What is more striking, though, is the integration of folk art and ornamentation into the many small houses that fill out that urban core. Small home owners decorate their houses with ornaments, found objects, small statues and architectural fancies, probably extending out a Victorian tradition that was the rage when in 1880 trains arrived to make the town a commercial and industrial success.
So a walk down the street asks the visitor to move slowly...note the small works of art and artifice that populate the yards and add color and design and life to function. Form does not follow function here...form has an individualistic small-scale artistic sensibility of its own.
