1890 for mine. 135 year old house.
1890 here as well. I love it, it’s nestled in the woods and built into the hillside so these massive retaining walls surround the first story. With all the trees and shade and basically being underground, this makes the first floor naturally cool. I’ve gone whole summers without AC. What’s also interesting is there’s a door on the second floor landing that goes right out into the hillside. There’s like a 2 foot wide platform and then the hill. Not much up there other than a steep overgrown mountain though.
Another thing I love is being able to see the river from my front stoop. I’m still in city limits of Pittsburgh though, so I can easily walk or bike down to more of the city type stuff. Or I can bop across a bridge to a couple other towns.
I’ll definitely spend my life here, as I’m slowly remodeling the place. But of course, a house this old comes with its own slew of problems. I try to tackle as much as I can myself tho.
- It’s got old-school marble and stone work. Classy AF.
1861 it’s sweet except for when it’s not
When is it not sweet?
1995 - the peak of civilization
Bold of you to assume I own a house
Me too, thanks.
In the 1940s or 50s. My family has owned it since the 60s.
2024
New building code for rentals stipulates one room must be capable of cooling to 26c or lower. This building was built to that code.
So we have AC. It’s fantastic.
Unclear, but somewhere between 1865 and 1875, which makes it right around half the age of my parents’ house
My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.
2015
House I used to own was built in 1958, but the house I’m currently renting an apartment in was built in 1890. The apartment itself was added in 2020, and I’m it’s first tenant.
1910!
I bought it in 2022. It’s tiny but mine lol
Our US one when we lived there: 1960s
Our Danish one now: 17… 50s? 60s? It’s hard to know
Before - 1932, now 1995.
some of you have ghosts in your houses
1962
fistbump
Amazingly, we’re only the second owners. Ours was comissioned and built by a Greek family. It’s gloriously so.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure my family was only the second owners of my house as well. All I know about the builder of my house is:
- The same guy was responsible for building basically all the houses on my street.
- He didn’t survey very carefully. All the property lines are off by like two feet. Lol. It’s caused me some heartache with the neighbors to my south with property disputes. (Well, to be fair, the neighbors to my south would have caused the property dispute had the property lines not been off.)
