The House Dad Built Pt 1
My father Warren Owens Lamb was a gifted civil engineer and worked for two of the best construction companies in Nashville as an estimator, winning jobs for them for Vanderbilt, Peabody, Hospitals, Churches, and government buildings in Nashville plus projects in other Tennessee cities . But to me one of his finest accomplishments was the house he built for his wife and very young daughter (me) in 1950. Prior to this he had designed and built a house for his mother and one for his new bride on Kirtland Ave, circa 1941. The houses were side by side on a lot by grandmother acquired in 1933 after the death of her husband Charles Ira Lamb. The house he built for his family had two stories and I have often thought one of the reasons he decided to build a second one was to make it one story, as my mother told me she found out I had learned to walk when she saw me at the bottom of the stairs from my upstairs bedroom. And living right next door to more relatives may have also been an issue...