Posted by admin on September 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Pocahontas Coal Miners Were Eternally Warm In Their Butt Coffin
Butt & Co. Coffins, Pocahontas, Virginia
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, Virginia · Tags Architectural History, Butt & Co, Butt Coffins, Coal Region Virginia, Coffin Factory, Curator of Shit, Pocahontas Coal Town, Pocahontas Fields, Pocahontas Ghost Town, Pocahontas Virginia, Wood Frame Buildings
Posted by admin on March 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A Classic Storefront Never Dies, All She Needs Is Some Paint…Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsyltucky, Philadelphia, Queen Anne Revival, Style Section... · Tags Curator of Shit, Historic District Design Advise, Historic Storefront, Historic Storefront examples, Old Storefront, Pennsylvania Architecture, Period Storefront, Philadelphia Architecture, Storefront
Posted by admin on February 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
One of the First Helicopter Engines in America, by Emile Berliner…In An Old Barn At 1458 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, D.C.
Emile Berliner (1851-1929) began studying aeronautics/aviation in the 1890s at his Columbia Heights (then Pleasant Plains) Mansion at 1458 Columbia Road, NW, where he owned nearly all of the 1400 block. This was prior to [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, District of Columbia, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Right Up Your Alley, Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Urban Landscape, Vernacular · Tags 1458 Columbia Road, Aeronautical History, Architectural History, Aviation History, berliner helicopter, Columbia Road DC, Curator of Shit, Emile Berliner, Emile Berliner Gramophone, Emile Berliner Microphone, Helicopter History, helicopter invention, invention history, Victor Talking Machine, Washington DC History
Posted by admin on February 18, 2012 · 1 Comment
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Cultural Landscapes, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Industrial Architecture, Location Location Location, Maryland, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie · Tags Architectural History, Aviation History, College Park Airport, College Park Aviation, Curator of Shit, Emile Berliner, Emile Berliner Helicopter, First in Flight, Gyrocopter, Helicopter History, Henry Berliner, Washington DC Aviation
Posted by admin on February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Commercial Architecture, Federal (Urban), Georgian, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Rhode Island · Tags Architectural History, Colonial Rhode Island, Courthouse Providence, Curator of Shit, Providence RI history, RISD History, South Main Street Providence Rhode Island
Posted by admin on February 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
In 1877, Emile Berliner (1851-1929) had been in America since his immigration in 1870, was clerking in the 700-800 block of G Street, NW, and was renting a room from Mrs. Susan Gangewer, the window of J.D. Gangewer, at 812 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Repurposing the single room as both bedroom and laboratory, it [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New Buildings, Oldie But Goodie, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Emile Berliner, Emile Berliner Gramophone, Emile Berliner Microphone, Emile Berliner Transmitter, Emile Berliner Victor, Emile Berliner Washington, Washington DC inventors
Posted by admin on February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Vanishing from the scene, as the photographer was surely aware, Bob’s of New York is a canal boat–an occupation that by 1900 had already deceased dramatically due to advanced technologies in transportation. Yet in the early 20th century, lumber merchants often still employed the “not very seaworthy” boat. Even as late as 1911, the Canal [...]
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Category Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New York City, New York State, Residential Architecture, Vernacular · Tags American History, Architectural History, Bobs of New York, Building Technology, Canal Boat, Curator of Shit, New York City Maritime History, River Architecture, River Boat
Posted by admin on January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Late 19th Century Wall Street, Press Photograph. Note the great piles of 19th century architectural progress centered on the early 19th Century, Greek Revival Sub-Treasury building, appearing almost as the street premier Temple of Finance.
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Category Beaux Arts (1880-1940ish), Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Georgian, Greek Revival, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, Neoclassical (1880-1940ish), New York City, New York State, Public Architecture, Second Empire (1860-1900ish), Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags 19th Century New York, Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Federal Reserve Wall Street, Historic Wall Street, Landmarks Preservation Board NYC, New York City Architecture, New York City History, NYC then and now, Sub Treasury Building Wall Street, Sub Treasury NYC, Wall Street 1800s, Wall Street History
Posted by admin on November 18, 2011 · 1 Comment
Among the types of pavement used in America, the employment of wood blocks began prior to 1840. From that time forward many different design and construction techniques developed in the realm of wooden streets. The first wood pavement of London actually began in 1839 and were hexagonal blocks of fir, six of eight inches in [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New York City, New York State, Pennsyltucky, Philadelphia, Public Architecture, Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Pavement History, Pavement Types, Urban History, Wood Block Pavement, Wood Block Pavers, Wood Streets, Wood Streets Philadelphia
Posted by admin on November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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 used as a voting booth in the early 20th century:
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Ohio, Public Architecture, Style Section..., Vernacular · Tags Antique Mobile Homes, Antique Trailers, Architectural History, Curator of Shit, HIstory of Mobile Homes, Marion Ohio, Mobile Voting Booth, Ohio History, Press Tin, Press Tin Voting Booth, Suffrage, Trailer History, Trailers, Warren G. Harding, Warren Harding
