I photographed this house in 2009 and it was in bad condition then, as the photograph indicates. It was a winged gable cottage with Victorian details on the front porch, likely built between the 1890s-1920. The only view I was able to get was from the side, unfortunately. I suspect it is long gone by now.
Grewy comment. Rafe is so right. This old house is so beautiful, and it makes me doubly sad to know it’s likely gone now.
This house probably once served admirably as a family’s home, during better times. As economics changed and/or families died out or moved on, probably no one had the wherewithal to keep the place up. A sad but inevitable fact of life.
There is a similar house down the road a piece from where I live in eastern Liberty County, the old Rosa Lambright house featured on an earlier blog here. The tin roof is rusting out and partly blown away, exposing roof beams. The house has begun to lean, and will eventually collapse, as has 2/3 of a smaller wooden house less than a mile down the road from it. Whoever owns it just doesn’t have the funds or ability to fix it up to habitable condition. Sad, but just a fact of life.
I am so glad you are taking the time and making the effort to document these places before they are lost to the ages. They may not be as important as the Pyramids, but they were essential parts of their communities in their own time.