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!
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Vanessa de La Torre's has a story about the $500,000 donation NINA received from Connecticut Light & Power for our project at 207-213 Garden Street. The article also describes some of the work we've done on this project as well as in the area of Asylum Hill around 207 Garden Street. Our press release on the donation is also available for viewing.
Work is progressing – the ground is being prepped for the new spraypad, the new basketball court is in, and the gateway at the corner of Ashley and Sigourney is being refurbished and re-planted.
As we pull more and more of the house apart, we’re figuring out how the house was originally laid out – forensic carpentry, our carpenters call it. But today we really hit the jackpot: as we pulled down the interior wall inside of the addition to the front corner (northeast) of the house, we discovered that whoever had done this work walled up one of the original window crowns! This answers most of our questions as to what they looked like: the crown fills out the shadow lines, and it confirms that we have found the original exterior to the house. Unfortunately, the crown is missing its end brackets, but there is at least one other Porter Whiton house over on Laurel Street that should help us out here.
We’ve got 1 Imlay down to its original siding, and now you can get a better look at the original house and how it was altered over the years. Both the side entry (on the south side, in front of the bay window) and the front rooms on the first and second floors (northeast corner) are later additions to the structure. Also, we discovered that the house used to have decorative woodwork: shadow lines under the soffit and above the windows indicate that there were brackets and window crowns. Given some of the extant decorative woodwork in Nook Farm from the same time period, it’s like these decorations were highly elaborate, but at this point we can only guess.
This seems an appropirately scary image for Halloween.
Demolition underway, inside and out. We’re starting to uncover some very interesting stuff.
Framing on the interior, windows in on the south side, and work on the east façade.
Interior demolition starting to wrap up.
