The Old Dragoo House, now Bogen's

This letter was sent with pictures(posted below) by Barbara Deitz to the person that we bought the house from.

Reise made this in Middle School. I love it!

These pictures of the house were taken in 1918, and the possed portrait was in the early 1900's.

The people in the portrait are Lawrence(the son of Tucker), his wife Gertrude, and childern Pauline, Bryan, and Roy(Barbara's father).

This is Tucker Steele Dragoo, his wife Sarah, and daughter Myrtle.

Here is the old wall paper in the kitchen I was telling you about.

It's really neat!

Reise's best friend Luke had a great idea to use old barn wood for the one kitchen wall. I really like it. Luke and Reise still have some work to do on it.

We're going to go to estate sales and such to find old things to hang on the wall.

Here's the stairs to the "Michigan Basment".

Here's more old wall paper. This was where the origanal stairway to the 2nd floor was.

It looks like it was very pretty back then.

Here's our dirty basment. It's dry though!

Here you can see where they opened the wall to update the ducts and the wires.

(can you see the tree root?)

Here is the Laundry room/ Office/mud room. Nice and big.

We've got some work to do out here too.

This is where the kitchen floor starts. Yuck!

Again, Yuck! We have already bought the new wood flooring. It's gonna go really nice with the barn wood!

This is the west side of our living room. I love the color!

This is the east side of the living room. Right where the tv is used to be a bedroom and the stairs used to go right through it.

Here's the girls favorite part of the house, the stairway. Up at the top there is a nice window and a very nice double fan.

Here is the hallway to the girl's rooms and the attic. You can see the trim needs to be put up around the doors.

The pink room(messy)

The purple room(super messy!)

The door to our room. See the "door knob"? LOL

Here it is!

Yup, that's it.......but it works for now. ; -D

I couldn't get a good picture of the bathroom.

So what do you think of our new house?

All the old pictures and the information about them was by Barbara Deitz. She is the great granddaughter of Tucker Steele Dragoo.

Thank you to Barbara for sharing some of her great family history.

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