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Q: Is this concrete duplex a witness to the passage of time and the stories of those who called it home?

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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, 315 W 30th St (built in 1920; a "contributing property" in the Park Place Historic District, 06000029 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of West 30th Street, between DeBree Avenue and Llewellyn Avenue.

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In New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, a halfway house owned by the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SCADD) at 62-64 Coit St, at the southeast corner of Coit Street and Reed Street.

The City of New London's online property database says the building is from 1890, but it is shown (as 40 Coit St) on a fire insurance map from 1884, so it's older than that.

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The light wasn't very good on this street but I tried

I want to sleep on that upstairs porch.

This is in Keyser, West Virginia, and as of 2019 the house is owned by the "Ingersoll Financial Midwest Land Trust" of Florida, a/k/a Ingersoll Financial, LLC, which filed for bankruptcy in 2017.

This will surely get demolished as soon as the money to do that gets released from a hoard someplace. Will guillotines become involved, probably not.

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In Keyser, West Virginia, on June 29th, 2019, a house (erected circa 1900) at the southeast corner of North Main Street and Mozelle Street.

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The upstairs closed in porch at the Keith's house is a perfect gathering spot. It's roomy, has a good bit of seating, a place to dine, and overlooks the lovely back yard and lake. The area you see pictured is across from the table on he other side of the room from another pic posted earlier. Behind the chairs are stairs leading down to the basement area, and also out onto a little outdoor patio.

What I love most about this home is the coziness of it. What you remember isn't the fancy decor, because it doesn't HAVE fancy decor! It is comfy and set up for living ordinary life, but the view is what decorates the room. When you walk into it, it's like stepping outside and in a way, outside of yourself! It is the epitome of a room with a view, and the kind of place you want to spend your life.

Inside this home are memories of many lifetimes. Family portraits and mementos from around the world are reminders of generations and decades, and lives well spent. There are flowers and balloons, left over items from Jim's recent 80th birthday celebration! No one would guess his age because he's quite active, and his beautiful wife, Joan, looks 20 years younger than she is in person, too! If people all lived the way they do, we'd all seem quite young well into old age. There is something to be said for good, clean living, and for abiding in a peaceful atmosphere.

Our porch has seen a lot of transformation over the past year, it's still not perfect but slowly getting there. Originally I was going to end up making curtains but ended up hating the 12 yards of fabric I bought online, so the living room curtains got moved to the porch. We picked up the orange chair off of craigslist and the bookshelf at Ikea. Our plants are all making this room their home for the winter.

The best corner of the porch which holds this vintage record player that Jeff bought me last spring. Every morning Finn and I have a dance party around the bedroom thanks to this record player.

Is the inside comfortable?, but it's definitely neat to look at from out here. Pieces of woodland seem to "butt" against its backside, and I can see where siding was applied to a first-floor door there on the corner. People don't look like they lack for tv channels. That's a whole lotta balcony to have to safely support.

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In downtown Hundred, West Virginia, on July 15th, 2010, the "Maybert House" at the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue (West Virginia Route 69) and Wetzel Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA6212 Commercial buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA7861 Apartment houses—United States—Pictorial works.
NA3070 Balconies—Pictorial works.
F249.H94 Hundred (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.

The latticework of the upstairs porch is likely never again to feel a resting ass pressed up agin it is it. Those old days ended. Nobody's ever gonna trust any piece of it to support any part of them.

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In downtown Hundred, West Virginia, on July 15th, 2010, a building on the east side of Wetzel Street, south of Pennsylvania Avenue (West Virginia Route 69).

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
HD257 Abandoned buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6212 Commercial buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA7861 Apartment houses—United States—Pictorial works.
NA3070 Balconies—Pictorial works.
NK1570 Latticework—Pictorial works.
TS198.6.D7 Drums (Containers)—Pictorial works.
F249.H94 Hundred (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.