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View Poll Results: How old is your house??
Brand spanking new! 6 5.08%
1990-2007 26 22.03%
1955-1990 I'll bet its a ranch! 36 30.51%
1941-1955 WWII and the beginning of Leave it to Beaver housing 13 11.02%
1914-1941 WWI to the start of WWII 20 16.95%
1865-1914 12 10.17%
How did they build my house during the civil war?? 0 0%
1812-1861 3 2.54%
1776-1812 War of what year? 1 0.85%
1776 or earlier...wow! 1 0.85%
Voters: 118. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-13-2008, 07:25 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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We have a 1939 Tutor...but would love a pre revolutionary war house.

not easy to find in Atlanta!
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Old 06-13-2008, 09:51 PM
 
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My parent's home was built in 1925, but it has been heavily renovated. They don't build them like that anymore, LOL.
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Old 06-14-2008, 02:43 AM
 
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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The house I grew up in was started in 1962 and finished in 1964. The house I live in now was built in 1986. The next place I might be moving to was built sometime between 1890 and 1910.
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:30 AM
 
Location: UWS -- Lucky Me!
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A neighbor once told me that my building was built in the 1880s, but according to PropertyShark.com, it was built in 1910. For the purposes of this poll it doesn't matter.
And while I like my neighbor, he's a bit of a tale spinner.
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:36 AM
 
Location: SW France
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I grew up in a house built in 1900, bought my first house which built in 1693 and had a new extension put on in 1728, and work in a house which dates from 1543, located on the site of an 8th century abbey.

I live in a modernish house but have a small Victorian ralway bridge, dating from around 1880, over a stream in the front of the house.
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:43 AM
 
Location: NW Arkansas
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My DH started building our house in the early 80s . He worked on it a few years before we moved into it April 15th, 1984. It still needed some finishing up. It has no history, except what we have put into it.
This is the longest that I have ever lived in the same house ! :-)
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:47 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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My rowhome was built in the early 1930's. She still has the original wiring (knob & tube) throughout the majority of the house an the walls are all plaster & lathe. While I was renovating the kitchen I found a 1937 mercury dime in the wall cavity! Sorry...no pot-o-gold yet
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:56 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Originally Posted by Jezer View Post
I grew up in a house built in 1900, bought my first house which built in 1693 and had a new extension put on in 1728, and work in a house which dates from 1543, located on the site of an 8th century abbey.

I live in a modernish house but have a small Victorian ralway bridge, dating from around 1880, over a stream in the front of the house.
I am soooo jealous!!!!!
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Old 06-14-2008, 08:48 AM
 
Location: Albany, GA (Hell's Waiting Room)
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When I was in high school, our family lived in an underground house built in 1981. In Alabama. Because caves and humidity work so beautifully together. Additional features: hordes of brown recluses, snakes wiggling in through skylights, strangers incessantly banging on your front door wanting a "tour". HAAAAATE.

We have a nice 1957 ranch-style house now, corner treed lot, all brick, hardwoods throughout. Love.
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Old 06-16-2008, 11:20 PM
 
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2004... designed by us and custom built.. our dream house.


How old is your house??-dphouse.jpg
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