Over Thanksgiving, I found myself standing beside a worn pickup truck with the cutest pup, Daisy, sitting in the driver’s seat and parked in front of the 133-year-old architectural gem in Old East Hill on the corner of 6th and Jackson.
I have reported about this house before, as it was one slated for demolition until a timely conversation between Nannette Chandler of Chandler Construction and architect Scott Sallis of Dalrymple Sallis Architecture stepped up and saved it through purchasing it because of their shared passion for historic preservation.
The front porch still holds the secrets of afternoon teas and conversations from the past; the inside, recently stripped back to its bones, sits piled with lath that Nannette and her team carefully removed and generously offered to anyone willing to repurpose it…