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Date: 30 Aug 2000 13:20:47 -0600

I live in a home built in 1907. This is a fairly small house with two doors. I was told the extra door was to make it easier to remove caskets during the times of home funerals.
Beth

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>
> I lived in Lafayette, LA for 30 years. A great many of the older homes
> there, built up into the 30-40's and from very early days have 2 front
> doors. I heard a lot of different explanations for it and I would think it
> might be the front parlor explanation except that in that locale few had two
> parlors! It is interesting where it might have come from, but it seems
> fairly universal.
> Ruth Hoese @interconnect.net
> ----- Original Message -----From: "Robert Pumfrey" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:08 AM
> Subject: Re: 2 door houses
>
>
> > All,
> > I currently live in KY and have traveled around the state and in
> neighboring
> > states, where I have seen many smaller, older, rural homes with two front
> > doors. The explanation I have heard is that one door opened into the
> parlor
> > and was used to welcome guests directly into the parlor. I do know from
> > talking to older family members and neighbors that parlors were often used
> > only for special company, but none of them ever said anything about an
> extra
> > door. - Robert
> >
> > >Art and Sandi Wilson,
> > >In my area of Frederick Co MD near Carroll Co MD and 12 miles from York
> Co
> > PA, some
> > >of the early houses made of brick baked on the farm had 2 doors. They are
> > rapidly
> > >disappearing here by the way!
> > >Since I research the early German Baptist Brethren here as a hobby
> > (sometimes United
> > >Brethren and sometimes Lutheran switchovers), I find many with 2 front
> > doors and some
> > >with the old outside stone German chimneys (also in Washington Co MD near
> > Smithsburg
> > >and Leitersburg). Well sure it could be coincidence due to the Adams
> style
> > and the 4
> > >or 5 bay homes and the fact that they were built between 1770s and before
> > 1820s but
> > >gee all the ones I do are from families that are Brethren. And then I go
> to
> > OH to see
> > >where some of the other family lines went and they have 2 doors too just
> > like the
> > >ancestors had from MD, but only a few out there in OH are left. So is it
> > Brethren,
> > >probably NOT but the families were. Some of the houses have a trap door
> > like or
> > >expanding wooden platform used for dividing rooms in them too just like
> > early
> > >Brethren churches did for love feasts. So I stick to the houses with 2
> > doors, the
> > >orchards, the family cemetery with its sodium metabisulfite schist or
> slate
> > engraved
> > >tombstones enclosed by a limestone wall with periwinkle growing all over
> > the graves,
> > >the mill, the lime furnace to burn lime to go on fields (which
> > unfortunately leads to
> > >keeping ahead of the mine and quarry searchers of present day looking for
> > calcium
> > >carbonated lime or marble), the everlasting cedar trees (with some ash
> > trees if the
> > >wife is from Scotland for good luck), and too many other things to try to
> > remember
> > >but I look for automatically.
> > > Old brick houses around here with 2 doors that I look at are
> Bollinger,
> > Geiman,
> > >Petry, Neff, Keller, Zimmerman, Cassell, Baile, Bankert, Miller, Myers,
> > Danner,
> > >Devilbiss, Nicodemus, Alexander, Nusbaum, Trimmer, Driver, Royer, Roop,
> > Kemp,
> > >Johnson, Doubs/ Dubbs, Schaeffer/Shaffer and too many other names that
> are
> > forgotten
> > >right now from instant recall that malfunctions too much for me these
> days.
> > Now the
> > >real test is to figure out if the stone ones in Washington Co MD are
> > Brethren, where
> > >that stone is really prevalent resources for homes.
> > >And ya know what, some of the homes have 2 doors in Switzerland too but
> not
> > of brick
> > >but of a small diameter schist stone!
> > >regards, Karen
> > >
> > >Art & Sandi Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi, can you explain about the house with two doors?
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Sandi
> >
>
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