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Seattle
is a great place for individuality. I particularly enjoy finding
interesting homes. A few years ago, we found the lovely Victorian
House.
Today
we stopped briefly to take a few pictures of what I call the Carousel
House. You can see why.
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The
house is on a corner, and bordering each side, between the sidewalk
and the curb is ornamental brickwork. Every so often, there is
a sculptured merry-go-round horse.
It's
very eye-catching and is obviously very well maintained.
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Here's
a closeup of one of the "medallions". |
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The
house itself is surrounded by carousel animals. I'm not sure whether
they've been carefully collected from retired merry-go-rounds,
or if they've been hand-made by a carousel afficionado.
Some
of the horses have names. Painted on the turquoise rein of this
one is the name "Herman".
I
loved the mermaid tail.
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Here
is Peter, perhaps named after Peter Rabbit. :) Each animal is mounted
on a genuine-looking pole, which gives the effect that they are
ready to ride. |
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This
one is Hilda. Upon closer inspection (as close as I dared get),
I noticed that the horse appeared to be hand-painted. |
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A
black horse, decorated with rosettes and the Zebra (next picture)
guarded the gateway to the side yard. |
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How
bright and colorful it looked when the sun emerged and shone on
them.
On
top of the carousel poles were lights. I could imagine how pretty
it looks at night.
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The
front door of the house was observed by a stylish giraffe. The carvings
or sculptures look to be in very good shape, and very well cared-for. |
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And
along the side, a deer kept watch over a carved Canada Goose in
the garden. |
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Smaller
sculptures such as this pair of jovial rabbits were scattered over
the grounds . |
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Every
exposed part of the surroundings was decorated. This area led to
the alley which ran behind the house. |
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I
loved the gnomes. It truly was a colorful and eyecatching place.
I've
tried to find out more about this home but so far, no luck. I'd
love to hear the story behind this one :D
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