Gross Memorial Goes Beyond Clinic, Samuel D. Gross Family Plot, West Philadelphia, PA

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Within the environs of the Woodlands Cemetery, a West Philadelphia family estate turned cemetery, Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (1805-1884), the subject of Thomas Eakins‘ The... Read More

Waterfront Wood Trailer Houses, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Clad in wood siding, these trailers give us some faith and hope in American taste.  And, if you look closely, there ain’t no couch on the porch! Share on Facebook (function(d,... Read More

The Disturbingly Scribbled Room, Cy Twombly, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Within the great art museum (Phildelphia Museum of Art) of the formerly staunch and dramatically underrated old city of brotherly love, we found the writing on the wall to... Read More

Modern Taste for Baked Bread, Nolde Brothers Inc., Norfolk, Virginia

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); A German-American immigrant, John Henry Nolde (1867-?) officially began baking “his own” bread in Richmond, Virginia in 1892 at 25 years of age when he founded Nolde’s... Read More

The Play Pen Lounge, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Within the “rough” context of Northern Liberties, the Play Pen Lounge is an entertainment venue at the juncture of Second Street and Cecil B. Moore that speaks to... Read More

We are not amused…with…Rainbow Clothing Store, Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Rainbow, if responsible for this, can go away… Share on Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; ... Read More

Hells, Bells, Who’s Wishing the Building Well? – The Wishing Well Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pa

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); The Wishing Well is a prominently disgusting example of how ignorant, tasteless people destroy the built environment.  Note the plastic siding covering the oracle window.  Rather... Read More

Tiny Colonial Revival Pumping Station, Norfolk, Virginia

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Norfolk began developing its infrastructure to great lengths as the population boomed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  This Colonial Revival era wastewater... Read More

Unusual Swag Fencing, Presbyterian Cemetery, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); We always enjoy a good swag, even if we have to see it in a cemetery.  This fence type is rather an unusual thing that probably was more normative, but failed to survive given... Read More

Rare Old Boat Basin at Elizabeth City, North Carolina

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); The small “harbor at Elizabeth City is so “small” that a few of the early twentieth century boat basins are still extant.  While covered in more modern siding,... Read More