A series of entries designed to capture the ongoing adventures of NINA! See how we came to be where we are today, and follow along as we enter the new century of social media!
Page: 2Fireplace on the first floor, with me finally not visible in the mirror. Light fixtures delivered and being installed. Floors finished (hence the cardboard walkways everywhere). Fireplace on the second floor has been restored. Palladian-style windows restored on third floor. Rear staircase viewed from third floor, freshly painted.
1st floor: dining room; bathroom; parlor. 2nd floor: dining room, bathroom, parlor. 3rd floor: front room.
The former kitchen, taking shape as a pantry and breakfast nook. The future kitchen – the blue tape on the floor outlines the future butcher block. Work in the formal parlor. Kitchen cabinets delivered in the 3rd floor apartment. Bedroom on the 3rd floor of the owner’s unit. Exterior in the springtime sun. Basement – south end, looking east.
It’s also in focus this time! And now it includes a formal letter citing the house as blighted.
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.
Although, now that I look more closely, that cobweb in the corner is pink, isn’t it?
Fixtures are going in, cleaning has started, and still that blue thing in the 2nd floor kitchen.
Different day, same story: except now it’s two trucks.
The City of Hartford, the Hartford Land Bank, Vintage Home Restoration, and NINA participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony today at 287-289 Sargeant Street. It was a bit early – the house isn’t quite done yet! – but the land bank really wanted to do this now (and the even list today as the “developer rehab completion date” on their website).
Speaking were Marcus Ordonez, executive director, HLB; Arunan Arulampalam, Hartford mayor and past executive director, HLB; Brandon McGee, Connecticut Department of Housing; Ken Johnson, executive director, NINA; Krish Naraine, principal, Vintage Home Restoration; and Ada Alers, a real estate developer working with Vintage Home Restoration. The speeches were followed by the actual ribbon cutting.
I wasn’t there – I was home sick – so Mary Cockram covered for me and took all of these photos.
Some of the floors have been finished, and the 2nd floor kitchen has a blue thing.
