The McShane House Renovation: April 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Original Pictures (Not Dated)

McShane House circa 1910-1915??

I do not know the date of the picture #2, but that is our goal for what we want the house to look like. A few changes over the years have made it impossible to recreate this exact plan. For instance, in picture #1 the lower window on the far right is now a square window. They had to make the window square to add a new stairwell.

McShane House 2013 (North side) #1

McShane House 1910-1915 #2
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You can see in this picture that the small porch is no longer there. We plane on replacing the original porch on the south side of the house. At some point there was a concrete wrap around porch put on the front of the house. This style of house does not call for a wrap around style porch. Paul, my husband, spoke to a gentleman that stopped and said he lived at the McShane house in the 1970's and the porch was there then. We are hoping to uncover some more pictures that might give us an idea to when this porch was added.

McShane House 2013 (South side)

After just a little bit of research I have discovered that William Francis McShane built this house on the land that was his fathers. W.F. McShane married Sarah Ann Foulke in 1868. I know the house is dated 1886...I wonder how long it took them to build it?

I look forward to sharing more progress!

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The McShane House Renovation: The Before Pictures

The McShane House Renovation: The Before Pictures: Before Pictures of the McShane House April 2013 The McShane House April 14,2013. Well here goes... My husband and I have been sea...

The Before Pictures

Before Pictures of the McShane House April 2013

The McShane House April 14,2013.

Well here goes...

My husband and I have been searching for an old house to renovate forever, then last fall (October precisely) I found it! It was the McShane house! It was to be auctioned off or torn down so we went. we saw, and unfortunately we were out bid. So, months went by and I happened to be in the neighborhood so I drove by the house. To my surprise it was still sitting there, nothing had changed. So the next day I called the Indiana Landmarks Society to see who had, in fact, bought it and when were they going to start work? Well, they said they, the Landmark Society, had bought it! I mentioned in conversation that we were still interested in purchasing the house and she said, great! So here we are about 2 months later.....keys in our hands and a lot of work ahead of us.

Here is the press release from the Landmarks Society.

http://www.indianalandmarks.org/NewsPhotos/Pages/NewsReleases.aspx?PressReleaseID=323