![]() East London's fame academy! These celebrities all went to the same little-known state school in Hackney - but can YOU guess who they are?.Indian tyre tycoon says idle British workers just want to go down the pub: Super-rich boss slams ‘lazy’ UK - and puts his factories in Hungary instead!.Heartbroken Kate Garraway 'is keen to keep busy and get back into work' after 'incredibly rough' four years caring for Derek Draper, friends reveal - as GMB star prepares for TV return following her husband's funeral.Has the mystery of the 'spy in the bag' finally been solved? Scotland Yard finds MI6 agent Gareth Williams who was found in a holdall with zips padlocked together in his bathtub 'was likely alone when he died'.JONATHAN MILLER: Why Macron may be forced to eat his patronising words about Brexit.Clapham 'acid' attacker Abdul Ezedi 'may have gang links', police fear amid massive manhunt for Afghan asylum seeker who doused mother and two children in chemical before going on the run.'She lacked empathy and showed no remorse - she was very calm': Brianna Ghey killer Scarlett Jenkinson's psychiatrist reveals chilling details about moment the 16-year-old finally admitted murdering transgender pupil in frenzied stab attack.Pictured: Grandmother, 68, who was savagely mauled to death by two 'unregistered' XL Bullys in Essex seaside horror while she was visiting her grandson - as police arrest 39-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous dogs offences.Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Connecticut, 1846. Both are assertively Gothic Revival structures–“Gothic” and pink are two descriptive terms which are seldom linked together, but in these two cases we have notable exceptions! One is the Justin Morrill homestead in Strafford, Vermont, which I’ve already featured in a post, and the other is the Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, which is owned and operated by Historic New England. These are all great houses, but I must admit that my two favorite pink houses are not in Salem. ![]() I was losing the light by this time, as you can see. And way down the road, almost on the Marblehead line, is a “Scooby Doo” eclectic Victorian overlooking Salem Harbor dressed in faded pink. On a side street Lafayette, there’s a lovely late 19th century pink house, with an adjacent three-car garage, also in pink. Some survived, and Colonial Revival residences replaced those that did not: one has a conspicuous pink and light gray color scheme that you cannot fail to notice. There was a full spectrum of pink here, from shocking Schiaparelli to the very pale color of the Gothic Revival cottage overlooking Juniper Point Beach.īack in town, I turned left and walked down Lafayette Street, which was a grand boulevard of painted ladies before the great Salem Fire of 1914. ![]() All of these houses have been transformed into year-round residences, and it’s a colorful neighborhood with few preservation encumbrances. Salem Willows is a late Victorian park with an adjacent residential neighborhood of structures that were built as seasonal cottages in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I kept walking east: downtown was full of tourists and motorcycles, the weather was beautiful, and I knew that I’d find some pink house in the Willows. While colonial houses can look lovely in pink, this custom seems to apply more to Charleston and Savannah than it does to New England: pink is just not a Puritan color! So most of Salem’s pink houses are Victorians, with the exception of a very bright Greek Revival on Winter Street just off the Common, and a little Georgian house in dusty salmon pink right off Derby Street.Īnd on the other side of Derby Street, overlooking Derby Wharf, the Friendship, and the Custom House, a pink triple-decker, another iconic New England architectural style. ![]() Pink houses, large and small, can be found all over Salem but primarily in the outlying neighborhoods away from the center historic districts. Black and orange are the predominant colors of the season but I was looking for pink this weekend.
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