Last night while I was waiting up for the J to get home I was rifling through a pile of magazines. The idea of course being to toss the old ones but clearly it also means that I have to take one last glance in them - you know, to make sure I haven't missed anything of importance. And I had! There was a section of historic houses that are for sale, generally for low prices, and one of them was just so adorable I had to go online and look at it in greater detail. It was featured at www.oldhouses.com and I just had a lovely time meandering through that site.
Then I found my house. Well, actually I found 9 or 10 houses that I could absolutely love. And really, I didn't really have time to look at every house on the site so there could be more... BUT this one just stuck with me. It's in New Jersey. I've never considered living there but I'll consider it now.
Here's the house (built in 1731):
In this living room (disregard the laser lemon paint - not sure what's up with that) notice the fireplace. I swoon over such fireplaces. In kitchens they were even bigger, called walk-in fireplaces, and I really love that kind. The kitchen in this house has one but you can't see it well enough from the picture.
This room may possibly be my favorite:
Oh, if walls could talk! I love it!! The site says that this is very near the Delaware where Washington made his escape in 1776 and the men marched right in front of the house. I would stand out front every day and envision that march in my mind. Seriously - it just makes me happy. Now, granted, you'd have to do the research yourself and make sure it's true but I can live on the idea of it for now.
It also sits on 8.4 acres. That would be fun. I love the idea of feeling a little isolated but still being relatively close to civilization.
Sadly, I'm short $1.45 Million for the purchase price. (This is not the house my adventure started with in the magazine and it's not in the 'generally low prices' category either.)
I wonder if they just want me to live there and take care of it? It's about an hour from Philly so I could go to school there (roughly the same commute time as going downtown from here) and I'd be in my history heaven.
If you want to see the rest of the pictures of my house you can see them here. :)
4 comments:
How cool are these!?? It would be so amazing to live in such a beautiful, old home! I'm going to be checking out this site for sure.
OOO! I love it! I also think it would be perfect to live on a few acres so you feel like you have your privacy, but you're also not really in the boonies.
Wouldn't that be so fun! I was on that site this morning and I found several houses that I would be quite happy with! My favorite was an old antebellum one with trees everywhere and gorgeous views, and beautiful everything. Someday.....
Drooling...
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