Discovering the history of your house can be an interesting and rewarding exercise.  Basic curiosity may cause you to wonder who may have built the house, and who lived there before you moved in.  What changes has the house undergone? Did anyone famous live there?  Many of these questions can be answered with an internet connection and a bit of time.  A few years back, I was renovating the master bedroom of my house to convert a small adjacent room into a walk-in closet.  The room had a door to the master already installed in the closets of both rooms.  When I discovered some of the original unpainted plaster in the added closets, I realized that there were major renovations done to th…