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Thursday Doors- Jensen Mansion

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025Posted in Architecture, National Register of Historic Places, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged chimneys, Doors, Fence, Historic Places; Cololnial Revival Style Houses, Houses, mansions, patio, pineapple decor, Thursday Doors, white picket fence, widow's walk43 Comments

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This week I’m sharing a house with a pretty door that I’ve wanted to photograph for ages. While shopping in downtown Gardnerville, NV a few weeks back I finally turned down Ezell Street to make a few photos of the Jensen Mansion.

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This mansion was built by Arendt Jensen back in 1910. In the year 1887 when he was just 28 he arrived in Gardnerville, NV. There were just two houses in town.

There’s a plaque on the tree out front telling us a little about him and the house.

The Plaque says,” Arendt Jensen had this beautiful mansion constructed for his family in 1910. Mr. Jensen owned a general merchandise store in Gardnerville that became very prosperous. He later established the first bank in Carson Valley. The Douglas County Farmer’s Bank.

An advertisement in the Record Courier newspaper in 1906 stated at the “A. Jensen store you can buy anything at prices that are right.”

Meticulously restored, the Jensen Mansion has been a bed and breakfast in the recent past. The home and grounds also appeared in the movie “The Wizard” staring Fred Savage, and Beau Bridges. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

I found this website while doing a bit more research about the man and house. https://www.clairitage.com/2017/12/29/gardnerville-jensen-mansion/

There’s some interesting information on the Clairitage site. There’s a photo of the brick Mercantile building that Jensen built there, and the 3 arched building is still in town. The 3 arched building is a huge antique store that I love to poke around in. My last stop in I scored a lovely duck decoy that now lives in my bedroom. 😊 Okay let’s get back on topic. The door!

Here’s a somewhat closer look at the front door.

I like the privacy lace curtains over the door, and the pineapples at the gate.

The side patio and large front patio, and the widow’s walk are all nice too.

I think it’s a private residence again so I wasn’t able to walk around the grounds or get a peek inside. Maybe one day.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at:

https://nofacilities.com/2025/04/17/mt-washington-pittsburgh-doors/

Hop on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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Thursday Doors- From Santa Barbara, CA

April 10, 2025April 9, 2025Posted in Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Doors, Houses, Lamps, Portals, Santa Barbara CA, Thursday Doors, vines47 Comments

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He-Man and I went back to Santa Barbara, CA for a long week-end to celebrate our wedding anniversary at the end of March. While out and about I photographed a couple of doors, and a gate.

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Reagan Ranch Center

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

I’m out photographing wildflowers and I hope waterfalls today so I’ll be late responding to your comments and visiting your posts, but I’ll get there.

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Thursday Doors-I’m not saying there are Aliens, but…

March 13, 2025Posted in Thursday Doors, Travel and Tourism, Travel PhotographyTagged Area 51 Alien Store, Fun Stops along the Journey, Hwy 95, Somewhere in Nevada, Thursday Doors48 Comments

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When passing near Area 51 one does wonder.

We passed this store on the way down to Henderson, NV and knew we’d have to stop on our way home. It’s got an ice cream shop, and lots of souvenirs all on the Area 51 theme. It’s a fun stop along the journey.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/03/13/east-hartford-detour/

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Thursday Doors- Nº14 in Watercolor

February 22, 2025Posted in Architecture, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged learning to draw and paint, M. Graham Watercolor, Stratemore Paper, Thursday Doors, Watercolor66 Comments

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Last week Pit from https://pitsfritztownnews.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/17/august-september-2024-three-country-tour-in-europe-a-walk-around-chur/

posted a bit about some time he and his wife spent in Chur, Switzerland, and I loved one of the doorways so, I asked him it it would be alright if I tried to draw and paint it. He said yes! Here’s the reference photo. Used with Pit’s permission.

I wanted to simplify the image a lot keeping the door and only a bit of the courtyard. thought the little entry stair would be the hardest for me to draw so did a little thumbnail sketch- it was okay so pressed on and painted this.

