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1890 for mine. 135 year old house.

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[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume I own a house

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Me too, thanks.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

1995 - the peak of civilization

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Our US one when we lived there: 1960s

Our Danish one now: 17... 50s? 60s? It's hard to know

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

some of you have ghosts in your houses

[-] lambipapp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

My house was built as a summer cabin 1935. Then someone added a 2nd floor on top of it 1970. It then got winter isolated (for year round living) in 2006.

In sweden, so it can be pretty cold here

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

1890 here as well. I love it, it's nestled in the woods and built into the hillside so these massive retaining walls surround the first story. With all the trees and shade and basically being underground, this makes the first floor naturally cool. I've gone whole summers without AC. What's also interesting is there's a door on the second floor landing that goes right out into the hillside. There's like a 2 foot wide platform and then the hill. Not much up there other than a steep overgrown mountain though.

Another thing I love is being able to see the river from my front stoop. I'm still in city limits of Pittsburgh though, so I can easily walk or bike down to more of the city type stuff. Or I can bop across a bridge to a couple other towns.

I'll definitely spend my life here, as I'm slowly remodeling the place. But of course, a house this old comes with its own slew of problems. I try to tackle as much as I can myself tho.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Somewhere between 1925 and 1932 depending on which paper you want to read.

The other house built in 1992

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The one I live in now was built in the 1940s and expanded in the 2000s. The one my parents own that I grew up in partially was built in 1844.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

Unclear, but somewhere between 1865 and 1875, which makes it right around half the age of my parents' house

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My apartment building turns 100 this year.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago
  1. Not particularly old by European standards, but one slightly unusual feature is that it still has its original roof.
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

929?! Holy. Congrats

Is it in good shape?

Any pictures you would care to share?

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Does it not display the initial 1 for you? I noticed the post has some weird formatting, I think the lemmy UI thinks it's a list item or something.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It did say 929

Now it looks like this

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh, I think I know what's going on. It's interpreting the number with a period on the end as a numbered/ordered list. Putting a space before the dot should fix it.

  1. This is an ordered list.

And fixed:

321 . And this is not.

Still weird that the number's sticking off to the side and getting cut off. Probably depends what client you're using. In Lemmy-UI, it's not cut off, but the number is further left than it would otherwise be. Jerboa looks fine, but it's clearer on Jerboa that it's interpreting it as an ordered list.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

On voyager it’s cut off bad. Missing 1.5 letters

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good thought

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

fistbump

Amazingly, we're only the second owners. Ours was comissioned and built by a Greek family. It's gloriously so.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure my family was only the second owners of my house as well. All I know about the builder of my house is:

  • The same guy was responsible for building basically all the houses on my street.
  • He didn't survey very carefully. All the property lines are off by like two feet. Lol. It's caused me some heartache with the neighbors to my south with property disputes. (Well, to be fair, the neighbors to my south would have caused the property dispute had the property lines not been off.)
[-] un_aristocrate@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

1880, right after the Great Fire

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

We just celebrated 28 years of this development, so 1997. We live here since 2002.

[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

since i moved back with my parents, my house was built in 1993. before that i was living in an apartment that was built in 2021.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

1910!

I bought it in 2022. It's tiny but mine lol

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

1992 - and it has all of the luxuries that 1992 had to offer in a house (oak everything! almost no right corners! shiny brass fixtures!)

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

the house i grew up in was built in 1800 (it was a duplex) and honestly it was the creepiest house i ever lived in. it had the old style stone cellars and wooden steps and i always used to have to put a chair in front of the cellar door cause whenever i tried to close it i honest to god felt a force making it hard to shut. and i'm absolutely certain that i woke up in the middle of the night and looked down the stairs and saw two people in period clothes just standing there and it's far too real to have been a dream.

i lived in this town so mostly all of the houses were built for the mill by the family who owned it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitinsville,_Massachusetts

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah lots of houses super old around here, especially at the old mills area. My buddy lives in Uxbridge near one of the lakes, funny enough I'm a few towns away. Small world, Lemmy.

[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Eladriagon 3 points 2 weeks ago

Somewhere around 1998-1999. Which means right now we’re going through replacing everything (roof, siding, HVAC, god knows what else). It’s fun!

[-] thicksliceham@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mine's the same age and it's almost unbelievable how almost everything needs replaced at 30 years. Roof, furnace, well pump have been done, a long with some faucets and other small things. I'm terrified the fridge, stove, and washer and dryer are next. Can't afford much more!

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  1. I was also born 1985.
[-] lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

House I used to own was built in 1958, but the house I'm currently renting an apartment in was built in 1890. The apartment itself was added in 2020, and I'm it's first tenant.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. It's got old-school marble and stone work. Classy AF.
[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

2020 is when it was finished :3

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

2021 from a small local home builder. Much better quality (even for a COVID build) than the Oakwood garbage that’s in the rest of the neighborhood and much better insulated than an older home.

[-] rodsthencones@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Built by the owner of a greenhouse in a suburb of the city where you could prohibit the sale of land to blacks. They ended up buying 2 more lots and building two more houses. USA, Michigan. Sadly, the title still states that the property cannot be sold to a black or mixed race. Its no longer legal, but the title says it. Other than that, its built well. Almost all the stuff done to the house after the 70s is garbage. Ie. Vinyl siding, replacement windows, counters, plumbing.

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