A new home for the redwork
from With Strings Attached
Historic preservation was a popular trend when I lived in Brenham, Texas, in the late 1970's. People from Houston were discovering Brenham and Washington County for weekend and retirement living. Both newcomers and long-timers were restoring the town's big Queen Anne houses and less-elaborate dwellings There was new interest in late-Victorian furniture and decor. .
Natalie and Charlie lived in what had been the Lutheran Teacherage -- where the (unmarried) women teachers at the Lutheran school had boarded. The house originally had three rooms down and three rooms up, 16x16x16. There was a wide hall with a very steep staircase ...
