In early 2021, a friend told me about his grandmother's country store on MS Highway 27 somewhere northwest of Utica. I did not find it initially, but came across another abandoned house with an address of 6494. It was accessible because the power company had trimmed the trees and brush under the power lines.
There is nothing too special about this house; it is an example of a modest domicile of the type built in large numbers in the early 20th century. It still had siding of asphalt shingles, similar to roof shingles. This was common on mid-income housing, and I recall seeing many triple-decker apartments in Medford and Chelsea, Massachusetts, with this type of shingle exterior.
The first photograph is from Kodak Panatomic-X film in a Hasselblad camera with 50mm ƒ/4 Distagon lens. The two lower photographs are 4×5" Tri-X negatives using a 90mm ƒ/6.8 Angulon lens on my Tachihara field camera.
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