tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post5716740470343036203..comments2023-11-27T21:41:30.009-08:00Comments on The Daily Postcard: Freswick HouseChristine H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09786732494496282743noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-43167268159198745572011-04-07T18:07:23.146-07:002011-04-07T18:07:23.146-07:00Don't show this card to Martha Stewart. She wi...Don't show this card to Martha Stewart. She will definitely want to spruce it up:) What a foreboding looking place!Trishiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02827588587258035270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-67450693410574840822011-03-19T18:46:56.157-07:002011-03-19T18:46:56.157-07:00Haunted or not, that postcard would work equally a...Haunted or not, that postcard would work equally as well as a Halloween postcard. And using the number of windows for assessing taxes -- that's just crazy!Brian PaperSpongehttp://www.papersponge.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-49465152146014097322011-03-17T21:12:40.206-07:002011-03-17T21:12:40.206-07:00Geeze Sheila, I thought the IRS made things diffic...Geeze Sheila, I thought the IRS made things difficult, it's even worse to have to fill in your windows! An early version of off-shore banks?...Archie Techthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08030376486096194337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-89395809111954548792011-03-17T05:36:30.397-07:002011-03-17T05:36:30.397-07:00Maybe if the house was painted a pastel yellow or ...Maybe if the house was painted a pastel yellow or blue it wouldn't look so forbidding. For some reason, I thought of Spain when I first saw the picture.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954692169914973706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-51559104223209031862011-03-17T05:00:55.049-07:002011-03-17T05:00:55.049-07:00Even though it isn't a mill, it brings to mind...Even though it isn't a mill, it brings to mind "dark satanic mills". It just doesn't seem a place to nurture artistic endeavour.<br /><br />To answer Archie Techt, the Window Tax was devised as a way to tax the wealthy without having to call it income tax. The idea was that the more wealthy you were, the larger your house, the more windows you'd have. This led to all the bricked up windows you see in houses which date from the 18th or 19th century.Sheila @ A Postcard a Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09140046386364588303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-80992437067736927102011-03-16T10:17:24.720-07:002011-03-16T10:17:24.720-07:00On my first glance at the image before reading the...On my first glance at the image before reading the text I thought, "that is one odd window to wall ratio...", guess the window tax explains that. Still, I wonder why you wouldn't at least make BIG windows if you are going to be taxed on each of them- perhaps they limited size too, if it was over a certain dimension it counted as two? Glass at that point in building history was commonplace, not a luxury, so it seems an odd way to levy taxes.Archie Techthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08030376486096194337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323012003780250968.post-40577452390258131462011-03-16T07:22:04.198-07:002011-03-16T07:22:04.198-07:00Yep, Ghost Hunters International definitely needs ...Yep, Ghost Hunters International definitely needs to investigate that place. Ghosts or not, I'd live there!Postcard Rounduphttp://www.postcardroundup.comnoreply@blogger.com