Shots are of the front of the house, the steeple at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph, and Asylum Hill Congregational Church with The Hartford in the background.

So close!  Some shots of what’s done and some shots of what isn’t, including the walk-in closet in the primary bedroom in the owner’s unit.  The house will go on the market this month!

On a beautiful clear day like today, you can see right through the windows on the second and third floors of the tower on the east side of 847 Asylum Avenue.

We are nearly there - we think the house will be on the market next month.  If you look closely in the photo of the kitchen cabinets, you can see Ken reflected in the leftmost cabinet and me, taking the phot, two cabinet doors over.

We opened up the Plimpton House this evening as a preview for the funders and peers who supported us on this project.  These are some shots from before the event.

Pictured here are Mohamad Alktefan and Lionel Robert, two of the finish carpenters who worked on 847 Asylum Avenue and who attended this evening’s preview open house.  They came to the project through our partner Fresh Start Pallet Products, and they were hired by Bellevue Home Solutions, which installed the cabinets in the house.

Shots from the event.  We had close to 100 people attend.  Food and beverages provided by Catering at the Forge.  There were brief remarks as well:  Lynda Godkin, NINA’s board chair, moderated, and speakers were Arunan Arulampalam, Hartford mayor; Ken Johnson, NINA executive director; and Andrew Daly, NINA board president.

Carpet installation in the apartments, and further along in the kitchen in the owner’s unit.  Also, Ramon being camera shy.

The kitchen is coming together – the wainscoting is nearly in and painted, the cabinets are being installed, and the new window, where there used to be a door, is being framed and installed.

The curved cuts are a nice touch.

Ramon Martinez and Bob Rosenberg discussing the installations of the cabinets, among other things.

The finer details are returning.

Something of a conundrum.  We have to connect the new slate with the old, and then we have to figure out how to soften the angle of the walk from the driveway as it connects to the front walk.

We took out the ramp on the side porch – you can see the shadow lines, which is good, because I’m not sure I ever took a picture of it in place.  The side porch door is also restored and back in place.

New floor going into the dining room.  Restored newell post.  Restoration of the billiard room nearing completion.  Tile floor in the laundry room on the 3^rd floor.

The highlight of these photos is the new flooring on the first floor.

Work is underway on the staircases, cleaning and restoring them.  Photos are of the main staircase in the owner’s unit and the rear staircase to the apartments and basement.

Some random shots, plus the seldom seen basement.

3^rd floor apartment:  kitchen, bedroom.  2^nd floor apartment:  kitchen.  1^st floor:  dining room.

The new compressor units are in.  New utilities are being connected underground.  Doors have arrived.  New cabinets are being installed in the 2^nd floor apartment.  New cabinets are being installed in the 3^rd floor apartment as well.

Always nice to have Mike working on site again.  He’s in the third-floor apartment, looking west.

Don’t remember these from last year – and even if they were there, it was still a delightful surprise to seem them this year!

I’ve found it very hard to catch sunlight in the stained-glass window at just the right time – yes, I’m blaming the sun for being uncooperative – but here are a couple from the second floor looking into the stairwell.  Rather than casting light tinted by the stained glass, there were prisms all about.

And, it’s actually January!

The apartments are officially separate from the homeowner’s unit now, with insulation filling the thresholds that used to let us pass freely from the front of the house to the back of the house.  Insulation is now in all over the place as well, and there’s a new wall in the basement.  Short, but still.

A quick walk around the basement.  I hardly ever show photos of basements.  Most of them aren’t as interesting as the one here at 847.

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve shown any photos of the kitchen in awhile, either.  It is definitely starting to take shape, now that we’ve settled on moving the kitchen around to where it would have been originally in the house.

A group of students from Trinity College’s JELLO team volunteered at 847 Asylum Avenue today.