Why Won’t The Shutters Be Closed In Quebec Street, NW, D.C..!?

This before and after piece shows a dramatic change to 3407 Quebec Street, NW–an even more dramatic change next door:
 
 
 
 

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Typical Early 20th Century African American Urban Street, Jackson, Mississippi

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 [...]

Where Did The Bloomers Raise Betty Ford?

Where Did The Bloomers Raise Betty Ford?
A Tribute to Betty Ford (1918-2011), A Look At Where She Grew Up…
 
In 1930, William A. Bloomer, 55, his wife, Hortense, 45, and their three children, William, Robert and Elizabeth Ann (Betty) lived at 717 Fountain Street, NE near Grande Avenue in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Aunt Carrie Weels, 74, [...]

Where Is New Orleans’ Original Washington Market?…Or Is It St. Roch?…Perhaps, New Marigny?…Or Even Bywater?

Where Is New Orleans’ Original Washington Market?…Or Is It St. Roch Market?…Perhaps, New Marigny?…Or Even Bywater?
St. Roch Market (Originally, Washington Market),
2381 St. Claude, New Orleans, Louisiana
Note: Watch Our Search Unfold…An Article In Progress…This article is published as an abstract article with the most available scholarly
sources employed. Revisions, changes and/or corrections are, as always, welcomed [...]

Slidell’s Barber Shop Preserves More Than Old Haircuts…

Slidell’s Barber Shop Preserves More Than Old Haircuts…
Charming One-Room Barber Shop…
Cornibe’s Barber Shop, 1932 First Street, Slidell, Louisiana
 

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Biloxi’s Trailer Parks Weren’t Always A Federal Ordeal…

Biloxi’s Trailer Parks Weren’t Always A Federal Ordeal…
Early 20th Century Commercial Buildings, Vintage Trailer Park, Etc., Judge Sekul Avenue & Tuxedo Street, Biloxi, MS
 
We had not enough nerve upon visitation to actually enter the residence portion.  Southerners and especially post-Katrina survivors are rather sensitive to photographers, even of a cultural nature, but we hope to [...]

Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln, Federal Style Buildings.!?

Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln Federal Style Buildings.!?
Mary Surratt Boarding House, No. 541 H Street, NW, Washington City, District of Columbia
(now 604 H Street, NW, Washington DC)
While in Washington, D.C., Circa NOW, 604 H Street, NW appears as a Chinese food restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood, we have taken liberties in the [...]

Nashville Architecture from Asylum Street to Academy Place to South Park

Nashville Architecture from Asylum Street to Academy Place to South Park
Electic Queen Ann Revival Remains, 16 Academy Place, Nashville, Tennessee
When a neighborhood goes “south,” some larger houses are often maintained by the more curious characters among us.  While these houses are not kept immaculately, their caretakers are often sensible enough to understand certain inherent values.  [...]

Giuseppe Moretti’s Alabama Marble, Pittsburgh, PA

Giuseppe Moretti’s Alabama Stone, Pittsburgh, PA
Giuseppe Moretti’s House and Studio, 4029 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The eminent “Italian emigre sculptor,” Giuseppe Moretti (1857-1935) arrived in the Port of New York on August 10, 1886.   Early-on Moretti shared an art studio in New York City where he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1897–living then at 25 [...]

From Heaven To Half-Off: French Norman Style Splendor in Upper 16th Street, NW, 1614 Crittenden St, NW, Washington DC.

 From Heaven To Half-Off: French Norman Style Splendor in Upper 16th Street, NW, 1614 Crittenden St, NW, Washington DC.
Just inside the third alphabet of Washington’s lettered street system in the northwest quadrant of the District of Columbia, a large stone house said to be “fashioned in the French Norman style of Architecture” was completed in [...]