Hi All,
This is exactly how my house in old house is configured. Of course we
cut a door into the coal bin and used it for bicycle storage. The house sits
on a hill and you walk up to the 1st floor from the street. There is a
walk-out 1st floor in the back, and there was a cyclone door over steps to the
basement, but we covered those to make a room out of the back porch.
There is a building here in Bethlehem that I have been meaning to
photograph. It looks exactly like the BTS "Small Store" that some folks might
think of as "old" and "western", but here it is in the "new" and "eastern".
Jamie Bothwell
As stated above in Bethlehem, PA
On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:05 PM, David Heine wrote:
> Also, many houses in this area had a basement under the front porch that was
> used for the coal bin. Loading was done through a basement window with a
> chute from the coal delivery truck. Ashes were placed into a separate metal
> can for pick up, at least in towns with garbage service. There was usually a
> solid masonry wall between the coal bin and the rest of basement, under the
> front wall of the main part of the house, except for a wooden door.
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> There seem to be many preconceptions that there are eastern and western
> buildings. Building styles changed with the fashion of the times. There
> were plenty of false front building in the east, especially when you get away
> for the large cities. I have a book with a picture that shows my
> great-grandfather’s wooden blacksmith shop in Mauch Chunk (now known as Jim
> Thorpe), Pennsylvania taken in the late nineteenth century. The picture
> would not be out of place in one of my Colorado narrow gauge books covering
> the same time frame.
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> Dave Heine
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> Easton, PA
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