A Journey through time


Great photos. I love how you have them sorted by decade.
Our house turned 90 this year. Wish I had photo documentation such as yours.
Enjoy the process !
 
And you like to cut grass and do yard work? Does look like the trees matured well.
 
Love how the yard matured into a beautiful park. Having planted a lot of trees, it is sad to realize I won't live long enough to see most in their glory.

I agree that it looks a lot like a Frank Loyd Wright design. Sweet house.
 
Congratulations Dave! It looks like a great venue for Rally 10.
 
Great story Dave, thanks for sharing. I love it when people work with a good property, instead of against it.

Have you ran into any "petrified" wood? I've worked on some older houses and some of the lumber has become rock hard. I guess because of the affects of time and it was probably from older growth stock.:thumbsup
 
Congrats Dave!.....Looks like a great place for your young family to grow. Enjoy
 
Pretty cool. That will be a fun project.
 
Congratulations to you and your family. Great place to make great memories. Enjoy!
 
I love old houses and buildings. Really cool Dave.

Chip
 
Boy, those pictures take me back to my house while growing up. Not at large as yours, nor with a pool but the style, furnishings and appliances….

Xcentric said:
Wow Dave...just lovely. Has a Frank Lloyd Wright look.
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I thought the very same thing!

HiloDave said:
Congratulations Dave! It looks like a great venue for Rally 10.
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As I was looking as the spaciousness of Dave’s home, I had the same thought as well. Cool cocktail party venue and plenty of parking area for a FGT estate scrapbook photo for the next owner. A Midwest venue should be appearing on the rally schedule at some point soon.

Dave, thanks for sharing! A time capsule for many of us.

Home ownership parallels that of our FGT’s; we are merely caretakers for a slice of time. Hopefully future owners will appreciate our period of entrustment.
 
Dave - sounds like a great project. We just completed the restoration of a 115 year old Victorian Farm House , Barn , outhouse etc in NW Pennsylvania South of Erie, Pa.
This is the 4th or 5th house we have done.
Would like to see what you plan...and I know you are only a few miles from the house we restored and now live in at Long Lake and Middlebelt...
Will send an email..

andy (AJB)
 
Brings back memories of the 60's.

The kitchen is nearly identical to my Mother's. Including the Golden Harvest Yellow.

And the den is remarkably like Dad's.

Good for you.
 
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Brings back memories of the 60's....
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Indy GT said:
Boy, those pictures take me back to my house while growing up. Not at large as yours, nor with a pool but the style, furnishings and appliances….
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:agree:
 
Detroit Free Press Article 1959. I like how it says you can look down the slope to "countryside." Now, not so much!

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Am I only seeing a 2 car garage?
 
BlackICE said:
Am I only seeing a 2 car garage?
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Yes. It was the 1950s. That said, it's really more like a 3, but in an oddball configuration. If you used go-jacks, you could turn a car sideways at the front and still have room to park 2 behind it. I just consider it space to open the doors comfortably on multiple GTs.
 
Rarely, did a house have larger than a 2-car garage in the '50s. Many houses only had a 1-car garage, or none, as families were just becoming affluent enough for 2 cars. A 2-car family in the 50's was considered "upper middle-class" and a status symbol.
 
For a car nut in MI, isn't a 2 car garage limiting? I guess I am too spoiled by CA. I don't like getting into a car that been parked out in the freezing snow. I did that while working in near Boston MA one winter, it sucked. I thought that was cold until during a stop over, I went outside the Minneapolis airport in the winter to see what really cold was like, it was -6F not counting wind chill. Of couse Ed Sims will say that's nothing, he lived in Alaska, his wife loved it. :lol
 
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I love the documentation you have on your home, fantastic provenance.

Even better, what a great life adventure for you and your family right now.

And I can't wait to read about multiple GT's downstream in that garage!
 
KJD, I too picked up on Dave's subtle "multiple GTs" quip.

Soooooo, what's up bud???
 
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