I love taking photographs of historic buildings. I do not love labeling my digital images. There are 112 folders in my “Kentucky Counties” file, containing 63,932 jpegs, which take up an estimated 183 gigabytes on my hard drive. I am well aware of my failings, however, and I try to “pop in” to a different county folder each week and attempt some housecleaning – namely, trying to label the jpegs with the address of the buildings pictured. This morning I ventured into the Clark County folder, with photos of Winchester from August 2015. While most of the photos in that 10-year old folder are sorted in files by street name (this is the first step!), there are three photos that have defeated me and my memory.
One of my mystery images.
The first to thwart my visual recollection is the one-story brick house shown above. I feel like it was built as a duplex, with each side cleverly oriented away from the street, leaving the canted bay windows (with delectable shingled gables above) to face the traffic and passer-by. Of course, it looks like I only got one side of the house, so I think I must have been leaning out of the car window.
Mystery house #2.
To the left of the brick dwelling is a two-story frame house, with a wrap-around porch and asbestos shingle siding. It has a delectable attic gable with a round arched opening (a vent? a window? it was shingled over when I took the picture) and brackets at the cornice line.
The last of the mystery photos, house #3.
Last is a 1.5-story frame house (see above), robbed of its porch, and looking decidedly weary.
Some or all of these houses could now be gone, and while Google Streetview is usually a boon to me in cases like this – I can’t dredge up any thoughts on what street I was on or even what section of town! There are many buildings in Winchester I’ve photographed multiple times over the years, as I am frequently on those streets, but not these three houses.
If anyone recognizes these houses, and can let me know what street they are (or were) on, I would really appreciate it!
I found #1 with google image search
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/43-Winn-Ave-Winchester-KY-40391/230197160_zpid/
Hi all are on winn Ave Winchester ky
These houses were on Winn Avenue. Keyword being “were.” All have been demolished.
The brick duplex was formerly at 43 Winn Ave. The two-story frame Victorian was next door at 41 Winn Ave. Both were demolished between June 2019 and September 2021 along with the entirety of that block; the site is now a fenced gravel storage lot for the nearby Southern States Cooperative. The third house with the steeply pitched roof was at 212 Winn Ave. at the corner of Winn and Goldie. It was demolished between 2013 and 2019; the site is now an unkempt vacant lot.
My husband grew up at 43 Winn Ave. Thank you for the picture!