Is It Good Shepherds Who Denigrate Our Wooden Greek Revival Houses?…Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Is It Good Shepherds Who Denigrate Our Wooden Greek Revival Houses?…Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Carpenter’s Wooden Residence Obscured by Good Shepherds
262 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York at Park Slope
Naturally, the good shepherds at 262 9th Street in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York have no regard for the history and honor “of place” [...]
Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!!
Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!!
A Quick Rant On Ugly Home Depot Doors Throughout Various East Coast Cities
Baltimore MD – New York City – Philadelphia – Washington DC
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…Gothic Revival Is Put To Bed…
Gothic Revival Is Put To Bed
Gothic Revival Style Goes From Buildings to Furniture
In the early 19th century the Gothic Revival aesthetic was popularized in America by early arbiters of taste such as Andrew Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing. While first brought to fore in England as a revival, A.J. Davis, the eminent architect, designed buildings [...]
Even Out House is Greek Revival at Mt. Airy Plantation!
Even Out House is Greek Revival at Mt. Airy Plantation!
Joseph LeBourgeois’ Mt. Airy Plantation, St. John Parish, Louisiana
Plantation architecture is more specific than we can elaborate upon in any kind of palatable or even readable article in our pages. However, we can certainly provide an introduction to certain of these dwellings and buildings that once [...]
Dying? In the Family? Too Bad. NO VANCY: Egyptian Revival Crypt Over Capacity for a Certain Progeny of Glenwood Cemetery, NW Washington DC
Dying? In the Family? Too Bad.
NO VANCY: Egyptian Revival Crypt Over Capacity for a Certain Progeny of Glenwood Cemetery, NW Washington DC
A Row of Old Family Crypts of Various Architectural Styles (3rd or 4th Quarter of the 19th Century)
It went something like this: just after DC became DC in 1790, Dr. Phineas Bradley fomerly [...]
A Symbol of Savannah’s Commitments: Massie School, 207 East Gordon Street on Calhoun Square, Savannah, Georgia
A Symbol of Savannah’s Commitments
Massie School, 207 East Gordon Street on Calhoun Square, Savannah, Georgia
At No. 207 East Gordon Street facing the southeast corner of Calhoun Square, Savannah’s oldest free public academic building still stands as a testament to public education–now in operation as the Massie Heritage Center or more commonly called the local History and Architecture Museum. [...]
Much Older than Garfield Place, Piatt Park is Cincinnati’s First Open Public Space
Much Older than Garfield Place, Piatt Park is Cincinnati’s First Open Public Space
Extending to the west of Vine Street in what is now known as downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, Eighth Street looses its identity in its first two westward blocks where a slight jog occurs and the thoroughfare is bisected by a park. Today we know [...]
Niblo’s Vault is Not Just a Monument, It Represents a Legacy, William Niblo, Broadway Impresario, Niblo’s Garden, New York, New York
Niblo’s Vault is Not Just a Monument, It Represents a Legacy, William Niblo, Broadway Impresario, Niblo’s Garden, New York, New York
When the eminent Broadway Impresario, William B. Niblo’s wife, Martha King Niblo, died in 1851, he erected a substantial Gothic Revival mausoleum on prime lots in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. And roughly two decades later, Niblo, [...]
98 Lander Street, Newburgh, New York
98 Lander Street does not exist in the 1880 census nor is it listed in city directories of the 1860s in Newburgh, New York. Obviously, it was once a prosperous house; however, things in Newburgh are very different now, limiting the number of well-to-do people who choose to live in town.
It is unknown who lived in [...]
St. Ann’s Chopped for NYU Dorm, 120 W. 16th Street, NYC
Facadism at its best…
This tomb stone exists at 120 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. The new dormitory has much more charm than the old church edifice in its entirety, but at least it’s more functional. We would prefer the whole building, but are glad that NYU saved face…
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