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Page: 46The painters have started and the porch posts are in the basement, waiting to be installed.
The facade for the newly enclosed portion of the building is nearing completion. We think it's going to look quite smart as people pull into the parking lot and come to live or do business here.
Okay, probably this time I’m just showing off that we have roses blooming and you don’t.
With apologies for the out-of-focus photos: it's Monday night, it's the first Monday of the month, so it must be a meeting of the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church. There in the background you can see their latest exhibit (the last one was quilts), and it displays before and after photos of restored historic properties in the neighborhood. Six of them are NINA homes, although being completely fair one of them is not a historic restoration.
AHCC has been a tremendous supporter of our work specifically and of the neighborhood's revitalization more generally. Asylum Hill is very lucky to have a partner like AHCC!
It's October, and here's a gorgeous rose bloom outside Veeder Place's front door. Even as we're closer to winter than to spring, we still enjoy reminders of what's to come.
A stroll through 207 Garden Street, showing some of the progress we've made on:
And then views of the newly paved parking lot. The building is really coming together now!
Our partner on our project at 54 Huntington Street, the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, held a ceremony following its Sunday morning service to consecrate the new house here. Approximately 100 parishioners and neighbors came up for the ceremony and explored the interior of the house.
Our partners on this project, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, plans to hold a consecration ceremony for 54 Huntington Street on Sunday. We put out some fall flowers today to add a splash of "home" to the house, and as you can see around the house, we've also graded the land as we prepare to install the landscaping and pavement.
Jeff Giddings at work on the front porch. Around the corner, on the north side of the house, there's a space where we will install a sunflower plaque, which is now finished and over at the house. The plaque, prepared by local artist Jackie McKinney, takes a sunflower plaque on the west side of 181 Collins Street as its inspiration. Rumor has it that the sunflower was a particular favorite of George Keller, whence our theory that 181 Collins is a Keller house.
The front porch is shaping up nicely. A few glimpses inside as well, and a look at the back porch, too.
