Posted by admin on March 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Anton Frank’s Odd Little Room, Self-Portrait, 1897, Mobile, Alabama
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Category Absurd Mansard, Alabama, Architectural History, Historic Context, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent · Tags 19th Century Interior, 19th Century Photography, antique photographs, Curator of Shit, Historic Interior, MObile Alabama, Old photos, photography equipment, Salvage, Victorian Interiors
Posted by admin on December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Known first as City Refuge—although not municipal, Miss Elizabeth Morris and several other of her lady friends founded Morris’ Refuge at 1242 Lombard Street in Philadelphia in May 1874. An address where the establishment can still be found today. The name changed to the “Morris Refuge for Homeless and Suffering Animals” in January 1884 at which [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Interior, Location Location Location, Medical Interiors, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Public Architecture · Tags Animal History, Animal Rights History, Animal Shelter, Animal Shelter Philadelphia, Cat Rescue History, City Refuge, Curator of Shit, HIstory of Animal Rights, Morris Animal Refuge, Morris Refuge, Philadelphia Dog Pound, Philadelphia History
Posted by admin on May 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Apparently Two Men Always Shared A Room In Washington, District of Columbia
Fashionable Room For Rent, Two Men Allowed, In Washington, D.C.
Advertisement. People’s Advocate. November 22, 1879, Washington, D.C. A Very Desirable Front Room, Taken Out of Context…
While we don’t know whether this would ever have been the home of two gentlemen ”lovers” and/or ”a couple,” we know [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Curious Clippings, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historical Humanity, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture · Tags Curator of Shit, Gay History, Gay History DC, Gay History Washington DC, gay men History, Gays in Washington DC, History Roomates, Homosexual History, Rental History, rental properties Washington DC, renting a room in Washington DC, Washington DC
Posted by admin on April 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Traditional Victorian Bedroom of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967), Rittenhouse Square Townhouse Interior, 222 South 19th Street, Philadephia, PA
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Category Architectural History, Art (all inclusive), Historic Context, Historic Preservation, History, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Pennsyltucky, Philadelphia, Residential Architecture · Tags Bedroom History, Period bedroom, Philadelphia Architecture, Philadelphia History, Philadelphia Interior, Victorian Houses, Victorian Interiors, William C Bullitt, William Christian Bullitt
Posted by admin on April 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Wondrous Court Yard of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of a Largely Thrown-Away Houston, Texas
Trinity has not only chosen to preserve its church building and its fabulous interior, but also must be commended for saving a once typical, but now rare wood-frame house within its block for use by the church. The church could have [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, History, Houston, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Texas, Tudor Revival (1880-1940ish) · Tags Churches of Texas, Courtyard Examples, Curator of Shit, Gothic Revival Architecture, Historic Buildings Houston Texas, Houston Churches, St Martins Houston, St. Martins Episcopal Church Houston, texas architecture, Tudor Revival Architecture
Posted by admin on March 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment
There Ain’t Nothin’ Art Moderne About The U.S. Military No More…A Fabulous Federal Government Interior Of Days Gone By, California
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Posted by admin on January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Arkansas, Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Historic Context, Historical Humanity, History, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Texas · Tags 1930s Interiors, Arkansas History, Artists, Curator of Shit, Early 20th Century Interior, Fort Smith AK, Historic Interiors, Period Rooms, Robert Gage Antiques, Robert Gage Artist, Robert Gage Austin Texas
Posted by admin on January 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Saturday Evening Post Electrical Safety Advertisement: Perhaps the Behavior, As the Style Is Not What is Wrong in this Picture???
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Posted by admin on December 13, 2011 · 3 Comments
While the two-over-one light wood windows within this view are no doubt original to the Circa 1895 building of the Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky, the operating room seen above has been modernized as it appears in the manner of such rooms just before the Second World War. Also known as the Association Sanatorium of Hazelwood, [...]
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Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Built Environment, Curator of Shit, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Interior, Kentucky, Location Location Location, Louisville, Medical Buildings, Medical Interiors, Modern (?), Modernistic (1920s through 1940s), Public Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Antique Medical Equipment, Curator of Shit, Cure for Tuberculosis, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Historic Medical Interiors, Louisville Architecture, Medical Equipment, Medical History, Medical Interiors, Modern Operating Rooms, Sanatorium Louisville, Tuberculosis History, Vintage Medical Equipment, Vintage Operating Room
Posted by admin on September 11, 2011 · 1 Comment
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Colonial Revival, District of Columbia, Historic Preservation, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural Salvage, Curator of Shit, pocket door, pocket door hardware, pocket door installation, pocket door roller, pocket doors, Salvage, Washington DC
