The Louisville-Style Italianate Shotgun House, Louisville, Kentucky
Posted by admin on November 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Louisville-Style Italianate Shotgun House, Louisville, Kentucky
New Orleans is the city of early and often ornate small houses—the Shotgun, the Camelback, as well as the adapted Creole Cottage. Yet Louisville once spoke its own language in terms of elegant small houses—houses that call to mind the feeling of the New Orleans Shotgun, Camelback, and even [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Folk Culture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate, Kentucky, Louisville, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture, Vernacular · Tags American Architecture, Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, Italianate Architecture, Kentucky Architecture, Kentucky History, kentucky houses, Louisville Architecture, Louisville houses, Louisville Italianate, Louisville KY History, New Orleans Architecture
Very Bad Porch
Posted by admin on January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Folk Culture, Folk Louse (alteration/reuse-gone-wrong), Historic Preservation, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsyltucky, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, bad porch, Closed in porch, Curator of Shit, Historic Buildings, Home Depot Doors, mistreatment of historic properties, Old Buildings, porch enclosures, Ugly Buildings, Ugly Doors, ugly houses, Wood Frame Buildings
Smallest of the Smallest in Shotgun Houses, New Orleans
Posted by admin on July 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Smallest of the Smallest in Shotgun Houses, New Orleans
Tiny Shotgun Dwelling (Office), 1100 Block of Louisa Street,
St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Smallest of the Small in Context…
This shotgun is truly among the smallest buildings we’ve seen. Perhaps originally built as an office, the building appears to have been converted to a residence at some sad, but [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Folk Culture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, New Orleans Architecture, Old Buildings, Shotgun Architecture, Shotgun House, Small Buildings, Smallest Building
Typical Early 20th Century African American Urban Street, Jackson, Mississippi
Posted by admin on July 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Typical Early 20th Century African American Urban Section, Jackson, Mississippi
100 Block of Leonard Street, Jackson, Mississippi
Rarely surviving are “historic district” quality, old wood frame dwellings and residential buildings in areas that were historically African American. Segregated by social standards and often even policy, blacks of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were often located [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Bungalow, Craftsman (Early Twenieth...), FEELING, Folk Culture, Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Mississippi, Most Recent, Occupancy and Building = Personal Feeling, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags African American Buildings, African American History, Architectural History, Black History, Black History Mississippi, Bungalows, Civil Rights, Craftsman Architecture, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, Jackson, Jackson Mississippi, Mississippi, Typical African American Urban Street, Urban African American History
Its the Only Free Standing Prada Store in Texas!
Posted by admin on July 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Its the Only Free Standing Prada Store in Texas!
PRADA MARFA, West Texas…
While some of our upper level Curators are from Texas, we must give credit to a New Yorker, as she has proven to be a great Curatorial informant (i.e. art and Prada).
Out in the scrub of West Texas, along with Judge Roy Bean, Prada [...]
Category Built Environment, Folk Art, Folk Culture, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Oldie But Goodie, Public Architecture, Texas · Tags Architectural History, Art, Commericial Architecture, Curator of Shit, Prada in the Dessert, Prada Marfa, Prada Store, Prada Store Texas, Prada Store West Texas, West Texas Prada
Odd Headstone at Holt Cemetery Gate…New Orleans
Posted by admin on July 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Odd Headstone at Holt Cemetery Gate…New Orleans
Holt Cemetery, 635 City Park Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
Among the graves in City Park Avenue’s Holt Cemetery, there were many works of Folk Art among other curious graves and cultural artifacts; although, the wording on this particular memorial near the entrance was rather strange to our curatorial agents…
We agree [...]
Category Architectural History, Art (all inclusive), Built Environment, Cultural Landscapes, Folk Art, Folk Culture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Urban Landscape · Tags African American Cemeteries, African American History, Architectural History, Folk Art Graves, Folk Culture, Historic Preservation, Holt Cemetery, Holt Cemetery New Orleans, Memorial Architecture
