Victorians

Out and about in Wheeling, WV today and pulled to the side to take this.
These houses had been painted in a monocrome (mostly white) for decades until the city deciced to use their architecture as a tourist draw. The idea spred all over town and homeowners who had allowed their property to fall into a mild state of disrepair suddenly were seen on scaffolds and ladders restoring their propertys to the victorian ideal.
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Don't know that tourisim increased in this section of the rust-belt
but the once drab buildings now POP.