Exterior

 

 

The double doors on the right lead to the large staircase that has previous been described. The two large glass window on the left with a door between them are what we intended to remove as we have already installed a new entry door about 10 foot just inside these windows/door which would make a front porch. The new door and porch lights can be seen in the picture below.

 

This is the new entry door which opens up to the family room as previously shown and described above and in the Family Room portion of the Blog.

The house is directly across the street from both the schools, we have a city pool that is very nice and the city also has an indoor pool you can use during the winter and the library is down the street 1 block. The house was originally built in 1910 as a Union Hall on the 2nd Floor, living space and candy/ice cream store on the 1st Floor and a two lane bowling alley in the basement. When we bought it 7 years ago it and was being used as a Catholic Church.

Other than running all new electric and plumbing, we haven't done much to the 2nd floor, which contains a very large room, a bedroom, office, two half baths (there is room to make one of them a full bath) and two walk-through closets. I have also attached a few pictures of the main room on 2nd floor. You will notice some peeling paint on two of the sections of ceiling as we had a leak during that big wind storm about two years ago. We had a roofing company come out and fix it but we never scraped and repainted those sections of ceiling. You will see from the photos the shutter type window in the middle of the wall above the double doors towards the top, which you can be opened from the third floor and looks down into the 2nd floor - it's really pretty cool to open that and look down into the 2nd floor. The 3rd floor is a finished room that our sons used as their bedroom and the rest is large attic.

The 1st floor is where the majority of the pictures are taken from and the floor that we mostly use. The basement also has two half baths, but we never hooked up the new plumbing to them because we weren't ever going to use them. The toilets and sinks are still there, but you should replace them if you were going to hook them back up.

The house is set up with two water heaters. One service the kitchen, laundry room and guest bathroom and the other services the master bath and 2nd floor half baths. I just recently had a new water heater put in and I think the guy blew the pressure relief valve because it is dripping from the drip leg, so the bottom of the new one is a little rusty. I think I would just replace and be done with it since they don't cost very much at all.

We have not put the interior trim back on, mostly because we liked the way it looks without it. However, all of the trim that was taken off and has been saved and stored in the basement. We also saved all the hardwood flooring from the kitchen area and there are some additional doors that we saved as well.

The windows are replacement windows that were put in shortly before we bought the property 7 years ago. We were told by the priest that a new roof/shingles had been put on right before we bought it. As noted previously, we did have a roof leak from that bad wind storm and had a roofing company fix it and they said it looks good and we haven't had any problems since the roofers did the repairs.

We removed all of the old cast iron plumbing and put it all new copper. We removed all the knob and tube wiring and put in all new electric. We removed the boiler system and put in gas forced air heat and central air conditioning. Only the first floor has been hooked up with the HVAC system. We do have an additional furnace and another 5 ton AC Unit for the 2nd/3rd floor but have not been hooked up, although the furnace is upstairs in the attic and the AC and it's Line Set is in and attached to the house and the gas line is already ran up there as well.