So, I’ve been looking at Time Capsule Homes on the internet the past few days. My home is most certainly not a time capsule home, but hailing from 1975, it does have some pretty groovy elements about it.
Our house is not really all that pretty or interesting really. It is a salt-box with a basement… in the southern part of Mississippi. Who does that? That style house doesn’t fit in around here at all and basements in the swampy south are a ridiculous idea. Seriously. If you’re one of the few people who have a swamp basement, then you completely understand.
What is cool is that it was a kit house. I’d heard that story from my mom all my life. How the original owner had the house built, but backwards. Tonight I found the proof. I was also rather excited to see this clip-out. Although honestly I could find absolutely no reference to Kingsberry (I did for Kingsbury though), but from the partial advertisement that my mom clipped, it definitely is a kit house. The advertisement was from the April 1972 issue of NAHB Journal of Homebuilding Volume XXVI Number 4.
The original owner did have it built backwards. The breezeway on the right with the garage after it. Also, that black spot on the left side of the garage is a wood holder. He didn’t opt for that. When my family purchased the home, eight months before I was born, it had shutters on either side of all nine front windows. Also, there was absolutely no white. Everything was blue with grey trim.
Alien Tea Shoppe 