We won’t keep you long this week so you can get to the celebration! PHW has added over 150 photos to the following albums on Flickr:
You can see the latest additions at the beginning of the photostream, or at the end of each of their respective albums. Happy viewing, and happy Bloom!
We do love our houses here, but we needed a little break from scanning the 1976 survey this week. A jaunt to the photo closet yielded a thick volume of Blues House photos, rife with people celebrating in what has since transformed into Piccadilly’s Public House and Restaurant outdoor patio. The celebration of sounds and colors is a perfect little springtime pick me up. Enjoy the photos on Flickr, and be sure to check out winchesterblueshouse.com for information on the Blues House Festival in July 2016.
The plan at the time was to restore the building’s exterior to its appearance circa 1790 as a proof to Winchester that many of the “Victorian” houses in the Potato Hill area in fact contained a much older log nucleus. To achieve this, a substantial portion of the house was removed, reducing it from a duplex to a single residence and stripping most of the exterior away. PHW volunteers did a great deal of the hands-on work at the Simon Lauck house, as documented by Virginia Miller.
We have also been double checking (or finding unscanned photos still tucked in boxes) for some of the streets we previously thought were complete. This includes:
51 1976 Architectural Survey photos for West Boscawen Street
9 photos on Fairmont Avenue
27 photos from Braddock Street
As well as adding the existing 1976 photos of West Cork Street to the 1976 Survey album
All of the new photos can be found at the front of the Flickr photostream, or at the end of their respective albums. Happy viewing!
This week, we continued transferring images from Picasa with the 100 photos from the Student Survey of Winchester. Judging by the dates stamped on the 35 mm slides, this survey/presentation was produced sometime after 1978 but before the construction of the Joint Judicial Center (circa 1984). The goal of the presentation seems to have been to improve the walking mall, entrance corridors, and vistas of Winchester. Most of the images are from Winchester, but a few examples of good ideas from other cities were included. See just how far we’ve come in our downtown since then!
Our work digitizing the 1976 survey and adding it to Flickr continues with the addition of a little over one hundred photos from Amherst and North Washington Streets and Fairmont Avenue. Happy viewing!
About 100 images have been added to the 1976 Architectural Inventory album at Flickr this week, including Sharp, Pall Mall, Peyton, Piccadilly, West Monmouth, West Leicester, North Kent, and West Germain Streets, Indian Alley, and West Fairfax Lane. Some are new, while most are transfers from the Picasa album of the same name. This addition puts us at about the halfway mark for the 1976 survey images. As usual, the new additions can be found at the end of the albums. Happy viewing!
PHW brings you over 350 photos for this week’s edition, with the bulk of the images coming from the 1976 Architectural Survey of Winchester (with the majority of those having been previously posted on Picasa). Along with the new additions, we have done some housekeeping and created a few new albums to capture previously uncategorized or unidentified photos. See below for a list of the new albums.
PHW Events
Rose Hill at Featherbed Lane
PHW Tours
PHW Annual Meeting, 1978
Blues House
Germain Street
1976 Architectural Survey (approximately 1/3 of the 1976 survey photos at this time)
We have three albums for you today that have been transferred to Flickr. They may be small in comparison to last week’s extravaganza, but these albums pack a concentrated punch of history.
“Uncovering Your Hidden Gems” Photo Contest top entries, 2012.
Construction of the Winchester Towers, images tentatively dated from 1960-1961, probably taken by E.E. Bayliss, Jr.
Artifacts from the Samuel Noakes House, photographed before the silent auction in 2013.
We had a much smaller readership in 2013, so if you missed the backstory on some of the Noakes house silent auction items, you can read these following histories:
Rumford Baking Power
Winchester Coca-Cola Bottles
Bromo-Seltzer Bottles
This week we revisit one of the largest undertakings in the history of PHW’s photo digitization project: The Grim-Moore House album. This set is nearly 550 photos taken between 1977-1982 by Virginia Miller during the renovation of this Jennings Revolving Fund house. The Millers documented almost every step they took to save the log and brick houses at 510 and 512 South Loudoun Street, from the initial walkthrough still showing the deplorable living conditions in the apartments, the Victorian details they removed to return the building to something closer to its appearance in the early 1800s, to their documentation of a building too far gone to save, and even a surprise setback when part of the foundation crumbled mid-rehabilitation. The album passed on to the new owners, Joe and Sharon Collette, and was digitized in preparation for a small PHW gathering in the home before the Collettes made some cosmetic updates and opened the house for the 2014 Holiday House Tour.
Part of what made this album both informative and challenging was Virginia Miller’s notes on the back of the photos. Her captions were extensive enough to date and explain what and where the photos were taken, but also rather idiosyncratic, making the transcription process involved. You may see in some of the captions a few unknown words or seemingly nonsensical sentences. The notes were transcribed to the best of our ability, and during the transfer from Picasa to Flicker a few typos and words were corrected.
As we noted when this album was first posted, “[t]his is a fascinating and telling example of how PHW’s Revolving Fund can save ‘junky’ properties from neglect and almost certain demolition and restore them to contributing structures in the Historic District.” If you missed it, only caught a portion of the slides during the Holiday House Tour, or just want to page through some amazing before and after photos, this album should keep you occupied this weekend.
Continuing our transition from Picasa to Flickr, PHW has an incredible array of photos for you this week.
Over 240 photos have been transferred from Picasa to the following albums:
Kurtz Cultural Center Exhibits
Salvaged Greenhouse
Kent Street
Hiram Lodge Frescoes
311 1/2 South Kent Street
Lovett Building
PHW 1973 Grand Event
1975 Chamber of Commerce Event
Cedar Creek Battlefield
Abram’s Delight
Happy viewing!