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: 8Dining room on the first floor. Closet in the primary bedroom of the owner’s unit, looking from second-floor hallway. Same primary bedroom, looking out from the dressing room. Looking out from the primary bedroom’s closet onto the second-floor hall. Laundry room on third floor, owner’s unit. West bedroom, second-floor apartment. Primary bedroom in second-floor apartment. Third-floor apartment with kitchen cabinets in.
The Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association (AHNA) organized a breakfast for its partners in the neighborhood. The breakfast was held in Drew Chapel at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church (AHCC). It was part “state of the community” presentation and part fundraiser for AHNA, and it was a rather successful event.
Speakers included David MacDonald, executive director, AHNA; Janine McMahon, chair, AHNA; Arunan Arulamapalam, mayor, City of Hartford; and Ted Carroll, who is a member of both AHNA and the AHCC.
Fun fact I learned at this event: Arunan Arulamapalam and his wife Liza, who is a pastor at Center Church downtown, were married by Erica Thompson, the senior pastor at AHCC.
Okay, so it isn’t really 50 Huntington Street. It’s 48 Huntington Street, as it’s part of the property that includes the apartment building to its south. We’ve been ogling the lot for its potential to build another house, like the ones at 52 and 54, and occasionally I go over and take a photo of it. This photo, which is really of The Hartford’s office tower more than it is a photo of the lot, just struck my fancy.
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!
Fireplace 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?
