Thank You!

I just want to say thank you (again!) to the Benton County Historical Society!
They have graciously featured our blog in their January newsletter. It is very exciting to know that there are people out there who have an interest in what we are doing and have taken the time to read our posts. As I have said before, the Historical Society has been a great and very helpful resource in the research of the Mayhew House history.

Here is the article!

"Recently we were contacted by a home owner wanting information on the house that they bought.  We have what we call a “hit or miss” history on the houses of Benton County.  Not a lot of people had the money or means to take pictures, not everyone had cameras around (unlike today) and people had so much to do in their daily lives that it had to be a pretty special occasion for a house to be in a picture.  There are exceptions to that, but those exceptions are far and few in between in our records. Same with information on houses– usually only legal abstracts, or mortgage deeds, not a lot of blueprints, building permits, or structure records.

So, we told the people that if they gave us the address, we would do what we could to look it up, but would probably find more under the owner’s names on the abstract.  As soon as she gave me the address, I knew which house it was!  We had looked up some information on it about a year ago and so I sent out what we had. 

A couple of days later, an email arrived and lo and behold, Kay had posted the information up on a blog about the house.  I visited the blog and was so surprised to find a great blog with pictures of the house as it sits now, along with some interior pictures of the house before they start to restore/renovate it.  It is the George Becker house in Minden Township and the granite marker in the corner of the foundation is 1903.  We find it exciting to be able to see on the blog, and the progress that will be made in the future!  Kay’s blog is great and called Mayhew House and you can get there with this internet address: http://mayhewhouse.blogspot.com/. 

You can see the picture at the right that she has on the blog and it looks like a great old brick house with some interesting architecture to work with!  We wish them luck and will be watching to see how the project moves forward!

  We love this idea of a blog for the restoration and history!  If you know of more, let us know!"

("Cool Historical Items." Benton County Historical Society NewsLines. (2013): 2. Print.)

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