Tag: Home of the Week

We are on the 1600 block of Wakeling Street.  This block is lined with neat well cared for homes which makes it hard to pick one.  Our featured home is on the corner which is a bigger challenge for the homeowner because of that situation.  More area to collect debris and more windows and paint to maintain.  Still these folks do a great job of taking care of this house.

 

 

To view the slide show of all the homes of he week follow this link.

The Frankford home of the week is at the corner of Horrocks and Foulkrod Streets. A nice three story single with unique look and I kind of like that fence going all around the property. Reminds me of the one I stood on as a child trying very hard to climb over. You have to be careful of those points.

Well we made it through the winter and now find ourselves in the first week of spring. I am still waiting for that end of winter surprise snow storm but I may have to eat my words on that prediction.

My older brother and I were talking about some things a few days ago and at some point he brought up that he walked home from St. Joachim’s all the way down to Plum Street near Torresdale, where we lived, every day. He was about 8 when we moved from that house so he was fairly young to be making that long walk but that was how it was in 1948.

He said he could clearly remember the house on Josephine Street where our aunt Bernice lived because he frequently had to stop there on the way to use the bathroom. That was a bit before my time.

By coincidence our home of the week is from that exact block (4300) of Josephine Street. If you have been following this series of posts you know that I don’t have any pattern to what home will be coming up. I see them, like them and that is it.

What I look for is not the newest or the biggest or the most improved or most prominent. I look for homes that are cared for in one way or another. Some are easy to not see because they are in blocks that otherwise don’t look all that good. Some are in areas where some folks don’t want to go. They are all over because there are good people living in ever nook and cranny of Frankford.

You might call them affordable estates. Good solid houses in the city. Close to good transportation and in a walkable neighborhood.

This week there are two. It’s a pair on Josephine Street. In honor of aunt Bernice.

This home in the 1100 block of Dyre Street is a standout.

A few weeks back I was riding down Hawthorne Street and found this group of homes in the 4700 block that are all neat and well maintained. It’s clean and tidy and impossible to say one of them is better than another so they are the homes of the week.