A leak in one of the many unoccupied spaces in Veeder Place.  Believe it or not, the water ran underneath the wall and into the corridor on the other side.  Not sure why I didn’t take a picture of that, too, except that it was nearly 6:30 and I was on my way home ….

Framing.  Note the old office door for Kenneth P. Namnoum, Jr., on the second floor, next to the old, bricked-up fireplace.

I noticed that 270 Farmington Avenue, an abandoned property falling into distress, had been mothballed by the City of Hartford.  The crew blocking the driveway is from MDC.

Work underway on both the front porch and the rear deck.

Now that we have the siding off, we’re able to have a closer look at some of the original architectural features from the house. 

There were scalloped shingles in both gables, on the front and on the east side. 

The existing front porch is modern – the original front porch would have been part of the wraparound porch that we are restoring.  The gray band marks the beam that held up the roof of the porch, although this wasn’t the historic porch – it was historic, it just wasn’t the one built in the 1890s.  The spots without gray paint mark the location of the rafters.  The shot from the southeast corner indicates the extent of the second historic porch, which did not extend as far as the original historic porch.

Along the west side of the house, there was a door that was boarded up.  There’s also an original stained-glass window on the west side, that I hadn’t previously noticed. 

The side rear porch was higher than the modern porch, and there was a door to a second-floor porch at the back of the house that was boarded up.  And there were decorative features above the second-floor windows in the bay on the east side of the house.  It’s hard to see in the first shot, but that shot helps to orient the second extreme close-up shot.

And, sadly, we couldn’t ultimately find a new home for the player piano.

A jet ski in the garage.