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    A Tudor Revival: New Life for the Little Stone Cottage, Historic Restoration
    A Tudor Revival: New Life for the Little Stone Cottage, Historic Restoration
    A Tudor Revival: New Life for the Little Stone Cottage, Historic Restoration
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    A Tudor Revival: New Life for the Little Stone Cottage, Historic Restoration

    By Donald Granbois

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    Restoring a truly dilapidated historic structure is exciting but offers many challenges, as discovered by the author as he undertook to save a 1923 Tudor Revival Cotswold stone cottage. His story of the process and the final outcome tells with good detail the entire story, from acquiring the property with the help of a local restoration non-profit to finding a buyer. In the process of bringing the cottage back to life, the author found out more about balloon framing, fixing leaky basements, implementing some basic principles of restoration, and how to use proper Tudor design features in a structure where much of the original detail was gone.
    Research into the history of the house showed the first resident to have been a highly successful academic and member of President Truman’s administration.
    The author contrasts the finished project with his early life during the Great Depression and provides some historical detail on living in that time. He also touches on some ideas from his study of social sciences and business to help interpret possible motivations for building such a house in 1923 in a purely rural setting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 21, 2016
    ISBN9781483590882
    A Tudor Revival: New Life for the Little Stone Cottage, Historic Restoration

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      A Tudor Revival - Donald Granbois

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      Tudor Revival Discovered

      Judy and I drove back and forth along East 10 th Street that Sunday afternoon, looking for the dilapidated cottage I had been hearing about for some time. The mid-summer vegetation was in full leaf and the narrow road, twisty and hilly, was busy with bicyclists, cars headed for Brown County, Lake Lemon or Yellow Wood State Forest, and motor cyclists headed for who knows where. My eyes had to stay focused mostly on the road, but Judy scanned the North side of the road carefully. I’d heard that the house was hard to see through overgrown plantings, large weeds and seedlings, even though quite close to the road, but I expected to have at least a glimpse of its limestone exterior peeking out.

      We never found the house that day. We had started out with only mild curiosity about the place, so after forty minutes or so of searching, we gave up and headed home. By now though, my interest had been aroused.

      My first knowledge of the cottage came from Steve Wyatt, Executive Director of Bloomington Restorations Inc. This non-profit agency has been doing restorations and promoting preservation since 1976. Steve had reported on the house to the board at a meeting well over a year earlier. As board member and secretary, I had included in the minutes his first announcement that the owner of a very dilapidated stone cottage, he thought built in the 1930’s, had asked for BRI’s help in saving it. Some board members who knew a lot more about restoration and historic architecture than I did later went for a look.

      At the next meeting these board members reported on what they had found. The condition of the place shocked even them, but they agreed the house had enough significant historic character and integrity to justify efforts to save it. We voted to enter into an option to purchase agreement with the owner, who had continued making a mortgage payment even after living elsewhere for a number of years. We would seek a buyer with the interest and ability to have the house restored, we would place our protective covenant on the deed, and we would take a small commission for our efforts in finding a suitable buyer.

      The covenant would prohibit any changes to exterior elevations visible from the street that would change the historic character of the building, and any proposed changes would have to be approved by BRI. BRI would have the legally-enforceable ability to require that unapproved changes be undone. What changes would be acceptable would depend on the judgment of BRI board members who served as members of its Endangered Historic Properties Committee. Since the covenant was attached to the deed, protection would exist in perpetuity.

      The house was just a few minutes’ drive east of BRI’s headquarters, the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, an amazing property left to the organization to care for and preserve by its late owner Daisy Garton. BRI’s property included two historic houses and several outbuildings set on 11 acres once out in the country. Over the years, Daisy had sold off parcels so BRI’s farmstead was now located between a shopping center, an apartment complex, and a large branch post office, with a university technology center being developed across the street. BRI offices occupied the upper floor of the Queen Anne farmhouse, where the first level rooms served as a house museum open a few hours a month. We all thought the proximity of the stone cottage to BRI’s historic farmstead would make it somehow easier to show to prospective buyers and maybe even more attractive to

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