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Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of every week to celebrate the things that make us happy. This week–and every week–I’m hooked on old houses. Every time I run across a photo of a great old house like this Victorian from Georgia, my heart skips a beat. I have a big file of them that I keep and thought I’d show you a few of my favorites today. I noticed as I looked through them today that almost all of them have at least one porch, so it’s safe to say I’m also hooked on porches. Take a look at these stately old homes in Charleston:
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Here’s a white house from Alabama that I think is really charming:
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An ivy-covered old mansion in Wisconsin that I’d love to get a tour of (especially at Halloween!):
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Now it’s your turn to tell us what you’re hooked on today! If you have something to share with us on your blog, then add your link below. Just please be sure to:
- Add the permalink to the specific blog post, not your general blog address.
- Include what you’re hooked on in parentheses after your blog name. Ex: The Red Cottage (antiques)
- Link back to the party from your post so that your readers can come and see what everyone else is talking about today!
- Visit as many of the other participants as possible and leave comments! That’s what a blog party is all about!
- Double-check to make sure your link works and goes to the right page so it doesn’t get deleted! If you come back and see your link is gone, re-read these rules and try again next week.
(Also check out Fifi’s Fashionable Friday and Melissa’s Beautiful Life parties, happening today!)
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Hi Julia. Wow, these homes are beautiful! The exteriors are so stunning; I just love the architecture. And I’d love to see inside every one of them. Thanks for showcasing photographs of these beauties! ~Arleen
I love the charm and character that old houses have. These ones that you posted are really beautiful. The very first one with the great garden is my favourite.
Kelly @ DesignTies
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I would love to visit Charleston; that house is just beautiful. At one time I had a friend who lived in a house a bit like the Wisconsin one, only hers was in Scotland. Those turrets are very glamorous but have the air of mystery too!
Thank you for hosting the Friday party.
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Old homes are so beautiful! My favorite is the ivy-covered mansion. Wouldn’t you love to see what kind of rooms are on the third story? So lovely!
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Old houses are just so romantic to me…ohhhh, someday!
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I love me some victorians too! Especially the Queen Anne Style. That is what I love about my town, loaded with victorians. Hope you share some insides of these favorite houses sometime.
Thanks for sharing!
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These are wonderful homes Julia. I’d love to stroll through Charleston and admire them all. And I’m definitely loving all the porches too.
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Why Gracious Miss Julia….those southern homes are to die for! We especially love the first home’s gingerbread!!
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They’re gorgeous!! If I had to pick though, I would say #2 is my favorite! I would LOVE to see the inside!
~Karla @ It’s The Little Things…
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I’ll take the last one please! I can see myself kicking back on that porch with a glass of wine and a book…
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That house in Alabama is screaming my name! How gorgeous, my favorite kind of homes.
Thank you! I can’t get over that Alabama beauty.
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I love old houses so much that I even try to make our new homes look like these old homes!
I know I sound like an old foggy, but why can’t they build homes like this anymore?
Happy weekend, Julia.
xo
Brooke
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I have an old house and I love it. We had to remodel about 10 years ago because when we bought the home we had one little baby….Now I have 4 boys/men plus the husband the 1300 square feet and one bathroom was a major problem.
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I would love to tour these old homes. I am in Georgia, and would LOVE to know where that first house is! How beautiful… Love how the ivy crawls all around on that wonderful home in Wisconsin too. Just beautiful!
Have a great weekend Julia!
~Misti
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I just love these houses, Julia. I live in a reasonably old house (circa 1880) for Sydney Australia, that is! I’m constantly working on it. I’ll blog about it one day!
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Those houses looked really well-loved and manicured. The house with turrets (sp.?) was my favorite. It would be so magical to live somewhere like that.
Great homes, stately and magical, number two being my favorite.
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Oh, to find an old house like that out here! Those are gorgeous!!!!!
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Just another quick comment to thank you for your comment on my post on Fifi’s blog
Good to hear you enjoyed it 
Kelly
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Beautiful! I love them too, especially that first one.
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ohh I love the one in Charleston! those porches are amazing!!!
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Those houses are GORGEOUS! I tell ya, that first one is like a dream house for me!!
Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting’s last blog post..Paint Today With Love
You are so right!! Amazing how the most wonderful homes have it all.. DETAILS details and more.. Porches especially..
Loved them all — TTFN Claudia
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Yeah, I’m a harlot for real estate: my heart skipped a beat when I saw that first house. Oh, how I’d love to peek inside that gorgeousness!
I have to say after last week my mind had been on porch swings! And that is the first thing that I noticed about these old houses. They all have a perfect spot for a swing. I wish my house had a big porch like that! Maybe I can get my husband to build me something on the back patio? Thanks for having the party each week. I love to see what everyone is hooked on.
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I’m excited about old homes, someone from Philadelphia is moving to Canada in a waterside town near me, they’ve purchased a period home (1910) and called me (the power of blogs!)to start the decorating process…I’m excited to get into the victorian style!
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I’m hooked on old houses too. Bought one and fixed it up once.
($$$) It was a labor of love, but worth the personal satisfaction of seeing it come to life again.
These homes are really beautiful! The mature landscaping in that first home is gorgeous! Love that house too!
