The rear or south facade of 717 Washington can be found in this detail of a shot taken from the roof of the Marine Hospital on Beacon Hill. (First click this scene however many times it takes to enlarge it.) Our featured home on Washington is the gray box with a flatish (Italianate) roof just left of the center of the subject. There a lot of cleared lots around it – except to the west – left. The home with the tower – mentioned soon in the text – at or near t he northeast corner of 8th and Main appears brilliantly to the right of center. (Courtesy, Lawton Gowey)