What’s With The Yellow Brick Buildings–Churches, Houses, Stores, & At Least One Beisert Warehouse at Giddings, Texas?
Posted by admin on August 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
While much of the historic agricultural built environment of Lee County, Texas has been lost to recent generations of apathy, neglect, and ugly replacement, there are still a few old houses—mostly, in town. And if you have ever seen the sprinkling of “yellow brick buildings” in Giddings, Lee County’s seat of government, then you are [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Ranch House, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Texas, Vernacular · Tags Architectural History, brick masonry Construction, brick warehouse, Curator of Shit, domestic architecture, giddings texas, Historic Preservation, lee county texas, lee county texas history, mid century domestic artchitecture, ranch style architecture, Ranch Style Dwelling, Yellow Brick
No One Is HomeSafe From The Curator Of Shit When The Ugliest Of Exterior Rolling Shutters Are Employed!
Posted by admin on April 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
No One Is HomeSafe From The Curator Of Shit When The Ugliest Of Exterior Rolling Shutters Are Employed!
Motorized HomeSafe Rolling Shutters at 3343 South Braeswood Blvd, Houston, Texas
Even by 1912, when this image of steel rolling shutters appeared in a trades magazine, the device was used to close commercial facades. At this time the mechanism [...]
Category Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Houston, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Ranch House, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Texas · Tags Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Houston, Houston Architecture, Ranch House, Ranch Style, Shutter History, Texas, Window History
