Hidden treasures

One of the neat things about working on an historic project such as the Crist House is some of the interesting things you find in the house during construction. While working on the Crist House, we've found some old relics such as glass bottles, broken pieces of old china, old newspaper clippings, a broken barrel from an old pistol and some old marbles.

Of all the relics we've found, though, my favorite has to be what we found between the layers of flooring in the oldest section of the house. It was a torn piece of red construction paper with a hand written note in pencil on both sides of the paper. On one side, it read "This floor was laid by Lloyd Hern in 1934." On the flip side of the paper, in the same handwriting, it reads "The Depression started a few years ago and things haven't gotten any better since."