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At our recent kitchen design workshop we had the opportunity to ask attendees for stories about their home’s history.
Here are a few of our favorite answers:
“Before our home was built the lot was the site of the neighborhood Victory Garden during WWII.”
“It was built by Hemenway for a dentist and his family. 6 families have lived in our home but we are the only family to have a baby and young children raised in the home.”
“My home was a room boarding home with a community bath and kitchen.We swapped the kitchen and bedroom and opened up the kitchen to triple it to its present design.”
“Our home has a natural spring under the basement.”
“Our basement has nails for drying herbs all throughout the ceiling. When I dried some herbs for the first time and told my husband how convenient and cool that was, he said, “Well, this house was a commune for a time after it was a farm; they probably dried pot down there!”
“I live on a builders’ Street of Dreams from 1972.”
“Our home was once owned by a local car dealer- a golfer, he covered the entire concrete patio with plastic grass and several holes. Inside he built 2 giant cylindrical chimneys… one for the fireplace and another for an indoor barbeque!”
“Built by Mr & Mrs Raven (of Raven Creamery) as their retirement home next door to their original home (The Overlook House) which they donated to the city of Portland to be used as a community center.”
“It was originally seasonal housing for orchard workers. During the 1950’s, a family with the last name ‘Disney’ lived here so we like to think we’re somehow connected to the Magic Kingdom!”
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“Dr Horace Francis for whom the house was built, was the physician for the Siletz Tribe.”
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“The residential living space in my 100 year old building was once a boarding house for sailors who needed a room for a night.”“Single family ownership from 1945-2001. The woman of the house loved pink and her husband(s) went along for the ride: pink stucco exterior, pink bathroom tile, pink azaleas and roses!”
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“There were naughty pictures of the original owners hidden on top of the laundry room cabinets. The owners we bought from never found them.”
Name a book that was published the year your house was built.
What’s the story of your home? Tell us in the comments below to be entered to win 4 hours of complimentary Carpenter on Call service from Arciform.
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