We don't build houses like that anymore because it would cost a fortune. That's a lot of man-hours of intricate, custom woodworking right there, and that don't come cheap.
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You used to be able to buy similar homes from a sears catalog and put it together yourself. Maybe not quite as much detail, but still a lot more than you'd find anything on the market in the last 40 years.
Btw $753 adjusted from 1913 is only around 25k.
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Small houses can be scary, too! My living room when I moved in back in October (not a joke):
And there's so much more!
Do those numbers mean something?
No idea. I thought it might be the combination to the gun safe, but that doesn't seem to be it. Sort of a LOST situation, I deemed it best not to get too hung up on the numbers, after much speculation.
The spacing almost looks like Ol' Boy 22 or something. Weird find!
Edit: maybe Ol' Boyzz?
The previous owner went through a tragedy and had a rough go of it:
Also the crawlspace is labeled "The Dark Side" and there were shoes. And a VHS camera/tape I'll never watch.
STILL NOT JOKING!
This is some rough environmental storytelling. Damn. I'd be curious about the camera/tape, but not watching it is almost certainly the right call.
Given the context, maybe married 1/13/2004 and divorced 2022?
Edit: actually, if they married in 2004 they would have been married 22 years this year. Maybe dude just rounded up.
Jesus Christ. All I found in my house was a hat one of the workers left in the attic when it was built (1942).
I feel bad for the dude, looking at the pictures you posted it seems like the poor bastard had a mental break.
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You have to own the house to have it be haunted. So boomers are kinda the least generation of people to be haunted.
Probably cuz all the lumber is gone lol.
In a way it has. Lumber harvested today is from much younger trees made to grow fast, so they have fewer rings and each ring is wider. Compared to older lumber that was often harvested from natural growth forests which is of course unsustainable, but is stronger and more dimensionally stable than new lumber.
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I’ve tried/succeeded kinda to make this house in The Sims before lol (DaisyMarie86 - I have lots of Victorians and I’m a good builder 😋) and I can tell you why! it’s really hard and REALLY expensive!
They died cuz of the asbestos
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Am I the only one or does that picture look kind of uncanny?
I can't place it... It looks uneven and wavy.
I smell burnt toast.
I can't find a picture to post but recently the building fad in my country for single family homes is cubes. Literally, cubes. The houses are made of grouped cubic structures. No rounded surfaces, no decorative details. A bit like watered down brutalism.
Can't imagine those houses aging well.
Meanwhile, old stone houses just look... good. Renovated, awsome. Abandoned, creepy. No ghosts though.
A new Mansion in which multiple deaths have occurred is a truly haunted thing.