Picture credits

32 of the 59 pictures on this site are real photographs, listed below with their authors and licences. Many were taken elsewhere in New England or further away and show the kind of thing a story discusses, not a house in Worcester County. Where a photo needed lettering or a maker's logo removed, the note says it was blurred.

The other 27 are photo-realistic pictures made with AI, used where no suitable free photograph could be found. Each is labelled "AI-generated picture" in its caption. They show no real house and should not be used to identify a material or a fault.

Photographs

• Blue-gray three-story wooden three-decker with stacked front porches and dark shutters under a bright sky: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• White story-and-a-half house with a dark red door, matching shutters and a brick chimney, bare tree shadows across the roof: National Park Service, Public domain, file page.
• Two-story yellow clapboard house with white trim, a center door and rows of windows, snow on the front yard: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0, file page.
• Older porch-front houses in a line along a sloping street under a deep blue sky: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Long straight two-lane road with snow on both shoulders, utility poles on the left and old houses among bare trees on the right: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Two pale three-deckers one behind the other on a Worcester side street, bare branches across a blue sky: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Gray three-decker with a stack of three front porches and two entry doors side by side at the top of its steps: Tim Pierce, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Round metal dial thermostat with worn numbers on a scuffed wall, seen close up from above: B137, CC0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Long side of a pale gray three-decker with stacked dark porches on the upper floors, a weathered fence running along the lot: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Worker in a white protective suit and hood at the far end of a wooden attic, holding a hose and spraying loose insulation across the floor: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, file page.
• Three tall wooden apartment houses standing close together, with only narrow slots of space between them: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Outdoor heat pump unit beside a brick wall in falling snow, its side coil packed with white frost and its fan grille visible: PeterEastern, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Long, low dark red wooden house with a huge gray roof, a center chimney and a stone wall along its front garden: Versageek, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Gray story-and-a-half house with gabled dormers on its roof, set in a wide green yard below tall trees: CityLimitsJunction, CC0, file page.
• Pebbly gray-tan vermiculite insulation filling the spaces between wooden attic joists: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Public domain (U.S. government work), file page.
• Ornate black cast iron floor register with a lattice pattern set into a dark, worn wood floor: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.
• Old dark wooden house with a steep roof and one big center chimney, a snow-covered lawn in front and bare trees on both sides: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0, file page.
• Tall white painted cast iron radiator with a valve at its top right, standing against white tile above a tiled floor: sunfishtommy, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Front of a red fire engine with chrome grille and small American flags on its mirrors, parked beside a brick building on a sunny day: Wikiklrsc, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Old boiler coated in a pale gray-white jacket in a basement, with a thick wrapped pipe running across the top of the frame: Arbitrarily0, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Weathered window with peeling green shutters set in white clapboards whose paint is flaking away in strips: Allen McGregor from Brampton, Canada, CC BY 2.0, file page.
• Tall brick chimney rising from a snow-topped roof above a three-story brown house with black shutters: Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• White plug-in carbon monoxide alarm below a wall outlet, its red display reading zero, on a textured gray wall: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• White ductless indoor unit high on a warm yellow wall between two striped curtains, just under a textured ceiling: ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Upper part of a large outdoor heat pump with a curved fan grille, standing against an old whitewashed wall under wooden eaves: Djm-leighpark, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Blower door test set up in a doorway, a large round fan in a red fabric panel with a gauge and laptop on the floor in front: BoRohde, CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.
• Worcester City Hall, a long stone building with a tall clock tower, a glass office tower behind it under a blue and white sky: Daderot, CC0, file page.
• Yellow building permit card taped in a window with blue painter's tape, an orange door frame beside it: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• White fuel oil delivery truck with a silver tank parked on pavement by a harbor under a gray sky, its lettering blurred: Connor Williams, CC BY 2.0, file page. Lettering or logos blurred.
• Black-and-white view of an old electric meter and looping wires under a porch ceiling, on a clapboard house wall: Russell Lee, Public domain, file page.
• Dark old house under heavy falling snow, white lawn and snow-laden trees all around it: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, file page.
• Road running past a pale old colonial with a center chimney, patches of snow on its lawn and bare trees overhead: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0, file page.