We Hide Our Historic Trailer Houses in the Rears at Spotsylvania Courthouse…5400 Block, Co. Rd. 606 – Mudd Tavern Road, Spotsylvania, Virginia

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We Hide Our Historic Trailer Houses in the Rears at Spotsylvania Courthouse
5400 Block, Co. Rd. 606 – Mudd Tavern Road, Spotsylvania, Virginia
Headed west on Mudd Tavern Road in Spotsylvania?  If so, please make note certain former residences just before the Jefferson Davis Highway…
Spotsylvania Courthouse is a small, but historical community along what is known today [...]

Third Ward Home is Not For Sale, Palmer Street, Houston, Texas

Fifth Ward House Not For Sale

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 [...]

Wondrous Detached Row Houses Circa 1930, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas

Row Houses Houston Integrity

Built in 1930s for those of the lower, working class African American population of Houston, Texas, these absolutely wondrous detached row houses or bungalows certainly invoke a feeling of their Craftsman-era period of construction due to the high degree of integrity present in the sum of the buildings present.

(The above photo can been seen in Google [...]

Progression of Taste in Cottage City, Maryland

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Once similar to the environs seen in the above image, Cottage City, Maryland has had a rough life in its recent past.  Cottage City is located in Prince George’s County, on the District of Columbia line spanning, in part, Eastern Avenue.  Cottage City was developed in 1870 as “The Highlands”.  After years of development and [...]

We Expected More from the Gays…

Remember the stereotype that associates homosexuality and good taste as one in the same gene inborn in human beings?  Well, the myth dies here on the left side of this early twentieth century duplex in a street parralell to Hummel Avenue of Lemoyne, Pennsylvania.  What was once probably a nice middle class facade with a [...]