Committee member for historic house

[iris lilies]

For goodness sake, get the muslin curtains and put them somewhere in one of your houses. Just for your mom's sake.

Oh god noooooo!!!!!! Those curtains weren’t even nice at that time let alone now. Funny that my mother paid to have one window professionally draped, the one at the top of the stairs, but that drapery no longer is there.

Here is the link. The full photos are mine, ones I sent to the historical society showing the house when I lived there.

Toward the bottom of article are 4 glimpses of the current state of the house. I will bitchily point put out the newel post is not original, the top of it anyway. Someone has fked with it. The proportion of the added piece looks way off to me.

http://altoonahistory.org/haineshouse/

[Tybee]

What a lovely house.

[catherine]

Yes, it's really nice, and I like the fact they gave a nod to the "other owners" who "helped preserve its history."--I'm assuming they are referencing your family.

It sounds like it would have been really nice to have kept it for workshops and classes as an extension of the Historical Society, but I can understand that it would have been a big undertaking. We had a house like that in my New Jersey town. The town did some renovations and repairs, but it never really achieved its potential as a community resource. I can't find any recent references to is on the internet, so who knows what's going on with it now, if anything. It did get historic landmark status, so it might just be sitting there, rotting away.

It would be a better tribute to your family to have another family enjoy it--and hopefully they will recognize its historical value.

[iris lilies]

What a lovely house.

I was pretty attached to it, but in reality, it’s not as nice as the one we lived in earlier, and I’ve shown a picture of that one. If I had to choose between the two houses, I would take the other one, not the one the subject of this thread.

[Tradd]

I laughed at the “rot” for “wrought” iron fence in the link IL posted.

[iris lilies]

I laughed at the “rot” for “wrought” iron fence in the link IL posted.

Yes, I saw that and bitched about it to my cousin. that is a pet peeve of mine. I see it around here all the time in ads as people try to sell their fence materials.
I also see and do not like “ Rod iron” which is slightly more logical.

[littlebittybobby]

Okay---Hey Dude---they need to make that-old-house into like--a buddhist hippie commune, where kids who moved to Doo-Doo town can come back to I-wah and live. They might contribute to the local economy by running an east-west MJ pipeline. Yup. MJ is agerculture, every bit as much as torturing pigs and chickens. But prolly better in the long run.2023-03-26 (8).jpg2023-03-26 (8).jpg2023-03-23.jpg2023-03-23.jpg

[iris lilies]

More boring stuff from Iris about the old house she once lived in follows. Now it is officially on the market, ow that the city fathers have declined to buy it.

Compare photos from 50 years ago to today’s interior look, and take note that the wallpaper and curtains in the parlor are still there, 50 years later.

parlor 50 years ago, and now

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dining room 50 years ago, and now

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Zillow listing is below. Look at the plaster falling off the ceilings, lack of paint, general dreary interior although any house looks a bit neglected without furniture in it. The exterior was recently painted white, covering ip the half color job previous owner made decades ago. Yes, it was halfway painted in colors, then he stopped.

previous owner neglected the carriage house to a point where they tore it down recently.


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2...9/823206_zpid/

[catherine]

If the right person gets their hands on that house, it could be absolutely amazing. The cheaper updates are all cosmetic. There is so much beautiful original stuff in there! Pray to god the new owners respect the heritage.

[JaneV2.0]

That will be a handsome old house with the right owners.