The Dutch Colonial 1750

It's good that it still survives. Around here they tend to knock everything down :(

Is this what was known as a 'Clapper board' house Paul?

I guess you can call it a clapboard house Julia with the horizontal weather siding. Dutch Colonial refers to the overall architectural style with the signature gambrel roof profile and gable-end chimneys. The Amityville Horror house is another example of Dutch Colonial but that's for another blog. I plan to get there at some point

Thanks Paul :-)

I love the shape of the Dutch houses wonderful it's still standing like Hywel said any historical buildings they have here have been bulldozed and still knocking them down for ugly cheap tower blocks Paul I shall show this to my friend the Dutchman as he is known who lives here his grand father owned Philips and had this built in the 1968,in Eindhoven to encourage young children it's fantastic inside filled with gadgets for any one to try.
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This was his grandfather's house and grounds he is the old man in the photo they show. Thought you might like the tour.

https://youtu.be/FwFCYQYl-uQ
Or
https://youtu.be/FpWMft5STxc

I have read the book Amityville horror far better than the film.

It's the same here. Many old and historic places have been razed in the name of progress. Do you remember Jackie Onassis? Wife of the late JFK? She saved Grand Central Station from the wrecking ball. It's now been declared and historic landmark and one of the 7 man made wonders of the world. She helped establish the National Historic Landmark Society, which saved many cherished landmarks. This house was bought by New York City and converted into a City Park. That's another way these old buildings are preserved. It's a museum.

https://www.6sqft.com/how-preservationists-and-jackie-o-got-the-supreme-court-to-save-grand-central-terminal-in-1978/

I also read the Amityville Horror Book by Jay Anson. It was a good read. Not sure how anybody could think it was a true story though. Blood oozing from the walls? A pig in the window? Sounds more like the funhouse and an amusement park, but I guess it's fun to pretend. LOL I suppose that house would never shake its stigma. The murders actually did happen though. That much is real, but the supernatural stuff is pure fiction - all to sell more books. Clever marketing, that's all.

What a great thing she did there saving that beautiful station Russia has some beautiful stations too.
Yes Paul I remember Jackie Onassis my daughter in laws god father ex S. A. S use to be her body guard he was the first one who went down the rope on the raid of the Iranian Embassy here back in 1980.

https://youtu.be/eKi5AvTbYBM

Yes the book was interesting lol yes thought the same my self about the blood also pig in the window I suppose they have to sell books and what imagination to think up such a thing.
Same with the Lockness monster my youngest daughter s dad is a Scot he said it was bought about to attract tourusium another laughable invention from some ones imagination which nowadays would nt get past the public nowadays even though the press still believe in ufo flying saucers from outer space lol when it was Avro who built the flying saucers.

That's funny, the close ties to Jackie O. She certainly left a legacy behind. The movie wasn't great, but Margo Kidder, the actress who played Kathy Lutz in Amityville Horror & Lois Lane in Superman, just passed away. So sad.

Yes it is funny. She certainly did leave a wonderful legacy I hope Americans appreciate it for their grand children to be able to see it.

Awe that is sad her dying a great actresses. R. I. P

It may sound strange being female but I love the old steam trains and old stations.
As a very small child a young girl who lived a few doors down use to take a boy in the same street and my self in a coach built pram to the local station and just sit on the old benches while we stayed in the pram later when older my sister s and I use to play by that railway line run up the steps to the top to watch the steam train go under us with steam in our faces then rush to the other side to see it pull into the station.