The Wondrous Court Yard of St. Martin’s Protestant Episcopal Church of a Largely Thrown-Away Houston, Texas

The Wondrous Court Yard of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of a Largely Thrown-Away Houston, Texas
Trinity has not only chosen to preserve its church building and its fabulous interior, but also must be commended for saving a once typical, but now rare wood-frame house within its block for use by the church. The church could have [...]

Eclectic African American Church Zoned Industrial, Bladensburg, Maryland

Located in Bladensburg, Maryland, this African American church is rather an usual little gem of architectural styles, a medley of various motifs including Queen Anne Revival, Gothic Revival, Romanesque, and a strong sense of vernacular combinations.

After the Plummer dwtling proved too small the congregation, St. Paul Baptist Church moved from the log cabin on Anderson Street in Hyattsville, [...]

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 [...]

…Gothic Revival Is Put To Bed…

Gothic Revival Is Put To Bed
Gothic Revival Style Goes From Buildings to Furniture
In the early 19th century the Gothic Revival aesthetic was popularized in America by early arbiters of taste such as Andrew Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing.  While first brought to fore in England as a revival, A.J. Davis, the eminent architect, designed buildings [...]

Standard Plan: The Modern Ice House

Standard Plan: The Modern Ice House
Architectural Drawing, Probably Early 19th Century
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We Value That Reed College Values Its Collegiate Gothic

We Value That Reed College Values Its Collegiate Gothic in Portland, Oregon
Distinct with its parapet-ed gables, the castellated Gothic/Tudor Revival buildings constructed for Reed College are still prime and integral features of their campus today.  Little do they know, many campuses and/or schools have done away with such “outdated” buildings, yet these architectural gems are still used [...]

Much Older than Garfield Place, Piatt Park is Cincinnati’s First Open Public Space

Much Older than Garfield Place, Piatt Park is Cincinnati’s First Open Public Space
Extending to the west of Vine Street in what is now known as downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, Eighth Street looses its identity in its first two westward blocks where a slight jog occurs and the thoroughfare is bisected by a park.  Today we know [...]

No Hope in Hell for this “In the Name of God”

We stumbled upon this sad religious edifice in Hope, Arkansas just after touring the birthplace of our former leader, William Jefferson Clinton (at which location I think he was William Jefferson Blythe).  While we hate to see these churches gone wrong, we hope someone is at least escaping religious persecution.  In DC they’d turn that [...]

Presidential Palaces: The Clinton House Museum

The recent past has again been preserved with the opening and maintenance of this building as a house museum–the Clinton House Museum.  930 South California Blvd., Fayetteville, Arkansas was where Bill and Hillary Clinton finally came together in the legal sense.  Yes, the former first couple was married in this quaint dwelling.  The story went [...]

Kentucky Fried Architecture in Corbin, Kentucky (Knox County)

Harland David Sanders (1890 – 1980), known better as Colonel Sanders, started frying his chicken at age 40 in this quaint Corbin, Kentucky building.  While made a Colonel officially in 1935, Sanders did not start franchising his fried chicken house until 1955 when he was 65 years old.  After that the “chain” flourished and eventually [...]