A couple more pictures from the little book of St Joe houses. This house isn’t grand or imposing, it’s beautiful up close.
The closeup catches details of the terracotta filigrees that you wouldn’t see from Googlemap or even from driving or walking by it. You also wouldn’t see this living detail on a carefully maintained museum.
The column finials were made to resemble plants, and the ivy agreed, seeking out the beauty.
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Sidenotes:
According to the McAlester guide to architecture, this type of window cap is called a ‘label mold’. Probably not wise to use this term in a real estate description, since insurers would automatically forbid coverage.
I got curious about the source of the molded terracotta pieces, clearly mass produced, not carved by hand. By analogy with brick, I thought terracotta factories might have been widespread. Per Wikipedia there was only one big maker. American Terra Cotta was in Crystal Lake, west of Chicago, and closed in 1966.
Polistra's Mill 