Do you know any history behind your house?

[Sean Hollyman]

Quite interesting, I always like finding out about the past of my house, it's interesting. How much do you know about your house? In most of my old houses, old people have died there

Where I am right now, the house next door is an old jail, but I don't know about this one.

 

[Fractral]

I'm too young to remember moving in, and the house is pretty new anyway, but my parents tell me that when we arrived, every room was done up in various shades of garish pink, and there were lots of cat... remnants... lying around.
The house that we lived in before that, though, was on the road that the dudleys lived in during the harry potter films, or at least very close to it. (like, a few doors away)

 

[Jonluw]

My house is ca. 110-120 years old. It used to be a farm, but now the old stables are being rented out as cheap apartments. It was left to degrade for a while, and during WWII it was used as shelter for people persecuted by the nazis (or as an ammunition storage space. Can't remember).
In the seventies, the owners lowered the ceiling in almost all the rooms. We've removed the lowered ceiling in at least two of them.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Well my house is about 200 years old. Or at least there was a house here 200 years ago but has sincce been redone many times. It was basically a ruin when my parents bought it.

It was an old farm house I believe, the room I'm sitting in right now actually used to be a barn.

Other than that don't really know much.

 

[DrRockor]

I live in a coucil property so I'm going to say it was probably built in the 50s like a lot of other council properties. After that, people lived here before me.

 

[bojackx]

Behind my actual house? Nothing.

But the actual street my house is on used to be the location of a tank factory during the wars, hence why it's called Crusader Drive (Crusader tanks are a thing).

 

[DoPo]

Well, it's an apartment, and my father parents (so my grandmother and farther) moved to my hometown and bought the place while the blocks were being built. Then they, along with most other people who lived there, sued the construction company, because the ceilings were too low. And I mean, I can reach the ceiling with a little hop, also I'd regularly backhand the lamps (since they hang even lower) by accident. They won that and got a nice sum of money, only it could have been better - later it turned out they skimped even more on materials, but it was too late. And by "skimped even more", I mean that there are newspapers in the walls, in some places, used for insulation.

Also, my grandmother and grandfather passed away in that apartment (not at the same time, that would have been creepy) and we moved in.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Nothing at all about the current house I lived in.
The previous house however if it's count as a history, the previous owners were elderly couple who had still running the chipshop my parent were buying at that time (yes my old house was a chipshop as in above it were the living area). I was told they were somewhat popular with the local (a nice chipshop)

 

[Ldude893]

There's a building built on a hill behind our apartment in Hong Kong that currently houses a small fitness room. Apparently, the place once stood the 'Foreign Correspondent's Club' during the British colonial era. The former building and the stairs leading up to it (which still exist) appeared in the movie "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" and "The World of Suzie Wong".

 

[purplecactus]

I don't know the history of the house I live in for the most part, except for the fact that it's rented out to students for the most part and bears the marks of parties past. My parent's house, though... we moved into that just after it had been built, and the only history is has is one of being a DIY nightmare. We got punted into hotels so many times during the first few years so they could fix their mistakes (one potentially fatal to six year old me and my younger brother, apparently).

Nothing interesting though.

 

[Timberwolf0924]

A guy died building my parents house. A mini sledge fell off the roof and landed on his head. Hard hat rules weren't very enforced 20 years ago

 

[IndomitableSam]

Ours was just built a year ago - StreetView still shows a field, whereas the map view does show the units being built. Whomever lived here before us was an ass, though, they had to fix many, many holes in the walls before we moved in.

As for the house I grew up in, not too much. It was about 30 years old when my parents bought it, I think a podiatrist or some boring type of MD lived there with his family before we moved in (it was built in the 60's I believe). Before the suburb was built the land was empty fields, though.

 

[winginson]

My house is semi-detached and used to be a farmhouse and is actually the oldest house in my village. The rest of the village was just farmland at that point. A house has been on this site since the late 1600s.

 

[Trivun]

Not really anything to be honest, save that the previous owner was an old lady who died, and for a while my mum thought that the woman was haunting us because she would often smell perfume walking into a room, and it was the same scent that our neighbours later told her the previous owner would wear. Note my mum doesn't usually wear perfume except for special occasions. Whether or not we were haunted, though, is a question I'm not too fussed in either way...

 

[EeveeElectro]

I haven't been told much... I know they were derelict about 15 years ago.
They're a row of houses, they used to be stuff like sweet shops, mine was apparently a butchers and next doors was a chapel, then they were left empty for a few years and turned into houses.
I still have the wooden beams on my ceiling from where they apparently hung the meat.

Spoiler

I was talking to the old lady who owns the farmhouse in front of me and she said she used to be so lonely down here so she's happy that they're houses now and she has all these friends. She's lived there about 40 years.

 

[Phenomenis]

The old owners still come here sometimes. This is the location of the holy sacrifice of the pure lamb named Eduardo. Not sure what that means? Apparently, it was also the place were the Almighty Eminence of All Existence and its Full Realms, Emperor of all transcendent and Overlord of Prevarication, Emir of the boundless realms, Purger of Humanity, Sultan of the Forsaken Souls, the Dark master, Sheaugjoidandra, and the throne of his dark prince, Oversee of All Existence, Regent of all Transcendent, Archduke of Equivocation and his Dark apprentice, Giglymot. Apparently the dark lords are going to rise up through the cracks in the basement that are, get this, in the shape of a pentagram. The stuff people believe these days. Right?!!!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Yeah, my parents had it built 4 years ago. That's it.

 

[MellowFellow]

My family is the first one to live in the house, it was built about 15ish years ago and my family has lived there ever since. They probably won't be moving anytime soon either.