[Hiddigeigei]

Sounds like the house I grew up in. It was built in the 1880s. It may have been some sort of kit house or standard design (Queen Ann Cottage), but it was quite large.

[jmacusa]

The house I grew up in was built sometime in the mid to late 1870’s. It had shingles on the outside, a large wrap around “L’’ shaped porch, large double front doors with a transom at the top. Inside it had wainscoting all around on the first floor. It had stained glass windows, pocket doors that could separate the living room and dining room and a large, wood and coal burning, four burner iron stove in the kitchen.

In remodeling the house, unfortunately, my late father took out the stove, the wainscoting, he took out just about everything including the L shaped porch and the iron stove, the double front doors(he left the pocket doors). The house also had marble ''dry sinks'' in the bedrooms. He took those out. Oddly, when he renovated the house he found there where no ''fire stops'' in the walls! He put those in, thank God.