It was an ordinary day. Just finished taking photographs of a few miniature wooden replicas that my wife and I have around the house. The pieces are replicas of one of our favorite restaurants along the Chesapeake Canal as well as replicas of our homes that we have lived in during our married lifetime. All replicas are made in miniature out of wood. Each and every one is a remarkable copy or replica of the original building. The first piece of artwork is a replica of the Bayard house in Chesapeake City, Maryland.
The Bayard house is the oldest building in historic Chesapeake City, Maryland. Samuel Bayard built the original manor c.1780 in what was then known as Bohemia Village. Today, it stands proudly restored as The Bayard House Restaurant, serving fine Maryland cuisine. My wife, Carol, and I have been to the restaurant many times during our married life. No matter what you order, you surely will enjoy the results from the chef. The miniature of the Bayard House was done by Brandywine Woodcrafts which is located in Yorktown, Virginia.
The next three pictures are all replicas of homes Carol and I have lived in during our married life .
The first house pictured is our first home at 925 Janet Avenue in the Grandview Heights section of Manheim Township where I taught high school for many years. The house is a three-story, semi-detached home near Schaeffer Elementary School in Manheim Township where our three children went to school. The right side of the semi-house was brick on the first floor with stucco covering the second and third floors. A screened-in porch sat to the right side of the first floor. There was a full basement in the home that I had converted into a rec room, laundry room and work shop. Two of our three children used the third floor as a bedroom/bathroom. There was also quite a bit of storage on that floor. Our second floor had a master bedroom and two smaller bedrooms with bath being used by all threebedrooms. One very interesting feature of the house was the laundry chute that ran from the second floor hallway to the basement. Great for the children to place their dirty laundry in rather than all over their room. The first floor had a living room with fire place, dining room and kitchen. A single car garage was at the rear of the home which opened onto the rear alley. Carol and I and our family lived in the home from 1968, a year after we married, to 1996 when we moved to 1949 Harrington Drive, also in the Manheim Township School District.
Our home at 1949 Harrington was a two-story modern residence that was beautiful! The home sat on the corner of Harrington Drive and Foxshire. It was all wood with a two-car garage, beautiful entryway with large window (made a full-sized stained glass beach scene window for the entryway), sunken living room, dining room, kitchen, family room, bath room, and den/office. Ceiling in the sunken living room ran from the floor to the top of the house. I must admit...the house was just beautiful, but it began to be a chore for my wife and I to take care of. The acre of land took time to mow in the summer and the driveway and rear deck were a chore to keep the snow off of in the wintertime. And the wood house always needed attention. So.....we decided to move to a retirement community where we have none of that to worry about.
Our third home 408 Rubia Drive, where we have been living for a bit over a year, is a semi-detached, two-bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen with a sun room, laundry room and two full baths...all on ONE FLOOR! Perfect for two people! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - The following are the wood replicas that we had made to remember the houses where we lived during our married lifetime.
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| 925 Janet Ave. |
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| 1949 Harrington Drive |
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| 408 Rubia Place |
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