Many of us use Trinity Street in Newton as a cut thru to get to Water Street / Rt. 206 and the big box stores, me included. In fact, a few years back before I started working at Family Promise of Sussex County, I thought I was coasting down Trinity getting ready to turn into Stuart / Diller when I was clocked and then pulled over by Newton PD for speeding. I explained to the officer that I’ve never received a ticket (true statement) and to this day I still have that distinction.
But back to the tiny house…have you ever noticed it? It’s set back from Trinity Street all by itself. It’s a Victorian style home that looks like an oversized doll house. While I could not find any definitive facts about this tiny house, one story is that a father built the home as a doll house for his daughter. It has also been stated that there was a full size Victorian home on the property where now you see garages.
It is quite interesting to note that our tiny house of Newton happens to be on Trinity Street. In doing research for this blog, I learned that Philadelphia in the late 1600’s decided to build what was known as trinity houses. From an article posted on Real Estate and Home as a response to a rapid rise in development and a need for affordable housing, the locals, “moved into houses built in alleys between the main streets. The small house lots dictated a style of house that could fit on them. Enter the trinity. The trinity gets its name from its form — a three-story house containing three rooms, stacked one atop the other.”
Maybe we can learn from what some of our original settlers did. Find creative and cost effective solutions to the affordable housing crisis. With this new information when I’m driving through Trinity Street (obeying the speed limit of course) I will look at our tiny house in a whole new way.
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