My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.
My house was built as a summer cabin 1935. Then someone added a 2nd floor on top of it 1970. It then got winter isolated (for year round living) in 2006.
1890 here as well. I love it, it's nestled in the woods and built into the hillside so these massive retaining walls surround the first story. With all the trees and shade and basically being underground, this makes the first floor naturally cool. I've gone whole summers without AC. What's also interesting is there's a door on the second floor landing that goes right out into the hillside. There's like a 2 foot wide platform and then the hill. Not much up there other than a steep overgrown mountain though.
Another thing I love is being able to see the river from my front stoop. I'm still in city limits of Pittsburgh though, so I can easily walk or bike down to more of the city type stuff. Or I can bop across a bridge to a couple other towns.
I'll definitely spend my life here, as I'm slowly remodeling the place. But of course, a house this old comes with its own slew of problems. I try to tackle as much as I can myself tho.
Oh, I think I know what's going on. It's interpreting the number with a period on the end as a numbered/ordered list. Putting a space before the dot should fix it.
This is an ordered list.
And fixed:
321 . And this is not.
Still weird that the number's sticking off to the side and getting cut off. Probably depends what client you're using. In Lemmy-UI, it's not cut off, but the number is further left than it would otherwise be. Jerboa looks fine, but it's clearer on Jerboa that it's interpreting it as an ordered list.
the house i grew up in was built in 1800 (it was a duplex) and honestly it was the creepiest house i ever lived in. it had the old style stone cellars and wooden steps and i always used to have to put a chair in front of the cellar door cause whenever i tried to close it i honest to god felt a force making it hard to shut. and i'm absolutely certain that i woke up in the middle of the night and looked down the stairs and saw two people in period clothes just standing there and it's far too real to have been a dream.
Yeah lots of houses super old around here, especially at the old mills area. My buddy lives in Uxbridge near one of the lakes, funny enough I'm a few towns away. Small world, Lemmy.
Mine's the same age and it's almost unbelievable how almost everything needs replaced at 30 years. Roof, furnace, well pump have been done, a long with some faucets and other small things. I'm terrified the fridge, stove, and washer and dryer are next. Can't afford much more!
House I used to own was built in 1958, but the house I'm currently renting an apartment in was built in 1890. The apartment itself was added in 2020, and I'm it's first tenant.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure my family was only the second owners of my house as well. All I know about the builder of my house is:
The same guy was responsible for building basically all the houses on my street.
He didn't survey very carefully. All the property lines are off by like two feet. Lol. It's caused me some heartache with the neighbors to my south with property disputes. (Well, to be fair, the neighbors to my south would have caused the property dispute had the property lines not been off.)
2021 from a small local home builder. Much better quality (even for a COVID build) than the Oakwood garbage that’s in the rest of the neighborhood and much better insulated than an older home.
Built by the owner of a greenhouse in a suburb of the city where you could prohibit the sale of land to blacks. They ended up buying 2 more lots and building two more houses.
USA, Michigan. Sadly, the title still states that the property cannot be sold to a black or mixed race. Its no longer legal, but the title says it.
Other than that, its built well. Almost all the stuff done to the house after the 70s is garbage. Ie. Vinyl siding, replacement windows, counters, plumbing.
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grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
Bold of you to assume I own a house
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Me too, thanks.
capuccino@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
some of you have ghosts in your houses
locuester@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
1995 - the peak of civilization
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
frank@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Our US one when we lived there: 1960s
Our Danish one now: 17... 50s? 60s? It's hard to know
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
2024
New building code for rentals stipulates one room must be capable of cooling to 26c or lower. This building was built to that code.
So we have AC. It's fantastic.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
Unclear, but somewhere between 1865 and 1875, which makes it right around half the age of my parents' house
toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.
bizzle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
1861 it's sweet except for when it's not
Ste41th@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
When is it not sweet?
lambipapp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
My house was built as a summer cabin 1935. Then someone added a 2nd floor on top of it 1970. It then got winter isolated (for year round living) in 2006.
In sweden, so it can be pretty cold here
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The one I live in now was built in the 1940s and expanded in the 2000s. The one my parents own that I grew up in partially was built in 1844.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
2015
andrewta@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Somewhere between 1925 and 1932 depending on which paper you want to read.
The other house built in 1992
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
My apartment building turns 100 this year.
octobob@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
1890 here as well. I love it, it's nestled in the woods and built into the hillside so these massive retaining walls surround the first story. With all the trees and shade and basically being underground, this makes the first floor naturally cool. I've gone whole summers without AC. What's also interesting is there's a door on the second floor landing that goes right out into the hillside. There's like a 2 foot wide platform and then the hill. Not much up there other than a steep overgrown mountain though.
