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Adobe homes pre WWII - info?
Wed Apr 18, 2012 09:09
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Looking for voices from the past, people that had experiences with adobe homes pre WWII. As a child, I never saw one that had wooden floors. Such flooring seems only a status thing? Also, wood made a wonderful secret hiding place for unwelcome creatures, like roaches and mice and lice. Dirt floors become compacted like concrete, and were as cheap as dirt.

Widow Garrett's house had a wooden floor when it was razed c2008. When was wood added to that house?

To install wood, 2x4 boards were set on the floor on edge at about 14" intervals. On them was nailed hard-wood tongue-groove 3" wide pre-cut flooring. As one old lady now recalls her youth: My job was to scrub that wood floor every day.

CAL

  • The headquarters of the LCs ranch near Cliff, NM — Leah, Fri Apr 20 23:21
    For more information on it look at Jerry's post below. Thank you for the image Jerry! Taken from the NR toward the side and rear of the ranch house. - 1976. Copy photo of photogrammetrec plate.
  • Nothing new.... — OldTexasCowboy, Wed Apr 18 19:07
    About wooden floors in adobe buildings. If you visit any of the old frontier fort sites (in Texas for example) you will find wood floors made of dimension lumber set over split or rough hewn floor... more
    • Re: Nothing new.... — Harold, Thu Apr 19 16:03
      I used to climb all over the old Fort Davis buildings when I was a kid. That was before they rebuilt the enlisted barracks and officer housing with modern materials. A lot of the old buildings were... more
    • Adobe floors ..dirt and more dirt = — CAL, Wed Apr 18 19:23
      Thanks. The buildings of which I refer ... they are dirt on six sides = four walls plus one top plus one bottom ... If stucco, then that was a slurry of dirt, insie and/or out. Wood door or window... more
      • Adobe houses, wood floors — Jerry Lobdill, Thu Apr 19 05:36
        Hi Cal and OTC... It's sure been quiet around here recently! The headquarters of the LCs ranch near Cliff, NM was an adobe house built by Robert Craft in the early 1880s. It was a U shaped building... more
        • L C Ranch, "U", me , and my bride — CAL, Sat Apr 21 07:59
          Not "you" me and my bride ... but the building shaped like a "U" and which is not the Lyons ranch in your photo where "me and my bride" stayed .... Maybe I shoud shift gears here and discuss the... more
          • L C Ranch, "U", me , and my bride = peee s — CAL, Sat Apr 21 08:47
            Gilla River is two steps behind photographer. Swimming pool elevated about four feet from yard level and two bunk houses same elevation and right also out of photo. Elevation was due to natural slope ... more
          • Lyons lodge — Jerry Lobdill, Sat Apr 21 08:20
            Hi Cal, You are describing the Lyons lodge built in 1899 exactly where you describe it to be, and the photo in the link is the lodge. The adobe in my picture is located near Cliff and was called the... more
            • Gentlemen, is this the same house of — sharonc, Wed Apr 25 09:44
              the old LC Ranch owned by I. W. Lacy, former cattle ranching partner of L.G. Coleman (bro-in-law of Clay Allison?) Thanks, Sharon
              • Lacy-Coleman & LC Ranch — Jerry Lobdill, Wed Apr 25 10:49
                Sharon, This house was built by Robert Black on his 160 acre homestead, no earlier than 1870. The L&C partnership bought it from him in the time frame 1883-1886. It was owned by the LCs until the... more
        • Very Interesting Gentleman! — Leah, Thu Apr 19 10:00
          Jerry, You can send the pic to me or I can explain in email how to post the picture. I would enjoy seeing it.
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