Dan Antion

People Live Here – CFFC

I normally post my doors on Thursday, but this week Cee and I brought our challenges together so we could both offer folks a chance to share some doors. My challenge was doors, as it always is. Cee’s topic is,

“Things People Live In.”

If you’re sliding into Cee’s challenge as I am, Thursday Doors is still accepting doors for this week. Feel free to use the link above and add your doors over there, too.

While I normally feature doors I’ve gathered on recent trips or while driving around the area, today, I’m reaching into the archive. But, I’m going far back – back to the beginning of Thursday Doors, when Norm Frampton was running the challenge.

That’s the front door of the birthplace of Richard M. Nixon. America’s 37th President. The house was reconstructed on the grounds of his Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA. I’m not quite certain that the door is prominent enough for this series, but I like it.
Isaac’s is one of the best places I ever had coffee and conversation, not to mention an egg and bacon bap. It’s in Ipswich, England at the end of the harbor near where my friend David lives.
The straight-on view seemed a little bland but they are beautifully restored doors.
This is the front door to the building that was a mortuary chapel. There are two other interesting doors on this tiny building, so you can expect me to return.
The building is small by today’s standards but it’s an interesting little chapel.
I think that’s MuMu baking by the wood stove. She will flip from time to time. The tile is quite a bit colder than the air.
The school was built in 1870 and in service until the 1940s. After that, it served as a library branch.
The Selden Brewer House is on the right. The building on the left is the old Hockanum School.
As you pull into the main parking lot to Riverside Park, you are facing the rear of the Boathouse but it’s a beautiful sight.
For my Thursday Doors, a close up the front doors to the Riverside Park Boathouse
This is the front of the Boathouse. The lower floor is for boat storage. The upper floor can be rented out for events.
I took these pictures on a stormy Sunday. No people.
The Denslow House sits adjacent to a Park and Ride lot near an interchange of Interstate 91.
This might be the front door of the house, I love the weathered look.
This is one of the doors to the condos in the building at 367 Bleeker St. I love the panels.
Even if it had ended up as part of a highrise office tower, this would have been a magnificent entry.


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64 comments

  4. Lovely doors, Dan. I’ve been to Nixon Library several times for tours, music performances, as well as attending concerts. Somehow I overlooked this reconstructed house.

    I’m trying to get back to blogging. Let me see what I can do!

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  5. Hi Dan – gosh that fire looks wonderful – no wonder MuMu is enjoying her zizz. The Nixon reconstruction looks delightful – the little chapel looks well maintained too. Interesting selection – cheers Hilary

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  6. The entryway in the last picture is a real eye catcher. And the little chapel is just plain cute. I really like the double gray doors with the wreaths. Quite a nice collection today. Thanks for digging these out for us.
    Ginger

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    • Digging these out was my pleasure, Ginger. Most of these are from 2015. I tried to skip any that I had used for other topics by Cee, hoping that most would be new (or long time readers would have forgotten ;)

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  8. What wonderful doors and places people live! Many here invite opening. I do love the age in many of these. As for baked MuMu, I cannot imagine a cozier picture, and I think those must be some hot doors on the wood-burning stove. Thanks for a good start to the day!

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    • Thanks John. I like that house, too, but they still haven’t replace those missing clapboards. I’m not sure who owns the house (our town or the State) but I’m guessing it’s not high on either list.

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  21. Excellent pics.
    The most peculiar homes I’ve seen are on Zillow Gone Wild. Usually it’s expensive places. But sometimes it’s homes that don’t look real.

    It’s April, so I’m focused on the #AtoZChallenge.
    Proof of Existence, book two in my dark urban fantasy series, is out this month.
    And I’m running a giveaway on my blog.

    J Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Reference& Speculative Fiction Author, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, and Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge

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  24. I noted that the first one in the series if of Richard Nixon’s home.

    If you ever get here to Grand Rapids, there’s several Gerald Ford doors (a few homes, the Presidential Museum) to add to you collection

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