Little Houses

Last night, my husband said, "Come look at this little house", referring to a photo he found on Ancestry.com.

Francis Marion Cook is Carl's first cousin, 4 times removed. This little house, which was built about 1860 with their own hands, was in Henderson, Texas.  That got me thinking about little houses.

Like this one (on the left, in the late 1800's-- on the right, how it looks today with an addition to the left side).
This is the little 2 room red brick house that Heber Gunn built for his bride Effie Stonebraker Gunn.

Heber and Effie Gunn are my children's 2nd greatgrandparents.  Besides raising 7 children in that little house, the Gunns served as Hoytsville's postmaster and postmistress for 37 years (Effie serving after the death of her husband). The little postoffice was in that house (after an addition was put on). The original postboxes are preserved in the basement museum of the courthouse down the road in Coalville.

I also thought of the first house I lived in (after we stayed with my Grandmother for my first 9 months).  This was right after World War II. A lot of little houses were being built for the returning WW II vets and their new families (that's me on my father's lap in the photo). My father paid $2,000 for this house on Halsey Drive in Warwick, R.I.  All the new streets and schools in Warwick were named after WW II heros. Our street was named after Admiral William Halsey, commander of the U.S 3rd fleet during part of the Pacific War against Japan.  (I went to Warren A. Sherman Elementary School (another war hero), and graduated from Warwick Veterans Memorial Hight School.)
such a lot of history, heart and soul in little houses.