{"id":430,"date":"2014-11-06T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:19:02","slug":"history-of-driveways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/history-of-driveways\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Driveways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever wonder about the history of the driveway?\u00a0 Prior to 1850 the basic residence had nothing more than a dirt path leading to the front door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Historic-European-Cobblestone-Sandstone-6x6-limestone_curb-BD-6b-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Historic-European-Cobblestone-Sandstone-6x6-limestone_curb-BD-6b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"History of Driveways\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to an article in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldhouseonline.com\/driveways-for-historic-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Old House\u201d<\/a>, during the second half of the 19th century, creative driveways began to show up on nicer homes. Semi-circular drives and curving walks, along with the addition of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/portfolio-items\/antique-reclaimed-curb\/\" target=\"_blank\">curbing\u2014trimmed edges of cobblestone<\/a>,<\/span> cut stone, brick, shells, or clay tile began to make an appearance. Gravel was the preferred surfacing material, although brick, stone and flagstone walks became more prominent.<\/p>\n<p>With the age of motorized vehicles, post 1900, actual driveways and back alley access ways became commonplace. The typical material was asphalt or concrete, and sometimes only a two wheel concrete ribbon down a grass or dirt path.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s driveways and choices of materials are plentiful. Ironically, old reclaimed antique cobblestone and curb can become a part of your new driveway &#8211; a piece of history beneath your vehicle and feet! \u00a0The driveway has come a very long way and now&#8230; full circle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever wonder about the history of the driveway?  Prior to 1850 the basic residence had nothing more than a dirt path leading to the front door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,24,18],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}