My 1910 Restoration in Freehold, NJ

updated 7/2004

Some Before & After Photos with some in-between also Most of the earlier photos can be seen on re-runs from the original broadcast of January 14, 2002 on The Home & Garden Network's "RESTORE  AMERICA".

Before I purchased this house, it was neglected for almost ten years.  The porch was used as storage space and the garage had an alter for practicing Black Magic. Ghosts?  Some strange things occured, but stopped once the house was blessed by a priest a few years later.

Before

After

Entrance Hall - before, middle, & current

Rear Parlor - before, in-the-middle, & current

The floor just needed a good sanding.

<  The Ceiling is stenciled The frieze is stenciled onto a white wall liner - "hand made wallpaper" The wall base is factory made wallpaper by Schumacher.

middle >

before

current

Mud Room two different angles

This Octopus Furnace was installed in 1942 to provide central heat. Unfortunately it was converted from coal to oil in the 1950's, however all parts were saved.

The following is a passage expressing my belief: ". . . Old buildings are not ours.  They belong, partly to those who built them, and partly to the generations of mankind who are to follow us.  The dead still have their right in them:  That which they labored for . . . we have no right to obliterate."  "What we ourselves have built, we are at liverty to throw down.  But what other men gave their strength, and wealth, and life to accomplish, their right over it does not pass away with their death . . ." by John Ruskin 1849 "The Seven Lamps of Architecture"  chapter 6

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