tous Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 9 minutes ago, Eric said: I wonder if that room was originally decorated in Paris Green? You know, the paint and dye that was full of arsenic? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Eric said: Y'all probably wonder what I'm doing. I am crawling a FB group on historic US houses. Though a lot of the fine woodwork looked from that era. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 Just now, tous said: I wonder if that room was originally decorated in Paris Green? You know, the paint and dye that was full of arsenic? I'd never heard of that. That coffered ceiling is what drew my attention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 I believe that toilet is an Edward de Longshanks model. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 When was the last time you saw a phone nook? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 This is weird and not a good weird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 Yikes! I'm guessing that whoever decorated this room is not a Trump supporter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 Umm, huh? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 That may be the biggest household steam radiator I have ever seen. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 I love built-in cabinetry like this. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 10, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted December 10, 2023 That is a steep, narrow staircase right there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, tous said: That small structure by the staircase and window, why surround what seems to be a small sitting area with spindles and a baluster? Or, is it a small staircase and that's a landing? It looks like the paneling points down. That's a landing for a staircase going down. The wood work in similar in the stair case to what we had so I'm pretty confident. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, tous said: Too busy for my taste. I prefer simple, yet elegant. In those days very little was "simple and elegant". Every piece of wood work in our house was a masterpiece of an artist. Our house had the wood planes in the basement to make each and every piece of molding in the house. It was all custom so they left the tools so repairs could be made. Our house was built by a lumber baron that help strip the old growth lumber from Northern Minnesota. He employed the craftsman to work on the house during the Winter so they wouldn't leave the state for work. They just built more stuff to keep busy. God they were good! It was known as, "The Dam House". 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Eric said: That may be the biggest household steam radiator I have ever seen. You can see all the water staining on the circular windows. Single pane and they would frost over terribly in the Winter. Ours were the same. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Eric said: Yikes! I'm guessing that whoever decorated this room is not a Trump supporter. Chinese/Asian styling was popular back then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Eric said: This is weird and not a good weird. It was built to utilize the roof and was possibly a cupola of the roof. Our third floor had a 3 or 4 foot wide space between the interior walls and the exterior roof. Our roof joists were 8"x8" or 8"x12" rough sawn, I forget which. Hell of a span. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Eric said: I believe that toilet is an Edward de Longshanks model. I wonder if a woman sat facing the tank and a man would face the front? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 8 hours ago, Eric said: When was the last time you saw a phone nook? Back when I was a kid in the '50s. Lots of homes had them. tom. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gwalchmai Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 13 hours ago, tous said: I wonder if that room was originally decorated in Paris Green? You know, the paint and dye that was full of arsenic? Story I heard from the 50s was that a starlet was talking with her hairstylist, Gracie, and asked what she could use for vermin. The stylist recommended Paris Green. When they met again six months later Gracie asked if it had gotten rid of the vermin. "Yep, as well as two directors and a leading man." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Spicoli Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 17 hours ago, Eric said: This is a set of stairs you go down to answer for something. You probably don't come back. I kinda like it. Now if there are plastic tarps down below, someone is getting clipped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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