Wow, Kim. A "Harvey House?!" What a cool memory to have. I love old (especially Victorian) houses. I do scrapbooking also and have been struggling with getting started on a family heritage one. I can't quite figure out how to do it... do you keep your family branches separate? Or is everybody together in chronological order? I've really got to get started on it, as I've been procrastinating for ages, but continuing to buy supplies for the scrapbook, in the form of heritage paper, stickers, vintage postcards from the towns my kin came from, historical info for specific times, etc., etc. Speaking of which, have you thought of finding a RPPC (real photo postcard) of a Harvey House to add to your book? You could add some journaling explaining that your aunt lived in one. I've purchased sooooo many postcards from eBay, but I've also just saved (right-click with mouse) and printed them out as well. I even saved and uploaded some to my Ofoto account and had them printed for 20 cents! They actually came out pretty well. :) Lorraine In a message dated 02/22/2005 10:56:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, kimpaul@nque.com writes: Dear Folks: While this doesn't necessarily pertain to Niagara County History, it still pertains to family history, at least I think anyway. Recently, I've been putting together my family heritage scrapbook, and have been deciding which pictures to put in. I realized that I was fortunate in having pictures of my dad's house in Kalamazoo, MI., and a picture of the homestead in Kansas where my Mom & her brother grew up. I remember spending many a summer at the farm and it was a lot like Dorothy's farm in Wizard of Oz. I have only one picture of the place and I feel it needs to be in the scrapbook. However I do wish I had a picture of my aunt's house in Kansas (my aunt married my Mom's brother). I found out later when I was older that my Aunt Mildred's house was a "Harvey House"! I thought, how exciting was that! In case if any of you doesn't know what a Harvey House is, watch the movie, "Harvey Girls" with Judy Garland, or do a Google search. Harvey Houses were like restaurants where travelers on the trains could get a bite to eat, and they where family places. You could tell that my aunt's house was different than most. It had two stories and the upstairs had a big room with several smaller bedrooms and a bathroom. The house wan't too far from the railroad. I used to love visitng there in the summers and sit on the huge porch and drink lemonade while swinging on the porch swing. On painting over the woodwork-my aunt's house has beautiful woodwork and none of it wasn't painted. The upstairs floor had the original wood flooring. I hope it stays that way! Kim

Lorraine said, > Wow, Kim. A "Harvey House?!" What a cool memory to have. Now I really don't know what a Harvey House looks like but I certainly know what a Sears Roebuck house looks like. It was only a few years ago that I figured out that the house I've been living in since 1977 was a Sears house that was built around 1929. What you did back then was look through the Sears catalog until you found the sort of house you wanted to build yourself on your own piece of property. You would place the order and Sears would ship by rail freight all of the pieces to the house including window and doors. My Sears house is my treasure. vee