Hello Down There

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Norfolk Ave . Roanoke

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Wholesale Row

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127 Norfolk Ave . Roanoke

Built in 1902 by Moir and Brindel, grocers...

This area is known as the Roanoke Warehouse Historic District or Wholesale Row...it consists of 5 buildings built between 1889 and 1902 wholesale food storage.

I have shown you a couple of buildings HERE and HERE

I'm going to have to gather what info I have found on the area and go back and snap a pic of each building as I learn about their history...remind me haha

A lot of interesting reading on the buildings/area HERE and have you ever used Emporis ? Handy when you have the address of a building and need a little more info!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

People In Glass Houses

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A glimpse of downtown Roanoke from inside the Market Street Walkway

Linking with Mersad's Through My Lens

CDP Theme Day - Photo of the Year

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This is one of my favorite photos! We were visiting Bennett Place in Raleigh and I was taking a picture of the little cabin when I was suddenly photo bombed by Dalton...I have tons of these photo bombs in my archives as the boys are always doing this to me! They crack me up!
It's 11:15 pm as I get this post ready...almost 2017, can you believe it?!
I wish you all a healthy and happy New Year!

To see more interpretations of the theme, visit City Daily Photo

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 112

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Sites from downtown:
1)

Elmwood Park
This guy was about to lose his pants...I waited for him to move to the side so I could get a picture of the fountain ahead but it just wasn't happening so whatever...funny thing is we kept seeing him randomly pop up all over the place while we were walking around haha...

2)

Doors of the old Norfolk Southern Building

3)

Up ahead is the old Norfolk Southern Building I mentioned in #2...it was just recently purchased as Norfolk Southern relocated their headquarters down to Atlanta... Linking with Weekend Reflections

4)

Center In The Square...on a nice day one of my favorite things to do while downtown is to visit the rooftop on Center In The Square...it provides such a great view of the city...

5)

This is a view from the rooftop of Center In The Square looking back the way we walked in...see that big building on the left? That is the old Norfolk Southern Building...you can also just make out the fountain to the right of it that I showed you in #1...this is the way we usually walk into downtown...starting at Elmwood Park and down past the fountain!

That's my 5 this week! I look forward to seeing your randoms! Don't forget to link up and visit others!! Happy New Year!!

Ozzy & Riley

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Ozzy

Riley who is a little mischievous...notice he has gotten something from the trash!

Today I am thankful for Ozzy and Riley...Ozzy our sweet Rottweiler will be 6 in February and I just love him to pieces...Riley is Ashlyn's little pooch and Ash and Ri came to live with us after she graduated from JMU...by the way, she's still looking for her "big girl job" anyone looking for a smart girl with a political science major? Anyways...Ozzy and Riley get along great, they are good friends!

Linking with Michelle's Thankful Thursday

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

Colorful Downtown

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Pricey townhouses along Norfolk Avenue . Downtown Roanoke

Linking with Wordless Wednesday