February 13, 2012

• Day trip to Galena!

   My husband and I spent the day in Galena, it was beautiful.

  I love old buildings and Galena is full of them.

  This is the main street, can you see the house at the top of the hill?

  Galena is built into a hill. The streets are layered above the main street and river.

  

   

  I did some Valentine shopping here.

  

   

  This is a little Herb and Tea store, aren’t the Bee hives so cute?

  

   

  This is the oldest house in Galena.

  

   

  These stairs lead up to the houses, library, school, on the next streets above the main street.

  The stairs keep going up, follow the lampposts till they stop at the street behind the trees.

  

   

  When you get to the next street above the main street, if you live in one of the houses,

  you have to climb stairs again to get to your front door!!

  

   

  I can’t imagine when it snows, or if there is ice, how they can drive up and down the steep streets,

  and shovel all those stairs!

  

   

  The gates and railings around some of the houses were just gorgeous.

  

   

  These houses are on the downhill side of the street, their backyards drop almost straight down!

  They look small, but some of them have four and five stories going down.

  If you look close at the house on the right, just to the left of the front door,

  you can see the roof of another house below. 

  

   

  This is one set of stairs to the street below.

  

   

  The house on the left is “The Belvidere Mansion”.

  On the right is a view from an upper street.

  

   

  The house on the right is “Ulysses S. Grant’s” house.

  

   

   

  

   

  Happy Valentine’s Day!

   

   

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