To give a better idea of what a restoration of a house like 1239 First Street would have been like, I've created a new kind of image gallery, a slideshow. The images came from Estately.com, and are of recent restoration work on the Morris-Israel house at 1331 First Street. Both houses, while not identical, are similar in a lot of ways.
To see this little collection of images, you can go to the section of the Patterns In Chaos page linked here. The images in the slideshow gallery are of the interior of the house.
As for the exterior, there are also a few images taken of that, as well. I think these two images of the gallery of the Morris-Israel house really fit the description of the peeling and faded paint of the Mayfair house in The Witching Hour...
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