Can you take closer pics? Is it real parquet or just one board?

There was a time when the middle of a floor was a lesser quality wood because it was intended to be covered by a rug. It was a cost-saving measure. So it could be historic. Or copied by an intermediate remodeler.

Either way, unless you are restoring the home to its former glory when some famous person lived there, I think you can change to one flooring.

@J D its definitely not one piece. It is tiled sections that are attached to the floor with that black adhesive you can see in the first photo. There is another ”parquet” floor in one of the bedrooms upstairs but that is clearly a “newer” peel and stick vinyl flooring so we covered that without any guilt of covering up history.

My guess no historical value at all. Get all matching flooring and enjoy your new home. I amhoping you had all the elecrical and plumbing updated too.

I would get an estimate to restore and lace in new flooring. Then I’d get an estimate to replicate the parquet, but start from scratch and put it everywhere. Both are good options in this scenario.

Can you see visible nails on the top of each wood piece? Or perhaps is it tongue and groove? I can't see how thick the flooring is either. As you can tell a lot goes into determining if this is original flooring, one can't just simply say it's not historic. I think some people just don't care about history or preservation and are ok with remuddles. In fact, this is most likely original flooring and carpet (or a cheaper material) was put in the center where there is nothing today.

@J D there are not visible nails and they are about 1/4” thick. Not sure of that lends any info towards being historic or not. I do want to have some respect to history but don’t want to be locked into something that doesn’t work for us or is impossible to work with.

Don’t know if this applies to you, but my mid-1950s house had random carpet with subfloor, some wood floor, and a flooring company refinished the old floor and added new wood floor and you can’t tell where old ends and new begins. Is this an option for you?

The photos that you have given us focus more on your walls than on your floors. Please post photos of the floors. The surrounding parquet(?) and then the “filler” wood, whatever that might be. I can’t discern what your floors actually look like from the photos that you have posted.

Yes absolutely I understand Kristen. I wasn’t referring to you when talking about remuddling. It seems like you have A LOT of respect for this house :) Anyways, are they tongue and groove? Can you see a blind nail?

I just realized. It may be something called “wood carpeting” that was popular in this age. It would have been the thickness you describe however it would’ve been face nailed down. Maybe you just are having a hard time seeing the nail holes. They would be covered w wood putty and then stained. Would you mind taking a much closer photo for us?