A Journey through time

[jaxgt]

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 !

 

[fjpikul]

And you like to cut grass and do yard work? Does look like the trees matured well.

 

[2112]

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.

 

[HiloDave]

Congratulations Dave! It looks like a great venue for Rally 10.

 

[FENZO]

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

 

[pe2unia]

Congrats Dave!.....Looks like a great place for your young family to grow. Enjoy

 

[Wwabbit]

Pretty cool. That will be a fun project.

 

[Mike Mosing]

Congratulations to you and your family. Great place to make great memories. Enjoy!

 

[ChipBeck]

I love old houses and buildings. Really cool Dave.

Chip

 

[Indy GT]

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….

Wow Dave...just lovely. Has a Frank Lloyd Wright look.

I thought the very same thing!

Congratulations Dave! It looks like a great venue for Rally 10.

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.

 

[AJB]

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)

 

[PL510*Jeff]

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.

 

[RALPHIE]

Brings back memories of the 60's....

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….

:agree:

 

[dbk]

Detroit Free Press Article 1959. I like how it says you can look down the slope to "countryside." Now, not so much!

 

[BlackICE]

Am I only seeing a 2 car garage?

 

[dbk]

Am I only seeing a 2 car garage?

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.

 

[RALPHIE]

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.

 

[BlackICE]

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

 

[KJD]

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!

 

[Indy GT]

KJD, I too picked up on Dave's subtle "multiple GTs" quip.

Soooooo, what's up bud???