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
Too Beauitful was the Rear of the Dwelling, the Lost World of North Philadelphia, 1328 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Penna.
Posted by admin on October 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Too Beauitful was the Rear of the Dwelling, the Lost World of North Philadelphia, 1328 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Penna.
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Most Recent, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Residential Architecture, Urban Landscape, Vernacular · Tags 1328 North fifteenth Street, Lucy Shoe, North Broad Street, North broad Street history, north fifteenth Street, north philadelphia, old school back yard, old world rear, Pennsylvania Architecture, Philadelphia Architecture, Row House, the Dunning Family
The Shoe House, 712 West 16th Street, Austin, Texas
Posted by admin on October 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Herblin – Shoe House, 712 West 16th Street, Austin, Texas
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Most Recent, Neoclassical (1880-1940ish), Queen Anne Revival, Texas, Urban Landscape, Vernacular · Tags Austin Architecture, Austin History, Austin Texas. Texas Architecture, Dunning Family History, Judge's Hill Austin, Lucy Shoe Meritt, Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, Philadelphia History
The Hairport, Pembroke, Virginia–A Fun Re-Use of An Early 20th Century Commercial Building
Posted by admin on August 23, 2013 · 1 Comment
Special to the Curator of Shit from The Meanest Bitch in Water Street.
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Vernacular, Virginia · Tags adaptive Reuse, Commericial Buildings Reused, Curator of Shit, Funny Advertising. Architectural History, Odd Signs, Pembroke VA, Roadside Architecture, The Hairport, The Hairpot Pembroke, Unusual Signage
The Gambrel Roof of the Caleb Pusey House is Forever, No. 15 Race Street, Upland, Pennsylvania (near Chester)
Posted by admin on June 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Gambrel Roof of the Caleb Pusey House is Forever, No. 15 Race Street, Upland, Pennsylvania (near Chester)
Originally the home of Caleb Pusey, referenced also as the Penn Pusey Carpenter House, is most commonly known to have been built in the late seventeenth century, as Caleb Pusey began construction of the one story dwelling in [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsylvania, Residential Architecture, Vernacular · Tags Caleb Pusey, Carpenter Family, Chester Architecture, Chester PA, domestic architecture, Gambrel Roof, Oldest House in Pennsylvania, Pusey Family, Pusey History, Pusey House, Stone Architecture, Stone house, Upland Pa, Urban Decay, William Penn
Ruins of a Stone Store and Dwelling, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Posted by admin on June 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Ruins of a Stone Store and Dwelling, Concord Avenue, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Chester, Penna. The featured map clip is an 1885 real estate development map of Chester, Pennsylvania, which records a very different town than the brave visitor encounters today. For example, the two images of this number were taken at the juncture of Second Street and Concord [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsylvania, Residential Architecture, Vernacular · Tags American Urban Ruins, Chester Architecture, Chester PA, Pennsylvania Architecture, Row Houses, Ruins, Stone Buildings, Stone house, Urban Decay
Andreas Moerbe’s Old Wooden House at Loebau, Texas
Posted by admin on January 22, 2013 · 2 Comments
Probably taken between 1910 and 1915, this photograph reflects the Andreas Moerbe farm and its buildings as it stood after only 10 to 15 years of occupation by Moerbe and his large family. The Moerbes lived in Serbin, roughly 10 miles from Loebau until the first years of the 20th century, when he bought this [...]
The Old Chimney of William Christian, Claytor Lake State Park, Dublin, Virginia
Posted by admin on November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Tree, Vernacular, Virginia · Tags American Ruins, Claytor Lake State Park, Colonial History, Colonial Virginia, Curator of Shit, Oxmoor Farm, William Christian, William Christian Bullitt
Highly Unusual Wood-Frame Misery Dwelling, Eads Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
Posted by admin on May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Highly Unusual Wood-Frame Misery Dwelling, Eads Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
Located in the 5600 Block of Eads St, NE, Washington, D.C, this tiny one room, perhaps two, wood-frame dwelling is a highly unusual building to be found in today’s architectural context of Washington, D.C. The house is one that is typical of poor African Americans in more southern [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Vernacular · Tags African American Houses, Anacostia History, Curator of Shit, domestic architecture, Early American Architectur, Early House Types, Lower Class Dwellings, NE DC history, One Room House Types, Poor House, Washington D.C. Architecture, Working Class Dwellings
Lee County Texas Germans Were Drawn To Trailer Houses Early On…Mobile Homes, Lee County, Texas
Posted by admin on April 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Lee County Texas Germans Were Drawn To Trailer Houses Early On…Mobile Homes, Lee County, Texas
The removal and reuse of buildings and/or building materials was popular long before the development of Green as a fashionable environmental religion in modern American society, this was especially true among common folk–as were the ”German” or Wendish settlers in Lee County, Texas. Most settlers in Lee [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, misery maven, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Texas, Vernacular · Tags Curator of Shit, German architecture Texas, historic mobile homes, historic trailers, lee county texas, mobile homes, movable buildings, movable house, prefabricated house history, Texas History, trailer house, Vintage Trailers, Wendish houses
