Friday Night Picture Show: Old House Dreams
Posted: February 14, 2014 Filed under: Friday Night Picture Show | Tags: FNPS, Friday Night Picture Show 21 CommentsAllow me to share a new hobby of mine – Old House Dreams. This is where I can look at listings for, and pictures of, beautiful, creepy, old houses that need someone special to love them. Sadly, the only way that special person will ever be me is if I manage to become rich, because I am neither handy, nor willing to learn to be handy.
I’d love to pay fine craftspeople fair wages to bring such places back to life though.
Old House Dreams is a personal blog, not a commercial site. This is from the about page:
I’ve been fascinated with old houses since I was a teenager. I was the girl that grabbed real estate magazines off the stands, cutting out my favorites to add to my scrapbook of nonsense. As an adult I bombarded my moms inbox with houses that neither of us could ever buy but we both enjoyed looking at. In 2009 I started Old House Dreamer (later changed to Old House Dreams) to share my finds.
Each week I search every state, looking for houses that are as original as the day they were built, although some have been updated they all have the unique charm and history that only old houses can possess.
I hope this site inspires those that are thinking about buying an old house to take the plunge (it has before), or give ideas for those restoring, or the rest of us a place to day dream about what could be.
At Old House Dreams you can create a profile and save your favorite houses. I have a lot of homes in the Mid-Atlantic region saved (because a girl can dream, right?) but I also look for just-plain-interesting properties as inspirations for future story settings.
Here are just a few I discovered as I poked around tonight.
Click the pic to be whisked to the listing and more photographs, including interiors, of these beauties:
Abandoned 30 years. Built 1864. Wisconsin.
Already salvaged and destroyed.
In Maryland. Has a surrounding stone wall.
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PS Don’t forget to submit your pics for #HauntedPhotoAWeek in February.
New and old original shots are both appreciated.
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#FNPS
Renae Rude - The Paranormalist 
That was not scary at all! Managed to go through all of it! Proud of myself 🙂
You make me laugh.
I post LOTS of stuff that isn’t too scary; just keep coming back 🙂
I will, I will… Just need to muster up the courage.
I love old houses, too. I live in an 1840’s pre victorian and I can’t imagine living anywhere else! Thanks Renae!
Oh! Lucky! Did you renovate / restore it yourself? Do you have pics anywhere?
Such an interesting Blog. When I still lived on the east coast, one of my BFFs dated a man who had inherited an old castle that had partially burned down. They spent years remodeling it only to discover it was haunted. One of the news teams interviewed them and they had photos that could not be explained that showed “what they saw at night.” On a lighter, and less true, note, my husband insists that our built-in-1995 ranch is on an old “Indian burial ground” – but he just says that to explain why he loses things.
Fascinating! Do you know what ever came of the place?
Around here, we blame “the blue people” for missing and misplaced items. It’s a long story involving an episode in one of the re-boot series of Twilight Zone or Night Gallery. They are kind of like set-dressers who have to constantly re-set everything as each second passes.
When you come down here to visit ME (you have to do that eventually you know!), we really must figure out the open house dates and/or visiting hours for some of the historical houses downtown. One looks positively Addams Family – I gotta get in there.
Oh, my darling girl, I know. In a way it’s helpful to me that you guys are having a real winter … I can better control my impulses to take the money in the bank (which is yours, btw) and hop on a plane.
Very cool!!
I thought it might catch your eye.
I love old houses. When the time comes for me and Tara to buy in a couple of years, I’m going to be disappointed if the house we end up with was built anytime after, say, 1970.
Ogre and I have a fundamental difference of opinion when it comes to houses. He worries about old plumbing and electricity in old places, and I can’t stand how everything is made out of chipboard and veneer in new places. We both know the other is right, but we can’t agree that it’s better to fix the same thing.
I’m pretty sure I’m the one that’s most right though. 🙂 Better to have a quality frame in which one can install good, modern wiring and upgrade the plumbing as needed.
I, too, love old houses. I grew up in a small town in Illinois with many an abandoned house in the country. Loved going through them. Oh, and your header pic is freakin’ me out!! LOL
I was kept on a pretty tight leash as a kid, so I didn’t get to go inside the abandoned houses my mother found. Too dangerous. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I MUST explore such things now.
The header with you and the mask that is. I see they rotate images.
Ah, me and my zombie buddy. Yeah, that’s a favorite.
we have so much in common! I love old houses … this is one of my favorite websites …. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wild-beaver-spotted-in-england-for-first-time-in-800-years-8717543.html
whoops … you might not be as excited about wild beavers in England like I am … try this http://www.historicproperties.com/
Oh, we’re more alike than you think! I just posted that beaver story to my FB & Twitter earlier this month. 😀 I’m very excited about the development … I love any indication that a species is recovering.
In some weird way, such success stories make me think it’s possible that some of the cryptids are real and hanging on somewhere, somehow.
Thank you for another source of old house porn … one can never look at too many beautiful historic homes.
well here’s to wild beavers and old houses!