Here’s the photo of an unidentified house from Sugar’s gold mine in the closet…
We drove by where we thought the house should be, only we were looking on the wrong side of the street.
We didn’t know it at the time. If only we had looked left.
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When in doubt, I have a method wherein I take an informal survey. I talk to everyone who will give me the time of day. To the outsider looking in? They go nuts, because I don’t follow the advice of the crowd. I don’t understand why people go nuts. It’s my game. It’s my rules. I’m just interested in what other people have to say. I doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m going to follow their advice. I’m just looking for opinions and input.
I went the easy route. I asked Sugar’s cousin by way of FaceBook.
She didn’t know the house, either, but she knew people who might know.
Sure enough, SugarCousin has an answer. The house’s address is 601 Whitaker Street, not Huntingdon at all. It’s on the southwest corner of Whitaker and Huntingdon, not across the street at the northwest corner where the vet clinic is.
This modern-day photo is from the website of the Whitaker-Huntingdon Inn. But you know at some point we’ll go by there.
So how’d we get the address wrong? It looks like there’s a side door fronting onto Huntingdon, which must be 101 Huntingdon, West. We thought we were looking for the front of a house, not an apartment entryway or a side door.
Take a look at their website. It’s quite lovely. According to the history on the page:
The third owner was Dr. Lloyd Taylor who lived with his family in the home 42 years. In 1923, Dr. Taylor added the one story addition on the rear of the structure as his medical office. Two additional rooms were also added by Dr. Taylor in a two story addition in the rear of the house. During W.W.I, the Taylor’s also converted the second story into an apartment.
Apparently Dr. Taylor also added an apartment at some point that Sugar’s grandmother rented for a brief period.
Anyone want to go on a field trip?
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