I love to take pictures of old houses. This one isn't particularly old, not like some of the Victorians in San Francisco which survived the Great Quake and Fire of 1906 (the 103rd anniversary of which we just commemorated). The house is located in San Mateo close to the railroad tracks, and may have been built, I'm guessing, around a hundred years ago. An ordinary house, not of great architectural interest, but sturdily built, with a few touches that speak of old-time craftsmanship in the fish-scale siding at the top, the turned porch posts, and the carved wooden cornices.
Edward Hopper's famous painting "House by the Railroad" (1925) may be compared
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