Posted by admin on November 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate, Louisville, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Shotgun · Tags camelback houses, Curator of Shit, Italianate Architecture, Italianate shotgun, Italiante Cambelback, Kentucky Architecture, Louisville Architecture, Louisville Kentucky, shotgun house architecture, shotgun houses
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
The Mellons and The Quaker City National Bank Were Once Neighbors in Philadelphia, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Mellons and The Quaker City National Bank Were Neighbors in Philadelphia
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate, Most Recent, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia · Tags Architectural History, Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street Banks, Historic Preservation, Philadelphia Architecture, Quaker City National Bank, Thomas J. Mellon, Victorian Architecture, Victorian Philadelphia, Willis G. Hale
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 Chestnut Hill Mansion of Sophie Du Pont Ford, Summit Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Posted by admin on September 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Chestnut Hill Mansion of Sophie Du Pont Ford, Summit Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Prior to living at Wyncliffe at Germantown and Bell’s Mill, Sophie Du Pont Ford, the wife of Bruce Ford, lived at No. 25 East Summit Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located in the ever-prominent Chestnut Hill neighborhood, the house shown above became home to the [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Greek Revival, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate, Most Recent, Philadelphia, Residential Architecture · Tags Chestnut Hill Philadelphia, Dupont Family, Greek Revival Architecture, Italianate Architecture, Sophie Du Pont Ford, Summit Street Chestnut Hill
The Crambitts were Row House Proud, Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
Posted by admin on April 22, 2013 · 2 Comments
We show an early twentieth century image of a typical working to lower middle class row house in the dense urban street scape of a then burgeoning and vibrant, yet prosperous and safe Baltimore, Maryland. The wife of Arthur Crambitt, a carpenter, Molly Moore Crambitt poses with her newly born daughter Hilda in the open [...]
Category Architectural History, Baltimore, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate · Tags American Architecture, Baltimore Architecture, City Architecture, Curator of Shit, Maryland History, Row House, row house architecture, Urban Decay, Urban History, Wilkens Avenue Baltimore
Washington & Lee’s Italianate House and Its Gothic Revival Porch…Lexington, Virginia
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Washington & Lee’s Italianate House and Its Gothic Revival Porch…Lexington, Virginia
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Preservation, Italianate, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Virginia · Tags AJ Downing, Arched Windows, Curator of Shit, Gothic Revival Architecture, Gothic Revival Cottage, Gothic Revival Porch, Historic Buildings, Italinate House, Italinate Mansion, Lexington VA, Pointed Arches, Virginia Architecture, Washington and Lee, Washington and Lee Historic Building
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
An African American Carpenter Built Julia Child’s House, Georgetown, D.C.
Posted by admin on December 10, 2011 · 5 Comments
In 1948, Paul and Julia Child purchased a 150-year-old, three-story wood frame house at 2706 Olive Avenue in the Georgetown Section of Washington, D.C. Paul and Julia Child both worked for the Federal government at that time in the diplomatic realm–although Julia was “…just a file clerk.” They were probably the first white owners of [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Flame Bags, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags 2706 Olive Avenue, African American History, African American History Georgetown, Architectural History, Black People in Georgetown, Curator of Shit, Julia Child Georgetown House, Julia Child House DC, Julia Childs House, Washington DC
Is It Good Shepherds Who Denigrate Our Wooden Greek Revival Houses?…Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Posted by admin on April 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Is It Good Shepherds Who Denigrate Our Wooden Greek Revival Houses?…Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Carpenter’s Wooden Residence Obscured by Good Shepherds
262 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York at Park Slope
Naturally, the good shepherds at 262 9th Street in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York have no regard for the history and honor “of place” [...]
Category Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Context, Historical Humanity, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New York City, New York State, Occupancy and Building = Personal Feeling, Turds · Tags Architectural History, Brooklyn History, Greek Revival, low income, social problems, Wood Row House, Wooden Houses
