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Originally Posted by cromag
Ours was built in 1963, but it's a classic split level colonial, and a very common design in this area. The development was built on an orchard-and-what-have-you plot that was subdivided. The original home dates to the mid 1700s and is listed as an historical building. It looks very similar to the "newer" homes.
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Yup. Ours (obviously) started life as one-room'er, with a root cellar daylighted below (for those that don't know the term, that means that one side or more of a building is built into the side of a hill. The natural terrain slopes away, so that the opposing side is at
ground level, on the opposite side of the
front of the house. This is fungible, hence all my italics.) Then it was added onto..to the left, plus more root cellar. Then ditto to the right. Then a 2nd-3rd (depending upon how you look at it) was added above. Ooops, then it had another addition to the right, two floors. Sprawl!
Under the plaster in the main foyer (the original house)--yes, real plaster walls, mind you--was the original brick. The wood floors had original boards. Place was, like yours, on an apple orchard, but fortunately, it wasn't subdivided. Lovely old place. Hell on maintenance, though!
:-)