Thursday, May 8, 2008

My old house

We started ripping down a wall in the Dakota house. It was like going back in history. Layers of wall paper, wood for walls instead of dry wall. The top layer is some sort of fiber board. It rips down very easy.
The different wall paper from different times in history is fun to go back and imagine some one fixing their little house in the 20's then the 40's later the green in the 60's maybe? there was at least 6 layers. One right on top of another.
I wonder if the sink is the original sink or if someone put that in later as an antique? We can only guess.
We have enough of Libby history that it's easy to imagine the western town in the early 1900's.
"The town grew quickly in the early 1900s, with many new businesses opening. The first cement sidewalks were built, streets were graded, and electric lights and water systems installed. In 1906, a disastrous fire swept through downtown Libby, destroying many of the original business buildings.
The first school house was built in 1892, a small board building, in the same block as Libby Hotel. The first church was the old log Methodist Church in 1897. The first homes were built in the early 1890s with dirt floors and dirt roofs. The first newspaper was the Libby Miner in 1892. Telephone service came to Libby and Troy around 1913."
For some reason I'm guessing this house was built around 1920. It's a good solid house.


1 comment:

  1. You decided to do that, huh! That is neat to see! I remember that when we took all the layers at Tony's building that time.

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