The front door to the modest clapboard home swung open, and the sweet smell of southern fried chicken rushed out, momentarily humbling the men standing on the porch.

But in this town of pristine white clapboard homes, Mr. Moschen's Cape-style residence sports surprising shades of lavender, teal, purple and pink.

The Whirlpool program is set here in the western part of the state, in a big, white clapboard home more Disney than MTV.

Two years ago, he bought a beachfront cottage and tore it down, replacing it with a multi-level clapboard home that he has nicknamed "Malibu."

Today, out of about 40,000 residents who live in the modest brick and clapboard homes in the Ironbound, at least 40 percent are Portuguese.

Only two people still live on Main Street in the commercial district, once lined with stately white clapboard homes.

The 19th-century clapboard homes are weathered.

But here it is, an elegantly appointed building nestled among leafy estates and white, clapboard 18th-century homes.

At the simple clapboard home of Carla Thompson, 53, a mother-of-two (who is not related to the Twin Falls pastor), a fellow churchgoer was looking after the house.

She watched the urban landscape evolve from worn brick tenements to white clapboard homes with above-ground pools.