It makes me feel a little wistful to finish showing you my very favorite building! Here are the last additions to the Old Heidelberg. The final cottage was built in 1908. You can see, below, how it attaches to the Old Heidelberg and becomes yet another element that saves the building from perfect symmetry. The attachments on the right side of the building (from the sidewalk) help the building sprawl closer toward the street in an elegant and ambling way. Reportedly, the adjoining cottages were never part of the original plan for the Old Heidelberg, but now I can't imagine the sprawling structure without them.
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| Rear window |
Here are some interior photos from Mozart Management's website. (You can see more gorgeous photos of the inside of this cottage and the interesting floorplan if you click here.) I once entered during the tenant's yard sale and wished I'd had my camera then!
Then in 1909, Scheibler added a single home and attached it to the Old Heidelberg with an archway. While I believe it was once a single-family home, today it is four apartments. While Mozart Management owns the Old Heidelberg, this building is owned by an individual.
This is that home.
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| An arch over a walkway connects the two buildings. A Beagle butt made it into the photo! |
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| Love the stained glass. |
Today, the home has been turned into apartments. I love the big back window, which I imagine should overlook a beach or pastoral scene, not an urban alley where all the area dog owners seem to leave their dogs' poop. (Watch your step on Flotilla Way!) Anyway, yes indeed, this photo, taken through the front door, is a little creepy of me. This could be remedied if Scheibler owners would invite me inside for tours.
I've now blogged the entire Old Heidelberg--a beautiful site to behold!
Update! Today my heart skipped a beat when I realized that the second-floor dweller of 425 Braddock Avenue was holding a moving sale. I got to meet him - a very nice guy with great adventures ahead -- and see inside the building.
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| A hallway takes you from the front door to each unit. The apartment I visited today took up the entire second floor. |
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| This hallway has an incredible amount of light! I was so excited to get inside, I neglected to look outside...I wish I would have peered into the curious and fenced back yard. |
Thanks for the information about this single detached house next door to the Old Heidelberg. I knew that it too had been designed by Scheibler (how could it not be), but I wasn't aware that it was no longer a single family home but rather a four unit apartment building. Well, at least it's still with us. I am quite sure that the exposed brick chimney breast and fireplace in the second floor apartment had once been graced by a Scheibler designed fireplace similar to those still existing in the Old Heidelberg. Would love to know what became of it. Makes me wonder if any of these Scheibler artifacts have ever ended up at Construction Junction!
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