I frequently drive by this house and have for decades, but I actually didn’t notice these doors until just last week as I was parked in front of them waiting for the train to pass.
I’m not sure what’s going on with the house itself. There are signs about apartments, but the signs are too weathered to be current and the whole house seems abandoned. There’s a grocery cart tethered to the right-side door. Next to it lie a pair of shoes and a deflated soccer ball. All the landscaping has gone wild.
For instance, when you walk up to the door on the left, (your only option) there are steps so deeply covered in trailing ground cover, it’s more of a hill than a step.
Let’s face it, the door is old and y’all know I love that, but it’s really all the texture of its architectural features that makes the facade appealing.
I found it appealing enough to park in a lot marked No Trespassing, and then walk down a tiny sidewalk on a busy road just to capture it.
It sure was somethin, wasn’t it? I wonder if it will get to be somethin again?
#ThursdayDoors is part of an inspired post series run by Norm Frampton. If you like interesting doors, visit his site and check out what people are sharing today.
joeyfullystated 
Such potential, right? I love all the different textures here, like you noticed too 🙂
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Yes! It needs a rehab. I’d love to take its ‘After’ photo 🙂
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Very cool!
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A beauty. It looks as though it would fit right in on a lonely hill with a Dark and Stormy night. Actually the curved section of painted gingerbread and the metal rail look incongruent from the rest of the building. As if added as an after thought. Curious and Interesting.
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Looks like the stuff of dark and stormy nights, fersure. I love it. Now I can’t drive by without looking!
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Like you I love old. And also going off the beaten path. Great choice and great pic. Love it.
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Thanks 🙂
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It makes me happy that you noticed this door and risked your life to take the photo. 🙂
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LOL I’m really grateful no one drove into me and I didn’t get a ticket!
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I sure hope it gets to be somethin’ again! Would be a beauty 🙂
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I think so too 🙂
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A beauty in its day, and a sadly neglected relic now. The patterned elements are so pretty, and the 2nd level iron rail would look beautiful and artsy as it curves through a lower garden. I’m glad you trespassed 😊
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Well you know, it was early morning, I’m sure the local police were more interested in speeders 😉
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I’m glad you are doing your door post. Keep it up, I love seeing these every week!
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Thanks 🙂
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Ok, now I read the post….haha! It’s really sad that such a gorgeous house is in that dilapidated state. I wish I could rescue it.
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Me too! I’d love to see what it could be. Come and do your magic? 😉
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Heehee….I wish I could! It would end up in mY ColLectioN, like too many of my vintage finds. So may pieces I can’t let go of.
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One of the best ones you have put up! Love the life that is there in the door
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Glad you like it!
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Very interesting architecture – I’ll wager it’s been added on to many times and not with a lot of care! But the actual door looks to be in good shape!
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I love that door. The house has a lot of potential, but maintaining that look would be expensive for sure. Still, I hope somebody takes it on as a project. Houses like this haven’t been built for a long time and preserving the existing ones is the only way to keep them around.
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I agree. I keep sayin I’ll blog about that sorta thing, but I keep not. Maybe my inspiration has not fully manifested yet.
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A scary story is just begging to be written about what takes places behind that door…
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Well you’ll hafta write it, Carrie. I’ve done mine for the year, lol!
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I agree with Carrie! This isn’t some Indiana crack house is it? Bravo to you for being the rebel and flipping a giant middle finger to the No Trespassing sign!
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Great post! It’s such a shame when beautiful places like this are neglected. It makes me want to rush over with a can of paint and a weed-whacker to help out a little. And that chunk taken out of the left end of that lovely crown molding 😦
Hopefully someone will be able give this place the TLC it deserves.
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I fear there’s little hope, although I feel the same way. It’s got parking issues, as in, nowhere close to park and street parking is illegal on that road.
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I wonder if security camera caught you trespassing. I like the building as much as the door.
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Don’t think like that! Or, think like that, but don’t tell me!
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I always think like that, but as you only took a picture I am sure you’re safe
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You’re right, there’s something very special about this building’s character. I would’ve trespassed as well.
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I really like the contrasting textures…the upstairs and downstairs could be different houses but I notice the windows are the same.
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What a mix of texture and design. Brilliant.
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A very interesting building. I feel that with a little TLC, it could show a bright new face!
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Joey, I am so glad you took this picture to add to the doors’ posts from Norm’s home base. This door is from the Federal period or Colonial, I think. There once was a creative person trying to make this eclectic house, a “home.”
I wish that the house could sense you cared enough to take this photo, Joey. Also, poor thing, wish it knew how many people “care” about its run down appearance. I wish someone could check it’s “bones” and structure to see if it has potential yo withstand walls being knocked down and renovations made. 🙂 It is a great post when conversations are started and people wish they could fix the house the door opens into. 🙂
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I know! So many of us would love to see it restored. As I told Norm, I don’t know that we should hope, since there is absolutely nowhere for the homeowner to park.
I can see why you think that, because someone has hung a Federal pediment, but if you saw the entire house, you’d see it’s Queen Anne.
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Mom was looking and studying this house and door awhile. She thinks the origin of some of the builder or home owner’s ideas are a widow’s walk, with imitation level with metal railing. The shag or shingles on front of house are more common she thinks in New England. (Remember she just turned 87, so maybe not correct. . .) “Sometimes things were put up to protect house from salty air.” I promised to pass on her ideas, no need to take seriously. 🙂
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Hehe! Well thank her for her insight. No sea air here, fersure!
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Ha ha, silly Mom. 🙂
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Nice door with such potential. I little scraping and a couple of coats of paint, and she could be beautiful again. Nice find. 🙂
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Let’s hope it gets to be something again, although getting things to “something” can be an expensive proposition.
janet
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