I am so excited the loft tour graphic is our building!!!
LOFT TOUR is May 1st & 2nd
Tickets are $15 in advance & $20 During the Tour
for more info on the 2009 Loft Tour
or go to http://www.historicaugusta.org
Friday, April 10, 2009
SPRING CLEANING
OK so apparently this is a quarterly blog. I can't believe I haven't written anything since December - I am such a blog slacker! We we are trying to get the building ready for the loft tour so we started major Spring Cleaning & Purging and decided to just do one floor at a time so we started on the first floor hallway - I wish I had a before picture so you could see how much stuff we moved (of course most of it just got moved to our next project the 2nd floor) but non the less it is progress! More pictures to come soon - at least I hope we only have 4 weeks til the Loft Tour :-)
Monday, December 29, 2008
Homeless Lasagna
Our Small Group decided we would make Lasagna for Dinner Sunday night. We mad e an extra pan and made up 10 "to go plates" and loaded them and a carton of cigarettes in a Destination Downtown Tote and hiked all over downtown searching for the homeless to give them to. We walked up to the Commons, over to Riverwalk, almost all the way down the riverwalk, down to pizza joint, back up broad almost to the Disco Tech - still no homeless. Our feet were beginning to get sore so we loaded up in two cars to look that way. We went to 3 gas stations and finally found one man on a bike that we had seen downtown before - he is very nice and never asks for anything. He was very excited about the lasagna and we were very excited that we had found someone to enjoy it. We drove around for about another hour and finally decide we would leave the other nine plates on a bench and hope they were found. After hanging out for a bit Jim left to take the long trek across the street to the Whites Building. He spotted 3 homeless guys and told them about the dinners - they gladly grabbed one and one guy took the rest to give to his buddies. Moral of the Story - the homeless problem Downtown is not as bad as seems :-)
The 3rd Annual Century House Christmas Party
The Monday before Christmas on our 2nd floor we held our 3rd Christmas Party since buying the building downtown. Ben & Josh fried 2 Turkeys as usual and everyone brought yummy side dishes and desserts. We had almost 40 people at the party this year - very exciting! but we ran out of turkey - next year we will have to go up to 3. After dinner we played the White Elephant Game - there were lots of awesome gifts - for instance Wes & Sarah brought 2 live Goldfish they had named Ben & Claire, There was a Nerf Gun, a Spring Action Spoon to flick your food further, etc. Some of the most fought over items were a Cracker Barrel Gift Certificate, Starbucks Gift Card, and some passes for Bowling. I got some yummy gourmet Pretzels & Popcorn from Blue Magnolia. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait til next years party!
Five Christmases 2008 - The Year of the Stomach Virus
Christmas Eve:
We always have a party with the whole family Christmas Ev
e at my parents house. We have party food, eggnog (the real deal), & subs. We have a Christmas Carol Singalong - Aunt Linda plays Piano and we all sing along. We have a reading of the Christmas story and then its Bunko Time. Bunko is a very noisy game with our family everyone is shouting out things to make the dice roll they way they want them - like ENERGY or MONEY, RING THE BE
LL or DON'T RING THE BELL :-)
Christmas Morning with my Parents:
Ben at I go over to my Parents around 8am to see what Santa left us and Open presents from them. We usually have to go upstairs and come down so they can get a picture of us pretending like we live upstairs i guess - we didnt have to do it this year for the first time I think. Mind you Ben and I are both very sick - we both have stomach viruses - yuck! We opened presents and then headed upstairs to take a nap until time to be at our next Destination. Uncle Allen & Aunt Linda always come over for Breakfast (Breakfast Casserole, Homemade Biscuits, & Cinnamon Rolls). Sadly Ben and I could not partake.
Timmy & Keirsten:
We went over to Ben's ex-step dads house to give Timmy & Keirsten their Christmas presents. Timmy was getting an Ipod & a Portable DVD player for Christmas so we got him a DVD of the Mummy & an Itunes Gift Card. Timmy had to open his Ipod first so that the Itunes card would not give away the surprise. He was so excited it was like a Americans Funniest Home Video Clip. He went crazy screaming & shaking "I got an Ipod" over and over. It was so funny!
