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<\/a>Silver Plume house<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Blondie checks out the yard.<\/p><\/div>\n
This\u00a0road noise from the interstate, which is just across the creek to the left of the house, is a huge drawback. \u00a0(Did I mention the clouds of mosquitoes? \u00a0Haven’t seem them that dense since living in the Midwest.)<\/p>\n
A nicer structure, also in Silver Plume, was this house on Madison Street:<\/p>\n
<\/a>Madison Street home<\/p><\/div>\n
It is a cute place, a bit further from the interstate and no creek frontage, but no garage and no place to put one. This seems to be a common problem with most of the properties we looked at, not surprising given the nature of the towns, but a negative for me.<\/p>\n
However, later in the day in Central City we looked at a place that originally\u00a0had a carriage house:<\/p>\n
<\/a>House on Spring Street<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Carriage House on Spring Street<\/p><\/div>\n
The carriage house would take care of our storage needs for sure! \u00a0The owners of the two structures, the Central City Opera House Association, are trying to sell the two separately which would put this arrangement out of our price point.<\/p>\n
Pam liked the porch entrance of this Central City house:<\/p>\n
<\/a>1800s Central City house upper level<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lower level of the 1800s house<\/p><\/div>\n
This house typifies Pam’s “grandma house” standard – bay window, ornate porch, eave treatment with shingles and\/or lace-like filigree. \u00a0This particular house is a\u00a0duplex; we ended up talking to the older gent who lives in the bottom half of the property. He gave us much information on Central City’s current services offered to residents (such as they are).<\/p>\n
We looked at a number of properties and I will not get into a description of all of them. Suffice to saw we made a day out of poking around in all of the communities mentioned above. The weather was high country beautiful\u00a0and, as is usual in summer, we had another shower on the way back to Sanderling. \u00a0We also saw some beautiful flowers and scenery. One place, an old mining claim, had a brilliant mix of red, blue, and white columbine blooming along side the driveway.<\/p>\n