The Last of Latrobe: Gothic Revival Porter’s Cottage at Sedgeley, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(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")); Looking Northwest at the Porter's Cottage, once just an ancillary building of the larger Sedgeley estate--now Fairmont Park. Note the cantilevered porte couche (a later addition... Read More

An “Inelegant” Sign Protects An Elegant Estate, Evermay, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

(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")); Evermay (also known as the Samuel Davidson House) is the name of an estate located at 1623 28th Street, NW in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The estate is centered... Read More

A Nasty Weimar Society Dame by Otto Dix of German Expressionism

(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")); While we have not made a study of the artist, Otto Dix; Weimar society; or specific German Expressionists, we know German Expressionism well enough to see its characteristics... Read More

The Wood Streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(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")); One of the alleyways in Philadelphia, actually a street, paved in wood blocks is one of the few remaining in America. Among the types of pavement used in America, the employment... Read More

The Last Cab Stand in the District of Columbia…

(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 last cab stand in the National Capitol. The horse cabs which formerly lined the streets have almost disappeared giving way to the motor taxi. This stand is located... Read More

Why Won’t The Shutters Be Closed In Quebec Street, NW, D.C..!?

(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")); This before and after piece shows a dramatic change to 3407 Quebec Street, NW–an even more dramatic change next door: 3407 Quebec Street, NW, Washington, D.C. This house... Read More

Press Tin Voting Booth Trailer, Marion, Ohio, Oh My…

(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")); Probably the most interesting physical object in Marion, Ohio, a town that has largely been thrown away, and the former home of Warren Harding and Duchess is this movable structure... Read More

Maybe It Was More Than A McKim, Meade, & ‘White House’.!?

(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")); After a little digging we found that the palatial residence at No. 15 Dupont Circle was more than the stunning Beaux Arts pile known as Patterson House. On February 4, 1927,... Read More

Traveling Bungalow Trailers Need Not Be UGLY!

(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 O'Donnells, a good American Detroit family, pose near the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., on the porch of their "traveling bungalow." Note the multi-light,... Read More

Curious Clipping: Fashionable, Although Not Large, Washington, D.C.

(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")); Another of our curious clippings…this an excerpt from Samuel D. Gross' Autobiography... Oddly enough, while we love this excerpt, this is in honor of a dear friend’s... Read More