Dating Greek Revival

AlHunt · Post by **AlHunt** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:34 pm

Hi folks,

Well, I've read all over this forum and the net looking for help trying to determine when my house was built and I still need help.

County Records seem to peter out in the early part of the 1900's.

We have what appears to be a greek revival and the local historical society guy figures it was built mid-1800's or so.

A picture of the front can be seen here:
http://www.townofguilford.com

Interior and exterior links aren't working yet, but this is a pretty good shot of the front. The things that seem like the best clues to me are:

1) Plaster walls with wooden corner beads - this mimics a house in town dated to 1830 or so. Lath is sawed.

2) Windows are wavy, those that haven't been replaced

3) Most windows are 2 over 2.

4) windows have the little spring loaded catch to hold them up - no weights

5) House was plumbed and had electric installed *well* after it was built

6) Floor beams and joists are sawed with look like circular marks

The house has a barn built with pegged post and beam construction. The attic roof actually runs out over the barn roof and you can see the old wooden shingles of the barn roof - apparently the barn pre-dates the house, or at least part of the house.

Any thoughts would be appreciated ...

Al

bookish · Post by **bookish** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:58 pm

No picture.............

AlHunt · Post by **AlHunt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:59 am

bookish wrote:No picture.............

Did you click the link, http://www.townofguilford.com ?

I just hit it again and it came up ok for me ...

I can drop it into a post but I'll need to lower the resolution.

Al

airgrabber · Post by **airgrabber** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:57 am

I clicked the link, and didn't see a picture either.

bookish · Post by **bookish** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:00 am

I can click on all kinds of things....
except.......

Click Image Below For More Information

can't click....no image
Greek revival was the most popular building style in Maine for at least 100 years.

Don M · Post by **Don M** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:11 pm

Hi Al,
From your description your house may be a turn of the century Greek Revival 1900 or later. I agree that your barn appears older, again from your description. I can't see your picture either; the web page comes up without it. If you can drop your photos into Photobucket and follow the directions at the top of the General Issues section we should be able to see them and perhaps give you a better idea of age! Don

rrobinson720 · Post by **rrobinson720** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:17 pm

Is this it?

AlHunt · Post by **AlHunt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:01 pm

rrobinson720 wrote:Is this it?

It certainly is. Silly me ... I never looked at the site in IE, which for some reason is not loading that image.

While I go figure that one out, I'll go follow the advice in another post about dropping the photos into some kind of photobucket gizmo ... (I have several on which I dropped the resolution)

Thanks for grabbing it.

Al

AlHunt · Post by **AlHunt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:04 pm

bookish wrote:I can click on all kinds of things....
except.......
Click Image Below For More Information
can't click....no image

Sorry - the site is a work in progress (I intend to make the front image clickable), but IE isn't getting the front image for some reason. It's there, I promise ...

Al

rrobinson720 · Post by **rrobinson720** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:41 pm

AlHunt wrote:
rrobinson720 wrote:Is this it?
It certainly is. Silly me ... I never looked at the site in IE, which for some reason is not loading that image.

It's because IE is for the birds.