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!
