Tucked away on Breman Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis, this elegant Victorian looks forlornly across a sea of lush greenery. Today, the park is still beautiful, but once it was the talk of the town with its gazebo, fountain, stocked lake, service building, and playgrounds. The wealthy and elite owned these fine houses right on the park, and this home, with its welcoming porch, was one of the earliest and, without doubt, one of the finest.

So many stories and images flash before me as I look at her old tired bones, imagining those who lived and loved in this home, the children who ran up and down the stairs, the visitors who were entertained on the porch, drinking from fine china. And so I have tried to capture but a few of these images in honor of those fine people.