Your home has a past. I find it.
A house history is a primary source narrative of your property: who owned it, who lived there, what happened inside those walls, and how it fits into the larger history of its neighborhood and time. This is not a title search. It is a work of history.
I work primarily with properties in Philadelphia and the surrounding region, where I have direct access to local archives, historical societies, and municipal records.
Record | $250
Philadelphia houses have long memories. Yours has been standing through things you don’t know yet: who lived there during the 1918 flu, who owned it during the Depression, what the block looked like when the neighborhood was something else entirely.
The Record is where you start. A concise narrative history built from primary sources: deeds, census records, city directories, newspaper archives. Who owned it, who lived there, what their lives looked like. Six to ten pages, delivered as a PDF.
You don’t need to know where to look. That’s what I do.
Chronicle | $600
You’ve already started wondering about the people, not just the property. The Chronicle goes deeper: a full narrative history that treats the people who lived in your house as subjects worth investigating. Where they came from, how they ended up there, what their lives looked like inside and outside those walls.
Fifteen to twenty-five pages, delivered as a PDF. Photographs and maps included when the record provides them.
Heirloom | $1,800
Some houses have been accumulating history for a long time. The Heirloom is for those houses: a book-quality narrative history, deeply researched and told in full, made to be passed down.
This is not the right tier for every property. Part of the intake process is an honest assessment of what the historical record actually supports. If your house has the history, this is how it gets told properly.
Up to thirty-five to forty pages, delivered as a hardbound book and PDF.
Ready to find out what your house has been holding onto?