Gonna have to add Historian to my list. I spent all day yesterday digging around the public library and in the stacks at the Wisconsin Historical Society. My goal for the day was to: Determine who had lived in my house before me Figure out a bit about the land ownership in my neighborhood See if I could verify the… (more…)
If you’re interested in unraveling your home’s history, start by knowing when that history began. Our first house was built in 1930 – our real estate agent told us that, and of course it’s listed within the hundreds of pages of closing documents. I actually contacted the city’s historic preservation officer to see if he would drive by my home… (more…)
We purchased our first home on Valentine’s Day, 2003. We searched for 3 days and toured about 24 homes… our home was the fourth one we saw on the first day. It was a house that I found on the local MLS site… and when we pulled up to it and realized that it wasn’t the cutesy bungalow that we… (more…)