Remembering Carmen Urbieta.
This has to be one of the best reasons to own an old Victorian. Painting an exterior is probably the most stressful and most rewarding form of maintenance performed on these old houses. Please forgive the poor picture quality. My phone camera doesn’t come close to doing the place justice. It’s going to look fantastic [...]
My husband is an Anglophile. Despite the surname ‘Spain’ he loves everything England. That might have, subconsciously, played a role in our choice of home in Historic Huffman. From our porch we have a bird’s eye view of the traffic circle at Fourth and Huffman—and traffic circles or “roundabouts” are VERY British. Sometimes we wile [...]
Conversations Overheard My wife and I have lived in the Huffman Historic District for ten years. Our house was built in 1850, a time before Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln’s loss to Stephen A. Douglas for the Illinois Senate seat, and the publication of Stephen Foster’s hit song, “Massa’s in de Cold Ground.” In the first [...]