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Homestead
The house may be tumbling down but the satellite dish is up to date.
Coral House
The house actually was a light coral pink but bathed in golden-orange sunset light it was hard to tell if maybe it wasn’t just white.
This Old House
Another example of an old-style Sea Isle house, this one with 3 stories, though, and a garret.
3 Generations
My wife has been taking me down the shore to Sea Isle City for 25 years now. When I was first going down there most of the homes were a bit older, 2-story structures up a couple of steps to a front porch. There were still a bunch of the previous generation, single-story houses around. One of the charms of the town wass it’s faintly blue-collar, Catholic feel, so different from the patrician Hamptons of Long Island. Then, some years ago, the old places all started getting pulled down and replaced with 3-story-double houses with no living quarters on the ground level, just garages and boilers and storage. And since then, this third generation has started sprouting a new cohort of 4-story variants. And while the town has clearly been getting wealthier, it has lost some of its older charm (OTOH, it is finally getting a tad more diverse and colorful, which is a nice change). This year I thought I would document some of the older 1 and 2-story homes before they all disappear.
1-story
Sea Isle City, NJ
single story with an addition
Is this an addition or originally 2-story?
A different design than most
2-story
2-story
1-story
click any image to see them all enlarged.
Better Homes and Gardens
Even tthe stately homes…
…bear another focus
Click either image to see them both full-sized.
American Creed
Rainy Afternoon Houses
Backyards
I was shooting with a long lens (Fuji 55 – 200mm, 300mm 35 equiv, for those who are interested) one of the side effects of which is the compression of distance, making the houses look all pressed upon one another.
Ephrata Morning
Mary Washington’s House
Mary Washington was George’s remarkable mother who lived to 80. We had a fact-filled tour of her house.
Old Sea Isle
Most of the older single family homes in Sea Isle are being torn down and replaced with more modern, larger 2 (or more) family homes. A developer will offer to tear down your home and rebuild one several times larger on the spot for free, if you give him one half. I have half-heartedly thought about doing a series of pictures of the remaining older homes before they all disappear.
No home in Sea Isle is complete without at least one US flag for some reason.
Dusk on Pleasure Avenue
Rooftops of Sandhamn
Painted Houses
Fishing Village
Hansel and Gretel’s House
Yellow
Pictorialism
Another image from the archive. Beach shot taken with a 2MP Kodak digital in 2003 and dramatically over-sharpened, whether deliberately for artistic effect (or should I say affect?) or merely out of crude ignorance of sharpening technique… I can’t remember.
Siding Diagonals
