Category: View From Your Window

The View From Your Window Contest

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Clue: The photo was taken at 8.12 am on January 10th 21st.

You have until noon on Tuesday to guess it. City and/or state first, then country. Please put the location in the subject heading, along with any description within the email. If no one guesses the exact location, proximity counts.  Be sure to email entries to VFYWcontest@gmail.com. Winner gets a free The View From Your Window book. Have at it.

The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #138

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A reader writes:

Red brick industrial buildings next to a smokestack, next to a rapid river?  My guess is Lowell, Massachusetts.  If I had more time, more patience, more interest or if I were more google-skilled, I’d make an effort to confirm my hunch.  As none of those things apply, I’ll wait till Tuesday to find out how close I was.

Another:

You’re going to get a TON of guesses from Massachusetts on this one. The red brick and semi-dilapidated smokestacks place this one in a mill town in New England. The two rivers (Merrimack and Concord for any Thoreau fans) meeting near a small waterfall (Pawtucket Falls) places it in Lowell, Massachusetts, formerly the largest complex of mills in the country.

Another Lowell guesser:

Being a lifelong Left Coaster I have no expertise in the matter, but I immediately thought “Massachusetts river mill”, which turned up this postcard from 1906:

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The bank’s all wrong, but I’ll declare victory anyway and return to coffee.

Another:

Augusta, Maine and Frankfort, Kentucky are locked in an eternal struggle for Cutest Capital City in America. Both are significantly smaller than their states’ major cities (Portland and Louisville), and both have their distinctive geo-architectural features. Frankfort’s is the little bowl in which the state capitol sits. Augusta’s is this old red-brick mill on the St Lawrence, in your photo.

Another:

I say Saco, Maine.  I don’t have time to chase a more specific answer, but since I was an early paid subscriber I believe that should be enough.

No favoritism to subscribers! But we are grateful for your support. Another reader:

Wow. I have been following your contests for a couple of years and have always been impressed with people who deduce locations from minor details in the picture, then spend time on Google Maps researching the exact location. I never entered before since I just don’t have that time and determination. But, then I saw this week’s contest and realized – I used to work in this building!

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