...which is light years from wonky wiring. Apologies for threadjacking.

But yeah, it was built some time during North America's earliest world wars between France, England, and Native Americans/First Nations peoples, by economic refugees fleeing frontier violence. George Washington was at most like 10 years old when that house was built.

There's a board in the attic that all of the owners have written their names on. It's so trippy.

The bricks in the central chimney are English, brought over as ballast. You can see fingerprints in them, it's pretty wild.

Central Massachusetts. French settlers, most likely: the attic joinery is basically medieval French, common in Quebec, not so much in English houses. Earliest tax records are 1740.

it's... not terrible, but only if they've mostly gotten rid of your knob & tube wiring in the meantime (my folks' house was built in 1730 or so; my house in Seattle was 1911, so we've seen some wiring shit)

correct enough. grounding sockets are Good, Objectively

huh. I mean, it makes sense.

wait what

with an MSDN subscription, probably said in the same tone as "Colonel Mustard with a lead pipe, in the conservatory."