Hello Hive! It's Wednesday again, and we shall continue with our walk through my town.
Wednesday Walk challenge is hosted by @tattoodjay in collaborating with the Make Me Smile hosted by @elizacheng.
This Victorian Italianate is virtually unaltered from the time it was built in 1888. The front porch is a craftman's delight with very imaginative Stick and Eastlake touces in the turned balustrade, post, and moldings.
The front gable is richly decorated with stickwork. This home is embellished with an elaborate frieze design, brackets, and slanted bay windows.
The original cast iron cresting still crowns the widow's walk on the roof. A widow's walk, also known as a widow's watch or roofwalk, is a railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses.
During the first one hundred years of history, the home was owned by only two families and their heirs. The house was built for W.W. and Imogene Porter.
Mr. Porter was superintended of the Water Works, and tragically lost his life as a volunteer fireman during the towns great fire of 1892. He was killed when a wall of burning Opera House came crashing down. Mrs. Porter owned a millinery business on Main Street. She died in 1921. The home was inherited by the Porter' daughter, Annie, who was married to Dr. James T, Royles and they lived in the home until 1920.
George and Sarah LaBonte, newcomers from Missouri, were the next owners and lived here until they both passed in 1948 and 1950. Their daughters, Mae LaBonte Germeshausen and Nettie LeBonte Ender, inherited the house and owned it until Dennis and Karen Gay purchase the home1991.
The present owners, Jenifer and Betty Miller have done extensive renovation work on the house since they purchase it in 2004. The hose received the town's Heritage Home award in 2006.
Another lovely home. It makes you smile!
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