Our house at the dead end street of 7 Manor Drive.
Grandpa Mollo was an architect and a builder. He did contract work for Frank Lloyd Wright in the 50's and his expertise of that style is evident throughout this house. Not only in the house itself, but the furniture as well.
Grandpa owned land here on Manor Drive, and on either side of our house we had relatives for neighbors. Grampa's sister, Anna, to the right of our house and my father's sister, Adeline, to the left. Grampa also built these homes.
My mother sold this house in September 1999 just 1 1/2 years after my father passed. A year later almost to the date my mom sold this house, she passed away.
This house will always have fond memories of Sunday night italian family dinners, cocktail parties, big Christmases, ice skating on the tiny pond in the back yard, sleding down the hills that surround the yard, catching fire flies in the hot summer evenings, playing hide and seek with my cousins in the back yard, badmitten with daddy on the side of the house, easter egg hunts, baking cookies with mom, watching Soap with the family on Friday nights...I guess the list is never ending.
My mother and father took pride in their house and the landscape of the yard. It was their castle and it was our home. |
