One of the interesting things I love about the city is discovering old farmhouses in the middle of the city. Such is the case here. This is the Carter Residence. The house was built in 1909 and the other building out back is an old horse stable and hayloft. Charles Carter was a blacksmith by trade and served the people of the McCauley neighbourhood for many years.
The house was renovated in 1995 after sitting vacant for a number of years and there is talk about fixing up the old stables as well
It always warms my heart to find such architectural treasures hidden in town. Super-fun design--it's so inviting! Pleasing collage and nice narrative really complement the nice images.
Grand find! Black Smith shops were always the working centre of a town. So I'm the early 1900s where you sometimes the photo would have been. The place to get the goss :-)
I sort of know what you mean. Near where I live in Toronto there is an alley where one sees the back of an old building with old windows with really old, worn wooden shutters. I think it was probably someone's stable at one time, when the part of Toronto I live in was much more rural than it is now. You've made a really attractive collage of these two pictures--I like those bands of soft natural colour as a background too.
And in Nov I'm!