Our House, Our Street

This is the view looking northward from the driveway of our new (rental) home in Glendale, MA. The house itself (on the right) was built in the 1850s as a tenement house for workers at the nearby mill. It has been lovingly restored and converted into a two-family home by our wonderful landlord, who is a math teacher, mother of three, and child of local farmers.

Our Backyard

Really.

That's the Housatonic river. You don't really get a sense of just how big the yard is from this shot. If you squint really hard, you might just be able to make out two normal-sized outdoor chairs facing the river bank. We'll definitely have to use binoculars to see the eagles and herons from the sunroom attached to the master bedroom. Below is a picture that I took from one of the sunroom windows.

The Dining Room

This shot is taken with my back to the kitchen (and the river), just in front of the perfect-for-stools counter that separates the kitchen and the dining room.

The door on the left--with original wood and the original handle--leads down into the basement and the root cellar. The latter still has thumbtacked on the wall the log of all the jams and jellies made by an earlier owner in the 1950s.

The Sunroom

This room is attached to the back of the master bedroom. It's all windows on three sides, facing out to the river.

Ahhh.

Lots of Detail

There are many, many original details in the house, from Douglas fir flooring in the downstairs entranceways to wideboard pine in the upstairs bedrooms to a dutch oven in the laundry room to the original bannister in the stairwell.