In some countries, more and more people are becoming interested in finding out about the history of the house or building they live in. What are the reasons for this? How can people research this?

Some
houses
have a lot of history in their record,
for
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you can find that there are some of them that have more than one hundred years.
This
can be very interesting not only for the sake of knowing a story
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can be useful to recalculate the value of your home.
People
say that information is power. When we talk about
real
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state
this
phrase can be true. In New York fr example when
people
are tenants are looking for a
house
they should know
that is
better to avoid
houses
that are from a certain age because at that time they didn’t have the same requirements like
for example
fire exits, quality of the plumbing or double glassed windows.
On the other hand
, because not all the old
houses
have to be bad, victorian
houses
that they can be very old have
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amazing quality and apart from that the design is something that still in our
times
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designers try to copy, but in my opinion nothing better than the original one.
In addition
to
this
sometimes discovering that your
house
was somewhere that a famous person lived or did something like being the
house
where William Shakespeare wrote one of his multiple plays
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could give the
house
a huge increased in his value. I am of the opinion that if
people
are trying to find out the story of their own places is because they would like to find if something valuable happened so they can take
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advantage.
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some
people
find it fascinating that the
house
was built in some historical moment so they can feel that they are part of it.
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the best way to collect
this
information is
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to the council and look when the
house
was made and after
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you have a point to start searching for information from the area.
Then
, of course, the best way to find more stuff on the internet and if you don’t find anything talking with the neighbour can be useful. To sum up, I think that
this
new hype of finding the history behind your
house
is very good because even if it is for a selfish reason you will spend time learning something new.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Historical research
  • Genealogy
  • Architectural styles
  • Heritage
  • Relics
  • Oral history
  • Archival records
  • Museum exhibits
  • Historical societies
  • House tours
  • Renovation projects
  • Original blueprints
  • Careful documentation
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