In the spirit of renewing our house with our much-anticipated floor refinishing later this week, here is a photo of the Bangor Foursquare at 10 years old. We received this photo from the Bangor Historical Society, which was part of their 1930's assessors' collection. As you can tell, the house seems to have been originally something other than just white - perhaps blue or gray (I often dream about getting the house repainted so this may offer some inspiration). The hand-railing on the front stairs seems to have been added later but our near-falling-down garage in the back seems to have been there for quite some time. However, other than the trellises on the right side of the house, everything else seems to be as it is now, almost 80 years later (including the asbestos-tiled roof that we still have and is still in excellent shape -- eat your heart out).I'll take some before pictures of the upstairs floors this week after we move all the furniture out. Don Dickel Floors (the great people who refinished our beautiful floors downstairs) is coming on Thursday morning before we leave for Disneyworld so all of it has to be moved elsewhere...fun, fun, fun.
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Comparing the two photos, what's that running across on the left side of your house, about half way up the porch?
I think that's just the house across the street - before the tree was there, I suppose.
Thanks, but I meant in the current photo, the small one at the left side top of your blog, there is some part of the porch that is a horizontal thing?
Karen Anne,
I think you're referring to the fact that the porch is screened-in, which is also an "addition" to the house since the 1930 version picture. The screen is "framed" - which is probably what you're referring to.
Sincerely,
Mr. Foursquare
I am so jealous - we looked at every photo collection and historical society in town & there are no photos of our house back in the day. Lucky! Good luck with the floors...
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