Today I’m joining Thursday Doors, hosted by Norm Frampton, so that I can share with you the following door photos.
I took these photos on Sunday at Heritage Village Museum in Sharon Woods Park, located in Sharonville, OH, a northern suburb of Cincinnati.
The village features 13 historic buildings, originally in other locations, preserved here to re-create what it was like to live in Ohio in the 1800s.
Zen-Den and I wandered around the village on our own, opting for the self-guided tour of the outside of the buildings.
Because of this, I don’t know much about the history of each building, but can say that we enjoyed the quiet village setting by a creek– and seeing how things used to be.
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Church with clear glass arched window above small double doors.
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Two-story yellow painted-brick home with dark green door.
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Outhouse in the backyard.
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Small home with fancy arches on its front porch.
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Canal boat with long tree branch as its oar.
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Creek with waterfall on a clear December morning.
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Canal boat door.
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Home with gingerbread trim on it.
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Storm cellar door in the ground by the side of the house.
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Small home with entrance door on the side + lace curtain at the window.
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1891 schoolhouse with bell.
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Wow! Such beauty in the simple things! Looks like the day was so gorgeous! Perfect for a stroll through history. Your mom would have enjoyed this.
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Beth, Z-D and I said the same thing about my mom! This was her kind of fun, and this particular museum was beautifully arranged. Plus, the weather was great.
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I realize from the brilliant blue skies that we’ve been under a blanket of grey for a very, very long time. Weeks. Golly, I miss the sun!
That tiny house with the fancy arches – are those original? Quite novel, in either case.
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Maggie, the weather here can be sunny and beautiful, but it’s not consistent. So on clear days I like to get outside into the light.
I wondered about those arches, too. They look to me like they were made from modern materials, but I don’t know if that fanciness was an original feature on the house. Someday we’ll go back and take the guided tour.
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Loving these. The gingerbread treatment…adorable. but the schoolhouse speaks to me in the loudest voice.
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vanbytheriver, thanks! All these buildings were unique. I found myself more and more charmed by them as we walked along. I couldn’t help but wonder if the bell on the schoolhouse still worked.
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These are great photos. I love places like this. I really like the narrow double doors on the church. I also like the canal boat. They’re all good, but those stood out.
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Dan, thanks! I liked the church, too. Those doors are so narrow by today’s standards. I was fascinated by the canal boat. I assume that after settlers arrived at their destination, the wood from the boat would have been used to build something. I guess.
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What fun! I love that they brought along the storm cellar door as well. You showed off it’s age nicely with the close up.
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Deb, this stroll through history was entertaining in many subtle ways. The storm cellar door was one of those ways. We just wandered around a house and there it was– all old and mossy.
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Oh wow! Very cool choices for this collection!
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SDC, I’ve wanted to get to this place for years, and finally managed to do so on a sunny day! Thanks for stopping by to comment.
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I love when that works out. Glad you got to go! Sometimes I’ll make plans to go for pictures to a specific place and the weather is horrible 😣 But this looks seasonally just perfect!
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I have great intentions regarding Norm’s door challenge, but like you said– if the weather isn’t on my side, it doesn’t happen.
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I love brick schoolhouses. And that cellar door has the makings of the beginning of an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
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Tara, you’re right. I kind of wanted to stand on the door, then thought better of it. Wonder what’s underneath there?
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Fun stuff. I love historical/heritage places like this. The schoolhouse and the storm cellar are my faves but they are all excellent choices 🙂
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Norm, thank you. I’ve been wanting to get to this village museum for a long time, so I thought while I’m there why not photograph some doors! Win-win.
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Awesome doors and very atmospheric photos. They seem like places from long ago. (probably because they are old!)
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Margaret, yes these building were old, but seemed to be solid enough to withstand the elements. A fun place to visit with camera in hand.
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So very cool, Ally. What a great adventure to take. Love the schoolhouse and the gingerbread house. That little house looks like a perfect place for me to do my crafting! Thanks for sharing.
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Janet, I’ve tried to get to this museum many times, so to finally get there was a victory. The houses are all so quaint that I want to go back and take a tour to find out their history; I’ll listen attentively to find out what “your” house is all about. 😉
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Great collection of doors! Glad you enjoyed nice weather for your stroll with Z-D!
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Thanks, nancy. It was a stroll with a purpose! These doors were picture perfect, as was the weather.
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Wow. So cool. Outhouse, boat. Super old school house is the best. I love old stuff. Thanks for this!
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Betsy, old buildings can be fun, especially when they’re all together in one place like these are. Glad you liked.
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It’s great when stuff like that school house is preserved. It’s possible some of those other doors are even older, but how would we know. I grew up in a house that was built in 1862!
