LOL. You’re right. I’m not THAT old! Perhaps it was my great-grandparents...and, yes, I would love to know the true history, but I don’t think I have the energy to delve that deeply into my family history (too many of the old ones are gone, too)...not to mention the other rumor of grandpa’s mob connections!
If I can ever find out the address or if I could jog my memory to even remember the street name, I might be able to go from there — I wouldn’t even be able to take a stab at when those 2 homes were built. Ah, well.
BTW, I want that wood/rod iron banister from the home on Strathcona!!!!!!
Yeah, that banister is wonderful.
If you look through the ‘similar homes’ links to the right you can see other really neat old homes too. Although in one some heathen appears to have painted gorgeous ornate plaster work AND the pressed tin ceiling. Lime Green. And the walls a nice shade of grape.
Crimes against architecture I say.