The Official NEPA Picture Thread...Post Area Pictures Here Only..Read Before Posting.. (licenses, pine)

[PAhippo]

This one I know is in Tioga county.

[PAhippo]

another old one. a gas well burning off in Bradford county. Still going through some moldy oldy shots.

[PAhippo]

out my back window when I lived in Bradford Co.

[PAhippo]

another fog shot

[fisheye]

Great pics again! That old house is interesting. I looks like it had no insulation; which was common years ago. The hand laid foundation is also interesting to note. I really liked the boards installed on the top, left, window. While they took the time to trim to size the ones on the bottom, left, window; they left the high ones untrimmed. It is interesting to see and guess why people did what they did.

[theatergypsy]

Nice pics, hippo.

Fish, I'm trying to guess why they boarded the windows on the left and the right ones remain uncovered. ???

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

Nice pics, hippo.

Fish, I'm trying to guess why they boarded the windows on the left and the right ones remain uncovered. ???

I'm guessing that the left windows broke and they had boards - but no glass? Years ago, what we now take for granted, was not always available. That house looks isolated; perhaps it was a long trip by horse to the hardware store or, perhaps they did not have the funds to buy glass?

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by fisheye

I'm guessing that the left windows broke and they had boards - but no glass? Years ago, what we now take for granted, was not always available. That house looks isolated; perhaps it was a long trip by horse to the hardware store or, perhaps they did not have the funds to buy glass?

Both plausible assumptions. Strange, the upper half of both of the windows on the right look newer. Wonder if they were cannibalized from the left side after breakage there? If only the walls could talk...

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by fisheye

Great pics again! That old house is interesting. I looks like it had no insulation; which was common years ago. The hand laid foundation is also interesting to note. I really liked the boards installed on the top, left, window. While they took the time to trim to size the ones on the bottom, left, window; they left the high ones untrimmed. It is interesting to see and guess why people did what they did.

The walls of my mother's house were put together that way. From the inside out: plaster and lath, diagonal boards, vertical boards, then clapboards. I remember that the electrician had to use a chisel so that he could get modern outlet boxes in the kitchen.

The deed indicates that the house was built in 1926, but that's either incorrect or there was a different house on the property before that one was built. When we moved there in 1970, my mother was looking through the house papers, and said she hadn't realized that it was nearly one hundred years old. Maybe the houses were renumbered at some point?

The houses on one side have enough room for a driveway and walk. The house on the other side is so close that you could lean out of a window and touch it. It was obviously shoehorned into that spot between two older homes.

This is where she lived: James Harvey Smethers (1857 - 1922) - Find A Grave Memorial

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by Gerania

The walls of my mother's house were put together that way. From the inside out: plaster and lath, diagonal boards, vertical boards, then clapboards. I remember that the electrician had to use a chisel so that he could get modern outlet boxes in the kitchen.

The deed indicates that the house was built in 1926, but that's either incorrect or there was a different house on the property before that one was built. When we moved there in 1970, my mother was looking through the house papers, and said she hadn't realized that it was nearly one hundred years old. Maybe the houses were renumbered at some point?

The houses on one side have enough room for a driveway and walk. The house on the other side is so close that you could lean out of a window and touch it. It was obviously shoehorned into that spot between two older homes.

This is where she lived: James Harvey Smethers (1857 - 1922) - Find A Grave Memorial

Interesting reading. Now on the bottom of that page, in the link, James had twelve death certificates, two birth certificates, five marriage licenses and eight divorces! He must have been pretty ambitious!

By the way; I had a good friend named Smithers. Also a very interesting character. Before the advent of the automobile head counters (the old census takers) would ride their horse to your farm/residence and verbally take down you information - they did not write it down until they returned home. So there is a possibility that Smithers and Smethers share a distant relative. My last name they really butchered with many different spellings. This recording information back at the office/home could also explain discrepancies on deeds and other official documentation.