Bette Davis’ Gas Station, The Whales of August, Cliff Island, Maine

 
Bette Davis’ Gas Station, The Whales of August, Cliff Island, Maine
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Hamilton Court of the Octavia Hill Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hamilton Court of the Octavia Hill Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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A More Palatable New Building in S. 9th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A More Palatable New Building in S. 9th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description of Buildings: 250 & 252 South 9th Street–two typical Philadelphia Federal style residences, hardly changed a bit since the time of their construction over fifty years before the photograph was taken and maintained within and inch of their lives; 254 South 9th Street–a very [...]

Crotch Island Original Cottage, Cliff Island, Maine

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Crotch Island Original Cottage, Cliff Island, Maine
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An Interesting Italianate Misery Hole, Pottsville, Pennsylvania

An Interesting Italianate Misery Hole, Pottsville, Pennsylvania
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A Fashionable Colonial Revival Garden, A Traditional Pennslyvania Dutch House and Its Exoctic Tree Peony, Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania.

A Fashionable Colonial Revival Garden, A Traditional Pennslyvania Dutch House and Its Exoctic Tree Peoney, Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania.
Perhaps set in Glen Rock, Pennslyvania, in York County, this unusual image depicts a well maintained, wood frame Pennslyvania Dutch house with painted lapped sidding. The door to the house is open and he who [...]

W.L. Elkins Mansion, North Broad and Girard Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

W.L. Elkins Mansion, North Broad and Girard Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Edwin Forrest Mansion, North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania

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Before and After, Philadelphia Row House, Trenton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Before and After, Philadelphia Row House, Trenton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Penna. While Trenton Avenue was never at the height of taste or beauty in the classical sense, the row house at the southwest corner of Trenton Avenue and E. Hagert Street (on right) was a very simple, yet attractive brick dwelling in days gone by… The [...]

The American Viscose Corporation Buildings, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania

The American Viscose Corporation Buildings, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
Near Chester is the small, but densely built town of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, which, long since its New Sweden-establishment in the 1640s, became a typical Delaware River industrial town in the 19th century. Like many places in Pennsylvania, and also in the Philadelphia area, Marcus Hook also can [...]

Why is the Oldest Continuously Used Public Building in America Unusable in Chester, Pennsylvania Today?

Why is the Oldest Continuously Used Public Building in America Unusable in Chester, Pennsylvania Today?
Why, in a decayed misery hole like Chester, Pennsylvania, is the oldest continually used public building in America deemed unusable? Why is there a new city hall down the street when the oldest continually used public building in America is left [...]

Colonial Revival Residences at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Galveston Texas

Colonial Revival Residences at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Galveston Texas
No doubt a product of the Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, the buildings shown in this photograph include two Colonial Revival officer and/or staff residences at front. On left the more formal house features an almost oriental porch at the facade and a more relaxed, [...]

Colonial Revival Style Land Port of Entry, Limestone, Maine

Colonial Revival Style Land Port of Entry, Limestone, Maine
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Landmark Architectural Designs South Broad Street Armory An Ugly Tomb, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Landmark Architectural Designs South Broad Street Armory An Ugly Tomb
Michael Carosella Will Demolish The Landmark Third Regiment Armory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The load bearing masonry pile spanning most of the 1200 block of the east side of South Broad Street was constructed for the Third Regiment of the National Guard in 1886. Nearly one hundred years later, the [...]

Not Even DoDo Hamilton Could Save The Sears Roebuck Building, Camden, New Jersey

Not Even DoDo Hamilton Could Save The Sears Roebuck Building, Camden, New Jersey
Not the historic buildings people, nor the former owner–not even DoDo Hamilton (Campbell Soup) can stop the “City Fathers” of Camden, New Jersey from the final phase in the ruination of its “city”…
The emphatic and long-standing Neo-classic landmark, visible to all who travel [...]

The Gambrel Roof of the Caleb Pusey House is Forever, No. 15 Race Street, Upland, Pennsylvania (near Chester)

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 [...]

Ruins of a Stone Store and Dwelling, Chester, Pennsylvania.

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 [...]

The Renaissance Revival Chair of a Victorian Child

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Do Two Half Gambrel Roofs Make A Whole? Early Row House, Richmond Street, Philadelphia, Penna

Do Two Half Gambrel Roofs Make A Whole? Early Row House, Richmond Street, Philadelphia, Penna
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The Widener Mansion, North Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Widener Mansion, North Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Widener Mansion, NW Corner of Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
See more at  http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/the-widener-mansion/.
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Repulsive Dryvit Covered Second Empire Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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DON’T DEMOLISH the Church of the Assumption, Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

DON’T DEMOLISH the Church of the Assumption, Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Perhaps the oldest building on Spring Garden Street, this 1848-49 brownstone and copper Catholic Church (formerly), the Church of the Annunciation, is facing the wrecking ball. Siloam, a not-for-profit, recently sold the complex to a developer–John Wei, who purports that there is no way to reuse the building, thus [...]

Do Not Enter: The New Brownstone Mansion at Longport, Atlantic County, New Jersey

 
 
 
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Desecrated Old House, Brigantine, New Jersey

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Mandolin Orchestra of Damon & Phintias Lodge No. 17 G.A.P.A., The Old Greek Community, Akron, Ohio

Mandolin Orchestra of Damon & Phintias Lodge No. 17 G.A.P.A., Akron Ohio
 
 
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