Jonathan lowered many buckets of plaster out the 3rd floor door down to the ground. I took them from there to the dumpster. We got most all of the plaster out of Zeb's future bedroom. :) Now we are ready to knock the plaster off of the ceiling in there and get the insulation out.
But while working today we had an exciting visit. I was down on the ground hauling buckets and a lady walking by our house asked what we were doing. We told her. And she told us that she had moved into our house when she was 5 years old, back in the 1950's. Her mother had owned the building and ran a nursing home in it. When they first started, her family lived on the first floor, but as they got more residents, her mom had turned the third floor into an apartment for their family. When they had lived in the house, the front porch had wrapped around the tower (the east and part of the south side - like we had thought it should). The back (or kitchen porch) had been a screened in porch. She told us about the stairs in the front room and how she had slid down the railing. She also told us that there had been an arched opening from the front room to the dining room. It was her mom who had put on the green asphalt shingle/siding on. The old garage was put there by her mother. There had been one there before. The original one also had a flat roof. She say that as a small child she had walked around on the gutters up on third floor, something that her mother had hated. When they had lived here, the old wood fire escape that we had only seen in pictures was there. And her family had mostly used that as an entrance to their apartment up on 3rd floor. We asked if she had pictures of the house. And she said that she did. She now lives in Lincoln. But she was going to go through her pictures and bring them down next time or make some copies and mail them to us. WOW! What an exciting day. We can't wait to see her pictures and talk to her some more.
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