The following video, which is sized for cellphones, shows several stages in the construction of the house my parents Roy and Estalene (Korns) built with their own hands back in the early 1960s. At the time, I was too young to be amazed.
The video begins with the small cement block structure that came with the property they bought, and ends with a rear view of the finished house. The cement block structure became the basement of the new house, after they added a garage to it. We lived in the basement while the house was being built. The house was originally built next to where Millbrook Road now crosses Interstate 79 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Shortly after the house was completed, Interstate 79 came through, and they had to move the house about 0.87-miles to a different piece of property east of Foster Road.
The following video shows the house being moved.
The following photo shows the rear of the house, looking generally north, not long after it was built. When they bought the property, it had a small basement. They added a garage to the western end of the basement, and then built a house on top, using very little hired help. The small red shed was a plywood pickup truck camper top that I used as a cabin. It sat on the cement porch of a mobile home we lived in before moving into the basement. Originally, the camper top had a convex plywood roof, but Dad replaced it with a peaked roof. Photo provided by Dana (Dietle) Moore.
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