The Making of a Million Dollar View - 104 Elm Street

About a half-block up from the intersection with School Street, have a look at the large cliff on the left-hand side. At the top is the spectacular lookout point for the city view I mentioned in the last tour, and that viewing spot was largely made possible by an event that took place here in 2005. It was a snowy Monday evening on the day after Christmas when one of the neighborhood’s residents heard what he thought was the snowplow going by. Except the plow kept getting louder, and closer. Turns out it was a massive rockslide. Full-sized trees and 30-ton boulders as big as cars came hurtling 60 feet down to spread across the street. It took out power lines and everything else in its path. Miraculously, it all came to a rumbling stop at the doorstep of the apartment building across the street, and no one was injured. Another miracle was that the slide did not extend to any of the homes that are rather precariously perched on the edge of Cliff Street above, which you can see if you peer up through the greenery to the left of the lookout point.