Richville, New York - Part 2

I was exploring the small town of Richville, New York, which sat about midway between Gouverneur and Canton. I discovered that they were big enough to have to their own fire department:

And some friendly old homes along the main drag:

Many of these sat right up alongside the road, a remnant of the days before cars and snow plows.The snow plows of today must surely make life difficult though there was only a small snow bank for me to see on the day I was there:

This house had yellow trim, a yellow chimney and leftover Christmas decorations:

And there were some rather grand estates:

Some yards showed tree damage from a recent ice storm:

And some homes were not well maintained at all:

I turned back toward Route 11 to make my way home and passed this friendly old country home:

And this old home with a giant wrap-around porch:

The last house I passed before turning onto the highway was this one, looking for all the world like a normal, comfortable family home. But I had not yet found a place to let the dogs out and had many more miles to go before I reached home. I'll post more tomorrow:

Richville, New York - Part 1

I'd just finished a driving tour of Gouverneur, New York and was on my way back to the farm via some back roads. I had the four youngest dogs with me but had not found any place to let them out. I figured they needed a rest stop and, frankly, so did I. When I saw this sign for Richville I recognized the name from my real estate searches. The houses I'd seen for sale in Richville had seemed pretty upscale so I expected it to be a nice suburb, midway between Canton and Gouverneur:

And the first houses I saw looked suburban and pleasant:

The type of houses which would fit into a suburban landscape, perhaps owned by people who earned their livelihoods in the bigger towns of Gouverneur or Canton:

Yet Richville was still rather rural - not agricultural with farms, but houses built by people who didn't want city life:

There was a town center, a sort of main street, with some very nice older homes:

This home had a carriage house out back, a relic from the horse and buggy days:

Most of the homes were large and well maintained:

There was an old rural cemetery:

And a restored old church, now a historical center:

Not all the houses were well maintained, however. Richville was proving to be a town unlike any I'd seen so far so I kept exploring. I'll post more tomorrow: