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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like pre-WWII houses.  I like the design, I like the layouts, I like the real masonry, I like the beautiful detailing, I like the plaster walls and solid doors. I like the cross ventilation and the placement of windows on all four sides, flooding the house with light.  Find me a new house built with real masonry, real plaster and lathe, old growth wood floors and doors, stained wood trim, glass door knobs, little nooks and crannies, built-ins, and lots of windows (no big windowless exterior walls please) and I would happily live in it as long as it was NOT a completely open floor plan.

FYI, many pre-WWII houses are actually quite large - they were built for large families.  Maybe not 6000-10,000 sq ft, but personally that size house holds no attraction to me.
I have no need of a house bigger than 3000 sq ft.  And unless I'm living in a rowhouse, I don't want my house to be bumping up to the neighbor's, so I'd prefer a smaller house surrounded by a nice sized yard than a bigger house where you can practically reach out the window and touch the house next door.

So there's your answer from me.  I don't go around bashing new, big houses, but since you asked why I don't love and covet one, there you go.  It has nothing to do with "jealousy" (pffft) and everything to do with my own personal taste.  Also, I like the established feel of my pre-war neighborhood. You can't get that feeling in a brand new development - it takes time.[/quote]

Most older homes in this area lost their period details if they ever had them to begin with.  [/quote]

They haven't lost the exterior walls built of real masonry, or the interior plaster & lathe walls, and probably not the solid doors and the nice door handles and backplates. Or the nice placement of windows.  Or the old wood floors.

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Much of these features are long gone in older homes...plaster patched, doors replaced, handles gone, wood carpeted over.  There wasn't much money in this area when the old homes were built.  Most are ugly.  The nicer homes are newer and mostly outside DC.[/quote]

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