A Visitor from the Past

This afternoon a stranger knocked on our door. She's the niece of the two ladies who once owned this house -- the Crowley sisters, Veronica and Madeline. We invited her in and she looked around the house, telling us all about what the place used to look like. Apparently the craft room/spare bedroom was once charcoal grey and red! The sliding glass door in the kitchen wasn't there, and there was in fact a door at the top of the basement stairs, and then another, smaller door that went outside to the back porch from the kitchen. The built-in cabinet in the dining room used to have glass doors (oh how I wish it still did!). It was pretty neat.