What Houses Used to Look Like 100 Years Ago

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Dining Room

This dining room scene set in Olean, New York, which is located in western New York, showcases a little bit of several styles, beginning with the dining room table, which looks similar to Victorian-styled furniture. The cane seat chairs are an interesting addition and were popular choices in homes since the Industrial Revolution made it easier to mass produce them.

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Sagamore Hill

Teddy Roosevelt had the Queen Anne style home built in Oyster Bay, New York. Electricity was installed in 1918 to the three-story, wood-framed building. Roosevelt hung several big game trophies around the home as you can see here. Workers completed a massive $10 million rehab back in 2015 to the house. When the house was built in the 1890s, wallpaper was generally restricted in bedrooms because of toxic coloring agents but later the walls began to be wallpapered, beginning in 1919.

The pine woodwork of the house was stained or shellacked while some of the flooring was cork tile.

The mantelpiece in the Trophy Room is in the Classical Revival style but the majority of the home is in the Queen Anne style. Check out some great old Queen Anne style homes that could look just as great restored. 

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