Two years after getting married we scraped together a down payment and bought a 39 year old Sears cape cod that the original owner had constructed by a local builder. It was a very simple home, a classic cape cod design with a door and a window on each side in the front.
It was 1200 square feet and a porch and dormer (extra bedroom) had been added upstairs. It was a very solid house and served us well for 8 years until a growing family made moving to a larger home (1,600 sq. ft.!) a necessity.
There were many happy memories there and it was in that home that I dug out my old trains and got back into the hobby.
