Inside and outside work

Here we have put up the tar paper and are ready for the shingle siding.

Starter course of shingles goes on trimmed short off the fat end so that the next course, which will be installed directly over it, will be at an even thickness.

As you can see here, this is the first full row.  Subsequent rows will be installed at a 5.5 inch exposure.

Dining room ceiling with the boards taken out where the new support beams will be installed.

Here is the supports that are lifting the floor upstairs in prepration to install the new beams in the dining room.

Parlor room with the new joists sistered ( meaning connected to ) onto the existing joists.

Here we struck gold, finally!  Not really...but if you can make it out, this is part of the insulation found jammed into the wall.  1898 gold rush to Alaska. 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, July 23, 1898.

Everyone was off to Alaska

Imported violins for 10$ and up.  1898 must have been when the first part of the house was built, and perhaps 1901 was when the second half of the house was finished. 

Below photo is of the parlor and the new sistered on joists sitting on the LVL headers going into the small room we call the library.