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A little more work on framing since the last time.
South side fireplace. Southeast corner, with chimney and bricked-up door.
Today was Trinity College’s annual Do It Day, the day on which members of Trinity’s various athletic teams come out into Hartford to do volunteer work. This was our 15th (maybe?) year participating, and every year we are very grateful for all of the hard work the athletes do at our project sites.
This year, we got the men’s wrestling team, and they worked on pulling up the old, rotten floor boards at 279 Farmington and framing and securing what will be windows and doors at 285 Farmington, once the 1980s addition comes down. They also did something no previous group from Trinity has ever done before: they all, each and every one of them, tore the sleeves off of their t-shirts. The sleeves then became makeshift sweatbands.
I was nostalgic for my days in DC, and they obliged me.
Since I could get out to Farmington Avenue via the driveway at 279 – which means last time I did this, I was too lazy to go out the South Marshall side and walk around the corner!
Sure looks vacant to me: the lights are on along the western side, but it doesn’t look like anyone is minding the store. I also saw where the business that ran the restaurant is behind on its business property taxes to the tune of $100,000.
