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If you subscribe to this blog you’re probably surprised to see a post since it’s been quite a while since the last one.  Even though there’s been a lot of work done on the house, I haven’t posted any updates for a variety of reasons not the least of which is that the family and I had to temporarily relocate out of the country from June of 2014.  The house has still been in process however, and I’ll be making a few updates to the blog soon.

That being said, as it so happens the below posted letter to Edgar Haun was recently found by some of his descendants who were happy to have some insight into the life of their younger grandfather.  They were kind enough to send the attached picture of Thomas and Alice Haun (Edgar’s parents),  who owned the Mee House from 1913-1944.

We’ve attributed many “modern” improvements to the Hauns through some assuptions and some secondhand knowledge – their time there seeing what was likely the first major renovation of the property.  Not the least of which were the addition of the front porch as it stands today (most likely the house had a much smaller or no front porch when originally constructed), and electric lighting.  During some recent ceiling work, I took my first good look at a couple of the light fixtures on the first floor and it seems to me that they’re quite possibly the original fixtures that were installed when the house was first electrified in the late teens or early twenties.  I’d like to imagine that the Alice pictured below got to choose the lights that are still in use at the house today almost one hundred years later, as well as some of the uncovered wallpapers which will be featured in a later post.

Thomas and Alice Haun