IT’S EASY TO IMAGINE that where we live begins and ends with us. Bill Schrier is proving otherwise. By assembling an illustrated history of his house in West Seattle’s North Admiral neighborhood, he’s setting a potent and universal example. For nearly a half-century, Schrier and his family have lived there. He easily dates their $65,500 purchase to November 1978 because it came just six months after a gypsum freighter infamously rammed the low-level Spokane Street Bridge, prompting construction of today’s high-level West Seattle Bridge. But the house was hardly new. It had been built to its present size between 1908 and 1910, just after West Seattle’s 1907 annexation to Seattle. It stands on a typically quiet, wooded street so narrow that when cars line both sides, drivers from opposite ends take turns squeezing through. Though appearing smaller, the “Plain Early”-style structure has three floors, including a daylight basement, encompassing six bedrooms, two kitchens and two dining rooms.…