by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Have you used the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps while researching your house history? During 19th and early 20th centuries, fire insurance maps were periodically drawn up for cities and towns in the United States. These maps were commissioned by insurance companies in...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Perform a Google search for the National Register of Historic Places, adding the word Wiki and the county that your home is located in to your search terms. You may be surprised to find that your home is listed on the results page. For example, a Wiki search for...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
When you have finished researching the history of your home, what do you plan to do with the information you have collected? Just like genealogical research, the information is not that helpful if it is locked away in a file cabinet or sitting in a folder somewhere on...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
In a previous post, which you can find here, I wrote about the house plans that were sold by The Ladies’ Home Journal from 1895 until approximately 1919. I recently came across the book Home Building and Furnishings by William L. Price and William Martin Johnson,...
