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
.....

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!