Closing Date: November 29th...

Counting down the days!

Closing, Schmozing....

So, we continue to hope that all goes well and we close right after Thanksgiving.  We are so close!  Who knew that buying a house could be so complicated!  Hopefully our next post is a picture of us holding a sale sign!!!

This house has seen a lot of families...

Searching around for titles that go back further than the mid 1900's is tough--but here is what we know so far about the families that have enjoyed this house:

• 1790 (approximately)--JAMES LOWELL built house
• We are still working on who had it next...
• Early 1900's?--Henry A. Miles buys our property and also land across the street
• Henry A. Miles owned it and also ran the general store across the street

  

  This is the safe that sits in the basement.  It was used to hold earnings from the general store.

• 1940--Henry A. Miles sold the house and store to Albert B. Locke
• 1967--Albert & Lilla Locke put the house in both of their names
• 1968--Albert B. Locke died, leaving the house in Lilla's name
• 1975--Lilla Locke sells/gives the property to Fred and Ada Locke



Fred Lock, WWII



Albert and Lilla

• ???Heidi and Justin Cook bought the house from their children--(the Locke estate) We'll see!

  

  I'm sure it was no accident that the Locke plot looks right at the house (see it in the
  

  

  Fred and Ada, we believe, were the last people to live there.

  middle of the photo)

Inside

There are two very different portions of the house. The 1790 portion is where you'll see peeling wallpaper and tiny doorways--this has been unused for a very very long time and will be the location of some new, exciting remodel plans someday.

Read more about this portion of the house in the post about the house's history. The front, more "modern" portion of the house is updated and has been lived in, year-round, recently. In this 4 minute video, I start in the old part of the house (note the 1924 lining under the and walk through the little doors and odd layout, and then move into the newer portion with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths and lots more. Enjoy!

Some good pictures of the inside can be seen here... at least until this listing gets taken down.  (Hey!  Shouldn't it be down already!?!)

Click Here to see the inside pics

Location

Where is the farm located?

Keeping An Eye Out!

The West Baldwin Cemetery is right next to the farm.  Here lie some of the folks who will keep a watchful (I like to think, protective--not creepy) eye on the place!

James Lowell--He built the house in 1790.

The old portion of the house

 So...before you get worried...  this is the older portion of the house that hasn't been used in many many years.  Thus, the peeling (okay, that's an understatement) wallpaper from the 1900's.

This portion of the house has 4 odd bedrooms that were used as boarding rooms when the railroad ran just below the edge of the property.

This part of the house will, eventually, become something updated, new and exciting, but that won't be for a while yet.  Until then, this portion of the house, which we affectionately call either the "fun house" or the "Alice in Wonderland House" will likely be empty for a while.

There are boxes of these old light shades left in the old portion of the house.

The keys for one of the "Boarding Rooms" still hangs on the wall.

Newspaper under the flooring is from 1924--the last time they laid down flooring.

Old fixtures, like this hinge, will be fun to restore.

The old part of the house does need some love.

The place is old, but the views are pretty nice.  This looks at the cemetary.

Typical odd layout and single bulb in the old portion.

Nice view from the window on this side.  Lots of potential in this view!

The side view of the old portion of the house.  The wide door goes into what used to be the kitchen, the upstairs "funhouse" rooms are the top two windows furthest left.

One of the oddest things, and the origin of the "Alice in Wonderland" theme are these small windows turned doors.  Clearly, it was more important to make more rooms than make the doors reasonably sized.

In the maze of rooms in the old portion of the house

This magical doorway leads to the newer portion of the house.  Justin is walking into a bedroom.