Simply Orange

This one was for my Sunshine Sunday group on Flickr.  Submissions for the group are supposed to be mostly orange, yellow or red and can only be posted on Sundays.  I am challenging myself to find subjects that meet the criteria but that are not flowers.  This is an ancient house on West 7th Street in St. Paul the a neighbor of mine who is an architect converted into an office.  I have not decided if I like the paint job or not.   I like it when people find new uses for historic homes. This one is very small and it makes a better office than home.

Painted Porch

They have been working on this one for awhile.  They started painting last Fall.  It will look wonderful when it is done. Old houses like these are an opportunity.

Holiday House

Some houses are just meant to be decorated for the holidays.  I understand why the owners don’t want to take the wreaths down.

Old House Old Tree

This is one of the best times of year to shoot architecture.  No leaves on the trees to block the view and no snow on the ground to mess up the lighting.  I love this old house and the ancient oak that is next to it.  They seem to go together.

Victorian Row House

Located in an older part of St. Paul and if you know St. Paul you know that the double digit addresses are near downtown.  The home I live in has the first three digit address on the block.  For some reason they skipped a bunch of numbers.

This old row house is missing a pillar.  It looks like they are fixing up the porches a bit.

Victorian

This house is a small one and it used to be painted  black and white. I like it better this way.

Vacant and Blue

You can probably tell that I took this one while it was snowing. It wasn’t intended for the photo blog it is an image I need for something I am writing.  I used my 50mm lens again.   I decided to leave it on my camera all week and bring my camera with me everywhere I go because I can.   The house is unheated and has been vacant for at least 3 years now and it is on a block with several vacant houses, most of them were rental properties.  There is a kind of mortgage fraud alley a few blocks from where I live a small pocket hit very hard by foreclosures.   About the house . . all I want to say is they don’t build them like that any more and I hate to see it sitting empty.

Forpaughs

I took this one while it was snowing. Fourpaugh’s restaurant on exchange street.  It is a mansion converted into a restaurant. . . not to be confused with four paws in Eagan, the kennel where our dog stays when we go on vacation.

Officers Row

These were officers quarters at fort Snelling.  The buildings are still standing, they don’t build them like they used to.  These are Italianate style and I would guess they were built in the 1860′s and 70′s.  The fort it self dayes back to 1819, and is slowly dissapearing.   The oldest part of it has been preserved.   When I went out there to take some photos the military personel ignored me when I went where I was not supposed to go.   Maybe they know that I just want to take some photos.

Victorian house

I know some people thing these are quadey but I have always liked them. This one has so much ginger bread on it that I almost can’t take it all in.  Located in St. Paul, MN in the Summit Hill historic district. There are many homes like this in the twin cites.