		celticvoice	Yup it does. Can't we build anything that LASTS anymore? guess not . . .
		jimvoves	When I traveled to Boston and parts east, I saw homes that were two hundred years old, beautiful homes. These made the cities and towns great to see. Years ago we had a young Irish girl visiting a friend of ours and she said her home was over 700 years old. Of course it had been added to and keeped up, but that old. It was built 150 years before Columbus got of the boat here. Around here if a home is near 100 years old they tear it down. Just is not right.
		celticvoice	I visited a home in CT (Bethlehem) built in the 1700's... That old home? WELL! too DARK and slanted ceilings upstairs, HEAVENS, and oh, those mullioned windows, what a PANE to clean, and all that nature ICK ICK ICK give me Corinthian columns and fake gold gilt-edging and . . . NEVER! NEVER! They oughta be hung by their toes and flayed. In my stepdad's "town" (is it still a town when it all blends in with what's around it as in other "towns?") they have a law limiting square footage and height to proportions of the lots so this can't be done plus the houses are fifties altho very nice, the are kinda small. But I loved ours., spectacular lot, and Rich and Bev do too.