Paying up....

About a month ago, I commented at Nettie's place about her choice of new color for her house.  That prompted a mini conversation about houses, colors, especially old house colors...

 

I told her I'd get some shots of my home, which I did.  I said I'd put them up when I got my camera back from my brother, which I did yesterday.

 

So, Nettie here ya go, Honey...

 

 From our driveway.  You can see the original square design typical of the mid-1800's (built in 1848)  The part on the back was added on after my great grandfather sold it. 

 

This is the West side.  Not really enough room on the East side due to the apartment building next door, but I'll try and get some...  

 

Detail of the top level scroll work.  The gutters, eaves, and all that stuff were all re-done two years ago.  They're copper, as is the rest of it

 

Detail of scroll work on first level.  This is the front foyer window.

 

 

Detail of front porch gingerbread and posts.  All these were hand painted

 

Also, while I was out one morning, I had my camera handy (a rarity for me), so on our way back home, I snapped some of our street....

 

Over the railroad tracks.  The brick building with the green awning is a Gerdt Furniture Store.  This is a new location, a new building as they used to be down the street and across it too... LOL

 

The red brick with white shutters on the other side of the tracks is a ballroom dance lessons place.  Where the white door is on the 2nd level, there's a wrought iron spiral staircase.

 

 

This one is for that Ruby Red shoe woman~she loves Long's as much as I do  ;P

 

This building is empty.  When I was a kid, these were apartments.  But the place needs so much work...  I love it, though  :)

 

 

Up the hill...

 

 

The Historical Graveyard, part of the old Baptist Church and the only reason the State cannot touch our private property on our side of the street  ;)  Yes, there is so much traffic, our city council would love to expand it to two lanes on each side.  If the mole problem in there wasn't horrendus, I'd take some pictures of all the old gravestones...

 

 

The old Baptist church.  Its now Bethel Memorial Church... okay....

 

To home  :)

 

 

Oh, and since it is not uncommon for there to be strong winds here in the Midwest, here's some shots of the 30ft Maple we lost.... 

 

It was the girl's favorite climbing tree while standing.  The same can be said while it was laying half on the ground....

 

 

She got very upset when the tree removal guy was there pronto the next morning to cut the rest down  :(  She had a whole day on it, she'd have preferred it lay there permanently.... 

 

Takes care of that....  Have a good night!

 

Cat