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I'm glad I was looking now or I would have missed this gem on the way into the town of Braidwood.  The one below was in the same side yard. What a great trio.

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  1. DianneDecember 21, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    What wonderful old treasures - a photographers delight!

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  2. diane bDecember 21, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    Love the lean on the second one. I always wonder who lived there.

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  3. Mary AnnDecember 22, 2011 at 1:18 AM

    That's my kind of rust.

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  4. UnknownDecember 22, 2011 at 5:03 AM

    My kind of rust too!

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  5. JulieDecember 22, 2011 at 9:43 AM

    Rust, ditto. And look at those timbers on the lower half of that first photograph. Is that what is known as a 'split shingle'? I suspect that to be perhaps even 19th century.

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  6. Joan ElizabethDecember 22, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    Split shingle ... not idea.

    Actually it was the timber rather than the rust that captivated my attention plus a two story structure like this is unusual. Or maybe wasn't unusual once and the rest of them got burnt down, fell down or eaten by termites.

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  7. Joan ElizabethDecember 22, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    I just remembered. Old timers tell me there was a two story structure like this in the backyard of our mountain home. A garage, the driver lived in the upper level. It got knocked down as part of a boundary dispute, apparently it was encroaching on the neighbour's land.

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  8. ABDecember 24, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    Great old buildings. It looks like you caught them at the right moment. It does not look like they will remain standing for very much longer

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