Century House
This year, my house turned 100 years old. This information comes courtesy of both the county auditor's website and the Lakewood Historical Society, which sent us a congratulatory letter this summer. According to data on their website, there are 7853 houses in Lakewood that were built prior to 1921 out of a total of 14,045 houses, which means that my house isn't even in the oldest 50% of the houses in Lakewood.
My house is at about the midpoint, age-wise, of the ~150ish houses on our street. It's older than all of the 30+ houses on the short adjacent street that meets my street in a Y outside our front door.
For comparative purposes, I believe that the house I grew up in back in North Dakota was built the year I was born. In Lakewood, only 123 houses (0.8% of the total) have been built here since that same year, probably because all of the available lots were long since filled in. I could count all the ones built in the last decade on my fingers and toes and have some left over. If I count back to 2007 when I bought my house, I'd need only a few spare digits beyond that.
The other important house in my life was my fraternity house, which was built in 1935. That's still not very old by Lakewood standards. Fully 12,581 of the houses in Lakewood were built prior to 1935, which is 89.5% of them. Tangentially, it seems odd that someone was building a mansion during the Great Depression, but they must not have had their money wrapped up in the stock market or something.
The Lakewood Historical Society suggested that I throw a birthday party for my house. Since the pandemic continues, we didn't do that this year, but it's a good excuse to keep in mind for the future! We don't plan on leaving any time soon, so we will hopefully have plenty of opportunity!
My house is at about the midpoint, age-wise, of the ~150ish houses on our street. It's older than all of the 30+ houses on the short adjacent street that meets my street in a Y outside our front door.
For comparative purposes, I believe that the house I grew up in back in North Dakota was built the year I was born. In Lakewood, only 123 houses (0.8% of the total) have been built here since that same year, probably because all of the available lots were long since filled in. I could count all the ones built in the last decade on my fingers and toes and have some left over. If I count back to 2007 when I bought my house, I'd need only a few spare digits beyond that.
The other important house in my life was my fraternity house, which was built in 1935. That's still not very old by Lakewood standards. Fully 12,581 of the houses in Lakewood were built prior to 1935, which is 89.5% of them. Tangentially, it seems odd that someone was building a mansion during the Great Depression, but they must not have had their money wrapped up in the stock market or something.
The Lakewood Historical Society suggested that I throw a birthday party for my house. Since the pandemic continues, we didn't do that this year, but it's a good excuse to keep in mind for the future! We don't plan on leaving any time soon, so we will hopefully have plenty of opportunity!