-- This Ole House-Home Inspections
William A. Campbell TREC # 6372
Serving the Texas Coastal Bend
(361) 727-0602 (home)
(361) 727-0055 (office)
(361) 229-4103 (cell)
Originally Posted By: wcampbell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
John, John,John, You have been the city too long. This is fantastic wood work from carpenters that KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Yes it needs repair but you won’t find this kind of craftsmanship in ANY new house.
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
200 Year old plantation house in Bourbon County, KY
Sits on five cellars with a stacked stone foundation. Front Center Cellar was used to hold runaway slaves. Still had hinge pins for the door buried in the stones. The slave quarters out back had been upgraded to an apartment. The separate building kitchen ( to keep the kitchen fires from burning down the mansion{used to read about that in history}) has now been connected to the main house.
150 year old plantation house in Scott County, KY. Love the main stair case. A two foot wide butlers/slave stairway was hidden on the other side of the wall to the left of the stairs.
Originally Posted By: psabados This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hey Erby
Looks like a $400.00 a night bed n breakfast. Although I don't think I'd keep my grandfather clock on stairway. That staircase looks like its a smooth flowing arc. Great woodworking how was the condition.
Originally Posted By: ltrower This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
William and erby,
Keep up the post on the old homes. In fact it would be very nice for any of you other guys that have the pleasure to get to inspect these Beauties of the past. Give us some history on them and what kind of things you found. We will never have the opportunity to see anything like that in Oklahoma as "Soddies" don't seem to weather very well out here. You know the buffalo eat the grass off the roofs and the wind and rain wash away the dung that kept them together.
Originally Posted By: lmartin This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi Will,
Thanks for sharing , your so right Old construction is far better for workmanship, than newer homes today, noticed the ceiling by stairways , underneath was boards , rails on stairways hand made, if you hadn’t said it was Texas, thought I would be in Maine.
Just wondering what would the value of a place like that compared to Maine prices.
Originally Posted By: wcampbell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Ok Lester, here is the value of the property. you figure it out.
2001: house was appraised at $45,010 with the total property at $322,000
2002: house $3910 and total property $317,720
-- This Ole House-Home Inspections
William A. Campbell TREC # 6372
Serving the Texas Coastal Bend
(361) 727-0602 (home)
(361) 727-0055 (office)
(361) 229-4103 (cell)
Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Erby,
I was just looking at that 200 year old plantation house interior that you had posted and I had thought I seen this house somewhere before. When I was a kid I use to watch Shirley Temple on TV and just realized that one of the episodes was shot in this house that you inspected. Are you aware that movie stars were filmed in this house? Shirley used to tap dance down these stairs.
Here's proof... but they didn't have color back then.
http://www.nachi.org/bbsystem/usrimages/shirley.jpg
Originally Posted By: rstephens This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Where I live there is alot of pre-civil war homes I will take my camera with me on some of my Termite Inspections and take a few snap shots. As soon as I get to the area where I saw the main beam cut in two I will take a picture and post it. The problem is that home is 2 hours away and I dont get to go there often. I live on the border of ohio and Wv along the ohio river and there is alot of history here and most of those old houses are still standing. It amazes me when I see the time and effort put into these homes hand carved trim and all.
Originally Posted By: cnordby This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I love old homes! My last house was a 1910 bungalow style. The stairway looks identical to the one you posted William. It was a very narrow stairway, and the person who owned the house before us had to leave his homemade box spring mattress for us, as you couldn’t get any up and around the staircase! There was beautiful molding in the diningroom, a window seat, and great old oak floors. In one of the heat vents we found an old Ted Williams baseball card along with a sugar daddy card. Under the house was a very old womans shoe. I loved that house. It was a block from the Lake. The dirt was mostly sand, as the Lake had gone down since they built it considerably.
Originally Posted By: jhorton This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
dvalley wrote:
I was just looking at that 200 year old plantation house interior that you had posted and I had thought I seen this house somewhere before. When I was a kid I use to watch Shirley Temple on TV and just realized that one of the episodes was shot in this house that you inspected.
Its amazing! Same furniture and the same clock! Heck event the same time on the clock too! 
I too love old homes. I am getting ready to start building my new one and it will be a 1920's style bungalow. Or as is so popular now, Craftsman style.
I remodeled one house and really don't want to do that again. And most bungalows around here were small and in town. Not for me.
-- Jeff <*\\><
The man who tells the truth doesn't have to remember what he said.
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I finaly got it right.
You have been the city too long. This is fantastic wood work from carpenters that KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Yes it needs repair but you won’t find this kind of craftsmanship in ANY new house.