Bringing Her Back to Life - The Shipbuilder’s Mistress: Part 2
This is an update to an October 2010 blog post about a renovation project my husband and I had taken on in Gardiner, ME: Bringing Her Back to Life - The Shipbuilder’s Mistress.
The renovations have gone slowly because we’ve been distracted - last summer we purchased the house across the street from this lady, which was ALSO a distressed property.
Despite the distraction, we have made some progress. The crazy floor plan has been completely torn out (over the years while being used as a nursing home walls were added willy-nilly) and we’re ready to remove the additions and return the home to it’s original footprint. This summer the outside will be painted.
With all the renovations done over the past 70 or so years, most of the “cool” victorian features have been removed, but we have managed to uncover a few cool things. We found an original window seat, a green tile fireplace and a blue tile fireplace all boarded up behind walls.
There is still some door trim remaining, a couple of neat radiators and a tin ceiling.
AND after spending some time in the Maine State Library in Augusta looking through old Gardiner newspapers I discovered the home was built in 1888.
Gardiner Home Journal 12/7/1887 “On Dennis Street, W. W. Bradstreet has a two story residence nearly completed that is to be a fine one.”
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