Future location of garage

We got final approval from the Historic Preservation Commission last week to put in a garage next to our house.  It will replace this retaining wall that is seriously falling apart.  In a few weeks, I will post pictures of the earth-moving progress.

Our Motivation

Here is some of the damage caused by resident raccoons during the winter/spring of 2007-2008.  We finally got it cleaned up during the spring of 2009.  This part of the house will be demolished and rebuilt.

Excerpt from "Old Deadwood Days"

Page 41--It was the same Pat who stopped Father on the street one day just after we had had a fresh coat of paint on our house. “Sure, Judge, and I always thought you was Irish,” he said; “but now I know it. I just walked up along Williams Street, and I saw your house. There never was anything so green outside of Ireland unless it belonged to an Irishman.” Father had been thinking of toning down the shade a little, but after that he glowed with pride of race every time he looked at the house.