V I C T O R I a N in Portsmouth in Portsmouth Eclectic Heritage (Flavor/Gracious Living‪)‬

THE OLD VICTORIAN with its quaintly low porch railing and fish scale shingles in the gable waited patiently for new owners in Portsmouth's Park View. It had changed hands again and again in its first 105 years, so a little longer was no more painful than an extra flake of paint, another crack in the plaster, a stray dandelion in the lawn.