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1862 is a very long time ago. How cool that you lived in a house that old. Please tell me that you had inside plumbing…
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Yes, though the house came with an outhouse that was turned into a shed.
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Ok, I feel better about your early years. Your childhood home sounds like it was an amazing experience for you. And now, as an adult, you live in a newer house, perhaps?
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My current home is one year older than me, so “newer” is relative. 😉
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Isn’t it always? 😉
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Ooo, I really enjoyed this walk. I do love a good historical village and this was a beauty. Thanks for inviting me!
janet
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janet, you are most welcome! We were pleasantly surprised about how all these buildings were so well-maintained and accessible. It was, as you said, a beautiful place to wander around.
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I really like the canal boat door – very simple but nice.
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JT Twissel, I agree about that canal boat door. It makes me think that I could do something like that… if I ever had to. Heaven forbid! 🤔
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There was a time in my life I would have considered a tour like this a big snore. Now I love them. Like you I find them peaceful, and I like to imagine life under those conditions. It’s humbling when I compare it to the conditions we live in now.
… and those tiny houses? They housed families with 5+ children! Humbling indeed.
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Joanne, I like seeing how people used to live. It’s humbling to be sure. I cannot imagine how difficult it would’ve been to stay alive, isolated like these people were. However, I did like how quiet it was with no electric motors or cars making noise. The only sound other than people talking was the sound of the water flowing over the waterfall. Peaceful.
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Ooh! Quite nice! Mossy storm cellar door FTW! Love that, Ally Bean! Great dooring! 😀
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joey, I liked that cellar door, too. It was right where you’d think that it should be and it was so rustic. Glad it won your approval. 👍
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What a fabulous tour, Ally. The ‘WordPress Snow’ made me feel as if I was there with you! Very cool!!
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Donna, sometimes a step back in time makes me happy. This museum was one of those times. I like the snow a la WordPress, too. It’s fun… for one month.
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I remember my family went through a preserved historic community like this on a vacation when I was a kid…. somewhere in Illinois between here and Chicago. Of course, us kids were fascinated by the outhouse and probably took more pictures of it than anything else. I remember it said “PRIVY” on the door, and that’s one of those words that stuck with me from the moment I first saw it. I still humorously refer to the bathroom sometimes as the privy…
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evilsquirrel13, I like wandering through outdoor museums like this one. Easy to get the feel for how things used to be. Also, the details are fascinating… like your privy door. When I hear that word I think of the musical Oklahoma: “you can walk to the privy in the rain and never wet your feet!”
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Great photos! And great doors! The outhouse coming right after those opening two made me actually LOL! The gingerbread one is positively Hansel & Gretel, but my favourites are the little cottage and the school house.
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deb, the outhouse was just picture perfect– the color, the placement in the backyard by the fence. Rustic. I also like the schoolhouse, if only because it still has a bell on it that I’d love to hear ring. 😉
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What a lovely place to visit. Looks like it could also be an excellent source of writing inspirations.
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The Cozy pages, you make an excellent point. I hadn’t thought of this museum village as writing inspiration, but it could be. If I ever get back there I’ll take a few notes about the buildings + my impressions of them. Thanks for stopping by to comment.
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Was a pleasure to visit 🙂
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What lovely buildings and doors! I would have enjoyed just wandering around too and imagining living there way back when.
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Janis, this was a pretty place for a stroll on a pretty day. I was impressed by the variety of doors that we saw in this village– because now I view all my adventures in terms of doors available to be photographed! What has Norm’s challenge turned me into? 🤔
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It’s a sickness… it truly is. So many of us have it and it’s all Norm’s fault.
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EXACTLY. We need to put blame where blame is due! 😉
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What a nice place to visit. That house with the gingerbread trim looks like it’s straight out of a story book. I’m probably partial to the moss covered, weather-worn cellar door though! 🙂
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bedlamanddaisies, I thought the same thing about that gingerbread trim house. All it needed was a plump woman with her hair in a bun wearing a white apron while handing out cookies at the door! Thanks for stopping by to comment.
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The canal boat door and the storm cellar door are my favourites. Such natural beauty.
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nance, I agree that those two doors are the epitome of natural beauty and practicality. Very Ohio, don’t you think? 😉
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I love museums like this! There is a similar one near me, Strawbery Banke, which is a historical neighborhood that was actively inhabited from about 1695 (possibly earlier) to 1954. Today, visitors can walk through the various original buildings and talk to people (in costume) about life during colonial times all the way through WWII.
I’m drawn to doors as well. I especially like the small double doors on the church. So quaint.
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Kate, your historical village sounds fascinating. And to have been around for so long is unusual. Wow!
I thought the white church doors were perfect– and in such contrast to the size of church doors today. Oh, how times have changed.
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