Elkwood Exterior
"Elkwood is a very large, and very old building that sits on the very top of a hill overlooking the Shade Grove forest and the tiny town of Pleasanton. It spans over a good handful of acres, and the more used and public area of it is marked off by a brick wall that stretches from the entry way all the way down to the back yard. Once through the old and decorative swinging iron gate, the road up to the mansion circles around a large fountain lined with roses. A statue of what must have been an angel at one time stands in the center of the fountain with one hand curled over her chest, and the other offered out to whoever drives past her. Her robe hanging over two broken appendages at her back. Once you get to the parking lot, you can drive up to the front porch, use the small parking lot to the left, the one on the right, or keep driving down the right and park around in the very back. There used to be another gate back there that took you down the hill, but it's been blocked off and overgrown for years now. Think it led down to the cemetery at one point. Elkwood itself has gone through so many different roles and facelifts through the years it puts Irene Yvone to shame."
"I mean, it started out as a home for a bunch of wealthy colonials from England. Pretty sure one of them was big into magic or something...or so the legend goes. It's kinda been lost through the years. After it was a home, it expanded into a larger mansion and they made plantations and stuff on their acres. Think some of it burned down and they remodeled it and added more onto it. It became a really big building then. Was a home again, then they turned it into a hospital for the sick when that whole thing happened that wiped people out. Then it went from a hospital to an asylum. Then an orphanage. Then it was just abandoned for a while I think. Might have been a school too... can't remember. Whatever the case, it's a recovery home for the troubled now."
"Anyway, getting off topic. You were wanting to know what it looked like. Well the whole building is nothing but red bricks, white stone, and a dark blue roof. The front porch is white and large with those old Greek columns holding up the upper roof. Then you've got a few levels of windows, a small balcony on the front, and then two rounded off rooms on either side of the main wing of the building. There are little windows up on the roof, old fashioned types of windows with the fancy architecture around them. Not sure if there are actually rooms up there or if they just use it for storage now. Quite a few things on the roof that I don't think they use anymore. I imagine the chimneys would be a fire hazard for them, and the spires and stuff are just for looks I guess. "
"Anyway, the rounded rooms on the end of the front wing have two long wings that split off of them. So you've got the north wing of the building which is the main part of the building... the east and west wing which I guess is resident rooms and all that stuff. And you've got the south wing of the building. South wing has the same sort of rounded rooms on the end, only they're more like green rooms or those nice glass wall type of rooms. And in the middle of all the wings is a nice big, open courtyard. Pretty little place. Sidewalk leading out of each of the wings and up to another nice and pretty fountain. Got roses and trees and flowers all over, and plenty of yard to sit and relax in."
---Devin Short, describing Elkwood to Elmira.
"I mean, it started out as a home for a bunch of wealthy colonials from England. Pretty sure one of them was big into magic or something...or so the legend goes. It's kinda been lost through the years. After it was a home, it expanded into a larger mansion and they made plantations and stuff on their acres. Think some of it burned down and they remodeled it and added more onto it. It became a really big building then. Was a home again, then they turned it into a hospital for the sick when that whole thing happened that wiped people out. Then it went from a hospital to an asylum. Then an orphanage. Then it was just abandoned for a while I think. Might have been a school too... can't remember. Whatever the case, it's a recovery home for the troubled now."
"Anyway, getting off topic. You were wanting to know what it looked like. Well the whole building is nothing but red bricks, white stone, and a dark blue roof. The front porch is white and large with those old Greek columns holding up the upper roof. Then you've got a few levels of windows, a small balcony on the front, and then two rounded off rooms on either side of the main wing of the building. There are little windows up on the roof, old fashioned types of windows with the fancy architecture around them. Not sure if there are actually rooms up there or if they just use it for storage now. Quite a few things on the roof that I don't think they use anymore. I imagine the chimneys would be a fire hazard for them, and the spires and stuff are just for looks I guess. "
"Anyway, the rounded rooms on the end of the front wing have two long wings that split off of them. So you've got the north wing of the building which is the main part of the building... the east and west wing which I guess is resident rooms and all that stuff. And you've got the south wing of the building. South wing has the same sort of rounded rooms on the end, only they're more like green rooms or those nice glass wall type of rooms. And in the middle of all the wings is a nice big, open courtyard. Pretty little place. Sidewalk leading out of each of the wings and up to another nice and pretty fountain. Got roses and trees and flowers all over, and plenty of yard to sit and relax in."
---Devin Short, describing Elkwood to Elmira.
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