Looking back through time by homeschoolmom

Looking back through time

I drive past this old B&B every day. And now I have an excuse to get pictures of it. My Get Pushed challenge this week is a monochrome shot. So, I thought that would be perfect for this old historic building. It was originally built by a railroad official in the early 1880s and was owned by A.A.F. Seawell Jr., in the 1920s. Seawell went on to become Attorney General and a Supreme Court Justice for the state of North Carolina. More recently, it was a bed and breakfast. It's currently unoccupied and for sale for $149,000.
Lovely B&W shot.
July 15th, 2015  
Nice old house. Looks as if your peeking through the woods at it.
July 15th, 2015  
Looks so narrow.
July 15th, 2015  
@mittens Thanks!
@zosimasy I think it's probably only 12 or 13 feet wide. It's an I shaped. Very strange house. But, probably the only way to cool a house in NC in the 1880s.
@randystreat Practically! LOL! It's surrounded by huge magnolia trees and a big brick fence. Right on the corner, there was a break in the leaves, so I took this. You'd never know it from the pictures, but I'm standing on a narrow sidewalk right at a busy street corner to take this. But, if you are stopped at that stoplight, you can hardly see the house.
July 15th, 2015  
@cgoose Here's my favorite shot!
July 15th, 2015  
B&W really does justice to it -- I feel like I've stepped back in time.
July 15th, 2015  
Works out very nicely in b&w.
July 15th, 2015  
Great shot- love this old architecture:)
July 15th, 2015  
@taffy @sangwann @joemuli Thanks! I took color shots of this building as well, but it just loses the feeling of "old" somehow.
July 15th, 2015  
Looks great in B&W.
July 17th, 2015  
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