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Originally Posted by drew
To get the age (year built) of your house, try this link. Just type in your address.
For the month, you need to dig a little deeper and get the city archives to search for stuff about your house, check out henderson directories, etc. We managed to get copies of our building permit, architect and builder info and a plumbing sketch... no drawings though unfortunately.
I managed to find the obituary of the original owner of our house from the 1920s (which also explained that she died AT our house...  ). |
Another great source is the Free Press Archives ... Type in your address or street name and you could find all sorts of information, including (perhaps) the originals 'for sale' or 'for rent' notice. I did that once for 1ajs' house in Point Douglas and we found tons of stuff, including a photo from the 1910s.