A renovation gone wrong
Removal of the stucco revealed signatories in the cedar, along the east side of the house.
My theory is that the stucco went on to the house either in the 1930s or the 1940s. Maybe the neighbourhood kids got together to immortalize themselves when they found out the stucco would go on.
Naughty. But cool.
I don’t expect to find altogether too many cool things during renovations, since the house has been remuddled so many times over the last 100 years. But I have found a couple of things of note, and I’ll post photos of whatever I find here.
The recent moving of the furnace in the basement and sprayfoam/drywall (spring 2019) didn’t reveal much new by way of cool things, except a pair of bifocal eye glasses and a steak knife. These were located up in the furnace ducting area, where some previous owner had installed a false ceiling between two cold air returns. There were also small panes of glass there, like you might find taken from picture frames.
I would love to know the relationship between Gladys and Frank. Was it a brother to a sister? My records show that in 1940 the house was occupied by Joseph Roderick Roy. He died in 1957. I’ll do some research to see if Frank and Gladys are children of Mr. Roy.
Found in kitchen crawlspace.
When we were punching through the wall through to the addition upstairs, I cleaned out the cold air return. Found a number of interesting things (and could see more down the far end of the cold air return, that I’ll be able to get at once I start work on the far room).
Will have to do some research on who Grant was.
