neighborhood archive
June 14, 2008
movin’ on up
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…
March 9, 2008
1206
A photographic cross section of the neighborhood: the 1206 of every block from 38th Street to 19th Street.
January 21, 2008
house renovation porn
Our neighborhood blog has an ongoing series of before&after photos of renovations from around the area, if you’re into that kind of thing…
July 5, 2007
the view from the roof
That last heavy rain had the roof obviously leaking for the first time in a while. I went up yesterday to scope out the condition of the gutters and the rest of it, and took a few pictures while I was there.
April 1, 2007
putting up a picket fence
After making the rounded pickets last weekend, we were able to get a good run of the fence put together yesterday.
March 29, 2007
little purple flowers
The abandoned house next door is in that first nice blush of spring; it is all down hill from here.
March 6, 2007
a house nearby will probably be on your television
A house up the street will be on a new, more renovation-oriented house flipping show. It is already a good story and they haven’t even started yet.
December 28, 2006
press
Our neighborhood (and city)(but mostly our neighborhood) got a write-up in USA Today as an area that is “reinventing [itself]… starting to adopt tenets of the burgeoning, European-born ‘Shrinking Cities’ movement.”
December 18, 2006
another walk around the neighborhood
Our neighborhood holiday house tour was yesterday and there are some wonderful old houses.
December 3, 2006
a walk around the neighborhood
In what has become a yearly tradition, we walked around the area over Thanksgiving weekend with a eye for what has & has not changed in the neighborhood.
November 4, 2006
our new mail slot
We’ve installed a mail slot because they are cool and it will stop the bastards from stealing our mail.
June 25, 2006
another house being renovated
Sponsored by ACORN, the Renovator’s Happy Hour is something that happens every so often to showcase ongoing projects. Other projects have included an old bank building [2] and urban infill condominiums.
June 16, 2006
during which a marsupial enters the house
May 15, 2006
some small neighborhood news
We attended a neighborhood meeting that had a little bit to do with the local zoning. We were able to find out what we thought was an illegal day care and boarding house down the block is one of only 2 legal boarding houses in the city. Damn! Now about that day care…
September 17, 2005
1104 North 20th Street
We’ve fallen for another house nearby, a small and wasted Victorian that sits right on the projects.
