Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
This is the last Thursday in November, so it seems appropriate to publish the schedule going forward. With Christmas and New Years falling on a Monday, I think we can all use an extra week off as we get ready to start gathering door photos. There will be a contest for a new Badge for 2024. More about that later.
- December 7th – Next Thursday will be a normal week
- December 14th – I would encourage participants to share some of their favorite photos from 2023. Alternately, you are welcome to share holiday doors.
- December 21st – No Thursday Doors
- December 28th – No Thursday Doors
- January 4th – No Thursday Doors
Looking at the title, you might think we’ve been here before. That was Pearl Street in Hartford, Connecticut, This Pearl Street is in Enfield, CT. I have shared some doors from this street before, but I don’t think I’ve ever shown a collection.
Pearl Street is in the Thompsonville area of Enfield, an area once home to Bigelow Carpet Mills. It’s possible that some of the larger and more stately homes in this area belonged to executives of that company. Some of the ones which look like apartments today were built for workers, often housing four families on two floors. At one point, Bigelow had 13,000 employees. The houses have been well maintained, and now that the leaves are off the trees, I was able to get a few good pictures.
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