Tag: homes
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The Huddleston Farmhouse, on the National Road in Indiana
You’ll find Quaker influence up and down the National Road across Indiana, but most prominently in Wayne and Hendricks Counties. A prominent Quaker, John Huddleston, settled on this 78-acre site and built his home here, just west of Cambridge City, near the town of New Auburn in Wayne County. He built this house in 1841. In…
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Goodbye ash trees; goodbye money
My ash trees are gone. All 21 of them. It changed the view from the street from this (in 2011)… …to this. The company I hired to remove the trees did a marvelous job. They also gave me hardship pricing, bless their hearts. It was still a hard check to write, but based on some…
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Strolling through Lockerbie Square on Kodak Ektar 100
Lockerbie Square is the oldest surviving residential district in Indianapolis, and it’s wonderfully restored and preserved. I found myself there on a Downtown stroll with my Pentax ES II and a 55/1.8 SMC Takumar, Kodak Ektar 100 aboard. What a perfect time to photograph Lockerbie’s homes: the trees had just started to leaf, lending color and…
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Row houses Pentax ES II, 55mm f/1.8 SMC Takumar Kodak Ektar 100 2015
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Old houses on the Michigan Road, preserved and lost
Old houses all along Indiana’s Michigan Road — some no longer with us.
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Autumn strolls through my neighborhood on Fujifilm Velvia 50
Velvia is born for sunny days. Cloudy days, meh. Or so I found out when I strolled through my neighborhood one overcast afternoon with camera in hand. But this is the only photo I got that shows how the reds, yellows, and oranges frosted the green trees here as autumn began. So you get cloudy-day shots. A…
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Moving the 153-year-old Flanagan/Kincaid House
The 1861 Flanagan/Kincaid House has crept its way one-half mile to its new foundation on the grounds of Navient, a student loan processing firm in Fishers. The house made its journey on October 4. I was in Auburn looking at old cars that day, so I didn’t see this house hoisted and rolled away. These photos…
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Saved? The 1861 Flanagan/Kincaid House
I’ve been following the efforts to save the Flanagan/Kincaid House, built in 1861 in what is now Fishers, Indiana. I had been curious about this house for years, as I drove by it frequently after dropping my sons off at their mom’s in Fishers. But then the house made news when the land developer that came to…
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Endangered: The 1861 Flanagan/Kincaid House
This lovely 153-year-old house is among a small number of houses from this era that remain in Hamilton County, Indiana – and it’s in very real danger of being demolished. As I said when I first shared this house with you last year, it stands next to I-69 on 106th Street in Fishers, which is a suburb of…
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The beautiful homes on Main Street in Casey, Illinois
If you ever visit Casey, Illinois, be sure to do two things: (1) pronounce it “cay-zee,” and (2) drive in from the east on Main Street. The first is to prevent embarrassing yourself should you talk to any of the locals, for the town’s name is not pronounced as it looks. The second is to enjoy…
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SoBro homes
I would love to live in the city again. Actually, I live in the city now, as my home is well within the city limits. But it’s not real city, as I live in a suburban-style subdivision. I miss living on a grid of streets with sidewalks, and being able to walk to the store. I had some expired…
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Captured: Hillforest
Hillforest stands on a hill overlooking Aurora, Indiana, and the Ohio River. Built in 1855, it was home to industrialist Thomas Gaff and his family. Today it’s a National Historic Landmark, and you can tour it in the afternoons, except during the dead of winter and on Mondays and holidays. Aurora is a US 50…