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Roscoe Village

This page contains some of my photographs of houses in and around my home in central Ohio. Most were taken in the fall of 2004, between October 31 and November 7. In particular, the weekend of November 6-7 was warm (Sunday was in the high 60's), clear, and sunny. Perfect weather for photography.

I must advise you, however, that some of the images are over 500K (and that's after adding the watermark and compressing the images). I feel it's important to show as much fine detail as possible, while not going completely overboard. Yes, some of the original images are about 1.2M.

Roscoe village, near Zanesville, Ohio, is a restored 1830's canal town located about 100 miles east of Columbus.

Just a note: I have rehosted all these photos to Flickr.

252K. Brick building in the "downtown" area. Roscoe Village is not much more than a central main street with buildings and houses along its half-mile (or so) length. There is an official visitor's center (complete with lady garbed in a long, flouncy skirt), and a bunch of shops and houses.

339K. This is a small house tucked in against the hillside.

188K. Another building in the downtown area. I believe this was once the town hall, but today it's just a collection of shops, selling tourist "trinkets". I don't fault them for that. When you live in a tourist attraction, you do what you can to make a living.

I apologize for the picture being slightly out of focus. I'm only human, and I sometimes move when I shoot.

280K. A closer-up shot of the town hall. I'm not exactly sure what I was trying to capture, though. Perhaps the low building to the left, in the picture.

345K. This is a great brick house on the south (hillside) side of the street. I think there may be a bricked-over window on the top left (right side of the house, second story), but it's hard to tell.

359K. This is a nice, small, frame house on the downhill side of the street. The town was built on a hillside, and the Erie Canal was down the hill about 30 feet, or so. There were a set of locks here, and the town grew up because of employment at the locks. (And also because the canal boat personnel needed supplies, and such.)

228K. This was once the blacksmith's shop, located at the northern end of the "town". That's modern-day metropolitan Zanesville visible in the background. I especially like the nice touch of the giant power tower.

313K. This is a very large, very nice Federal-style house located near the northern end of the village. I doubt the original owner parked his SUV where the present owner does. Note the twin chimneys and symmetric front facade.

366K. Here is another view of the brick Federal, showing its very typical symmetry.

398K. This house is out-of-date for the remainder of the village. Based on the style, which is obviously mid-to-late Victorian (I'm guessing 1880's, probably), this house is a good 50 years younger than its neighbors. I liked it, anyway, especially the festive purple color.

Nice touch.

355K. Here's another view showing the unusual, unique central dormer. Those whacky Victorians! They were known to do almost anything just to be different.

Oh, and it was also quite a long walk up steep stairs just to get from the street level to the level of the front porch. I'll bet the mailman simply hates these people.

316K. And, we leave Roscoe Village with a shot of a very old brick wall. Note the metal stars. These were decorative ends placed on long, steel rods anchored in the house to keep the masonry wall from coming down.