Another privy question

[RICKJJ59W]

Walk the yard with a probe,and probe (every sunking spot) you see.
Single homes in the country are a lot harder to find pits in than row homes.
I find the privy's on the property lines in row homes, some are in the back some on the side some in the middle of the yard,There is no set rules to where people wanted to put a crapper. They did what was best for them at the time,So to say a privy is (suppose) to be in one certain location in a yard is way off base. You have to look and probe look and probe. Also you have to get out and DO IT,NOT JUST TALK about it,you find more pits that way []

 

[David Fertig]

We cooked in a toaster oven and a micro on a picnic table in the dining room. Dorm size fridge. Water out back.

I take a lot of decent buildings down. Just did a nice 1815 oak log house. That one's tagged and ready to go back up - Clam? Need a house?

Lots are just worn or worn out and the owners do not want to put the time and effort into them. It's usually economics. I can only make the recommendation to at the very least maintain them for the next owners, but it comes down to the fact that they are the owners, not me. Not the boro. Not the Hist. Soc.

Dave

Think we hijacked this post?

 

[GuntherHess]

wow a log cabin with a bay window[]

 

[Clam]

Wow !!! That house makes me shiver !!! If I was demoing that one I think I would take a bobcat and scrape 2ft of the topsoil all around the house and sift it...
Dave I understand that most of those houses need to be taken down for one reason or another it's just sad how common it is nowadays by the time I retire there will be no 18th centuary houses to look at anymore when they were all over the place when I was a kid....

 

[baltbottles]

Got invited into a circa 1820s row house in Baltimore once, all the timbers in the house were cedar very strange construction it almost looked like it was made of salvaged ship pieces. Or the builder had been a ship builder very weird. A local hospital bought the property and knocked down this house and the other 8 or so early houses remaining on the block to put up a parking garage.

How wonderful progress is............[&o]

Chris

 

[Jim]

"Progress" sucks sometimes, in more ways than one. We had a so-called "urban renewal" here in Lewistown in the late 1960s. Three blocks of historic and well-constructed buildings were razed and replaced with parking lots and hideous metal-clad brown buildings. Many small businesses were displaced, and most never returned.

Thankfully, this "redevelopment" stopped after that phase. Plans to take it further never materialized. The remaining parts of historic Lewistown are still full of small businesses, and the area looks great. The "modernized" part looks ridiculously out-of-place, and property prices and rents are prohibitively high for most small businesses. A lot of the stuff is vacant. I wish it all were, I would love to drive a D-9 Caterpillar over all of that hideous brown metal and "start over" so that respectable structures could once again occupy those blocks [] ~Jim

 

[tftfan]

May I..... may..be I ... Did he say laid......huh

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: David Fertig

Gunther has some great advice. I thought this house might have some bottles in the basement, so we went to work following his instructions exactly.

Dave

YEOUCH! It hurts just to look at that!!! [:'(]

 

[David Fertig]

q

 

[GuntherHess]

Otimus Prime seems angry...

my house with see through roof