By 1908, The Pocket Door Was Old Fashion…
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Why Is The National Historic Landmark Program Renting A New Building Next To An Abandoned National Historic Landmark?
We have illustrated Liz Farmer’s Washington Examiner article to make it very clear where the Historic Preservation problem lies…
Perhaps the National Park Service could decamp from 1201 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C., a nasty “K Street-esque” office building, to restore its abandoned neighbor–the Franklin School. In Liz Farmer’s recent Examiner article highlighting the building and the state [...]
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, Distinctive Gem of Louisiana Plantations…
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, Distinctive Gem of Louisiana Plantations…
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, 40136 Highway 942, Darrow, Louisiana
Among the jewels of Louisiana’s River Plantation, Houmas House Plantation and Gardens is certainly distinctive. Furthermore, the whole experience is among the most unusual of “house museums” in the United States. Since our agents have been to [...]
Slidell’s Barber Shop Preserves More Than Old Haircuts…
Slidell’s Barber Shop Preserves More Than Old Haircuts…
Charming One-Room Barber Shop…
Cornibe’s Barber Shop, 1932 First Street, Slidell, Louisiana
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Sleigh Bed Or Is It Sleigh Desk?..Alice Austen Moorish Interior…
Sleigh Bed Or Is It Sleigh Desk?..Alice Austen Moorish Interior…
Moorish Interior Featuring Sleigh Desk, Alice Austen Photograph
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Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln, Federal Style Buildings.!?
Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln Federal Style Buildings.!?
Mary Surratt Boarding House, No. 541 H Street, NW, Washington City, District of Columbia
(now 604 H Street, NW, Washington DC)
While in Washington, D.C., Circa NOW, 604 H Street, NW appears as a Chinese food restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood, we have taken liberties in the [...]
Who’s Tax Dollars Paid For Howard Hall, Cinder Blocks & All?
Who’s Tax Dollars Paid For Howard Hall, Cinder Blocks & All?
Howard Hall, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Somewhat lost in the Georgia Avenue-Howard University Street-scape of old and often unsympathetic new, 607 Howard Place, NW, known as Howard Hall, was once the home of the Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909)—obviously, the University’s namesake. However, General [...]
Could Architectural Blueprints Be Hidden In Antique Office Furniture???
Architectural Blueprints Hidden In Antique Office Furniture???
A Vertical Plan File (Circa 1914), Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., Main Factories & Ex. Office, Rochester, N.Y.
While the architectural and engineering plans today are generally stored digitally or in large, antiquated metal cabinets, there were earlier devices that cleverly disguised the plan/blue print file cabinet in an attractive [...]
Early Green & We Won’t Leave The Light On For You!
Early Green…We Won’t Leave The Light On For You!
Suritz-Sharff 1973, P.O. Box 824, Wash DC 20044
Apparently, the Green Movement and the general effort to “Save Electricity” began even before the bicenntenial as this modern view shows a 1973 advertisement atop a lightswitch cover that advertised for Dominion Naiotnal Bank.
We enjoyed this little oddity amidst an [...]
Our Colonial Revival Post Offices Often Standardized Beautiful Designs
Our Colonial Revival Post Offices Often Standardized Beautiful Designs
U.S. Post Office, Athens, Pennsylvania
While American Architectural History records the existence of standardized designs for Federal buildings long before the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the enormity of the New Deal Architectural Program made standardization a far broader practice than ever before in America’s Federal buildings. In essence, [...]