Gorgeous houses! I really wish we could live in older home with more architectural interest. It would cost more than a massive fortune to build something like that today. Another problem was that we wanted a piece of property with more than a postage stamp size piece of land with the house.
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Those Charleston houses are so beautiful…it is fun to get a tour of the ones that are historical treasures, because there are all sorts of reasons why they are built the way they are. Many of the Charleston houses have sleeping porches designed to capture the breezes on hot summer nights in the days before air conditioning.
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I am an old house fanatic, much to my kids’ chagrin – they have to share a room in this 150 year old house. They should be thankful for the running water, right?
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Oh I love all these houses. I would love to live in one like these one day…our house is kinda old, but only from the 1950s!
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Oh yummmm! Love the first house. But love the Alabama cottage, more. ‘Cause a cottage is what I lust after now. ,-)
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Charleston is so great, all those houses packed together right on the street, not hiding on estate lots. Yet they seem to keep their privacy.
I worry about the big ones everywhere. Many are white elephants, no longer in the “best” neighborhoods; not where folks with the money to maintain them want to live. I hope many can be saved by re-tasking them into offices, schools, duplexes or whatever. Often, zoning and historical designation can make that difficult.
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Oh, my! I am in love with the first two photos. Soooo stately and beautiful!
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Oh my, I want to go live in that last house. LOVE it. Such beautiful homes. Thanks for the blog party.
Jennifer
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Those are all stately and grand homes. Thanks for your research and hooked on party!
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Thanks, Julia, as always for hosting us!!
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Oh, I am SO hooked on old houses! Would choose old over new anyday!
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Oh my favorite house is the first one but I would take any of them. Love the glorious ivy on the brick Victorian.
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I love your style, as always. Those houses are beautiful!
Crazy for those homes Julia. I had a 1918 farm house with a great front porch & swing. Nothing like it! I too want to visit that WI home @ Halloween!!
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J’adore all these homes… LOVE LOVE LOVE old homes!!!
Bon week-end mon amie!
Fifi
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Architecture has changed so much over the past fifty years. Seeing these older homes that are intended to be truly lived in is such a treat.
I’ll bet many of these have pantries. I could get hooked on pantries!
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Hello and happy Friday everyone!
Im hooked on the weekend..Its finally going to be summertime weather here in the upper left hand corner of our US map. We Pacific Northwesters have to suck up all the 70 degree weather we can have, because, they only come..rarely. Heres hoping you have an excellent weekend with your peeps!!
xo
Lisa
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I Love your blog and I read it everyday I have never posted a comment before but I had to today. I love the last house I have loved it for 19 years I drive by it every chance I get it is located in Lacrosse Wi. Lacrosse is home to many beautiful homes.
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Hi Julia! I love those houses, and would like to see inside every one of them. I am a terrible Old House Stalker — it’s an addiction. It’s very disappointing when people with fabulous houses close their draperies at night so we stalkers can’t peek in. What crust! Have a lovely weekend. . . we’re heading to the beach house for some fixup. Cass
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I love those houses! My dream is to have a summer home in Savannah, or some other beautiful Southern city when I retire
Julie @ Organizement’s last blog post..Schools Out For Summer
red turrets and ivy walls… a fairy tale house
Jane @ Beach House’s last blog post..Ben: Capturing Color
I LOVE LOVE LOVE old houses……just not the maintenance
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There’e nothing like an old home….if only they could speak to us !!!
Have a great week-end Julia
Kathy
Wow! All of them are charming and amazing. Love all the detail involved.
Brenda
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I love your blog! This is my first hooked on Friday’s post. I’m very excited about it.
I could look at pictures of old houses all day. My dream is to build a house based on the old time architecture.
I’m SO hooked on cleaning out my house today! I’m filling 42 gallon garbage bags from Home Depot! Love those houses!!
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I’m a newer house type of gal, but I love looking at pics of older homes. The one in Alabama is adorable.
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I just found an “old house” at a garage sale!
Love the look of the exterior houses, but I must confess I am a modern gal at heart (love the mod-cons!).
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That home in Alabama is to die for. I always dream of living in a charming and rustic neighborhood. One day.
Hi Julia,
Your blog parties rock! I love the houses in today’s post. If I had to pick a favorite I think I would choose the first one, although I have been hearing a lot of good things about Charleston these days. Hmm… tough decision. This is the first time I joined a blog party with an actual link. Thanks for having such a great site. I’m hooked on houses, too.
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I love modern…but I also love the oldies!
And these are beauties! I’m not a huge fan of the Charleston type, but the others you show here are special. So much detail. There’s just something magical about them. I would also love to the last one dressed up for Halloween! 
(My favorite time and holiday of the year!)
These houses are all beautiful.
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I’m late…but, I wanted to say how much I love the Wisconsin house. I’m not sure I could live in it, but I like dark places anyway.
I love the character of the older homes.
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Ivy…swoon…….
Actually, I’d take any of these gems!
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I love old houses. They have so much character and charm!
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Oh my gosh. That house in Wisconsin, sits across the street from our neighborhood park. I had to drive by it to make sure it was the one, what a small world. The house is located on Cass Street in La Crosse WI. There are quite a few house on that street that are very old and huge, the town refers to them as the Cass Street Castles. I think most of them were buildt by lumbar barons in the day.