Littlest White House

It has been a while since we've featured a house. This little white house is located on Boulevard Street just down from the intersection of High Point and Holden Roads. You can tell from the size of the house in relation to the trees and garbage cans that it is tiny. However, the humble abode, across from Blessingdale's Thrift,  looks so clean and cozy, as if it should appear in a fairy tale. What we didn't capture in this photo is how this house is an enclave unto itself. With noisy roads nearby and businesses like Krispy Kreame Donuts, McDonald's Restaurant, Border's Bookstore, and scenes like this one just around the corner, one has to wonder how this little house has survived. This type of house was so common to Greensboro in decades past. Even today, yards like these are known to fill with children, tables of foods, and charcoal grills on the weekend for family reunions and other celebrations of life.

We felt the same about this little house on Church Street that we posted about a year ago (here). Of course, we love Greensboro's GIANT and HISTORIC houses too! If your home were to be featured, what would you say about it?

Comments

[Jacob]

Hi Jan!

Deja vu! When I was a little kid, we lived in Duluth, Minnesota. A family friend owned a little white house "on top of the hill" in an area called "high point" or something like that. The house looked very much like this one. We'd spend a week or so there during the summers. Great fun.

Thanks for the memories!

[Halcyon]

I like the looks of this place. It does look nice and cosy. And very well-cared for.

[MaryBeth]

I love little houses---the very best. We lived in a little gray house for over 30yrs--raised 4 kids there--of course we had to add on to make more bedrooms (it had onebedroom down and an knotty pine finished attic room) I loved it. Progress took it. It was our little farm. Such is life. MB

[birdman]

Every house can be a home.

[Janis]

Very cute little house,reminds me of my Ubcle's house in the orange groves in the 1960s.It was a little workers house from the dustbowl era of the 1920s when so many people made their way to California just to survive.
Hhhmmm what would I say about OUR house...Don't judge a book by its cover. We may fit in with all the other ticky tacky stucco boxes in our Barrio but the back has bee expanded another 600 Sq Ft and I am told "it is a carnival inside your house!". We collect and sell art/antiques/collectibles/automobilia so, yep that is how it is ,but everybody has a good time!

[VP]

It looks almost unreal... You caught a very nice house!

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Hi! This house looks like the perfect size for me! Well, maybe add a little studio out back. thanks for visiting my blog & leaving such nice comments about my pics & pots! I've looked at the links you left- very cool. It looks like you have a big potter's sale coming up in Nov... wish I could go. They have a similar event in Southern Oregon that I attended last year. Fun stuff! I'll be back to check out more of your blog soon!
:)Becky

[Living In Williamsburg Virginia]

Cozy is a great word. It looks livable and like home. When did we decide home had to be massive to be nice? Great post.

Darryl and Ruth : )

[Randy]

What a cute house. When I was little we lived in one that was similar to this one.