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I just love this . I think I would definitely move from my Arkansas home if I could bring all my family. Starting over would be awesome i I could own this.
I literally begged my late paternal grandparents for stories of growing up in Rainelle and Rupert WVA. They could not comprehend why I wanted to know them completely. I had to write a paper in 8th grade about interviewing a family member. I called my Mamaw and explained that I needed her help for class. I got an A on that paper and wish that I had saved it. Shortly after my Papaw passed in 2000, I started researching their side of my family tree. There are still secrets that I still have not and may never solve, but no I understand why they were not comfortable talking about their childhoods and family.
It's very hard for me being a woman of color to get into a house like this without thinking about the history of a plantation plantations and our people. That's all I can see when I look at a house like this. the beauty of the house is hidden. Because of the horror that may have taken place here so long ago to people of color.
Metal rap on exterior is to cover wooden wall. Wooden wall was built over brick because there was a bow in the wall so they build a wooden wall to hold brick wall up and cover the Wood with metal to protect the life of the wood. 🤔
I am with her on not wanting to leave grandma and grandpa’s house. For me it was my great-grandparents. They were wonderful human beings. Even if I did have to cut my own switch from time to time! I miss them so much. I am 60 and still grieve them.
How wonderful to have a guide who knew the house as a child. I wish for her to have the money to finish fixing it up. It is a gorgeous home. Thanks for the tour!
I just had to do a little bit of googling on why they would wrap a home in tin and the thing that kept coming up was fire protection and preventing the fires from spreading to another part of the building. Beautiful Home and I really enjoyed watching this.
Hmmm. The Stranahan house in Ft. Lauderdale, FL has the blue ceiling on their porches and when touring the house they say that it was painted blue to keep bees or other boreing bugs from ruining the wood. The belief was if it looked the color of the sky they wouldn't bore in to it.
I used to clean a plantation house built in the 1835 time frame. They had two rooms that had exterior doors. These rooms did not have interior access because they were gentlemen callers rooms. A man calling on a young woman if he did not live nearby, needed to stay over and the solution was his own room being part of the family but welcome only when summoned. This same house also had two travelers cabins, think Holliday Inn. They were out front of the house and separate one room dwellings equipped with fireplace. They faced each other across the brick path for buggy arrivals.
yo if this lady need s help iam 5th gen carpentar /roofer .ill restore that place for free....during my vaction time if she needs help ..i love old home shoot old building and like to restore them back to the same as there were built
I grew up on a farm in a family of 5. All 3 of us kids left for jobs- ours & our husbands- and live in different cities. I miss living in the country where we couldn't see any houses from our yards. At least we all still live in Pennsylvania. My father left Centre County for his teaching job & then looked to buy a farm. My folks were only an hour from their parents homesteads. Now my sibs(with their spouses) both have camps back home within an hr or so of our high school. Living in cities taught my teenage children to use busses and subways. They were not stuck in the country with no way to go to town. They were no longer isolated. My son and I are in separate cities, but both dependent on busses to go anywhere beyond what we can walk to. The convenience of having all you need close without the expense of owning & keeping a vehicle. The main employers of our county, coal mining, fell by the wayside while I was in school. Many people were unemployed or travelling long commutes to work. My siblings make more $ at their jobs than if they had those jobs back home. Higher pay in or outside cities. They have their camps to go to if they want a break or to hunt or to visit.
Gosh i could listen to theses stories all day long.. now these people telling the stories.. cant be much older then me.. im 58... but the memories they have, i wish i would have been raised in more of a country setting..we didnt live in the city.. but we didnt live in the country either.. but awesome memories... now my kids are raised in the country, and its the best way <in my opinion> to raise kids.. let them figure the land out.. fish.. build forts.. which they did all of these... so even tho I never lived in the country.. my kids did.. and I am thankful for that!
3:00 it was burned down because they didn't want to leave no evidence of what was already here that's what the Civil War was about it wasn't about no slavery it was about getting rid of evidence
Beautiful home! I lived in an historic home and while I loved the historic charm, the house had it's problems. It was always damp ( I see she has damp rid in lots of those windows ) and brick draws water which travels up those chimneys and turns them to powder. The house clearly needs a lot of work and constant upkeep, I hope their historical society buys it and saves it.
Appears the brick and mortar might have started to deteriorate at some point--water maybe? That tin was much less expensive and labor to install was less expensive than repairing/replacing the brick. Think back the 70's with aluminum siding covering wood/fiber sided homes.
If we could only get more of our elderly people to speak up about their memories. Now with the ability to do video interviews it leaves no guessing about what they said about their past experiences and lives.
You mentioned why the exterior doors on a couple of rooms. I remodeled a home where almost every room, including the bedrooms, had a door that led to the exterior. Understand the original building only had three rooms (laid out in a rectangle)--Kitchen in the middle, bedroom on one side of the kitchen, living/dining area on the other side. Two more bedrooms and bath were built on the house some time in the '40's by the original owners. Only the bathroom did not have door leading outside. The house was heated with wood/coal stove in the living/dining area. From what the original owners said, they feared a house fire so all rooms needed a form of outside egress.
It would’ve been wonderful if she had invested in bringing this store back to life. Imagine your great grandchildren being able to visit a place that helped shape your future. It looks like it’s in desperate need of some work before it rots away…. 😔…
This is a dream come true for a lot of families….. What a way to keep the family together but in such a large home with lots of space. Affordability is the only thing keeping some people away. 😂 These older homes need to be banned from destruction.
Beautiful place! MAYBE the tin wrapped around only the kitchen had something to do with the heat in the kitchen. Perhaps?? Don't know what, but I'm curious now too!
