Call it cute, call it interesting. This is another of Astoria's unique wooden houses with unusual details. Although I haven't been inside this house on Bond Street, many of Astoria's older houses (and some of the brand new ones) have floor plans that can be categorized somewhere between quaint, bizarre, and extremely funky. Sometimes they are charming, sometimes you wonder what the builder was thinking. In their day, they must have made sense to someone. Now the funky layouts and interior spaces are conversation pieces as often as not. Most of the houses here have stories based solely on the plan or construction. Have you seen a house like that?
Monday, July 5, 2010
Cute White House
Call it cute, call it interesting. This is another of Astoria's unique wooden houses with unusual details. Although I haven't been inside this house on Bond Street, many of Astoria's older houses (and some of the brand new ones) have floor plans that can be categorized somewhere between quaint, bizarre, and extremely funky. Sometimes they are charming, sometimes you wonder what the builder was thinking. In their day, they must have made sense to someone. Now the funky layouts and interior spaces are conversation pieces as often as not. Most of the houses here have stories based solely on the plan or construction. Have you seen a house like that?
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A very nice house indeed. I like wooden houses, and this is very ornate. Here in Auckland there are many houses that have "grown organically" over generations.
Alot of the old antebellum houses also have layouts that people find strange today.
Some of the designs were to allow more air currents through the homes in the pre-A/C days. Probably others were just strange personal choices!
In any case, this is a nice historic home. I love the look.
I've lived in homes I never could figure out.
You know how it is in our old cities here, with crooked houses in tiny streets... :-)
No, not here! Maybe in some other post from Astoria...
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