Fun Resources For Discovering The History Of Your Home

Last week, home blog Apartment Therapy ran a piece on different ways to investigate your home’s past. Considering South Slope’s wealth of historic architecture, we thought the resources listed could be helpful to curious homeowners and at least some renters in the area.

In addition to the basics like finding out the year your home was built if you don’t already know, or simply the names of people who used to own it, AT lists resources like Housefax, which offers fire histories, building permits, and even any reported meth lab activity, and Died in House–the perfect start to pranking skittish family members on Halloween.

Some steps are more labor intensive, but if you’d rather just let someone else do the legwork, AT says HouseStories is a great resource, too.

You can find the full post with all listed resources here. If you haven’t looked into your home’s history before, have fun! And if you have, did you find anything that really surprised you?

Photo via New York Public Library