tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18059304.post114159861819690494..comments2010-11-20T02:12:35.879-05:00Comments on RFD: On The Street Where You LiveDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049594094112659236noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18059304.post-1141661764657227532006-03-06T11:16:00.000-05:002006-03-06T11:16:00.000-05:00Fantastic post. Excellent photos of some unusual ...<I>Fantastic</I> post. Excellent photos of some unusual houses. Your neighborhood is fascinating - when I made it a project to walk down every street in Winooski last year, I only found two houses that had anything going on that was remotely as interesting as the ones you've photographed so far. One was a weird upper-story addition, and one was a little jewelbox of a house that some hippie must have built at the edge of the ranch-house neighborhood. Maybe I'm not being fair - there are some typical elements that I'm now used to, which struck me as unusual when I first moved there. If I ever go insane and start a blog, I'll take photos and make commentary.<BR/><BR/>The interesting part for my town was that I could see how the city developed - mills and the downtown at the bottom of the hill at river's edge, older millworkers' houses nearby, then railroad tracks & Main Street, then up and across the hill were the richer people (including the mill owners, and the brickyard owner who built 'my' house). Then there are the skeevy areas where the city likely grew (and took on poverty from other towns) after the mills closed, then late-70's suburbia towards the town-line.<BR/><BR/>Minor correction - what you seem to call 'gable' is actually a 'dormer.' A gable is the roof profile you see in a child's drawing of a house - the triangle on top is the gable end. By contrast, a hip roof (say, 40 Maple Street) has no gables.<BR/><BR/>A dormer is something poking out from the roof that contains (usually) a window or two. Most of the dormers you photographed are "shed" dormers, with a straight, sloping roof. The first picture shows a "doghouse" dormer. The Sinking House has a hip-roof dormer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18059304.post-1141649627107413712006-03-06T07:53:00.000-05:002006-03-06T07:53:00.000-05:00Pretty soon you will fit right in with a boat in y...Pretty soon you will fit right in with a boat in your backyard. Not too many people like to sail around this area.kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08878610410872804907noreply@blogger.com