Here's the building. I got to paint the top of the tower. Fun.
BTW, it's supposed to be haunted.
Posted on 02/17/2009 8:04:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
A man who's renovating a 120-year-old house has discovered a hidden room in its basement — a find he said shows that some old buildings definitely hold secrets. A friend of Carl Thoms was working recently on plumbing in the 1890 home's basement when he noticed that he could see around those pipes into a hidden room covered in tiles.
He also spotted a staircase — a discovery that led Thoms to a bedroom off of the home's kitchen, where he pried up some floorboards and accessed those stairs.
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Ahahah you mean Geraldo, “We are here in Afghanistan OHMIGOD RAT-TAT-TAT” Riviera?
:-)
Whenever I’m renovation any rooms, I’m always on the lookout for cool stuff. Best thing I found was a vial of white powder (cocaine?) in one room stuck in a door jamb.
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The renovators love this kind of stuff. They get on tv
Could be a underground railroad waystation or even a place where they kept the crazy uncle.
Here's the building. I got to paint the top of the tower. Fun.
BTW, it's supposed to be haunted.
They probably use the basement as living space. So the house would be more like 1600 sqft of living space. That’s what a lot of folks around here do.
Prior to our remodel, our house was about 900 square feet with one bathroom. Our neighbors - in an identical house - raised 4 kids in theirs.
We don't know how they did it but it wasn't uncommon 30 years ago. We had to double the size of this place so we wouldn't drive each other crazy - with just two people and two cats!
You just never know what you may find in a hidden room...
“2. Best of luck to him, but I can not imagine 2 adults and four children living in 866 square feet.”
Surely they left off a 1 at the beginning of that number. We recently moved. Our last house was a stand alone house, but only 930 SF. It was “cozy” when it was just 2 adults, a little girl and a cat. When we moved, it was miserably small...2 adults, a little girl, a cat...a baby and a 65 lb golden retriever. plus the golden’s tail! Now we have a 2200SF townhouse, which feels like a palace (mostly because we just don’t have enough furniture).
Now, back to the article, after living in a teeny house, I can say that there isn’t really room to have more than 2 bedrooms...that’s a lot of kids sharing a room. Hope they get along!
It’s NOT me, OK? My house is under renovation, but it’s much newer and has no secret rooms. Oh, and Terre Haute is 100 miles north of me.
too bad, that woulda been cool if it was you~!
The spouse’s dream house has a secret room/library, behind a revolving bookcase.
Jimmy Hoffa’s crypt.
Might have been a coal bin (???)
i am a girl who likes boys, so no, not interested in finding that!
My basement has a smaller footprint than the floors above it -- it depends on the terrain and how deep the foundation needs to be across the board. I've also seen houses in the are where a portion of the basement was crawl space (at best) due to the way it was built into the hill; it wouldn't be too hard to have "hidden" a room in an area that looks like it's crawl space only.
Wasn’t this part of The Amityville Horror?
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