Question: How old is Collinwood?

[Kenny McCormack]

I am watching the early eps (around #75), and one thing confuses me.
They repeatedly refer to Collinwood as being "about 130 years old",
which, this being 1966, would mean it was built in the 1830s.

However, I thought that one of the components of the 1795 s/l (the first
flashback) was that they were building the new house then. Wouldn't
that make the house now be more (quite a bit more) than 130 years old?

Or, how long did it take to build it?

[Wiseguy]

Post by Kenny McCormack
I am watching the early eps (around #75), and one thing confuses me.
They repeatedly refer to Collinwood as being "about 130 years old",
which, this being 1966, would mean it was built in the 1830s.
However, I thought that one of the components of the 1795 s/l (the first
flashback) was that they were building the new house then. Wouldn't
that make the house now be more (quite a bit more) than 130 years old?
Or, how long did it take to build it?

It was finished before the end of the 1795 flashback. The writers of
the early episodes had no way of knowing that a future storyline would
deal with the building of the house in 1795.

As far as the character who said "about 130 years old" the character may
have not known the history of the house, may have forgotten the history
of the house, was just approximating the history of the house ("about
130 years") or may have simply mispoken the correct number of years and
didn't notice.