A Sweet 1920s SET
My online vintage lighting store.
I have TWO of these sweet 1920s ceiling fixtures which retain their original polychrome!
With pull-chains!
And TWO matching sconces!
I rescued the set from a house being demolished in Kansas City.
To think that this AMAZING house was just smashed to the ground.
My online vintage lighting store.
8 Comments
Leave a Comment
Your email address will NEVER be made public or shared, and you may use a screen name if you wish.
Hi Ross What was the fascination with bare light bulbs? Although I like the styles of early 1900’s, the bulbs not so much. All my fixtures from 1920(?) have glass shades which I love. Do you have a favorite style? You seem to enthuse over so many.
What was wrong with the house that it was torn down. Makes me sick whenever this happens. Mark
Very sad this house was torn down.
Fixtures are lovely.
Why? Bad enough someone sprayed stucco all over that house and likely rotted it underneath. I’ll be the inside was fabulous. There are a lot of houses around her like that one. Some close to original, others bastardized with stucco and vinyl windows and worse inside. I was lucky in that mine had some ugly carpeting but the hardwood was still underneath. The kitchen and bathroom had horrible, HORRIBLE congoleum in them but the original cabinets and fixtures from the 1949 remodel were still intact. The light fixtures were missing for the most part and the original slip shade chandelier from the dining room was intact when I did my walk through and broken when I got the keys and went in the garage to retrieve it and return it to the dining room ceiling. Still angry I allowed the realtor to discourage me from taking it for safe keeping. Over and over I allow people to talk me out of doing something I feel is the best way to go and over and over the results have been horrible. All avoided if I had just done as I intended.
There are houses all over the city in worse shape than that house that are lived in and fixed up and sold for plenty of money. Why would anyone raze that house to the ground. Worse yet, destroy the interior without salvaging everything possible.
The fixtures you’ve restored are exquisite. I’ll never understand why this country insists on tearing down our history. In European countries they restore or renovate their buildings, many which look like they should be torn down.
The lights are gorgeous! Too sad about the house. In it’s place will be an ugly one with windows placed haphazardly and look old and shabby in 20 years. Why indeed! 🙁
Great save on the lights, but like the others, I am sad to know that the house was lost. I wonder though if the stucco finish exterior may have been original though; stucco was very popular in the 1920s, both on new homes and also on retrofits on homes from the latter part of the 19th century. When I was a kid (early 70s) a friend of my grandmother lived in a house very much like this bungalow; her parents had built in in the 20s and it was stucco with stone and wood timber trim from day one. The interior had a lot of Craftsman and Prairie style accents with wooden ceiling beams and wide moldings, but all of the wood was dark mahogany. She passed away in the 90s, and the people who bought the house ruined it before they lost it; it was eventually condemned and torn down.
It makes me sad when a perfectly good home is destroyed. Thank you for at least salvaging some part of it. I am so tired of the way we (Americans) think anything over 50 years old is ancient and needs to be replaced with new construction. Construction that is obviously not as good as the original. Instead of proper maintenance, we just destroy it. So sad.
Wow? Nice to hear people say the things I say that usually sends people (American citizens) running.