A lot of houses around here are listed as being built in 1920, but I think that's just when they were entered into that record system or something. Because my house in Gilman Square is on the books as being built in 1920, but I can see the outlines of my house and the houses around me in Bromley's 1895 Atlas of Somerville (link goes to a flickr compilation of images - not sure where else one can find the atlas). So I'm pretty sure the houses were here well before 1920. I had always thought 1920 was a bit late for new construction to have ceiling fixtures supplied by gas, but most of the houses around here have the piping still in place - the pipe is probably disconnected from the live gas line further upstream but I'm not about to crack the valves and check.
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Date: 2023-11-26 09:20 pm (UTC)A lot of houses around here are listed as being built in 1920, but I think that's just when they were entered into that record system or something. Because my house in Gilman Square is on the books as being built in 1920, but I can see the outlines of my house and the houses around me in Bromley's 1895 Atlas of Somerville (link goes to a flickr compilation of images - not sure where else one can find the atlas). So I'm pretty sure the houses were here well before 1920. I had always thought 1920 was a bit late for new construction to have ceiling fixtures supplied by gas, but most of the houses around here have the piping still in place - the pipe is probably disconnected from the live gas line further upstream but I'm not about to crack the valves and check.