14th HOME - 708 S. YORK STREET, DENVER, COLORADO

After selling the Victorian house in Nevada, Iowa, in the spring of 1980, we bought and renovated this house at 708 S. York Street in Denver, Colorado. 708 S. York Street was a traditional house of the type built in the close-in, central area of Denver in the early part of the 1900's.

The house was of average size for older houses in central Denver and it was dated in style and design. Perhaps the only thing that was special about it was that it was in one of the most desirable locations of downtown Denver with easy access to both downtown and the Cherry Creek Shopping area.

Soon after the renovation was completed the house was sold.

13th HOME - SOUTH 2nd STREET, NEVADA, IOWA

Upon returning to the United States from Nova Scotia in the fall of 1979, I purchased a 5,000 s.f. Victorian Home in a sad state of repair in Nevada, Iowa. Nevada is the county seat of Story County, and is located only 15 miles from Collins, Iowa, where I grew up and graduated from high school.

My Mother and Father still lived on the farm south of Collins, and 1979 was the first time I had lived in the area since graduating from high school in 1957. We closed on the purchase of the house on Halloween Day, October 31, 1979, and renovated the house over the winter and sold it in the spring of 1980.

It is interesting to remember that I bought the paint for the outside of the house from a paint store in Denver, Colorado, and hauled it to Nevada. The paint was a close-out item, on sale for $2.00 per gallon! Even in 1979 good paint cost $18 to $20 per gallon. But the $2.00 paint was still on the house and looking good several years later.

12th HOME–Sarty Farm, Lunenburg County, NS

11th HOME - OAKLAND ROAD, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

Oakland Terrace was located in the center of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with eash access to schools, churches, and the center of town. When we moved there in 1977 the house was divided into 9 apartments. We converted the main part of the house back to a 3 story private home and retained 6 apartments with private exterior entries on the rear of the house.

While the house had the appearance and feel of a private home from the front, it generated substantial income to support our costs.

Oakland Road in front of the house.

10th HOME: #7 MARTIN LANE, DENVER, COLORADO

We bought #7 Martin Lane in the Cherry Hills area of South Denver in 1971. The lot was 1 acre, located across a small creek, and accessed by a private lane and bridge. It was a great place for Lucy and Curtis, playing in not only our yard but the adjoining yards with no fences separating them. Just one yard away was the Cherry Hills Country Club Golf course which offered the neighborhood kids a large area to roam, when they didn't get caught by the County Club members. We sold the house in 1977 when we moved back to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

9th HOME - Marriotts Cove, NS

Not home for long, just a summer cottage on Marriotts Cove.  But a wonderful place to be in the warm days of July and August in Nova Scotia. Marriott's Cove is a community on a cove off of the Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Village of Chester in Lunenburg County.

Lucy and Curtis in the rowboat in front of the cottage on Marriotts Cove.

8th HOME–Cottage on Shaw Island, NS

Shaw Island in August is a wonderful retreat just west of Halifax on the South Shore. With protected back bays and beautiful vistas, a summer on Shaw Island is filled with fresh fish, picking berries, and time on the water. We don’t have a picture of the cottage but in the above photo is a photo of the boat dock which is just a few feet from the cottage.  The Gaff-rigged Schooner on the right of the photo was ours and a closer photo of the schooner appears below.

Shaw Island is located on Chester Basin. Great for sailing, fishing, and shopping. One interesting historical fact is located on Oak Island in the bottom of the map below. Oak Island is the site of the world’s longest running hunt for lost treasure. No one is sure exactly but various theories suggest that a Pirate, or the Knights Templar, or Francis Bacon created a mysterious Money Pit on the island, protected by a series of ingenious traps that would flood the tunnels, flooding the shafts with sea water to protect from treasure hunters. For hundreds of years treasure hunters have tried to recover the treasure, without success. But during the summer of 2011 the hunt in on again.