LIFTING HOLIDAY SPIRITS IN A SMALL WAY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: KATHLEEN DOOLEY Staff writer

Call it urban sprawl with a holiday twist.

What started for Tom Wallace 15 years ago with a single, porcelain, mini-Victorian house, has spread like Christmas cheer to an 80-piece Victorian village that is helping to keep city sidewalks here dressed in holiday style.

Behind the double windows of his family-operated insurance office on Broadway, Wallace has assembled his prized Dickens Village, complete with homes, shops, churches and people, for holiday shoppers, carolers and strollers to admire.

``It all reminds you of the Christmas season. That's why I collect them,'' he said. ``I want to share them …