American Dream: Bigger and Better
By Norma Jaeger Hopcraft
Not only are these houses very substantial at the core, but many of them have el's -- a wing to the side that's often as big as most people's houses themselves.
See what I mean? A whole other family could live in the el.
This is a different house, with an elegant el.
An el on a house from 1863 with a deck...
Did they really paint their houses powder blue in 1851, when this one was built?
With robin's egg blue trim?
This is the door to the el.
This isn't a picture of an el, it's of a tree whose buds are sporting a layer of snow.
Here we are with el's again.
What a handsome house!
It was built in 1854 by Grover King, then owned by Captain William Morgan.
Here's one more el, this one with a porch downstairs. This is just a tiny sampling of all the great houses in Mystic.
Newly married centuries ago (well, it seems that way!), my husband & I rented an "El" in a lovely but huge old farm house. It had more living space than our own home now!
ReplyDeleteHi, Elaine! Tnx for your interesting comment. Those el's look like very interesting living spaces. Was the farmhouse in Upstate NY? Have you been there a long time?
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