After years of living with a fairly primitive kitchen, we are finally on the road to a remodel! Yeah!!
Don't get me wrong, I did have running water, a fridge and range, lol. It's just that my vintage ranch house did not have any modern amenities. And the cabinets were old, old! They had been painted over many times, the latest being my hunter green.
Our house sat on Hiway 30 South of St. Helens and was built in the 50's. Oregon Dept. of Transportation wanted to put a weigh station in where my house sat, so they purchased the propery and offered the houses for free for anyone who was willing to move them.
A man named Bob Harris moved our house. Local knowledge says that he was known for his hairbrained schemes. Bob decided he waanted to move the house to his 5 acres of pristine property in the Goble Hills outside of Rainier, Or.
So he cut the house in half and barged it down the Columbia River to the Port of Longview, wehre he put the halves onto a flat bed trailer.
The houses was then hauled up a tiny one-lane twisty turvy country road . There is was reassembled onto the lot where it stands to this day. Even the fireplace and outside brickwork was reassembled.
You cannot tell that the house was devided except in the hallway, where the hardwood floor meets the wall, it is slightly discolored.
1 comment:
Patti, that is so cool that your house has a story and that you know it.
My house was built in 1842 and after 6 years, I am still doing research on it's past (although hubby is convinced it was a bordello???).
Can't wait to see the remodel!
Jan
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