And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Not gonna get much of a "McMansion" on a 40' wide lot. Besides, what do you care. That house above looks very similar to my in-laws house on S West st in Shelbyville, IN, when my wife and I spent our first Christmas together in 1984. The stairway to the basement and 2nd floor were to the left of the front door. To the right of the door was the living room with a large fireplace on the right side. Nice and homey.
Might be a little 1 bdrm at the level of that dormer on the roof. Just big enough to get some business done and grow a family. Just a past experience of course.
When I was a child we lived in a house similar to that in the city. The three dormer windows were a single large room upstairs where most of us kids slept. The other side of the window group on the porch was the living room. The front door lead into a front foyer (...we kids called it the hallway.) with an arch to the right that lead into the living room. Straight back from the front door was the door to the dining room with my parents bedroom off to the right. Straight back from the dining room was the kitchen and straight back from there was the back door to the back porch. To the right of the kitchen was the sewing room, the *only* bathroom, and the stairwell to the upstairs. The basement was accessed from the kitchen.
I have good memories of the place, but it is located in what is now called a "cut and shoot" neighborhood. I think it was built in the 1890's.
My gosh...my grandparents house, exactly. Des Moines Iowa, built in the early 1920s.
ReplyDeleteKids today are missing so much.
ReplyDeleteAnd such are now torn down to make way for McMansions
ReplyDeleteNot gonna get much of a "McMansion" on a 40' wide lot.
DeleteBesides, what do you care.
That house above looks very similar to my in-laws house on S West st in Shelbyville, IN, when my wife and I spent our first Christmas together in 1984. The stairway to the basement and 2nd floor were to the left of the front door. To the right of the door was the living room with a large fireplace on the right side. Nice and homey.
"McMansion" is a mnemonic. It means "A house I don't like and therefore you shouldn't like them either."
DeleteI can still feel the warmth of their house 70 years later.
ReplyDeletedoan wanna mention it, but all the footprints are walkin' on by, none appear to lead into the house
ReplyDeleteBecause it's cold and no one wants to come out. Use you head moron, sorry boron.
DeleteEarly morning after a light snow. Christmas morning, my gut says. A picture just before the kids go bounding up the walk and light the place up.
ReplyDeleteGood memories.
Yeah. Lotsa love and joy.
ReplyDeleteMight be a little 1 bdrm at the level of that dormer on the roof. Just big enough to get some business done and grow a family. Just a past experience of course.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child we lived in a house similar to that in the city. The three dormer windows were a single large room upstairs where most of us kids slept. The other side of the window group on the porch was the living room. The front door lead into a front foyer (...we kids called it the hallway.) with an arch to the right that lead into the living room. Straight back from the front door was the door to the dining room with my parents bedroom off to the right. Straight back from the dining room was the kitchen and straight back from there was the back door to the back porch. To the right of the kitchen was the sewing room, the *only* bathroom, and the stairwell to the upstairs. The basement was accessed from the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteI have good memories of the place, but it is located in what is now called a "cut and shoot" neighborhood. I think it was built in the 1890's.