No cheating.
No cheating.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
Late 1930's... 1939?
I was leery of a possible trick, but after looking at the image, I would guess this is an actual structure from about 1922. I guess that because the window muntins are not sandwiched like cheap modern windows, the box gutters, which no one uses today, and the narrow wood weatherboards.
This is the point where RJ chuckles and announces it was built last year ...
I have seen
old ships sailing
like swans asleep
1911.
Early 1920s.
I will guess 1923.
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
1918, porch obviously enclosed at a later date.
"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon." ~Peter Lynch
The architectural style is so generic and simple that it could have been built any time between 1870s and 1930s.
But there are a few clues for dating the house.
1. The windows are the common Victorian two panes above two panes where the mullions forms a cross.The upstairs windows are obviously noticeable but I squinted through the screen porch and noticed that the downstairs windows are also of the two panes above two panes.
That indicates the house was built no later than WWI. By the late teens other window styles were fashionable and the old two over two was considered old fashioned. A house of this type built after 1910 would have had the six pane above one pane window, and by the mid-twenties that gave way to the now common six above six "georgian" window that's prevalent to this day.
2. Squinting through the screen porch once more it looks like there's a front door that has the common Victorian narrow side windows on both side of the door (possibly even above it as well). I forget the term but it's not a fanlight although similar. That's another clue which pushes the house's date earlier into the 19th century.
But I'm inclined to think that it's a new build in an "old" style. Why? The location of the house is somewhere in Florida or the coastal deep south. Damp. Humid. Moisty ground. Most older houses of some substance would have sat higher off the ground (no basement, mind you) to prevent the damp from rising into the house. The house in the picture sits too snugly into the ground and looks like it has a solid foundation. So, a new house?
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