Last Chance To Save Face, Italianate Warehouse Buildings, Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky
Posted by admin on November 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Last Chance To Save Face
Italianate Warehouse Buildings, Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky
Located between North First and Second Streets in the downtown section of Louisville, Kentucky, these 19th and early 20th century commercial and warehouse buildings comprise one of the few intact blocks of a once dense and vibrant 19th century urban environment. This largely intact block [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Industrial Architecture, Italianate, Kentucky, Louisville, Most Recent, New Buildings, Public Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Facade Easement, Facades, Facadism, Historic Facade, Historic Preservation, Italianate Architecture, Kentucky Architecture, Louisville Architecture, Louisville History, Louisville Kentucky
The New Hygienic Laboratory At The Marine Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Posted by admin on March 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Designed and financed by the Federal government, the “new” Hygienic Laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service and Marine Hospital was constructed between 1907 and 1909 in Washington, D.C. The neoclassical building was completed in 1909. Originally, the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service had their Laboratory of Hygiene in New York City, but, [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Industrial Architecture, Location Location Location, Maryland, Medical Buildings, Medical Interiors, Military, Most Recent, Neoclassical (1880-1940ish), New Buildings, Public Architecture, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags History of Medicine, Hygienic Laboratory, Medical Buildings, Medical Campus, Medical History, National Institute of Health History, NIH Building, NIH Facility, NIH History, U.S. Marine Hospital, US Public Health Service, Washington DC Architecture
Emile Berliner Invented the Microphone at 812 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Posted by admin on February 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
In 1877, Emile Berliner (1851-1929) had been in America since his immigration in 1870, was clerking in the 700-800 block of G Street, NW, and was renting a room from Mrs. Susan Gangewer, the window of J.D. Gangewer, at 812 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Repurposing the single room as both bedroom and laboratory, it [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New Buildings, Oldie But Goodie, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Emile Berliner, Emile Berliner Gramophone, Emile Berliner Microphone, Emile Berliner Transmitter, Emile Berliner Victor, Emile Berliner Washington, Washington DC inventors
Wood Frame Employment Office, U.S. Military, Circa 1918
Posted by admin on September 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, California, Historic Preservation, Most Recent, New Buildings, Oldie But Goodie, Public Architecture · Tags Aesthetics, Arcadia California, Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Employment Office, Historic Preservation, Old Wood Frame Building, U.S. Military Base, Wood Frame Building
Its All Downhill After Facadism, New Orleans, Louisiana
Posted by admin on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Façadism is actually a phenomena in historic preservation that involves demolition of the entire “historic building” with the preservation of the facade, in front of a new building, as a means of mitigating the loss of the building and the continuity of a historic area and/or neighborhood. The photos in this post are actually just [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Buildings, New Orleans, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Facade Preservation, Facadism, New House Types, New Houses, New Orleans New Construction, Prefabricated Homes
Pre-FEMA Trailers, THISILDU, Hurricane of 1947, Mississippi
Posted by admin on September 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Even after FDR bailed out the entire country through the unprecedented social programs of the Great Depression, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not what it is today–and, apparently, nor were public expectations. This photograph made into a post card was taken in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi after the devastation of the Hurricane of [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Mississippi, Most Recent, New Buildings, Residential Architecture · Tags Bay St. Louis MS, Emergency Housing, Fema Trailers, Historic Tents, Hurricane 1947 Mississippi, Temporary Buildings, Temporary Housing, Tent History, Tents
Posted by admin on July 27, 2011 ·
The Worlds Skinniest House…
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