When I was 4, my family moved into Anderson Cottage, here on the campus of the college where I now work. We only lived there for a year, but some of my earliest memories were of that house. When I moved back to take this job, Anderson Cottage was still there.
Now it's gone. They bulldozed the whole thing recently.
To be fair, the house was old when we first moved in (more than 25 years ago), and it was looking pretty bad by the time they bulldozed it, so it's not like the bulldozing was premature. On top of that, they started tearing some parts of it out by hand a few days before they bulldozed it, so I took the opportunity one evening to poke around, reminisce, and say my good-byes.
Here's how the house looked in March 2007, when I last took pictures of it:
Here's how it looks now:
From another angle, before and after:
Goodbye, Anderson Cottage.
Now it's gone. They bulldozed the whole thing recently.
To be fair, the house was old when we first moved in (more than 25 years ago), and it was looking pretty bad by the time they bulldozed it, so it's not like the bulldozing was premature. On top of that, they started tearing some parts of it out by hand a few days before they bulldozed it, so I took the opportunity one evening to poke around, reminisce, and say my good-byes.
Here's how the house looked in March 2007, when I last took pictures of it:
Here's how it looks now:
From another angle, before and after:
Goodbye, Anderson Cottage.
posted by Mark at 10/15/2008 05:03:00 PM
2 Comments:
Our whole family created many memories in that house. I'm glad that there are pictures.
We lived in a faculty house like that (but not as nice as your cottage) that was the setting for your cousin Kate's earliest memories. A long-lived daydream of hers was to buy and move it before they tore it down. But it may already be gone by now...
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