No matter how much heat the landlord sent up, it was never enough. You could fall through and hurt yourself.”īy early fall, the airy house turned bitter cold. The stairs are original to the house and they look rickety. They built a wall across it when it was renovated. “Back when the house was unified, those stairs led up to the third floor. ![]() “What’s behind this wall?” Laura asked her mother. Despite the light from the hanging bulb, the stairwell remained cast in shadow. Inside of the closet was an old wooden staircase that ended one flight up at a blackened wall. While her parents were busy carrying boxes into the house, Laura ran about exploring everything. The strangest part of the house was the hallway closet. While the house looked pretty, with its tall, elegant windows and high ceilings, the floors were uneven and the narrow hallways shot off at weird angles. The living room was located toward the front of the house and the kitchen had a backdoor that the family could use to go down into the garden. ![]() It was a studio apartment meant for either a single person or a couple with no kids, so Laura’s parents chose the larger, two-bedroom on the first floor. ![]() The top floor was empty at the time that Laura’s family moved in. It had originally been a large Victorian house, but the owner had broken it up into separate apartments, so that she could rent them out. When Laura was ten years old, her parents moved into a three-family house in Upstate New York. Thanks to Laura from Upstate New York for sharing this story with me!
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