- The rear of the house and the entrance to the walk-down cellar.
- Picture of the walk-down cellar. Before we cleaned, the steps had dirt on them. Enough so that plants were growing from it. The ground of the cellar was also unviewable until after the cleanup.
- Picture from far corner of the cellar. The staircase leads up to the kitchen, but as our builder found out later, the stairs weren't exactly sturdy.
- The tools, cement blocks, and chests we found were still in good condition. Those hooked tools are cant hooks, used to 'roll pull' fallen logs across the ground. From what I remember, the chests were used to hold ammunition.
- Side of kitchen wall, in this open space stood files cabinets with all sorts of information concerning my grandparent's bus contracting business. Invoices for repairs dated back to 1981.
- Full picture of the kitchen area. Unfortunately, the county is forcing us to remove the kitchen to receive our Use and Occupancy certificate to move into the new house.
- Cross picture of the living room from the archway that separated from my grandparents bedroom.
- Doorway leading into my grandparents bedroom. I plan on getting the corner cabinet shown refinished and plan on using it in our new home.
- Another picture from their bedroom. Those white blocks are actually custom cinder blocks; my assumption is that my grandparents wooden boards in between the angled areas, same as a college student would use 3-hole cinder blocks for.
- Before we swept up, we removed an area rug from the living room. What was underneath was amazing. The floor was in great condition that we could tell. This shot was just a comparison picture between what was dirty and after we cleaned the floor.
- The attic. The walls are wood panel, but there's a ton of space up here.
- Front of the house. During a previous cleanup, we removed weeds and brush that grew from the ground as high as the windows. :(
We even found a relic that surprises me to this day:
A bottle of Bacardi, unopened that I can tell, from the early 1970's.
In short, we dodged the Impact Fee and another setback that would've drawn out the process. We were finally set to go build a house.
