Photo explanation

The photo of the house was taken in the early spring of 1906. The front and side porches had yet to be completed. The side porch was screen in and turned into a summer kitchen sometime before 1910. It was later fully enclosed. The front porch was also enclosed, in the 1970s, and was turned into a real eyesore. It will be torn off and rebuilt in an appropriate fashion.

The current house was built around the original 1872 cottage, the outline of which is still visible in parts of the basement. The "new" house is half American Foursquare and half Victorian; the north side sports a tall, deep gable reminiscent of the earlier fashion. It's as if the architect (or more likely, the person who drew up a likely widely-available plan) chickened out at the last minute and chose to avoid a fully "modern" plan.