Grandmamas House:
We were supposed to be at Grandmama's House at 2pm for Christmas Lunch but after going to see Timmy & Keirsten we went home to take a nap and overslept. We woke up at 3pm and rushed there - they were still eating :-) We sat in the den while everyone finished up and then we played the White Elephant Game - I got 2 muffin tins and some muffin mix and Ben got a Gift Card to Best Buy. Everyone Opened their gifts from Grandmama and watched her open all her gifts. Then we got our stockings - which is always a favorite because there is always a check. I was starting to get a hunger headache so I figured I better eat something before I got a headache on top of the stomach virus. I had a banana, a roll, and a piece of turkey.
Grandmothers House:
We went to Grandmothers House to exchange gifts with her. She had made lots of snack foods - mini quiche, quesadilla, taquitas and custard pie. The only thing i thought I might be able to hold down was a piece of custard pie. Grandmother gave us a big basket of fruit and a check.
After our big day - we went home around 8pm and went to Bed.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
THE BUILDING FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE CENTURY HOUSE
As I said before we were told when we purchased our building that it was built in 1906 and since we bought it in 2006 that meant it was 100 years old at purchase so we named it the Century House - that has since been disproven.
Historic Augusta is still researching for more details on the early uses of the building but it is believed to have been built in 1836 as a mercantile building. In city directories through the early 1850s the upper floors are consistently listed as a boarding house with the proprietor also occasionally listed as a confectioner or beer merchant.
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1879
D.H. Shehan advertised that he received a supply of T.W. Harper's Nelson County Kentucky Whiskey and that it was appropriate for social or family use.
1887
Gallaher Bros. agents for the Florida Fruit Exchange, operated a wholesale fruit and confectionary store for two years. In addition to bananas, oranges, coconuts, apples, grapes, and lemons, they also sold potatoes, cabbage, onions, nuts, smoked sausage, canned goods, crackers, pigs' feet, tripe & sauerkraut.
1895
W.J. Cooney & Co. operated a wholesale fruit and produce business though the early nineteen hundreds.
1919
City Directories from this year through 1953 list Fred M. Stringfellow as being associated with this building. The building is alternately referred to as Stringfellow's Lunch Room, the Do-Drop-In Restaurant, The Oasis, and Stringfellow's Place Liquors. In 1929 Mr. Stringfellow was arrested in a police raid that seized slot machines in over thirty downtown businesses. He was arrested again in slot machine raids in 1935 & 1939.
1953
Jay Jewelers & Music Center occupied the building until 1980 offering a selection of jewelry, watches, school band and other musical instruments, radios and luggage. Lessons and instrument repairs were also available.
1985
Bankers First Federal Savings & Loan Association purchased all of the buildings on the north side of Broad Street between Macartan and 10th Streets and dedicated them as Lafayette Center on December 31. The $7.5 million project was the largest certified rehabilitation approved by the state Historic Preservation District at the time. 967 Broad Street was transformed into the Bankers First retail banking office on the first floor and two condominiums for overnight guests of the bank on the floors above.
2006
We purchased the building and the rest is history :-)
HAPPY CHRISTGIVING?
My Sister Olivia is in town for Thanksgiving and since she won't be here for Christmas we had Christ-giving or Thanks-mas :-). We woke up early Thanksgiving morning and did Christmas with Matt, Olivia & Caleb. Caleb, who just turn 18 months, was so cute opening his presents. He would pull off a little piece of wrapping paper and then promptly went to the trash can to dispose of of it, so each gift took a few minutes to open but it was so adorable no one minded. I got him a giant penguin stuffed animal - it was almost as tall as he is. My brother in law Matt got a gun from my dad and of course being the boy that he is had to go outside and try it out - boy was it was loud! (don't worry we were at the lake not Jones Creek). Anyway then around 1pm the family started arriving for Thanksgiving Lunch - we had so much food - My dad smoked Chicken & my grandma made Turkey and we had Ham. Then there were Corn Casseroles, Sweet Potatoes, Dressing, Broccoli Casserole, Homemade Bread, and a million other casseroles & desserts. After Lunch we went on a hike through the woods and over a "mountain" that has been named Shirley Mountain after my grandmama because when my mom was little she used to take them on a hike after Thanksgiving Dinner over a mountain she named Mount Mitchell Junior - not sure where that name came from. Anyway then we hung out a little longer and made the long trek back home. It was a very nice Christgiving!
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