JMB: Old Town is individualistic, close-knit, unapologetic. That is where fish is sold, where house-boats sit on ice, and where pedestrians, cars and cross-country skiers alike borrow the frozen lake, until the bustle of long summer days.
Old Town is more than quaint: it is a legacy, a lifestyle, history and a tradition.
Boats in their frozen slumber still hibernate.Meanwhile, the marina thawes ever so slowly.
Old Town docks to downtown. A floatplane and a boat come handy with the second car, a the attached garage.
You can't simply buy into it: you must learn and grow with it, and as you free yourself from urbanized ties and civilization, the city becomes one more playground, a home close to home.
You can't simply buy into it: you must learn and grow with it, and as you free yourself from urbanized ties and civilization, the city becomes one more playground, a home close to home.Unique architecture, lakes, bedrock and boreal vegetation are hallmarks of this winter city. Old Town takes the lead and examplifies it the most.
It is difficult to single out any one building for its exentricity. This set of houses, stacked as it seems, clinging to the rock, will serve as some of the best examples.
It is difficult to single out any one building for its exentricity. This set of houses, stacked as it seems, clinging to the rock, will serve as some of the best examples. The intricate gambrel of the upper roof delineates the simple line of the lower building. Modern lines, impeccable architecture, whimsy and orchestrated geometry play with the vertical expanse of the bedrock. A roof-top greenhouse confirms by the certainty of its design that nothing is left to chance, and that artistry is meant as a vehicle of congruity.
Old Town takes your breath away gradually. One-way traffic divides to the right, loops back to the left and climbs up the middle.
The balance between the rocky promontory and this crafted residence provides bold yet delicate entrance images. The urban design is so significant that title to this house is nothing short of art ownership.On the other side by the bridge, the transition from peninsula to islet at the old float plane base is the site of a remarkably unusual apartment building.
Ship-like and like a wharf anchored to bedrock, it even sports upper living quarters in what at first looks like exagerated roof-top-units. It is not to everyone's taste. Nonetheless it is undoubtedly unique and in keeping with the rest of Old Town's one-of-kind architecture.
Ship-like and like a wharf anchored to bedrock, it even sports upper living quarters in what at first looks like exagerated roof-top-units. It is not to everyone's taste. Nonetheless it is undoubtedly unique and in keeping with the rest of Old Town's one-of-kind architecture.
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