rennovation.....

ok, so i have been following along with the community-partnered rennovation/restoration of an antebellum (sp) home that i pass on my way to work each day......it really must have been a showplace in its day.....and so southern, with it's columns and veranda.....not a plantation home.....no..this was certainly meant to be a town place, while the real money was earned on a farm out in the county somewhere.......the entire street is lined with such 'town' homes......that likely had ancillary buildings out back.....and maybe a place to let out the carriage horses, and possibly a small garden, but the real base of operation.....the place where one raised the pigs, chickens and cows.....and cotton/tobacco/corn/wheat was somewhere else....but back to the restoration.......it will be lovely to look at, but not necessarily lovely to be in....as it's view consists mainly of the a quickmart and several run-down stores that may or may not be actively in business.........plus an unfortunate tangle of electric lines.....ends just in front of the porch.......hardly room to get a nice postcard picture without airbrushing out the offensive clutter.........so while i am impressed by the project...saving a historical building......i am saddened that it is being saved in such a dismal locale........