A Small Town Christmas - Part 2

I was taking a driving tour of historic homes in the small town of Malone, New York (see also Part 1, posted yesterday) and came upon this house with an elaborate stone porch:

This very large home was quite elaborate:

I can only guess, but I supposed that this home had extra windows added during a restoration:

A mustard colored house which had, like most of them, a large fireplace chimney and a front porch. The Christmas garland and snow helped continue the holiday theme:

A smaller house with elaborate trim:

No need for extra Christmas decorations when your home is green and red:

I thought that this home looked to be of recent construction, but then decided that it had instead just been restored. It looked just right for a family to return to for Christmas:

A simpler house, but still it showed some fancy trim from its original construction:

A comfortable, friendly looking home:

Another large fireplace chimney;

A hip roof, a front porch and a carriage house out back:

My last photo of the day was of this peach colored home. I kept thinking how the town of Malone looked like a scene from a Christmas movie:

A Small Town Christmas - Part 1

A while back, I photographed some large, historic homes in Malone, New York. I've intended to go back and photograph more such mansions ever since. I finally did so, but these homes were not quite as grand as the former post. Nonetheless, they were beautiful, historic homes surrounded by giant old trees. All covered with snow and just before Christmas, I thought that they illustrated an old fashioned, small town Christmas:

Malone is a historic settlement and former home to William Wheeler, U.S. Vice President from 1877 to 1881. From what I've seen, most of these homes were standing then:

Big spruce trees, wrap-around porches, screen doors, small town life:

A stone porch and a tree, covered with both red berries and snow:

A perfect porch for greeting the neighbors as they stroll down the street or kids as they throw snowballs:

Brightly colored and looking inviting for Christmas:

A formal looking house in lime green:

An even more formal looking house, this one with huge pillars and a balcony. The Christmas decorations helped with my holiday mood:

This house had a sign which identified it as "The Hale House." The date on it was hard to read on my photo, but I think it said it was built about 1880:

More formal white pillars:

I called this a gingerbread house for Christmas:

Holiday decorations helped brighten up this home, which was larger than it at first appeared. I took more photos and I'll post them tomorrow in Part 2:

The Border Town Of Fort Covington, New York - Part 4

I had been driving around the border town of Fort Covington (see also Parts 1, 2 and 3 posted previously) and enjoying it so much that I didn't want to quit. The houses were lovely, the people were nice and the traffic in the business district was bustling:

A historic stone house with a sign reading "Law Office:"

A Presbyterian church:

And another brick house with gingerbread trim, this one with an amazing screened porch and stone pillars out front:

A house with a new metal roof:

Another brick house with gingerbread trim:

I can't explain why, but it seemed important to me to get a photo of the Italian Delight pizza shop on the main street of town, so much so that I had to make a number of passes. The traffic was so busy that I had trouble stopping to take a picture. I finally turned onto a side street and used my zoom lens:

A lovely home with Christmas decorations:

I don't know my house styles, but I'd call this a colonial with Canadian influences:

My last picture of the day was of this brick home, set behind big, old maples. Fort Covington looked to me to be one of the nicest towns in the north country and I sure enjoyed my tour. I hope you did also:

The Border Town Of Fort Covington, New York - Part 3

I continued driving around the small town of Fort Covington, NY on the Canadian border (see also Parts 1 and 2, posted previously). I was impressed by the historic beauty of it and what I imagined to be a high quality of life:

St. Mary's Of The Fort Church, apparently a Roman Catholic church and owner of at least one of the two cemeteries I saw:

A former church, now a senior center:

A traditional colonial house, a popular style in town:

Fort Covington Town Hall, apparently also a former church. The first "o" in Covington, by the way, is pronounced as in job or cob, not as in governor:

I turned onto what I thought was a side street but decided that it must once have been the main street:

Former commercial buildings seemed to be standing empty and/or converted to apartments:

These old main street buildings looked historic:

I'd seen the Fort Covington water tower from a distance, but got a closeup view behind a local residence:

And this was the house behind which I espied the water tower. I was finding this town fascinating and kept driving. I'll post Part 4 tomorrow:

Old Market Road - Part 3

I was taking a driving photo tour on Old Market Road in the town of Stockholm, NY (see also previous two posts). I was nearing the end of the road when I passed these outbuildings and trucks:

And a fleet of large dump trucks, all bearing the name of an excavating firm:

I continued to pass through snowy woodlands along the road:

I wish I'd gotten a better photo of this place. It seemed to me to have once been a small home, but was now a farm outbuilding. I'd love to know its history:

The sun came out just as I snapped this picture, showing the beauty I found all along Old Market Road:

An old farm house with a wonderful front porch:

A homey, comfortable looking home and garage:

This was probably an old farm house to which many additions had been added over the years:

An old Colonial style farm house behind big maples:

A small, woodsy place, tucked back behind the trees and possibly not noticed by people speeding by on their way to and from work:

At the end of Old Market Road was this abandoned home:

And my last photo of the day was of this brown house and garage, set behind a gnarly old maple: