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Here’s how to find out the history of your house, including records to look up and examining the clues left behind in the home’s architecture.
Tracking 40 Years of History in the This Old House Timeline. From that initial renovation of a derelict house in a struggling urban area, This Old House has stood apart as the original home-improvement TV show—and continues to be the genre’s most groundbreaking. by Deborah Baldwin.
1. Search the Chicago Historic Resources Survey. If you live in an older building or in a historic district, there’s a chance that you’ll be able to find the year your home was built and the...
The Gilded Age might seem like a distant memory, but not all of the mansions constructed by the city’s well-heeled social elite between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the early 20th Century...
“If you’re looking at the actual built history of the house, there’s a lot you can do by eye to figure out what may or may not have been added on at specific times,” Finkelstein says.
We wrote a book for anyone who has ever dreamt of changing their life to rescue an old house. We’ve scoured the country to find homes in desperate need of saving—including a $45,000 Victorian in Mississippi, a $25,000 mansion in Indiana, an $82,000 recreational camp in Maine, and more.
OldHouses.com is a resource for old house lovers buying or selling historic real estate properties. We provide listings of historic homes for sale, an old house archive, and old house related resources.
Researching your home’s history can be a time-consuming effort. And if you are just starting out and unsure of what to do, tracing the history of your old house can feel incredibly overwhelming. To help jump-start your research, here’s 9 quick and easy ways to find your home’s history.
Ask to see old photographs they might have of your house or the surrounding land, historical maps of the area, or newspapers with specific articles that reference history of the local town. Read!
Explore Chicago’s extraordinary historic house museums, and walk in the footsteps of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jane Addams, and the city’s elite, experiencing life as it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries.