Incidentally, my guess as to the reason why the center hallway was formerly higher than the rooms to the side of it is that it was the original trailer. Or possibly trolley. You can still see a bit of the curved roof of whatever-it-was poking out of the left-hand wall.
Do I recall correctly that the flyer dates it to 1940? Or am I making that up?
But surely if it had been built around a trailer or train car or whatever it was that it looked like they wouldn't have been able to open up the kitchen so much, would they? You can't just pull a trailer out of the middle of a building and leave it standing. Can you?
You probably could do that, with sufficient monkeying, but I can't imagine doing it to that house, on that lot, without being Really Obvious about it.
So, either that center section wasn't built around a trailer/train-car with a metal frame despite appearances, or they somehow dealt with the frame in place -- and that seems rather unlikely.
I guess it was just built around a trolley-sized shed. I had another look at the vestige-of-roof, and it's not curved like I remembered it.
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Do I recall correctly that the flyer dates it to 1940? Or am I making that up?
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But surely if it had been built around a trailer or train car or whatever it was that it looked like they wouldn't have been able to open up the kitchen so much, would they? You can't just pull a trailer out of the middle of a building and leave it standing. Can you?
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So, either that center section wasn't built around a trailer/train-car with a metal frame despite appearances, or they somehow dealt with the frame in place -- and that seems rather unlikely.
I guess it was just built around a trolley-sized shed. I had another look at the vestige-of-roof, and it's not curved like I remembered it.
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