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Page: 60The exterior is coming along nicely, although today it does a good job of matching the sky.
Not sure when demolition will begin, but the old liquor store has begun to demolish itself.
Jeff Giddings is hard at work here on the front porch, which is coming along very nicely, but he and the other carpenters have also been making steady progress on the other historic elements that we are restoring to the house. The brackets, crowns, and new windows are now being painted.
The boarded-up window on the south side of the house is the future location of a stained-glass window.
I won’t lie, I like the way the sun comes through the framing, especially on the second floor. Most of these photos are from the second floor bedrooms, but there’s also one looking into the kitchen and one looking up the main staircase. I also made it up to the third floor.
Views from Veeder Place. Double rainbow over downtown Hartford, and a glorious sunset seen from the parking lot.
No, I wasn’t stalling before getting back to the office. It was on the way back.
Progress at 51 Ashley – the rooms are newly framed, but you can still see where we have some work to do.
Progress at 55 Ashley Street. The rooms are starting to take shape, and the finished product is now much more easily envisioned. Also, it looks like I prevailed, and we'll keep the "crazy old relative room" up in the attic.
We’re still puzzling over these very different houses. As we’ve mentioned previously, we know 51 Ashley was part of an set of 6 houses with alternating designs built by Frederick Mahl in the 1890s, but we don’t have any information on who built 55 Ashley or when, exactly. It does mark the switch to wood from brick on the south side of the street, and in that regard it corresponds to 50 and 54 Ashley across the street, but 55 is still quite different from even those houses. We’re still looking into it, but near as we can tell 55 Ashley is unique on the street, in the neighborhood, and maybe even in the city.
And, yes, I did go inside both houses! See the next posts.
Who knew irises bloomed in November? This gorgeous example was planted during Vest Pocket Gardens last year, and it’s good to see it thriving.
