If someone who used to live in your house 20 years ago came by wanted wanted to see inside...

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25. There are no houses from my personal history to visit

The house I grew up in was demolished a few years back. Most of the places I lived in were temporary rentals. I do drive by the double wide trailer we lived in here on the farm until ten years ago but have no desire to see the interior. I'm just happy that someone was able to take it off our hands.

But the house my great great grandfather built in 1887 in Escanaba, Michigan was visited by my mother in law once and by my sister once. The family that lives there now is the second family to own the house.

After my great grandfather died in 1941 the house was sold. The son of the man who bought it still lived there when my sister visited a few years back. My mother in law took photos of the exterior but didn't ask to see the inside. When my sister visited, the man remembered the previous visit and offered a tour of the interior, including the basement - with huge tree trunks that hold up the entire house!

In return I sent him copies of the pictures we have in our family archives of the house while it was being built and shortly after it was completed.