Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
The first 7 answers to last week’s Photo Challenge were incorrect.
Burying Hill Beach? Camp Mahackeno? More than half a dozen guesses missed what I thought was a slam dunk: the out-of-place-looking hill in Winslow Park, halfway between Compo Road North and the Playhouse parking lot.
But then you came through.
Eighteen readers nailed it. Several remarked on the oddness of the topography. One called it “funny”; another, “creepy.” (Click here to see.)
The hill might not be natural. One theory is that it’s built on remains of the mansion — later, a sanitarium — that anchored the property from the 1850s through the 1970s.
Whether or not that’s true, congratulations to Leigh Gage, Jerry Kuyper, Tom Talmadge, Regi Kendig, Karen deMille, Andrew Colabella, Cat Malkin, Chip Stephens, Daniel Maya, Sal Liccione, Sally VanDevanter, Dan Ashley, Brooks Sumberg, Robert Grodman, Duane Cohen, Mary Stewart, Matt McGrath and Sally Palmer.
You weren’t first. But you were right.
Today’s Photo Challenge is a bit more artistic than most. The game is the same, though: If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Jerry Kuyper)
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Harding
Corner of what is currently Harding Funeral Home.
Rooftops of Pottery Barn and West Elm Buildings on Main Street. The loft style second floor windows are the give away.
Masonic Hall/Harding Funeral home building
Harding Funeral home
Main Street, next to the West Elm Store (arched windows)
What Andrew said.
BTW, that hill in Winslow was part of the original, very sophisticated landscape design for the Winslow estate. The remains of the mansion/sanitarium (and related outbuildings) were sent to a landfill. Unfortunately, the large quantity of mysterious chemicals in barrels discovered in the basement found a new home at the bottom of what was once a small artificial pond at the rear of the park. Some of the stuff was later removed by DPW. But not all of it.
Viva,s
I believe that is the Harding funeral home
I would have said Harding Funeral Home too.
But Andrew, Lynn and Morley are correct: It’s the view of Main Street. Congrats!
Masonic Hall
The Masonic temple and funeral home
Harding funeral home next to my house downtown right on poat road Downtown
Masons!
Pottery Barn and West Elm on Main St
Masonic Temple on corner of Imperial.
I took this photograph from the second floor of the Clarendon Fine Art Gallery at 22 Main Street. Walking up to the second floor provides a very different perspective.