If you love old houses you might like....

For folks who are as enraptured as I am with houses as I am, here is a place to archive house related content. I'll add to this as I get more suggestions and discover more content with houses as a main character!

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The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House by Sarah Messer

Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.

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This American Life: House on Loon Lake

The true story of an abandoned house, discovered by a young boy in the 1970's and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.

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Grey Gardens (1975)

Meet a mother and daughter, high society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. Big and Little Edie are the mavins of eccentricity.

Grey Gardens (2009)

Jessica Lange and Drew Berrymore star as Big and Little Eddie. This dramatic version is a wonderful compliment to the original documentary. The house, Grey Gardens, is a main character which is depicted in full 1930/1940's glory and then ages to a ramshackle, condemned condition.

Locke & Key (2020-2022)

An easy watch, the magic of Locke & Key takes place in the walls of Keyhouse Manner. A fantasy drama begins when Nina Locke moves her three children into the home, which has been in late husband Rendall's family for generations. Once there, the Locke kids discover special keys hideen throughout various nooks and crannies in the house that allow them unlock supernatural abilities that lead to fun and danger.

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Emma Adeline "Addie" Perryman

The Renaissance Neighborhood History project originally set out to learn about the homes built here. We have a range of classic bungalows, adorable gingerbread brick cottages and some magnificent Tudors and four squares. However, a long the way I found that our neighborhood was the original land allotment two Muscogee woman. Sisters. I then set out to learn as much as I could about both of them. One question I had was, did they live on their land? If so where? This post is about one of them. Her name is Addie Perryman. Her land made up the West side our neighborhood. You can read about her sister, Mary Jane, here . Addie Perryman About 1899, Age 14 In my search to learn about Addie and her land I discovered bits and pieces about her life. Newspaper articles, documents tucked into property abstracts and a few surviving court records tell of tragedies, trauma and trials. Trials as in ordeals but also literal coverage of trials! The newspaper clippings share more than

East Dial Building

East Dial Building Telephone technology has evolved exponentially such that, chances are, you may even be reading this on your phone. A concept that would have been inconceivable for those living and working in 1929 when Southwestern Bell Telephone Company designed and built the East Dial Building in what we now call the Renaissance Neighborhood. The elegant two-story building at 1204 S. Harvard Avenue features buff brick with ivory terracotta trim. T he double front doors facing Harvard on the south end of the building are flanked by large lighted sconces and a large ornate awning above. The motif lining the awning is of small robed human figures, hands connected, heads tilting down as if gazing on those who pass below. Above the awning the ornate terracotta decoration continues consisting of more human figures, scrollwork, flowers, and a pair of shield wielding lions. These are all classic art deco designs which are true to the period of the building. East Dial Bui

One Family- One House- One Hundred Years

Part I: Rosemont Heights Rosemont Heights was one of the earliest divisions or ‘additions’ of land that was graded, platted with lots for sale in what is now as the Renaissance Neighborhood. It was platted in 1911. Originally Muscogee Creek land, it was allotted to Mary Jane Perryman in the early 1900's. Mary Jane would have been about 17 years old in 1911. She had married young and by 1911 she and her first husband, John Robert Harkness, already had three children. It would be very interesting to know how much she was paid for the property when purchased by a Mr. John P. Given. According to her niece, Wavel Ashbaugh, interviewed in 2015 by Voices of Oklahoma, Native people were often taken advantage of with complex land contracts and white settlers"...didn't pay very much for it...". The present-day boundaries of Rosemont Heights are Delaware Avenue to South Florence Avenue and Thirteenth Street to Fifteenth Street. Note: The original plats

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