Friday, April 4, 2008

The Penrose Home Where Everything Began


This photo was taken years after the house was abandoned.  Someone later covered it with brick siding after we were gone.  The original home was limited to the space under the curved part of the roof and had two rooms:  a kitchen on the right, and a bedroom and everything-else-room on the left.  Later, Dad built an addition on the back which included the kitchen and eating area, and couch and sitting area.  The house had no insulation, no electricity until 1939 when I was seven years old, no telephone, no inside plumbing.  But for the older children, this home and the surrounding yard, orchard, and the nearby river just down the hill in the back, is the scene of many of our happiest childhood memories.

2 comments:

Ann said...

Isn't it amazing to think of how much life went on in that very small space. I think of Dad's comments about how much he loved that little house. It was the first home that he could call his own.

Judy said...

Welcome back, Dwight.
This place was magic to me because of all the stories of what happened there. And it is the home of my birth.