How big or expensive does your house have to be to name it?
At what point do you (or others) get to call your house or your property by a name instead of an address? (Of course I'm sure the address works too) Examples: The Kennedy Compound (The Kennedys) Walker's Point (President Bush 41) The Prairie Chapel Ranch (President Bush 43) Rancho del Cielo (President Reagan) Sagamore Hill (President Roosevelt 26 (Teddy)) Springwood (President Roosevelt 32 (FDR)) Monticello (Thomas Jefferson) Mt. Vernon (President Washington) Neverland (Michael Jackson) (I guess one thing this very incomplete, off-the-top-of-my-head list makes abundantly clear -- there's been a lot of wealthy Presidents, huh...) |
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Dont forget Graceland (Elvis) Although I've been there, and its really not big at all. Im thinking how big do YOU have to be to name your house and get away with it.  |
| Being old helps.......the house, not you. Long before house numbers, house names were the only way for people to ID the house. House names still very common in UK. |
| I think age can be a factor too. Although, an "old" house with a name that may not seem huge/expensive to us now was probably seen as huge and cost a pretty penny when it was built. No real examples of this in mind right now. |
| Or it can just be really rural. When we moved to our farm, all we had to say is we bought "the Uhlman place"  Of course, it didn't hurt that apparently they were total weird, crazy people, so EVERYONE knew about them! |
| It's more about the person than the home in many cases. They need their notorietyness. With the older homes, that's how folks knew what you were talking about as they prolly didn't have proper addresses. Remember, there was a tent on TV for years with a very well known name - The SWAMP. Vance |
| My friend and I used to call our old rented apartment "The Dog House". Neither old, expensive or a house! Lots of punk kids in the city name houses that hold shows and parties too. |
Quote: "The Dog House" Thanks Heather, I forgot, for years this was known in the neighborhood as The White Dog House when Pyrs roamed around. People would ask which street and I'd them them and they'd say, "In relation to the White Dog House??" I considered it an insult to the other dogs who lived here as well.........or maybe they knew the White Dogs as those *&^%$! that kept them awake at night with the barking...  |
| I don't think it has to be big and expesnive to name. We had a house once down south, in the Outer Banks, Duck, North Carolina. It wasn't big or expensive but it had a name...Blue Harvest Moon...because it was a once in a blue moon opportunity for us when we bought it and the full harvest moon looked spectacular over the Sound in the yard... If I had to name my house now...what would it be? Maybe Doggone Crazy House! |
| We call the lake house "The Campgrounds." It's my idea of camping. |
| My family on my mother's side in England still call the family home by it's name, Silverlees. It's a generational home, no idea how many generations though. It's not big and never anyone famous or rich, it just "is". |
| around here it is common to have a named house. Ours is called Cherry hill, our neighbors is called Spruce Ridge, and next to that is a place called Locust Hill. Our family camp is also named Dugan Ponds. I think it is a rural thing for us. |
| In the 60's I married my first husband, we lived in TN for a while since he was from there and jobs were very scarce. We lived in a little 2 room place with no water even, it was named the S**t shack. |
| in our old neighborhood, all the historic houses had names, usually the first family that built the house..other than the ''Diamond'' house (Diamonds department store) no one goes by the names... our condo, One Lexington, has now been dubbed OLEX... |
| Size, age, notoriety, price, how rural, and of course, my favorite...how whimsical the owners! Our house is named: Vagabond House, after a poem written by a family friend. We name all our vehicles too. Is anyone here enough of a Patrick O Brian (a historical novel writer) fan to know why we just named our new-old RV "The Nutmeg of Consolation"??  |
| Yeah, and don't forget 4dognight's "Crazy Acres"! |
| Aren't all houses called "Money Pit?" Lovingly, of course. I am pretty sure that at a certain level of income houses cease to be called Money Pit and are then referred to as the estate or else the little cottage by the lake. I just personally only know the money pit kind. |
I have always wished to have a "named" house. Bingley's name is from Pride and Prejudice, and all of those homes are named . . . sigh. One day!  |
When we moved into our current home in 1999--our children named our house. It stuck and many people refer to it by it's name. They combined my maiden name and our sir name. The name is 'Baleford". All of their friends referred to it by it's name--it has been kind of fun for it to have a name.  |
| We name our cars, Lola is my black Jeep, Gary is the Mini Cooper, the Maple tree in the back yard is Marv. We decided to call our new house Tara, it's address is Scarlet Dr.  |
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