The House With Nobody In It - The Inside
Written by Joyce Kilmer, Published in 1914
Another excerpt:
This is the second post about this old homestead near Wetmore, Colorado, and a second excerpt from the poem by Joyce Kilmer, 1886-1918. To see the first post, click here. To read the entire poem, click here.
( For Sharon Tara , who asked to see the inside :)
These are shots of another angle of the outside, and the interior.
The window above looks into the kitchen, accessed through the front porch on the right.
The door below leads into the living room, or perhaps a dining room. Interestingly, there are 3 doors on that side of the house. A shot of that side, showing the three doors, is in the original post.
The kitchen. You can see where wiring had been brought in at some point for electricity.
I was surprised to find there was still furniture in the house. I wonder when it last held a family...
This door leads from the kitchen to the living room.
The photo below shows where the floor of the second story bedroom has fallen, and the old bedsprings that had rested on the floor, went down with it. That bedroom was accessed from the upstairs hallway, and a second bedroom is behind the opposite door.
Looking through a second story window at the sky.
A corner of the living room shows where the room had been painted at least twice.
And here you can see where the home had originally been insulated with paper.
It seemed to me that this old place had been loved for a very long time. There was evidence of many changes over the years to make it more comfortable. 'Upgrades', if you will. How excited the family must have been at each improvement....
All of these photos were taken from windows or doorways. I did not go inside. First it may not have been safe, and secondly it seemed somehow 'wrong', (I can't really explain it), aside from the fact that it is not my property, and I had no right to do so. I just wanted to document it, not 'invade' it.
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