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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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1. MsSage
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2. Clarencen
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3. per
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4. gcreekrch
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5. Soapweed
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6. Lilly
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HighDesert

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I am new here and I know it is too late for the contest but I wanted to show everyone this one. It is a couple miles from the old townsite of Zeniff, Arizona. It is built of local mud bricks. Sorry for being out of focus.
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Faster horses

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Welcome! Glad you found the photo contest--and being
out of focus isn't all bad...sometimes it's a technique!

We'll look for entries from you in the future.

Neat building, thanks for taking the time to post it.
 

per

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That is called The Government House and is in Edmonton. It originally was the residence for the Lieutenant Governor who is the Provincial representative of the Queen. It housed 5 or 6 of them and then in the war was used for a service NGO. It was later commissioned by the the Gov of Alberta to be the official Schmooze place for the Lt. Gov and Premier and Ministers. My Daughter was invited by the Lt. Gov to hear Adam Kreek (Olympic Gold medal rower) give an inspirational talk. I was touring around talking photo's and generally embarrassing her. I thought being as it was a house it might fit the category. It is every bit as impressive on the inside. There is one in Calgary as well, I will take a pic next time I am there. I love those old sandstone buildings.
 

Clarencen

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My entry was a Sears Roebuck Cut and fit house. My parents called it the Overman House, I think it may have been built about 1925. Several families have lived in it during the 1930's 40's and 50's, No one has lived in it for years. It is pretty well established that it was a Sears Home as there was an identical one in Valentine. This model home doesn't seem to have been listed in any of the Sears House Books though, but then not many 3 or 4 room houses were. This one may have been a sales promotion. Sears probably priced this home kit for around $200 FOB from shipping point. Their house kits did not furnish the foundation or plaster, but they furnished wood lathes, paint and varnish, and Fire Chief shingle design roll roofing, that was gauranteed for seventeen years.
 

Clarencen

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Yeh, If I had a lot of money, I would buy it, have it moved onto my property, then restore it. Might even furnish it the way it might have been in the 1930's. A coal or wood range, a small coal burning heater, a davenport or sofa, a kitchen table, with a few chairs. Most all meals were served off the kitchen table then. Some of the kids may have set at the table on cream cans. Might even gather up a load of cow chips for fuel. I don't know if the people who lived there ever burned cow chips, but many did in the depression years. I shouldn't mention it, but might even have a chamber pot, after all there were some people who could afford some conveniences.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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My daughter and her husband have moved in to a 1916 house here on the ranch. It has a good cement foundation with a Acme furnace from Eatons. They are burning wood this winter. We had cut the top story off in the 90's and put a lower pitched roof on and did the whole house up in gray steel. It sat as storage for 30 years until Tam renovated it this summer fixing the wiring and redoing the plumbing including putting in a bathroom. We rented it out to hunters for a couple weeks before the daughter came home needing it.
 

burnt

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Clarencen said:
Yeh, If I had a lot of money, I would buy it, have it moved onto my property, then restore it. Might even furnish it the way it might have been in the 1930's. A coal or wood range, a small coal burning heater, a davenport or sofa, a kitchen table, with a few chairs. Most all meals were served off the kitchen table then. Some of the kids may have set at the table on cream cans. Might even gather up a load of cow chips for fuel. I don't know if the people who lived there ever burned cow chips, but many did in the depression years. I shouldn't mention it, but might even have a chamber pot, after all there were some people who could afford some conveniences.

Yup, some of those richer folk had real chamber pots! :lol2: Funny how things change. Now a new house isn't fully fitted unless it has a bath in almost every bedroom . . .

Clarence, what kind of trees are those growing in front of the house in your picture?
 

Clarencen

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Burnt:

Those trees are Siberian Elms, They were often called Chinese Elm here. A lot of them were planted here in the 1940's and 1950's. While they are resistant to the Dutch Elm desease, grow fairly fast and are somewhat drought resistant they have other problems, so are not so popular anymore. I still give some credit to them though. If it would have not been for the Chinese Elm a lot of people would not have had enough luck and encouragement for planting trees here, and might have quit trying. I should go back and take another picture of that house, it has weathered some since I took that picture.
 
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