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Entrance
“THE DIFFERENCE between the great house with twenty to fifty guest rooms, all numbered like the rooms in a hotel, and the house of ordinary good size … or the farmhouse or small cottage … is much the same as the difference between the elaborate wedding and the simplest—one merely of degree and not of kind.” So sayeth Emily Post in her 1922 tome, Etiquette.
Though the paint be peeling and the welcome mat askew and one imagines the cornices are as crumbled as the base, there is a welcoming air to this dilapidated doorway. From the dignified split door to the elegant diamond-pattern tiles, the patina of long age and good wear sits on this entrance. Stoic and circumspect, it only offers hints of its provenance, whispers of its experience. It begs you to wonder how many thousands of times has this door been opened, how many people have come and gone, what were they carrying and where were they going. And when…if…they would be coming home.
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