By the 1880s, nearly every house in America, whether it was a humble shotgun-style or a Queen Anne, boasted a front porch. The porch served as a cool and comfortable gathering spot that encouraged socializing and relaxing. The porch was so popular a setting that James Garfield waged a “front-porch campaign” for the US presidency in the 1880s, meeting and greeting farmers and other folks from his own front porch in Mentor, Ohio.
Spend some time on your front porch and meet your HMP neighbors.