what you want your home to look like, take some time and listen to your home, letting it tell you what it needs. “Let your house guide your improvements; don’t try and force your idea of improvements onto your house,” Sweeny recommends.

I am a big fan of this idea

Matt Z
Reply to  Kelly, OHD | 15308 comments
1 year ago

The house that popped into my mind when I saw this post was this one that included an art deco office building in the listing. But when I found the old listing again, its definitely not the same design. haha
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3289-E-55th-St-Cleveland-OH-44127/2128417187_zpid/

Cmsause
1 year ago

New Listing in Historic District, Lexington, Missouri

McGrew House, gorgeous Queen Anne, tax records say built in 1880, state historical survey lists 1885/1890. Some of the stained glass is original to home and featured in Windows of Kansas City by Bruce Matthews.

2001 South St, Lexington, MO 64067 | realtor.com®

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