Our Home on Home

16 Home St (1st floor) in Worcester, MA has been home to our family for 56 years.  My parents bought it then and they worked hard to remodel it for their 4 children and themselves.  The flats are spacious but only one Bathroom (how did we ever manage)  but we love our home on home.  It is a touchstone for so many people.  When Ida who is now 95 passes we will keep it and rent out all 3 floors but it will no longer be our touchstone.  That will be a hard one.  

I spent 5 weeks this summer redoing the second floor.  I had help but even then it was pretty much 7 days a week, 8 to 12 hour days.  It had not been worked on for 20 years and had suffered water damage so it needed a lot of work. (new ceilings etc.  I also found a new tenant via Craig list and they moved in yesterday.  Tomorrow a new work crew comes in to paint the back porches.  And so life goes on and we keep things fixed up and nice.  I am sending a few photos of Home St and the 2nd floor.  

The porch with its clothes line is a unique feature.  Don't see them much anymore..  So is the claw foot bathtub.