I went for a walk in Grapevine today and I took a few pictures of an old turn of the century farm house. The house has lots of windows, a necessity in a hot climate.
This is a southern style house with the kitchen located in an ell at the back of the house. This house has large porches on both sides of the kitchen to keep it shaded and to provide a cool place to sit in hot weather.
The well for the house was originally hand dug here it has a brick well curb. It was late in the morning and porch on this side of the house is in the sun but the porch roof keeps the sun off the kitchen wall. The porch on the other side of the kitchen was in the shade. This is a house that was designed and built by the farmer who lived there and he did a fine job.
