The Historic District

What a great stove. I will take a vintage stove over a "modern" one any day. My 1920's Tappan has served me well for over 25 years and will be functioning long after I'm gone. The most I have to do is to clean and regrease the valves every couple years. Using a "flint torch sparker&qu...

I removed the cement shingles from my old house in Western New York. It was a job that stretched out for too many years from the late 1970's and pretty much through the 1980's. The shingle removal was pretty straight forward in starting from the bottom and working up. Most of the shingles were remov...

Finally got to work and reformatted my pictures so they will show for this reworking of an old post. I use Google Images now to save and edit my photos since my old Kodak programme no longer works with Windows 10. Photobucket is no longer needed to host photos. Google photos can be used for 3rd part...

I did entries how I cut new window pockets & doors a few years back. https://thehistoricdistrict.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=324&start=10 Unfortunately photobucket has blocked my photos. I'll dig them up in my files and reformat them to show here on another entry....

Fishing the new wires through the tubing can be frustrating. The easiest way is to use a bead chain to pull the wires through. I have found the most flexible wire to use is the rubber/fabric coated reproduction wiring. For this light I simply used the wire from the reproduction rayon coated lamp cor...

First off Welcome to Alabama... I've been a Damn Yankee in the state for nearly 20 years now. It was best move I ever made. I just snapped this picture of my screen door to give an idea of one kind of installataion. I reused a set of old fancy cast iron hinges and just surface mounted them on the do...

It seems Photobucket changed it's terms of service recently in regards to 3rd party hosting. On my journal blog I discovered I had used the "direct link" for all my pictures which has locked them. Using the "html" link still allows them to post. (For now) *EDIT* I just checked my...

My circa 1870's stick style house in Western New York State had two front doors. One went to the center room of the house which I was told was called the "common parlor". The other door went to the front room that faced the street. I was told was called the "Formal parlor". When ...

That style bulb was very popular in the 1970's. They went with the heavy dark pine and plaid furniture of the day not to mention the lamps of heavy metal with red shades. The flame bulbs of the 1930's and 1940's had matte colourings usually in a white, yellow, or pale orange...

As I understand the fancy design salt glazed bricks were first produced for use in slaughter houses where a durable, waterproof, and easily sanitized flooring surface was required. To expand this market, these bricks were promoted for use as sidewalks. The history of the different brick factories th...