The Home Stretch #3: The Homestead

Nice shot of The UP’s finger, too!!

The Allen House

I may have scanned this one backwards. Can’t remember the orientation of the previous shots.

The Allen house

Home Sweet Home

Sorry for the lack of updates. I completely spaced out on doing any scanning last weekend & didn’t have a free evening to get caught up until yesterday.

I will never figure out why, according the dashboard, this blog always gets more hits when I DON’T post content for a few days. Weird!

Home sweet home

Looks like it’s a miniature, doesn’t it? I almost expect Godzilla’s big foot to come smashing down on it. (:

Home Sweet Home

A different view of the Allen House. I’m assuming all these were taken after the house was built, but before the family moved in.

That’s quite an antenna in the background! I just got my ham radio license & I’d love to have something like that. Too bad my HOA won’t allow it.

O. W. Allen’s house

We’ve seen this place a couple of times before. Now if I could only figure out who O. W. Allen was!

Back of the house

O.W. Allen

Finally! A concrete clue as to the The UP’s identity: his last name is/was Allen! This is verified by a slip of paper I found in the photo box with that name written on it.

We’re back & in one piece!!

As you can probably tell, it took me a little longer to get the new scans uploaded. We had a massive storm system move through the region yesterday & our internet was out all day. Should be back on a regular schedule, at least through this week. So, without further ado:

We’ve seen it from the inside, now we have the outside! The UP’s house in all it’s glory! Looks like a nice place. You certainly don’t see antenna’s like that nowadays!