Another thing I love is being able to see the river from my front stoop. I'm still in city limits of Pittsburgh though, so I can easily walk or bike down to more of the city type stuff. Or I can bop across a bridge to a couple other towns.
I'll definitely spend my life here, as I'm slowly remodeling the place. But of course, a house this old comes with its own slew of problems. I try to tackle as much as I can myself tho.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y
andrewta@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
929?! Holy. Congrats
Is it in good shape?
Any pictures you would care to share?
PonyOfWar@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
Does it not display the initial 1 for you? I noticed the post has some weird formatting, I think the lemmy UI thinks it's a list item or something.
andrewta@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
It did say 929
Now it looks like this
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Oh, I think I know what's going on. It's interpreting the number with a period on the end as a numbered/ordered list. Putting a space before the dot should fix it.
And fixed:
321 . And this is not.
Still weird that the number's sticking off to the side and getting cut off. Probably depends what client you're using. In Lemmy-UI, it's not cut off, but the number is further left than it would otherwise be. Jerboa looks fine, but it's clearer on Jerboa that it's interpreting it as an ordered list.
locuester@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
On voyager it’s cut off bad. Missing 1.5 letters
andrewta@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Good thought
andrewta@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Remove the . At the end of the number might help
vfreire85@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
since i moved back with my parents, my house was built in 1993. before that i was living in an apartment that was built in 2021.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
the house i grew up in was built in 1800 (it was a duplex) and honestly it was the creepiest house i ever lived in. it had the old style stone cellars and wooden steps and i always used to have to put a chair in front of the cellar door cause whenever i tried to close it i honest to god felt a force making it hard to shut. and i'm absolutely certain that i woke up in the middle of the night and looked down the stairs and saw two people in period clothes just standing there and it's far too real to have been a dream.
i lived in this town so mostly all of the houses were built for the mill by the family who owned it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitinsville,_Massachusetts
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah lots of houses super old around here, especially at the old mills area. My buddy lives in Uxbridge near one of the lakes, funny enough I'm a few towns away. Small world, Lemmy.
Eladriagon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Somewhere around 1998-1999. Which means right now we’re going through replacing everything (roof, siding, HVAC, god knows what else). It’s fun!
thicksliceham@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Mine's the same age and it's almost unbelievable how almost everything needs replaced at 30 years. Roof, furnace, well pump have been done, a long with some faucets and other small things. I'm terrified the fridge, stove, and washer and dryer are next. Can't afford much more!
un_aristocrate@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y
1850
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
1880, right after the Great Fire
lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
1926
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
1910!
I bought it in 2022. It's tiny but mine lol
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
In the 1940s or 50s. My family has owned it since the 60s.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
1955
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
1992 - and it has all of the luxuries that 1992 had to offer in a house (oak everything! almost no right corners! shiny brass fixtures!)
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
House I used to own was built in 1958, but the house I'm currently renting an apartment in was built in 1890. The apartment itself was added in 2020, and I'm it's first tenant.
jade52@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
2006
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
1981
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
We just celebrated 28 years of this development, so 1997. We live here since 2002.
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
Xyphius@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
1954
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
1962
Taleya@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y
fistbump
Amazingly, we're only the second owners. Ours was comissioned and built by a Greek family. It's gloriously so.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, I'm pretty sure my family was only the second owners of my house as well. All I know about the builder of my house is:
kELAL@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
1976
Also my birth year.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Early 70s
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
1870
sun@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
2021 from a small local home builder. Much better quality (even for a COVID build) than the Oakwood garbage that’s in the rest of the neighborhood and much better insulated than an older home.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
\2022. Apartment building. 95,5 m², 25 m² balcony. We enjoy it.
Fourth@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Before - 1932, now 1995.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y
2020 is when it was finished :3
twinnie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
The house I’m renting and the house I own are both around 1930, which is considered modern in the UK. The house I grew up in is about 1800.
rodsthencones@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y
Built by the owner of a greenhouse in a suburb of the city where you could prohibit the sale of land to blacks. They ended up buying 2 more lots and building two more houses. USA, Michigan. Sadly, the title still states that the property cannot be sold to a black or mixed race. Its no longer legal, but the title says it. Other than that, its built well. Almost all the stuff done to the house after the 70s is garbage. Ie. Vinyl siding, replacement windows, counters, plumbing.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 2 pts · 1y
1927...
EmbarrassedBenefit3@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
2006