Comments by "mike Tackabery" (@miketackabery7521) on "This House" channel.

  1. So many beautiful things in this house. The wood defines each room and yet all the public rooms flow into each other. Finally a craftsman that hasn't been ruined with contemporary interiors!
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  2. Thanks for this video. I'd always thought that Gould built it himself, so I really appreciate the short history. Thanks again!
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  3. A sad story. kind of a wasted life she had. And who could possibly have known in the 70's that great houses like that might have another life besides a private home. Sad too for the family to have had to demolish it and break up the land... like so many in Britain and Europe.
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  4.  @earthlingjohn  OMG yes! I remember the smell! Yes: like a giant cedar chest!
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  5. OMG A SQUARE PIANO in the library!!!!!!! How freaking awesome!!!!!!
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  6. Astonishing. Mind-blowing. That this house once looked much like this, and he made it as close back as it was. Unbelievable. I will never forget this. I will never forget him. What a privilege to live in the same world as Mr. Dielmann.
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  7. I was very young when I went there. So young I don't remember whether I was with my folks or on a school field trip. I have little memories of the building: mostly of it's great size and beauty. So small are my memories that until just now I thought they were false, as no one ever seemed to know what I was talking about. We lived in Portland from 1955 til I was 10 (1962). The building has haunted my memories all these years, and I'm so glad now to know it was real. Thank you SO MUCH for this video!
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  8. Not a tiny house, Ken. You say it's 20'×20', but I count 3 floors (basement included). Minus airspace above staircases, probably about 1050-1100 square feet. But killer design: love that mansard roof, dormers, and bays.
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  9.  @Meta-Drew  funny isn't it? Kid's memories are registered so differently than adult's. I talked about my memory of this building a number of times with my folks and they didn't understand at all. What was A BIG DEAL for me was little or nothing to them. It's awesome to grow old and have answers to 60+ year old questions: and completely out of the blue... on YouTube for heaven's sake!
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  10. Let's take a moment to appreciate... 😂😂😂 Gotta love Ken.
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  11.  @mollypitcher9380  she's clearly a design ogre.
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  12. This is one wacko building. Someone had too much money and too little taste.
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  13. Gosh what a marvelous house! Love the jib door to the library. So many beautiful architectural details! Upper floors will need a lot of work... but oh my: what a place!!!
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  14. It's truly marvelous they went to the trouble and expense of documenting as much as they have. Really heroic restoration!
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  15. That was really enjoyable!
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  16. That was the style. Victorian style is all about more, as contemporary style is all about less.
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  17. Wow!
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  18. Wow! Thank you for this!
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  19.  @mollypitcher9380  they have a really interesting history. Their antecedents are in England but became truly recognizable in the US. They were even influenced by traditional Japanese buildings! Seeing the Gamble houses in Pasadena is a must for lovers of the style: extremely elegant, handmade and luxurious. Quite a revelation!
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  20.  @ThisHouse  wow how cool is that!
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  21.  @ThisHouse  oh please!
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  22. Nice tour! This house didn't have live-in help. The stair and woodwork on the 3rd floor are the giveaway. In this period outside help was becoming quite common: even some much grander homes hired out.
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  23. Thanks for the tour! The porch was originally open. Can't comprehend having picture rail and not using it. The painted woodwork may actually be historically correct because it certainly wasn't fine wood. The decor is frightening BUT... it's only decor, and the owner has done a marvelous job keeping the structure true to itself. Bravo to him!
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  24. That was a nasty crack! And manifestly untrue. Behave yourself.
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  25. 😣
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  26. That was really great! Thanks!
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  27.  @ginger1549  it's part of the style: the earliest antecedents are from India, where we get the name bungalow. Earlier architectural styles had far less windows. They're just charming, aren't they?
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  28. What a great place, and what an astonishing banister: the Victorians were amazing!
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  29. Charming, and very odd house. Nice to see so many original details and so little remuddling.
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  30. I really love your videos, but please forgive me because I find it necessary to correct some of your information sometimes. 1) Divorce was NOT unheard of at the time. It was quite common in the US: much more so than in any European country, and had been so since the 1840's. It wasn't socially ACCEPTABLE, but it wasn't rare. 2) She did NOT collect stolen art. She bought it from the Soviet Communist government which had APPROPRIATED it. It's (unfortunately) legal as long as a government does it. They were not her ill-gotten gains.
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  31. You musta had so much fun in this place!
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  32. SQUARE PIANO!!!!! YES!!!!!
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  33. Really enjoying your channel. Thanks for all your efforts!
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  34. Stupendous! So rare to see a house with almost everything original. My Gosh how fortunate/lucky for St Louis!
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  35. So this place is everything plus the kitchen sink. It's not one particular style, but a mishmash of several. I like much of it, and I like many of the details, but sometimes... the transitions are glaring. Especially from the facade into the stairhall.
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