Grantville, New York - Part 2

I was taking a tour of some local hamlets within the town of Norfolk on a snowy, winter's day and was in the hamlet of Grantville (Part 1 in yesterday's post). This home was notable for the obviously deep snow, the antique truck and the basketball hoop. I imagined a happy, active family lived there:

A rather modern house without much adornment:

A smaller home with a large front porch:

And a bigger, fancier home with a spectacular raised deck and swimming pool:

An old farm house with some of the original brick showing from beneath the stucco and big icicles hanging from the eaves:

A sky blue home with a screened pavilion:

Lots of bushes for windbreaks and to add beauty:

Another ladder leaning up against the roof. I was seeing this rather often. Perhaps it was there to facilitate raking snow off the roof, perhaps for cleaning the chimney:

An added room up high for long range views:

And a cluster of buildings back behind a fence and sheltered by trees:

 A small, pastel green home behind the big snow banks:

 
And lastly, a garage sitting out in a field all by itself. I could only guess that the accompanying house had long ago burned to the ground. But I was on my way to Massena to shop, so I put down my camera and continued on:

Grantville, New York - Part 1

Of course with houses spread out along country roads, it wasn't always easy to tell where one hamlet ended and the next one began. But I estimated that I'd passed out of Plumbrook and into Grantville when I arrived at this home:

There was a wide variety of houses, but I noticed that most were rather far off the road even though that meant extra snow removal up there on the northern plain:

This home, though, sat fairly close to the road and its driveway had just been plowed:

This home looked to be sleeping serenely in the early morning light:

And a wood toned country home with a rail fence:

I crossed over the railroad tracks:

And passed by big old farms:

And friendly, comfortable farm houses:

I turned left from Mill Road onto Grantville Road. That would lead me past more homes and through the Grantville State Forest:

This was a large horse farm but most of it was so far off the road that I couldn't get a photo of anything but this:

Another old farm behind large, old maples:

A snowy roof with icicles. But there was more to Grantville than this. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: