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When Was The Last Time

ECBG — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:21:23 GMT

....you were in your grandmother's house?

I loved the cottage that looked over to Grove Park Inn. I had not a clue being 6 years old.

She had a rose garden behind the house. Unfortunately, she bought a duplex and moved before I got much older. I would love to have that house!

Even though it was in the 50's, and I could have only been 6, I remember she and I walked in the rose garden behind the house and cut roses.

This is the architect's water color which hangs in our bedroom.

It looks over a golf course to Grove Park Inn.

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1Snickers — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:23:13 GMT

@ECBG The picture of your grandmother's house is remarkably like my grandmother's!

She lived in Hilton Village, Va which was the first planned community in the United States. The village was built for shipyard workers during World War 1. The houses are white Stucco with slate roofs.
The slope of the roof is the same except she has a small front porch and kept plants there. The doorbell was a wind up ringer.
She also, like your grandmother had a rose garden in her backyard. I recall when I was small she would put a rose petal on her hand and blow it to make it pop!

Garages weren't attached and she never drove. Everything was within walking distance. Grocery stores, drug stores, a theater and Rose's 5 & 10.
I lived two blocks away in a duplex and my other grandmother lived next door.
There are wonderful memories of my grandmother's houses!
🏘 🏡 🏠

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daisyk — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:27:04 GMT

What a dream cottage! I would love it. It's so nice you have the water color.

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PA Mom-mom — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:46:56 GMT

@ECBG My grandmother was born in 1880 and died in 1977. She loved gardening and dug her vegetable garden with a shovel every year until the year she died. She loved her flowers! We lived nearby, and Mom would send me up for lettuce and whatever Grammy wanted to give us. When I was in college, Grammy would talk to me about what authors I was studying. She said, "Good girls don't read Walt Whitman." Her house was peaceful and full of her long life.

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Sooner — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:49:52 GMT

No warm fuzzy feelings to report here.

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ECBG — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:57:06 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
No warm fuzzy feelings to report here.

@Sooner

So sorry. You're so lovely, your personality was influenced by someone.

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bmorechick — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:10:47 GMT

My grandma lived a few blocks over from us in an almost identical row house in Baltimore City. 90 feet long, 12 feet wide. Last time I was in the original home was about 20 years ago before my aunt sold it. She lived with her after her husband died. I miss it so much. Always a warm, loving, welcoming home. Always smelled like patchouli. And chicken soup. So many beautiful memories there from my childhood. The person who purchased it gutted it and totally renovated And modernized it. While it was pretty, it wasn’t the same cozy home that was built in 1910. You can just imagine the difference. But we have pictures and memories, just as many of you do.

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:17:13 GMT

Last time for me was the early sixties. My Grandparents had the house for years as my Mother grew up there. It was two hundred years old then. Built by a wealthy family as it had servants quarters in the big attic and back stairways into the children's quarters then down to the first floor. No servants in my Grandmothers time in the home. When she died it was sold and torn down. I think that's why I love old houses.

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Xivambala — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:11:20 GMT

@ECBG: That looks like a lovely home. I've entered pics of the home I lived in with my grandparents in Park Ridge, IL in the late 50's - early 60's. The first picture is how it looked back then, and the second is a recent one. These were the best years of my life living with them and all my aunts an uncles. Eventually everyone went their separate ways. My grandparents downsized to an apartment and trailer home thereafter. This house is well over 100 years old and is very well taken care of. I'm in Florida now, and would give anything to knock on the front door, introduce myself, and ask for a tour even though you can 'never go back home'.

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ECBG — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:22:16 GMT

@Xivambala

Your former home is right at the period of Arts and Crafts. It's a beauty.

My grandmother was the shining star in my life from the time I remember. She was my dad's mother, and they both had dark hair, her eyes were brown, his green.

She was also the highest business woman here. I watched her intently. She was a tall beauty born in 1900. I lost her in 1977. We were SO close, I kept passing out.

I would give anything to have that house but it's a little over $1,000,000.

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MoJoV — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:07:04 GMT

I was about 2 years old and I do have vague nemories of it,especially the color of the linoleum floor in the kitchen and my grandmother giving me cookies. I told my mother about it as an adult and she was shocked I remembered that being so young. It was a big white Iowa farmhouse. My grandparents raised 12 children there.

@ECBG Your grandmother's cottage is so lovely,it belongs in a children's book.

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Xivambala — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:25:59 GMT

@ECBG: When my grandfather bought this house, all 6 of my grandparents kids lived there too, including my mother and I. My mother was never around, so I became my grandmother's 7th child. As the youngest child, my aunts and uncles 'adopted' me as their little sister. I was very close with my grandmother. She fed me, made sure I got to school, stayed up with me when I couldn't sleep...did all the things a mother would do. She appeared to me after she passed approximately 20 years ago and told me she would still be with me, and I believe she is. In addition to loving this house, this was the only time I had a real family.

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ECBG — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:53:35 GMT

@Xivambala

What a beautiful story. You and I had an angel on earth.😇

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Desertdi — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:47:15 GMT

@Xivambala I have lived in Park Ridge, Il, three times in my life......during the 50's, 60's........and a brief time in the 90's. l have a close friend who still lives there.

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mcducky — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:54:51 GMT

I was raised in a military family and we moved "all the time". (I went to 7 high schools). I only met my maternal Grandmother and can only remember a couple of times at her home. I have fond memories through the memories my Mom shared about growing up in the Ozarks. My sister is an artist and when she was in college a professor gave them an assignment to paint a memory of a grandparent. She painted an empty chair in front of the house next to hydrangea's.

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mcducky — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:16:13 GMT

Such a lovely memory of a Grandmother that loved you. Thank you for sharing.

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ninjawife — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:25:08 GMT

Both of my grandmothers lived in the city. My mother's mother lived in a tiny one bedroom apartment. She had separated from my grandfather before I was born and then he died when I was three. My grandmother and my aunt who is 20 years younger than my mother shared the one bedroom. My father's mother lived in the row home my father grew up in until the early 1990s when she moved in with my aunt. The neighborhood she lived in had changed demographically quite a bit. My SIL's friends bought her house and did some major renovations.

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Xivambala — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:10:03 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@Xivambala I have lived in Park Ridge, Il, three times in my life......during the 50's, 60's........and a brief time in the 90's. l have a close friend who still lives there.

@Desertdi:

The house is at the corner of Northwest Hwy and Tomawadee Dr (was Lane when I lived there) in Park Ridge, IL. I've run in to people in my adult life who interestingly knew of this house.

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Shanus — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:18:05 GMT

My grandparents lived in a large house (7 children) in a small town in upstate NY. It's still there, but in really shabby shape. I saw it a few years ago and it was sad. I remember playing in the yard and picking flowers as soon as they came up and getting he*l for doing it. There were 2 sets of stairs. One that was the main staircase and a set of "secret" stairs that led from the 3rd and 2nd floor to the kitchen. All the grandchildren played on the 2 landings. Nice memories.

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Desertdi — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:37:20 GMT

@Xivambala wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Xivambala I have lived in Park Ridge, Il, three times in my life......during the 50's, 60's........and a brief time in the 90's. l have a close friend who still lives there.
@Desertdi:
The house is at the corner of Northwest Hwy and Tomawadee Dr (was Lane when I lived there) in Park Ridge, IL. I've run in to people in my adult life who interestingly knew of this house.

@Xivambala I was walking distance to the "uptown shopping area"......East of Prospect and North of Touhy. I didn't go to Maine TWP HS, but I know quite a few who did. (Not Hillary you-know-who). I went to school in Chicago. di