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Ditto. We've got just one floor...random width pine tongue and groove, face nailed. in the 1870's there weren't a lot of people with the money to blow on both a subfloor and a top floor. It would seem that would be a more modern, 20th century arrangement. Additional layers have been added to ours ov...

It comes with great excitement that I can tell you all, that one of New Jersey's top ten most endangered buildings on Preservation New Jersey's website has been, at long last, saved! The McCloughan Mansion is a fine brick Italianate built in 1860. It was vacant since 2001, and subsequently consumed ...

Hmmm. An interesting question. Let me begin by offering a caveat: anything I am about to say is solely my opinion and only for furthering discussion. That said, by definition renovation, restoration and rehabilitation are three words meaning more or less the same thing. However, the distinction I ca...

I second the use of a standard (low) height over the modern "comfort" height. As ugly as it may sound I believe elimination to be easier on the body in the lower position. I favor round bowls but more for authenticity, although elongated bowls were around back then as well. I have perhaps the best l...

Why, oh why? There are lots of people in this world who just don't "get it". The Ginzo who did this mayhem probably also built the matching beach house on the island my folks lived on in Massachusetts. Lots of little cottages, gray shingled with white siding, and then BLOTTO! Three story McMansion i...

Here in NJ we all got hit pretty hard. Just trying to drive from one town to another is pretty interesting and getting gas? Not likely. Supermarkets are just getting back up running again (told my wife I now know what a Russian Supermarket must feel like...bare shelves everywhere). Fortunately, our ...

Great article. I just wandered around the basement and noticed many components (no longer in use) seen there. An early surface mounted switch, complete with wood "wire grip" molding, and an early porcelain bulb holder (cleat style) rated at 50 candlepower. I shall save all these components to docume...

macwnj, I don't mean to sound defeatist or without vision...just that after 34 years of living in Warren county you learn certain realities. Much of the trouble with Phillipsburg has to do with issues inherent in lower socio-economic areas of which P'burg is a part. Just as an area like Mendham in M...

macwjn, Wow...someone nearby. I know P'burg well, as I live in Hackettstown. Warren county as you know is unfortunately not the best off ... especially when you consider our neighbors like Hunterdon, Morris, and farther, Somerset. I grew up in Mansfield twp. which is a nice rural place, but went to ...