Nah, it's pretty normal even in small-fairly-poor-town ~900 sqft houses that were absolutely not anything special at the time. You'll see whole neighborhoods bu

Nah, it's pretty normal even in small-fairly-poor-town ~900 sqft houses that were absolutely not anything special at the time. You'll see whole neighborhoods built like that. Decent-or-better wood was just cheaper back then, and the labor to finish it was (relatively) way cheaper, too. All the houses would have these heavy, thick, solid wood doors that you don't see in new-build neighborhoods unless someone customized it or it's a very high-end neighborhood. Growing up, basically all trim & baseboards in early-90s-or-earlier houses was solid wood, even in poorer neighborhoods, though by then solid wood front and interior doors were on the way out as features of middle-class houses. These days, you might see solid wood in one or two public rooms as a kind of highlight feature in upper-end McMansions, but almost no-one finishes e.g. extra bedrooms with solid wood baseboards anymore. They used to be standard for the whole house—you almost never saw anything else.