#622 Stalking a house on the Google

So, how did we come to own this 100-year-old Arts-and-Crafts airplane bungalow?

Here's how it happened.

Once upon a time in the 1990s, Kelly and I were driving around southwest Missouri, as we do.  We spied a cool bungalow down a side street and turned towards it.  (This happens more than you might think.) And that's when we fell in love.

We are so taken with the house that we ask our nearby family to let us know if it comes on the market.  Years go by, a decade or more, and then the unimaginable happens:  Google Street View comes to Aurora, MO.

From our home computer in Charlottesville, VA, we find this image.  It is a sign in more ways than one.

Everyone knows that Google's imagery is not current, but the sign in the yard tells us the cool bungalow had recently been on the market.  We zoom in on the sign and contact the realtor to see if she has any interior photos that she'd be willing to share.  She does.  And not only that, she tells us the house had been taken off the market due to illness the previous year and it is soon to be relisted.  Another sign.

That was five years ago.

Yours in reading the signs,
Mary