15th HOME - 3371 S. MAGNOLIA STREET, DENVER, COLORADO

South Magnolia Street in Southeast Denver is a very special house for me. It was to this house that Tracy and I moved when we married on March 31, 1984.
The house was located in Welshire East, a housing area of 400 houses on the north side of Hampden and east side of Monaco, near the corner of I-25 and Hampden Avenue in Southeast Denver. Here we lived for 6 years. Tracy had her office just 2 blocks away and I had the offices of Novinger Resources, Inc. in the house, using the family room on the main floor and all of the basement.

Denver is great, the weather is wonderful, the city is exciting, and we had friends and family throughout the city and a long history of living and working in the City.

Only because of our interests in Latin America and Mexico did we leave Denver to live further south in the United States with closer access to Latin America. But the South Magnolia Street house will always be special because it was where we started our life together.

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.