Several years ago this house was set on fire by the serial arsonist. An elderly woman died of smoke inhalation. Until recently the house sat there empty, a burned out shell. But after going up at the tax sale last year the house is being renovated. Here's what it looks like now.
This was also the site of the Trinidad-Ivy City Garden Club's first treebox planting. Click here to see a few photos of that planting.
Here's one shot from the first planting.
Join the Garden Club for a tree planting at Joe Cole Rec Center on Saturday.
11 comments:
wow, what a great change! Is this the place the garden club planted flowers in front of?
Yes, we've planted flowers there a few times.
It's so nice to read of/see such buildings reclaimed! Thanks for sharing!
What Garden Club planted these flowers?
That would be the Trinidad-Ivy City Garden Club (I've updated the post to give a little info on them).
Where is that building located?
I'd love to pass by to see it in real color!
1200 block of Montello, but the only flowers out now are a few bulbs from last year.
Hey on the subject of flowers...last year I planted these annuals called Vincas in my front flower boxes. The flowers looked kind of like impatiens. While the sun and drought was withering all my other stuff, those things did great...their flowers were long lasting and the plant seemed drought-resistant.
Wow are those shingles ugly! I don't think they are correct for the age or style of the building.
The shingles are an odd choice, but the stucco the replaced looked pretty bad and was literally falling off the house.
I rather like the shingles. It was actually not uncommon for houses to adopt this kind of siding from the late 1800's into the early 1900's. It's those fake stone bricks from the 30's that kill me.
Not crazy about the shingles, but they certainly look better than the vinyl (or whatever) siding on the surrounding houses.
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