I went for a walk in Grapevine today and I took a few pictures of an old turn of the century farm house. The house has lots of windows, a necessity in a hot climate.
This is a southern style house with the kitchen located in an ell at the back of the house. This house has large porches on both sides of the kitchen to keep it shaded and to provide a cool place to sit in hot weather.
The well for the house was originally hand dug here it has a brick well curb. It was late in the morning and porch on this side of the house is in the sun but the porch roof keeps the sun off the kitchen wall. The porch on the other side of the kitchen was in the shade. This is a house that was designed and built by the farmer who lived there and he did a fine job.
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ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how it was like when a family lived here.
ReplyDeleteI searched web-site images one hundred years ago in Texas.
http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/Hutto/Hutto_Texas_Williamson_County.htm
Was it like this?
It is hard to imagine how people lived a hundred years ago, the world has changed a lot in the last century. Not only was Texas like that 100 years ago, all of America was like that. My father was born in 1918 and he was raised on a farm in Colorado, the stories he told me about life on the farm made me glad I grew up when I did.
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