As much as we can, in our own short lives, we will understand the difference of when it was built, to where it is now, and capture that time period, of when it was or when it will be.
In 1902, the home was built, looking south across Claremore, Oklahoma. The large place was at once the biggest, only to have a brick mansion built some three blocks away in 1907, the time of statehood.
The house is large, with the first floor and second floor porch's built to last, to confirm those who sat on their cool backsides in wooden chairs, wearing jackets and ties and drank cool water and tea, in the long months of summer, and huddled inside in the multitude of rooms in the winter.
Time has taken its toll. The house was painted with pink stripes last century, but it is worn, and the remaining paint curls off. The floors are wooden, and they pop and creak when walked upon and the balcony rails dip to show time beating away on its firmness, and the wooden frame of its greenhouse pulling back toward the ground.
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Ralph Peck
Picture by Ralph Peck
The Old Pink House, Claremore, Ok
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