hi everyone i'm joanna jewell a senior multimedia journalist for the belmont citizen herald and wicked local belmont dot com and thank you for tuning in to belmont in thirty i have with me today as my guests to belmont residence they go and angelo forensic they live at one clover street in belmont and they've lived there i know angelo grew up there he's the house has been owned by his family since one thousand nine hundred sixty two to two thousand nine hundred fifty two so you have a sixty six year history with this house and vega you married angelo about fifty one years ago you'll be celebrating your anniversary on twenty fourth so wishing you a happy anniversary and a verse or a you raised your three sons in this house it's the clark hill area of belmont and we're going to be talking about that house a lot today but before we get into that people who don't know this angelo is a retired selectman he served as the town selectmen in from two thousand and four to two thousand and twelve and very active in your town meeting member for twenty five years you're currently a board member board director for the belmont media center and the belmont historical society and you're the president of the veterans memorial committee you're very active and you're we have for the past four years been thinking about downsizing that the house is forty three hundred square feet of bedrooms five bathrooms five four and a half bathrooms and there's just the two of us there and  vega and i think it's time to get all on one level one floor so that we can not have to fight the stairs right now the house is on four different level so with staff it's it's quite large it's a lot of there's the we every time we get together the dining room for whether it be christmas and new year's or easter or whatever just a family dinner just think back to the hundreds of dinners that we've you know that we've had in that room and wanted to put some things in the house that reminded him of italy and he did so in the dining room and in the living room the ceilings have paintings on them he and his hand paint eight feet by nine feet and i'm in there most of the time and so it went when did you put it on the market fourteen days ago thankfully i got out and we we've been looking on and off and every time we found a i have a brother in belmont and so and you know i was just walking around town with a political campaign actually you know and you know the number of people that you know that you run into with how are you doing and so forth and just a very very warm fall from belmont had invited me to join this group and we were we were driving and he says this fellow we're going to go see lives in the ledges of winchester and i sort of alleges i've never heard of them and so i was a condo development in winchester in fact we're going to be going right by it not too far from and so not too far from belmont women but i think what this is beautiful this is this is and so i had lunch with this fellow and he said once you stop by the house and take a look at it and we look at it he said my god this is exactly what we're looking for in a nice community and and he said well this is my neighbor on the other end of the building is selling their house there she's oh it was in there was going into a nursing home and talk about timing and he said if you're interested i could give recall i said give recall but it has the room is that you live in the master bedroom the living room the the dining room there all the same sizes that we've got right now so that although we're getting smaller numbers of rooms we're not getting smaller the size of the rooms that we'll be well we're all the right size the downstairs could be finished it's not but there is that's sixteen hundred square feet of space downstairs that has walked out it's a walk up it's a walk out walk away from so if you wanted to finish it house is on the market and everybody told me i can't believe you know that it's my favorite house they go by the house all the time it's a well maintained that it's this and if that's clarke hill i can tell you but about clark hill clark hill was an interesting development that was developed by  a lot greater than our belmont so forth and our house was what the first one that was developed at that time you were right on it was right it's right on the corner and when it was developed there were no houses down from the want to two houses farmhouses and so forth on waverly street but the family the children when they reach out certain age it can be sent off without mom or dad having to drive them there so it is or they they can ride their memories growing up in the house and alone we actually have some some footage that show you and your brothers playing in the yard this video of my friend my my dad's fiftieth birthday i think we had one hundred people or something there and when i graduated from high school i went to live in italy for six months with my grandfather and its own bath very nice because that house being so big that originally had only one bathroom so we had we added three and a half bathroom and the house the addition is it's going to be four or five acres of open space people's backyards but when i lie in bed i look out there and it's just you know nothing but trees or if i go in the sun porch and look out from the sun porch about on a winter night working we used to we see people in from all over the country all over the world that would come up for training and they would be here for a week to ten days and you know after a couple of nights in the restaurant nobody wanted to go out to restaurants or yeah come to the house of a would would cook a meal and we'd be downstairs drinking and playing pool and just you know watching t v and just having a lot of so i call it my my me and cave and oh yeah like you know my g p s is going to take me to one global street that's the only house i've known that's the only home life you know and you know he went away to the naval academy and when he was eighteen years old and hasn't been back since but he always comes back a little holidays and love and happiness that we've experienced in that home they'll be very very lucky people so it did really it's a home it's a special place for us and and we are very hopeful that the next owners will just have a fraction of one of the things that drives me crazy ok is that you know you know our taxes house from our enormous and this just the two of us there and we're not using any of the town services we don't use the we don't use the schools we don't use anything and you get we're paying them you know all of that after every high tax rate a little bit here and it would seem to be that whoever buys that house is going to come in and have two or three kids or four kids are going to be putting kids in the school system and it's going to be a tremendous tax on on on on the town of belmont and it would just be wonderful and you know when i was a selectman we tried to think about ways of doing this and never had to look at it to find ways to alleviate the we took a ball which was a den that i was using as a den and it became his bed it was just a little bit bigger than the closet but i had it off of my best after my bedroom when i was growing up and it just drove me crazy to think that you know that i was leaving belmont after forty one years in this and i really examined my heart and sure there are many many memories in that house but the house is really where the har oftentimes you know i would you know i think you may have heard me say this when i was a selectman one of the things that was was great as occurred to me that no matter what i said i was going to upset half the population ok there was no way th the perspective of half the people of iowa and but at least i'm able to throw that out there and get people thinking about those old i well i want to know i want to thank you both for coming on the show we are out of time 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