More Architecture...

Last week I joined friend E Joy again in the East Charleston neighborhoods to ogle architecture and re-visit the Huntridge neighborhood home that she is thinking of occupying. Because the house is still "under renovation" I put my dibs on these external sconces - just in case some yay-hoo decides to replace them. There are two, and we agreed that they should stay with the house they have adorned for the past 50 or so years.... but if we ever return to find them removed....! (A dumpster-diving we go.)

After that little visit she showed me to another nearby neighborhood, around 15th and Oakey -

That being the corner where this beautiful... and vacant house sits. I came home and googled it, and came to read someone refer to this as the ridgeview neighborhood, but I am unsure. Regardless, driving past this house, unaware of its existence, well, it was exciting. So exciting that I busted out my camera and started staking out the place.

These are my best drive-by angles... I came home and searched for this house on the MLS, after I noticed the lockbox, and dead lawn, but I did not see it listed. Too new, or too late. Either way, there are about to be some new souls in this old home.

There were other house that I noted on a more thorough drive-through with Hubby that night. All with their low slung roof lines, bold architectural details, and trees! I love the old neighborhoods here for their landscaping... even palm trees give shade when they're old and big and bushy enough. This house, and this neighborhood bears the distinction of being the best house stumbled-upon. Someday I will take the time to share some photos of the best houses that I went out of my way to see.

And here are a few views from the same block:

Smokestack? Awesome shingely roof-decor? Both...fantastic.
And this last house, so olivey, under the massive olive trees out front. I love the tiny bungalow styling, and the way that it looks like it fell right from that tree and planted there, then flourished.