SOME OF US PREFER NEW WHILE MANY WANT THE OLD AND FOR VALID REASONS, NEW NO LEAKY PIPES, OLD THE SMELL OF DAYS GONE. IN ANY EVENT CERTAIN ELEMENTS STAND OUT TO OUR INDIVIDUAL PLEASURE DAA
THE LOWENSTEIN HOME (NOW E. TORRES HOME) SAID TO BE ABOUT 200 YEARS OLD. EDITORS WOULD BE TRULY GRATEFUL FOR IN DEPTH INFORMATION USE THE COMMENT SECTION OR EMAIL TO OAD@ALASKA.NET
I am so pleased to see the inclusion of the Lowenstein/Torres home on your website! I am the great-grandson of the man who built the home, Leo Lowenstein. My grandmother, Charlotte Lowenstein Stendel, gave me some of the history of the house. As I recall, she said it had originally been a very old 2-room structure when my great-grandfather bought it, so the original structure may well be over 200 years old, but the structure as it exists today only dates to about 1904, which is when he sold his business in San Marcial and entered into a partnership with his two brothers to buy out the Price Brothers Mercantile on Manzanares Street (what we now know as the Loma Theater.)
My grandmother said the house was one of the few in Socorro that could boast it's own swimming pool--and it actually had two of them! The pool that was located directly to south of the house was still there when I was a kid in the early '80s. My grandmother said that was her favorite of the two because its water was somewhat heated (I don't know how) while the other one, located on the Northwest section of the property was fed by cold spring water.
My great-grandfather died in 1918, and, ironically, his wife, Rose, sold the house and moved with her two daughters into the "kit home" on North California St. that you also feature on your blog. My grandmother once told me that of all the homes she had lived in, that one was her favorite.
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I am so pleased to see the inclusion of the Lowenstein/Torres home on your website! I am the great-grandson of the man who built the home, Leo Lowenstein. My grandmother, Charlotte Lowenstein Stendel, gave me some of the history of the house. As I recall, she said it had originally been a very old 2-room structure when my great-grandfather bought it, so the original structure may well be over 200 years old, but the structure as it exists today only dates to about 1904, which is when he sold his business in San Marcial and entered into a partnership with his two brothers to buy out the Price Brothers Mercantile on Manzanares Street (what we now know as the Loma Theater.)
My grandmother said the house was one of the few in Socorro that could boast it's own swimming pool--and it actually had two of them! The pool that was located directly to south of the house was still there when I was a kid in the early '80s. My grandmother said that was her favorite of the two because its water was somewhat heated (I don't know how) while the other one, located on the Northwest section of the property was fed by cold spring water.
My great-grandfather died in 1918, and, ironically, his wife, Rose, sold the house and moved with her two daughters into the "kit home" on North California St. that you also feature on your blog. My grandmother once told me that of all the homes she had lived in, that one was her favorite.
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