Rob's Family Home - GONE

The "New" House

Side view of the new house

When my mom passed in Dec. 2013 my brothers and I put the house up for sale.

It was the house that my brothers and I grew up in. Mom and Dad and my older brother Steve had lived in another town for 4 years before this house was built, and they moved in three months before I was born. My brother Doug would come along 2 years later.

 

Mom and Dad's House - that I grew up in

   When we sold the house, we didn't expect it to be totally rebuilt, so it was quite a shock to see a totally different house sitting there when I returned the week of Sept. 19th to attend a Pet Expo and visit my brother and his family. 

  HOW I LOOK AT IT-  Since my parents had their house designed and built by my mother's cousin in August 1962, it was their own ideas and their creativity that built the house. The new

The house from the side street- Puritan Drive

Front door to the house. Mom loved that tree

owner basically decided to raze the house and build a complete new house (and a large monstrosity) except for the garage.  So, This is the way I think about it: the house that I and my brothers grew up in will always be special, because we can say that no other family truly lived in it. That's pretty special.