Most of the village houses were still small in scale, sighted close to the road for a good view of the neighbors, the older homes updated with Italianate loaches or porches, like the house built by Lott Bulkley in the early 1800s at 14 Willow Street.

Now like then, most homes were covered with clabbered painted white, their windows trimmed with working green painted shutters. shutters that closed tight on a hot summer afternoon, kept out the sun's heat, the flies, and the roadside dust.