Help! I've a few of these. I had assumed that they were old phone jacks, but then I noticed that they had five leads...
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A contributing structure in the Shaker Village Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places historic district.
Built 1926 by Richard U. Collier.
Designed by architect William A. Bingham.
Fixing a house in a city where the idea of a fixer-upper is a foreign concept. Navigating laws that seem to ignore the possibility of owners doing their own repair work. Illustrating interesting homes for sale in the city. We'd planned on buying a major fixer-upper, and then the house of our dreams appeared. There will still be projects, yes, but they'll be more of the "detail" type and less of the "how are we going to make dinner without a functioning kitchen" type.
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A contributing structure in the Shaker Village Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places historic district.
Built 1926 by Richard U. Collier.
Designed by architect William A. Bingham.
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2009
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January
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- What is this? (part 2)
- What is this?
- Light switches and electrical outlets
- What am I going to do with this stupid little window?
- Love is blindness
- The Original Shower Light Fixture of Doom!
- We now have a boring flush-mounted shower light!
- Back from DC
- eBay alert!
- Another curious discovery in the attic
- Not quite what I had expected
- A morning greeting from your friendly neighborhood...
- On a lighter note
- Think happy thoughts...
- A Project for the 40 Year Plan
- Our house in the snow
- The massive mountain and the pitiful little minivan
- Slab Wood
- Why I miss Washington County, Maryland
- Our First Fire
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January
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House Parts Want List (any condition, any time)
- birdbath basin, for exterior garage wall
- faucet handles, Republic brand or historically approprate mixer valve for master bath shower
- Faucets and handles for sinks, porcelain, wide spread mixer, 1920s vintage, three sets
- Fireback to fit fireplace
- Garage doors, wood, similar to original
- Glass push plates for swinging door
- Hinges, standard, to match existing for French doors in library
- hinges, wide throw, Stanley "sweetheart" for French doors
- kitchen cabinets, steel, Lyon - especially trim pieces
- Radiator, tall and skinny, for master bathroom
- Sandstone, to replace broken on front sidewalk
- Screen and storm doors for front and back doors, wood
- Shower door, historically appropriate, for master bath, or appropriate shower curtain rod
- Sink, corner, for basement bathroom
- Spouts and handles for tubs, two sets
- Telephone nook
- Tile, white, 4x4, flat glaze, to match existing in guest bathroom
- Tile, white, 6x6, flat glaze, to match existing in bathrooms
- Toilet, Trenton Potteries (TePeCo) SiWelClo, circa 1920
- Windows, steel casement, to match existing, for parts
About Me
- Christopher Busta-Peck
- I'm a children's librarian at the Cleveland Public Library in Cleveland, Ohio. I have one lovely wife, three awesome turtles, a cat, and a son, Everett. I will be chronicling my adventures in fixing up a Tudor style house in Shaker Heights.
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10 comments:
What rooms and locations in the rooms are they in?
Maybe an intercom system? (Possibly combined with the phone.)
its very similar to a Swedish phone plug except here it looks like the prongs are square and not elongated. Mabe if you pull it out of the wall and look at the wire it will help figure to it out! Now you've got me all curious!
I think it is phone....we had a very similar outlet in the turn-of-the-century house I grew up in that had a round five-pronged converter to a standard jack. Can't remember the shape/configuration of the prongs though---just that the converter was old, always coming loose and needing to be plugged back in! Also, in our 1915 California house, several of our original electrical outlets were non-standard numbers/shapes of prongs and such (no longer working by the time we got them, and sadly now gone because the electrician forgot to save them!) because when the wiring was installed there were not yet universal standards, so different parts of the country/items used different types of wiring. Maybe the same thing was true for telephones?
It's not a tv-antenna hookup, is it? We've got a similar one in our living room, and that's what ours is. I'm not sure about the number of holes, though.
I've provided a photograph of the inside of the outlet and some additional description in this post.
I have them in my house-they are hooked to a set of transformers somewhere and supply the various voltages to run old battery powered radios with grid current.
Some of them also supplied the ground/arial connection.
Neighmond - do you by chance have photos of the transformers, and of the cords for the radios that would attach to them?
There are a bunch of transformers in the basement, and I'd assumed they were all for the pumps for the boiler or for old boiler pumps that have since been removed. Now, I wonder if some of them might be for that.
Going with what Neighmond said, it looks a lot like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Plug,-Ham-Radio,-5-Prong-with-Match,-_W0QQitemZ140299301149QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090205?IMSfp=TL090205151009r21553
Belgian Type Phone Jack?
http://www.brightmfg.com/phone_adapters.html
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