The back of the house, the "butt," was one of the first casualties of the new demolition process. But, the butt would be reclaimed as the central focus of the house once renovation was complete. When it came off, we ass-essed the state of other parts of the structure, and found that our bottom line was still good...okay, enough with the butt jokes.
The back of the house looked like the picture above before...
...and then this after...
Shortly thereafter, the new rear end started being framed up...
The picture above is looking towards the north, in what will be part of the kitchen. As an historical aside, as we framed this floor system and pulled up all the floors, we discovered the old base of the 4-sided chimney that used to service this house. I've seen this a couple times in my house gutting/renovating experience; these chimneys would warm the respective rooms from the corners. As this house was originally a double, both sides each had two rooms that could be heated by this chimney.
Although it would be nice to salvage the bricks from this chimney, we decided to leave it where it was for historic and practical purposes. Now, if someone wants to get an idea of how old the house is, or just get an idea of who might have lived there, they can look under it and see the remnants of a part of New Orleans history.
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