108yr old battleship texas being towed thru houston ship channel to Galveston for repairs

I grew up in La Porte, went to the Battleship Texas many times.

 

And if you were willing to pay 2.5 times what you did, you could build to the same quality.

The house next to the one I grew up in was originally built in the 1880s as the "country home" of a rich family. Shortly after we moved in next door, the neighbors retired toFlorida. The new owners dropped just shy of $300,000 in renovations - flooring, plaster, electrical, and windows. The windows were particularly expensive and problematic.

10 years later they sold and the new new owners dropped almost $500,000 in renovations. Turns out residing a house on the historical registry is pretty dang expensive when you have to cut each board to size - length, width, and depth.

 

Yeah
Pretty sad
I have a construction background and it’s too bad when you see these old homes around the country with a ton of detail and at some point the owners just gave up

I think regular paint would have gone pretty far in preserving many of these homes