I think the courtyard is too busy and I wanted to blur out the sides more so played with another rough sketch.

Chose my colors and painted version 2.

I’ve taken on the challenge of painting 100 mini paintings this year. I’m 16 paintings in. I’m going to paint this in mini this weekend. Time will tell if I can make it to 100 or not.

Thanks again, Pit for letting me use your photo as a reference!

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/02/20/riding-around/

Hop on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

Stratemore watercolor paper, M. Graham watercolor paints, assorted brushes. Images iPhone 14 Pro.

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Thursday Doors- 2024 Leftovers

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025Posted in Architecture, Barns, Doors, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Thursday Doors46 Comments

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These are doors I saw during 2024 that I didn’t manage to share plus one a friend sent me that he thought I’d like and he was right, I do!

Through the thicket I spied this old barn and there are doors on that old van too.

Another barn. This is one of the last images I took in 2024. I spied this barn while doing the Christmas Bird Count in my county on the 29th of December. It was a very cold, windy, rainy, snow flurries day so my partner and I only saw 23 species during our time out. I loved the Copula door. I imagine Owls using it.

Fishy Door. Every door had a fish over it. I’d bet money who ever lives here fishes.

A Red Shed that could use some TLC.

This is the door(s) to the laundry room at a favorite campground.

This is the door a friend sent me that he saw while in London and thought of me. Isn’t it gorgeous! Doesn’t the portico look like it’s made of cherry wood?

That’s it for my 2024 doors. I hope 2025 has lots of interesting doors in it for us all.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/01/09/runaround-prepare-the-badges/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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Thursday Doors-Christmas Doors

December 12, 2024Posted in Christmas, Holidays and Fetes, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Christmas, Christmas Decorations, Christmas Doors, Christmas lights, Doors, Photography, Thursday Doors, Wreaths39 Comments

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This week we’re sharing favorite Christmas Doors. I went up to Carson City to photograph and see the Governor’s Mansion display of lights.

Here’s a closer look at the doors, well as close as I could get.

After viewing some of the lights downtown I stopped in Scoup’s a local Ice Cream and Soup cafe for a bowl of soup and saw this door hanging on the wall.

Next week we’re sharing favorite 2024 doors then we’ll have a break until next year.

This post is part of the Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan Antion. If you’d like to see more Christmas doors from around the world head on over to his blog here-https://nofacilities.com/2024/12/12/osv-gingerbread-doors/

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Thursday Doors- Quaker Steak & Lube

September 26, 2024Posted in Doors, Green Doors, Photography, Thursday Doors, Travel and Tourism, Travel PhotographyTagged Car Themed Restaurants, Florida, old time gas pumps, old time truck, Pinellas Co, Quaker Steak & Lube, Thursday Doors, Travel51 Comments

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After several hours of birding my birding partner and I were hungry so went looking for a place fairly close by to have some lunch. We found Quaker Steak & Lube.

This is the only one in FL going by their website. We both had salads and I failed to take a photo of either of them. It was just a Caesar Salad w/grilled chicken. Instead of croutons they served it with Cheese Curds. Now, I thought that sounded gross and would probably just pick them out, but after trying one I gobbled them up! They were warm and slightly gooy and tender on the inside yummy. Mary had the Biker Chick salad. It sounded delicious too, but it was on the sweet side and I was hot and wasn’t in the mood for sweet.

The inside of the restaurant is car themed. Each wing of the interior has a small sports racing car hanging from the ceiling, and lots of car memorabilia like a dividing wall full of MAC tools for fixing cars. I went back a second time for that salad and this time He-Man was with me he said he has some of those tools. Who knew?!

Anyway, I did get photos of the exterior and the doors.

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Look at the door pulls. I thought they were neat.

Most of their restaurants seem to be in OH. Do you have one in your city/state? Have you been there?

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2024/09/26/back-at-osv/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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