Our House on Broadway: The Eastlake Mirror Arrives

Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Eastlake Mirror Arrives

I’m not entirely sure when we got the Eastlake mirror for the fireplace, but Jamie thinks it was before the ceiling moldings went up, so I’m putting it in September 2012. We had been using a dresser mirror over the fireplace and it didn’t look quite right.

We were having trouble finding one to replace it, though, because the height of the ceilings meant that we needed a really big or tall mirror. Finally we saw a nice Eastlake mirror at an estate sale but felt the asking price ($1000, reduced “for us” to $750) was too much. There’s a whole somewhat amusing story as to how we came to purchase it later, which I won’t put here in case this blog ever goes public (we felt that there was some questionable conduct by a person involved). Anyway, it fits the room beautifully and most people assume the fireplace and mirror came with the house.

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The Purpose of this Blog

We are using this blog to document (with photos) some of the many changes our house has gone through. We think the house dates from around 1880, though it was smaller then. It was moved from its original site (one street over, on Sealy) to its current site on Broadway after the prior house at our address was destroyed by Galveston's 1900 Storm. The house has had at least three additions from what we can tell, probably all before 1930. At one point a larger roof had to be put on to accommodate the wider plan, and the old roof was left in place and can be seen in the attic. The siding is cypress and is probably original and is still in good shape. We have been told that some of the structural wood under the house was probably salvaged from debris remaining from wrecked houses after the 1900 Storm. The house was owned by the Boddeker family as far back as we know, probably back to when it was built. It stayed in their family for generations and we are apparently the first non-Boddekers to live in the house.

The house has three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen, breakfast room, dining room, living room, and central hall going from the front door to the kitchen at the back of the house. We use one of the bedrooms as an office. Out back there is a two-car garage with an adjacent office that we have converted into a studio. We have converted the attic of the garage building into a workshop.