Posted by admin on April 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
We show an early twentieth century image of a typical working to lower middle class row house in the dense urban street scape of a then burgeoning and vibrant, yet prosperous and safe Baltimore, Maryland. The wife of Arthur Crambitt, a carpenter, Molly Moore Crambitt poses with her newly born daughter Hilda in the open [...]
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Category Architectural History, Baltimore, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Italianate · Tags American Architecture, Baltimore Architecture, City Architecture, Curator of Shit, Maryland History, Row House, row house architecture, Urban Decay, Urban History, Wilkens Avenue Baltimore
Posted by admin on November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Washington & Lee’s Italianate House and Its Gothic Revival Porch…Lexington, Virginia
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Preservation, Italianate, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Virginia · Tags AJ Downing, Arched Windows, Curator of Shit, Gothic Revival Architecture, Gothic Revival Cottage, Gothic Revival Porch, Historic Buildings, Italinate House, Italinate Mansion, Lexington VA, Pointed Arches, Virginia Architecture, Washington and Lee, Washington and Lee Historic Building
Posted by admin on January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Folk Culture, Folk Louse (alteration/reuse-gone-wrong), Historic Preservation, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsyltucky, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, bad porch, Closed in porch, Curator of Shit, Historic Buildings, Home Depot Doors, mistreatment of historic properties, Old Buildings, porch enclosures, Ugly Buildings, Ugly Doors, ugly houses, Wood Frame Buildings
Posted by admin on December 10, 2011 · 5 Comments
In 1948, Paul and Julia Child purchased a 150-year-old, three-story wood frame house at 2706 Olive Avenue in the Georgetown Section of Washington, D.C. Paul and Julia Child both worked for the Federal government at that time in the diplomatic realm–although Julia was “…just a file clerk.” They were probably the first white owners of [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Flame Bags, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags 2706 Olive Avenue, African American History, African American History Georgetown, Architectural History, Black People in Georgetown, Curator of Shit, Julia Child Georgetown House, Julia Child House DC, Julia Childs House, Washington DC
Posted by admin on April 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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” [...]
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Category Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Context, Historical Humanity, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New York City, New York State, Occupancy and Building = Personal Feeling, Turds · Tags Architectural History, Brooklyn History, Greek Revival, low income, social problems, Wood Row House, Wooden Houses
Posted by admin on March 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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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Category Absurd Mansard, Baltimore, Beaux Arts (1880-1940ish), Built Environment, Chateauesque (1880-1940ish), Collegiate Gothic, Colonial Revival, Craftsman (Early Twenieth...), Delaware, District of Columbia, Federal (Urban), Georgian, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), HOME DEPOT Doors, Italianate, Location Location Location, Maryland, Massachusetts, Most Recent, Neoclassical (1880-1940ish), New Jersey, New York City, New York State, Pennsyltucky, Philadelphia, Public Architecture, Queen Anne Revival, Residential Architecture, Romanesque Revival (1860-1900ish), Second Empire (1860-1900ish), Style Section..., Turds, Virginia · Tags Architectural History, Fogotten Architecture, Historic Buildings, Home Depot Doors, Mistreatment of Buildings, New York City, Old Buildings, Philadelphia, Ugly Doors, Washington DC
Posted by admin on March 29, 2011 · 7 Comments
Florence Luling Mansion Is Alive and Well, But Obscured From Esplanade, New Orleans, Louisiana
Luling Mansion, 1436 Leda, New Orleans, Louisiana
Looking North at the Period Facade of the Luling Mansion at the Time It Was Operating as the Main Building for the Louisiana Jockey Club.
In our most favorite manner of crusty buildings, the Luling Mansion remains [...]
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Category Built Environment, Historic Context, History, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New Orleans, Occupancy and Building = Personal Feeling, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Florence Luling, Italianate Architecture, James Gallier Architect, Louisiana Jockey Club, Luling Mansion, New Orleans Architecture, Social History
Posted by admin on February 28, 2011 · 3 Comments
One Fry, One Coke, and One Aperture Grilled with a Wrought Iron Window Treatment and/or Security Door…and that’s for here, not to go…
The Modern Application of Wrought Iron Grills for Apertures Including Doors (Security Doors) , Windows (bars), or Even Alone the Glazed Openings Among Them!?.
We feel as though the application of security doors and [...]
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Category Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Craftsman (Early Twenieth...), District of Columbia, Eastlake (in houses), Federal (Urban), HOME DEPOT Doors, Italianate, Location Location Location, Moorish Revival, Most Recent, Neoclassical, Queen Anne Revival, Residential Architecture, Romanesque Revival (1860-1900ish), Second Empire (1860-1900ish), Spanish Colonial (1880-1940ish), Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Architectural Style, Asethetic Taste, Bars, Cast Iron, Iron Grill Door, Iron Grill Window, Iron Grill Work, Moorish Revival, New Options for Security Doors, Prison Door, Queen Anne Revival, Security Doors, Taste, Wrought Iron
Posted by admin on February 24, 2011 · 4 Comments
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 [...]
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Category Built Environment, Gothic Revival, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Greek Revival, Italianate, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Gothic Revival Architecture, Greek Revival Architecture, Greek Revival Play House, Louisiana Plantations, Outbuildings
Posted by admin on February 10, 2011 · 3 Comments
Thrown Away at No. 28 Tyler Street, Trenton, New Jersey
A modest working to lower middle class dwelling of the third quarter of the 19th century, this derelict wood frame house, covered in asbestos shingles, stands as a typical example of ”the formerly” in Trenton, New Jersey.
Probably built after the American Civil War, somewhere in the period of the 1860s/70s, this [...]
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Category Built Environment, FEELING, Italianate, Location Location Location, Most Recent, New Jersey, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Turds · Tags Derelict Buildings, Empty Buildings, New Jersey, Trenton, Urban Blight
