My 2115 and 2119 30th Street Ancestral Home -- Post 808 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs: 

Here are two views of the two-story house at 2115 and 2119 30th Street in San Diego that my Carringer great-grandparents built in 1897 and then moved and added onto in 1927 to create two separate homes.  The top photo is looking at the building from the southwest, and the bottom photo is looking from the northwest.  

The 1927 modification on the ground floor (now 2115 30th Street) included reducing the location and size of the front porch, moving the entrance, modifying a bedroom and adding a bathroom to the north side, and adding a family room or den to the west side replacing some of the porch.  The modification of the upper floor (now 2119 30th Street) included eliminating the internal staircase, adding the sunroom on the south side, adding the living room on the west side, adding the entry stairs, entry hall, dining room, kitchen and bathroom to the north side.  

After my great-grandparents died in 1944 and 1946, my grandparents moved into 2115 30th until 1951 when they built the Point Loma home.  They rented out 2115 30th.   My parents and their two sons (soon three) moved into 2119 30th in 1947, and lived there until 1979.  The bedroom for my brother Stan and myself was in the southeast corner of the upper floor until 1955, when brother Scott came along.  Stan and I moved to the sunroom in the southwest corner until we left the home in the late 1960s.  

This building is part of my family history.  

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