A Well-Kept and Planted Wood-Frame House in Belton, Texas
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What’s With The Yellow Brick Buildings–Churches, Houses, Stores, & At Least One Beisert Warehouse at Giddings, Texas?
While much of the historic agricultural built environment of Lee County, Texas has been lost to recent generations of apathy, neglect, and ugly replacement, there are still a few old houses—mostly, in town. And if you have ever seen the sprinkling of “yellow brick buildings” in Giddings, Lee County’s seat of government, then you are [...]
Its the Only Free Standing Prada Store in Texas!
Its the Only Free Standing Prada Store in Texas!
PRADA MARFA, West Texas…
While some of our upper level Curators are from Texas, we must give credit to a New Yorker, as she has proven to be a great Curatorial informant (i.e. art and Prada).
Out in the scrub of West Texas, along with Judge Roy Bean, Prada [...]
No One Is HomeSafe From The Curator Of Shit When The Ugliest Of Exterior Rolling Shutters Are Employed!
No One Is HomeSafe From The Curator Of Shit When The Ugliest Of Exterior Rolling Shutters Are Employed!
Motorized HomeSafe Rolling Shutters at 3343 South Braeswood Blvd, Houston, Texas
Even by 1912, when this image of steel rolling shutters appeared in a trades magazine, the device was used to close commercial facades. At this time the mechanism [...]
Next to Oldest Air Force Base = Next to Oldest Air Force Hanger in Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas
Oldest Air Force Base = Oldest Air Force Hanger in Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas
Hangar Construction, Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas
One of the first air fields of the United States Air Force was Brooks Field in San Antonio, Texas. While the site was used earlier than 1917 as Gosport Field, the official establishment occurred on [...]
Once Upon A Time…A Cultivated Garden at Loebau, Texas
Once Upon A Time…A Cultivated Garden at Loebau, Texas
Emil Schulze and Anna Moerbe House and Garden, Loebau, Lee County, Texas
One might have thought that growing plants in the flat Texas landscape was an exercise in futility, but this was not the case in Loebau, Texas. A few miles northeast of Giddings, in Lee County, there [...]
The Preservation of Messr. Harris’ Prize Winning Cock…
The Preservation of Messr. Harris’ Prize Winning Cock…
You may not like portraits of dead relatives, but what about the preservation of their dead animals?
If you really and truly don’t care for an ancestral picture, well, why not try some other familiar relic? Get yourself a dead animal, and if its old enough, think of it [...]
Apparently, Everything Is Bigger In Texas…Including the Architectural Turds of America…Cox Funeral Home, 1305 13th Street, Huntsville, Texas
Apparently, Everything Is Bigger In Texas…Including the Architectural Turds of America…Cox Funeral Home, 1305 13th Street, Huntsville, Texas
Sorry Tejas, ya’ll aren’t being tag teamed by the taste police, but, we must say shame shame on you…yet another submission from one of our curatorial informants…
No, actually, the Architectural Turds of America is a nation wide survey [...]
Queen Anne Denounced in Downtown Houston, 2011 Leeland Avenue, Houston, Texas
Queen Anne Denounced in Downtown Houston, 2011 Leeland Avenue, Houston, Texas
On the southeast fringe of Downtown Houston, Texas, we see yet another example of the impropriety that existed in the mid twentieth century. Formerly a middle class residential neighborhood of very respectable late nineteenth and early twentieth century detached houses, the area was industrialized, in part, [...]
Third Ward Home is Not For Sale, Palmer Street, Houston, Texas
Between 2005 and 2006 anti-development signage began cropping up in certain residential yards of the various wards of Houston, Texas. The development taking place involved the purchase (demolition) of old houses, derelict factories, and vacant lots for the construction of new residential condominiums and townhouses most of which are of the moment in terms of [...]
