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Originally Posted by Jim in Chicago
I certainly hope that they recognize what they have and restore it, but frankly anything will be better that that mixed up mess they're removing.
It always reminded me of the pictures that they ran in the Old House magazine of houses that had been what they termed "remuddled."
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I have this great old book from the 50's that's basically a tutorial guide to the "modernization" of farm houses where all the plans and renderings show these hideous thoughtless ranch dwellings grafted onto the side of a 1880's/1900 farmhouse. The mindset that brought us those misguided botched modifications were the same ones that "improved" historic facades like this one with sheet metal and bricked up 16 foot windows. It's hard to understand what people were thinking back then, but I'm sure in fifty years many will say similar things about the current times and some of the current trends.