Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) Do you recall the layout of one of your family homes (a parent’s home, a grandparent’s home, your first home with your spouse/SO, etc.)? Can you estimate the size of the house and the size of the rooms? What features were in each room? Can you draw the floor plan, showing doors, windows, etc.?
According to census records I was 3 years old when we moved to 2210 N. 5th in Dodge City, Kansas. We lived in that house until the start of my 8th grade year when we moved to Lincoln, Nebraska.
According to Zillow, this house is 954 square feet. Below is a rough sketch of the floorplan of the house as I remember it.
The picture below shows my parents and us kids in front of the house about 1959. The window on the left is the dining area and the window on the right is above the sink in the kitchen.
The picture below is of our family and my grandparents in the dining area of the kitchen. The window from the above photo is to the left behind my little brother. The front door is toward the right behind my grandmother.
The picture below is of the west wall of the living room near the doorway into the kitchen. I am sitting on my grandfather’s lap.
The picture below is of the north wall of the living room.
A large picture window was on the east wall with a door into the back yard on the south end of the east wall.
The windows in the bedrooms were towards the top of the walls.
The car port and front porch have been enlosed, but the house today still resembles that 1950s home.
