I've
always felt that Nome is one of those places on the edge of the world.
It's just about to tip over. Some of the houses have tipped in their own ways,
standing on stilts that have sunk down in the summer melt.
But new houses are also being built, and for some reason these facade-like boxes seemed to be in fashion.
I mentioned this to a guy from the lower 48. We were sitting in Polar Bar and there wasn't really much to talk about. There's a lot of strange houses here in Nome, I claimed. He'd probably done some traveling because he had this theory that houses got stranger the further north you came. What's more, you could see the same tendency south in the southern hemisphere – meaning that all houses, and architecture in general, got weirder towards the poles. I asked if it would mean that architecture was at its best at equator. I doubt it, he said.
