Widow’s walk? / The Sunnyside Sisters B&B

The Sunnyside Sisters Bed and Breakfast / Clarksville VA / Sunnyside with Widow’s Walk

Front with one of the Sisters and the schoolchildren

Front Sunnyside as is

July 14, 2021
Eveline Broeders-Wilke
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Widow’s walk?

Last Saterday Patty and I finally both had the time to go to the historic museum here in Clarksville to look if we could find some more historic pictures of both our homes.

Patty's Queen Anne Victorian home was build in 1885 and is also known as the Morton-Sizemore house.
The museum itself is interesting, but we didn't find a lot on our homes. I did find two pictures, one a scetch of the Sunnyside and one is a picture of what I think is one of the Sisters with some of the school children. As you can see the front porch of the Sunnyside used to be very different from what it is now with a Widows Walk (rooftop rail).

The question now is do we change it back the way it was or do we spare ourselves the time and expense to keep it like it is? Feel free to give your opinion.

Beer and music, a great start of the weekend!

comments:

Patricia Charles

July 14, 2021

from Clarksville, VA


Ah my friend…my vote would be to take it back to its original state to keep with the integrity of the historic home. However, I would put it farther down the list as there are other priority items to get done. That’s my opinion of course.

Eveline Broeders-Wilke

July 14, 2021

Thanks for the suggestion and yes we are probably puting this on the list. Although it is with ‘pain in our heart’

ria

July 18, 2021

ik vind het nu mooier dan op die oude foto

Eveline Broeders-Wilke

July 19, 2021

Voorlopig laten we het even zo.

Richard Flapper

July 19, 2021

from The Hague


I guess I’d leave as it currently is. The thing is, where do you draw the line? Even the windows were different in the drawing so when are you going to call it completed. I’d side with Patricia and leave if as a nice to have and do it sometime in the future.

Eveline Broeders-Wilke

July 21, 2021

For now we will add it to the ‘list’

Mirjam en filip

July 27, 2021

from Haarlem


Hello there, what nice that you find old pictures.
Our suggestion: do research if it is really Unique for this kind of building and truelly of value in a monumentary way. Seeking through archives?
And you can always do what you like most 😊
X Filip and Mirjam

Martijn Broeders

July 28, 2021

Yes that’s what we are planning to do. (Already found some new pictures en information) For now we will repair the current porch.As we say here, we put it on the list!