Posted June 5, 200916 yr I'm curious to see how the age of UO members' housing compares to the national average. That number is only 33 years (2005)! It is rising, though, for it was between 23-27 years between 1940 and 1990. Source for numbers: http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/markettrends/20050322-ford.html
June 5, 200916 yr I'd be curious to know the Ohio average. I gotta think it is older than 33 years. Just think where all of the building has been going on the last 10 years (CA, FL, AZ). All of that building will definitely bring the national average down.
June 5, 200916 yr Mine was built in the early 20's I believe. Lots of Islamic details which were popular in the Detroit area during this time.
June 6, 200916 yr Apparently sometime between 1858-1860. The land first sold as an individual parcel in 1858 for $12, and again in 1860 for $200, and an early illustrated map of the area shows some sort of structure that appears to be in this location. An 1880 illustrated birdseye view of the city clearly shows it. From the time it was built into the 1940s, it appears to have had some sort of addition or major remodeling every 10-20 years. When I rehabbed it in the 1980s I gutted it to a shell. It was fairly easy to identify the ages of the different parts from the materials and types of construction. Some of the work, probably during the great depression, was done with salvaged materials.
June 6, 200916 yr ^ That's really interesting to discover that stuff. Especially when so many additions were put on. You'll find exterior walls on the inside with siding still attached. One of things I thought was cool was a major office building renovation occurring in Detroit. The building was already badly damaged with a ton of concrete exposed. Graffiti was plastered over much of the interior. When renovations happened, they just framed over it. That means decades down the road, workers will reveal graffiti that may actually carry some cultural importance.
June 6, 200916 yr We're not 100% sure, but we've got a guesstimate of 1890-1900. There was a fire in 1920 in Columbus the destroyed a bunch of development/property records. So according to the Franklin County auditor our house is listed as either "Pre-1920" or "OLD". ;) But judging by some of the other records that exist (for our house and some of the other houses on our street) it looks to have been built sometime in that range. I need to do more digging and see if I can narrow it down further. :D
June 6, 200916 yr ^ That's really interesting to discover that stuff. Especially when so many additions were put on. You'll find exterior walls on the inside with siding still attached. One of things I thought was cool was a major office building renovation occurring in Detroit. The building was already badly damaged with a ton of concrete exposed. Graffiti was plastered over much of the interior. When renovations happened, they just framed over it. That means decades down the road, workers will reveal graffiti that may actually carry some cultural importance. I found a few odds and ends: old heat registers shimmed into place with 1905 newspapers, indicating when the house first got central heat; a suit coat inside the wall with a tailor's tag bearing the name of a former owner of the house, obviously a very small fellow; a wall papered with pages from a flower-seed catalog dated 1889 and later covered over; a small oil can inside a wall that was replaced during a kitchen remodeling in the 1940s (some workman probably looked all over for it); dates written on plaster under many layers of wallpaper, 1914 in one room and 1937 in another. There was more, and I put back what I could and left undisturbed what I could. I added my own odds and ends, newspapers, notes with a date, my signature, and the signatures of people who helped me unload trucks and hang drywall. Before I rehabbed this place I rented it out. Almost every person who lived here reported some kind of encounter with/awareness of a presence in the house. While I was working on it and for a while after I moved in, I experienced some disconcerting phenomena. Things seem to have reached a state of equilibrium now.
June 6, 200916 yr The wife of the original owner of my house supposedly was very ill, and did away with herself in the bedroom closet. When I was remodeling the kitchen, I tore out some old cabinets, and found a "HELLO, MY NAME IS____________", name tag with her name on it! Haven't heard from her since!
June 6, 200916 yr Around 1933 according to the auditor's website. It's unusual to live in something built during the depression, but this building is a piece of crap. It and its group of identical neighbors likely replaced some 1890's row homes similar to the ones that still stand on adjacent blocks.
June 6, 200916 yr 1900. i talked to the landlord once and as far as is known it is the fifth structure on the site.
June 7, 200916 yr 1913. Pretty much every building on my block is about the same age due to the 1906 quake.
June 8, 200916 yr 1874 or 1875. Half a double in an old Dayton neighborhood I rent with two friend. I wonder if it was originally a double. It's one of the biggest and oldest on the street. There is another old double caddy-corner, but that seems like it was definitely built as a double. I'll have to ask the owner next time he comes over.
June 10, 200916 yr I guess if I don't get a new job anytime soon, I'll be moving home to my parents house which was built in 1987.
June 12, 200916 yr 1922 i love that most of the original work is there, the only issue is trying to find wood to match up with the original 2x4 and 2x6
June 12, 200916 yr Well, this is basically what I expected, except even older. I didn't think there were going to be so many 1800s structures, considering how "new" Ohio is compared to say, Pennsylvania. I guess that I'm not surprised that 1931-1960 isn't popular since not much got built during the Depression and WWII. My dwelling was built in 1921.
June 13, 200916 yr Well, this is basically what I expected, except even older. I didn't think there were going to be so many 1800s structures, considering how "new" Ohio is compared to say, Pennsylvania. I guess that I'm not surprised that 1931-1960 isn't popular since not much got built during the Depression and WWII. My dwelling was built in 1921. I should take more notice of that next time I'm in Ohio. So many parts of Michigan cities exploded during that time. If you were to demolish every unoccupied structure in the city of Detroit, I'd believe the majority of homeowners would live in the 1930-1960 structure range.
June 15, 200915 yr Well, this is basically what I expected, except even older. I didn't think there were going to be so many 1800s structures, considering how "new" Ohio is compared to say, Pennsylvania. I guess that I'm not surprised that 1931-1960 isn't popular since not much got built during the Depression and WWII. My dwelling was built in 1921. I should take more notice of that next time I'm in Ohio. So many parts of Michigan cities exploded during that time. If you were to demolish every unoccupied structure in the city of Detroit, I'd believe the majority of homeowners would live in the 1930-1960 structure range. From what I've seen, it looks like Ohio really did a lot of building in that time frame as well, however most of the building was going on in the suburbs (which don't get so much representation on UO.)
June 15, 200915 yr The suburban boom was mostly in the 1950s and surely included Ohio (around Cleveland think Wickliffe, Willowick, Mayfield Heights, Parma, Garfield Heights, etc.).
June 15, 200915 yr 1967 -- the same year I was built. We're both holding up pretty well. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 24, 200915 yr 1967 -- the same year I was built. We're both holding up pretty well. Isn't it interesting to think about that? Like, the building I live in is as old as my grandmother. To think of all the people that lived here, and what my apartment looked like back in the 20's. The original phone is still mounted to the wall, but of course doesn't work lol.
July 3, 200915 yr I didn't think there were going to be so many 1800s structures, considering how "new" Ohio is compared to say, Pennsylvania. Ohio as a state dates back to 1803. But take Cincinnati for example. Cincinnati was founded in 1788. So Ohio is probably not as "new" as you would expect. The big boom in Cincinnati was the 1870s-1920s. I think this is probably when you will find most of the housing stock in the city is from. It's important to note that this is also the time period when the first "Inner Ring" suburbs where being build which are in the city proper (ie. Price Hill, Walnut Hills, etc...). Awesome, sexy stuff...I would think Cleveland was probably having a similar boom period at that time.
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