Originally Posted by
noglider
Have you found any treasure in the house yet? Our house was built in 1888. We moved in in 2003. In one of our first projects, we found some party invitations in a wall. They were to a WW-I war reunion party held in 1920. Admission price was 50 cents plus 5 cents war tax.
In our kitchen renovation, we found gas lines over the ceiling. They were for lights! We left the gas lines in so the next renovator will discover them again.
When I gutted the lath and plaster in both upstairs bedrooms there wasn't a single stud cavity that didn't have whiskey and beer bottles and cigar butts. Beneath the trim for one of the closet shelves someone had written 'June 17, 1913' in the fresh plaster several times; it was done with a carpenter's pencil in the lovliest Palmer Method script.