The Abrahamson home today.....this is Stommen, Östra-Frölunda

Today......
Through this blog I was contacted by a pleasant young woman. She told me she was the current occupant of Stommen, the childhood home of my grandmother Lydia and her Abrahamson family over 100 years ago. We excitedly conversed through Facebook messenger service in real time. Isn't the world now so much smaller than when sisters Anna, Lydia and Ruth took their long anxious journey to America?

I thought the many descendants of Albin and Anna would be interested in seeing the home as it is today.  Madelene Juneborg, sent me these photos as she described each building.  Her father bought the property from cousin Gösta Abrahamson.  I post these photos with the approval of both Madelene and her father Roger Juneborg.

Madelene describes Stommen today.....

     "My father Roger and brother Rasmus live in the larger main house. In the main house they had a fireplace in the kitchen and one upstairs. The living room was not used because it was so cold. My father added another fireplace but he still kept the original old big entrance doors. The rain and winter snow still blows in....but he feels they are too lovely to change."

"This is the old dräng-stuga where I think the drängworker (farm helper) lived and also where blacksmithing items were kept. The dass/outhouses were also there. We found here so many old shoes or bottoms of shoes as you can see here. There are two more rooms in the building. One had been made into an office and another has tools for blacksmithing. My father intends to renovate the building into one apartment (maybe two) so that one of my younger brothers can live there."

"One side of the building, the entrance to the dass. Two rooms, two seats in each, no waiting!"

"This is the big barn.It used to be bigger, all the way to where the dock now stands. There was a fire and it burned down.The biggest part of it is now a garage. Where they once had animals I now keep my hens and rabbits. The remainder holds all sorts of stuff and that is where they keep the tractors now. I would like to build a stable there one day. The top level of the barn is where they once kept their hay."

Madelene, her boyfriend and two boys live in what was once the telephone exchange building. Their home is lovely and still retains the charm of days gone by. Their kitchen is up to date yet I see a very old stove/oven remains. I wonder if my grandmother Lydia was taught to cook on that stove?

 "My father told me that the telephone station was once in what is now my living room (top left photo).   With the exception of one room all the flooring is original. I have so many old things from the barn in my home. Some have names on them that I cannot identify."

 "It is so fun to think who may have used these things at Stommen! So much history in one place!

Here are some of the many additional antique finds in the buildings on Stommen.

"This has become a total obsession for me, I just want to find out more and more. I wasn't interested when I was younger and that is so sad because my grandfather who likely knew so much about this property and town passed away a year and a half ago." 

Thank you so much Madelene, and please also thank your father, brother and boys for sharing photos of your home and permitting me to post them on my blog. I hope I paraphrased you correctly. I really enjoyed seeing where my Abrahamson ancestors once lived and the very beautiful job your family is doing to restore Stommen.
 

Stommen  yesterday    1914 - The Abrahamson Family                    Stommen Today       2020 - The Juneborg Family              

Återigen, tack så mycket, Madelene,
Thank again Madelene,

**note: Of course I could not post all of the marvelous photos sent to me by the Juneborg family. 

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