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Healdsburg Fixer

Fixers Seeking Dreamers

Nicely-boned large fixers from the Victorian through Craftsman eras have always attracted me. In the first place, their exterior designs are often beautiful, and almost always handsome. Clearly, that was the goal of their first owners who wanted to live in a home suitable to their station in life. Building plans by mail and in [...]

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Healdsburg Matheson St. Victorian

Healdsburg Victorian with five units in back

Healdsburg has a great collection of Victorians downtown. Matheson St, a main artery to the Healdsburg plaza, has both modest and large examples of what are often called painted ladies. Martin Humphrey’s current listing is an interesting opportunity since it includes not just a Victorian with classically good bones, but five extra units on the [...]

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Round Porch Classic in Santa Rosa

I was looking for a multi-unit building for sale on Morgan Street in Santa Rosa last week when I came across a beautiful round porch. If you’re new to my blog you probably don’t realize that I’m a lover of architectural details in general and round porches in particular. Round porches represent a powerful expression [...]

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Round Porches

I can’t help it. I’ve always found round porches to be enticing features for a home. Maybe it was growing up in the 50′s with Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe as prototype women, but curves have always attracted me. Healdsburg’s grand dames have more of these finely detailed fronts than anywhere else I’ve been. Here [...]

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