I’ve recently put up on local community blogs 2 posts (with photos!) that might be of interests to old house folks: 801 North 24th coming back to life, about the incipient restoration of an 1855 brick home in the Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; and Cast and Wrought, a look at cast&wrought iron architectural metalwork in some of our older neighborhoods.

School is still has 2 more weeks to run before we can really switch gears into getting back on the house. This will be the summer that great strides are made towards finally finishing repairing the siding and painting the house, picking up where we left off 22 freakin’ months ago…

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The former boarding house/whore house across the street has been restored and is for sale. For only $193,000, you’d get a house AND some good stories to tell…

We recently rolled through Eureka, California, en route from Monterey to Portland. Our detour to see the redwoods surprised us with a chance to see some really amazing west coast Victorians…

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School was out almost 2 1/2 weeks ago: we’ve taken our vacation to California and Portland, I’ve done my volunteer web dev for the season, and so finally today was the first real house work day of the summer. Tomorrow begins what should be the most productive 5 or 6 weeks that we’ve had around here in some time…

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