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 [...]
We Wouldn’t Want Mud In Our House Either…The Once Ubiquitous Balustrade Boot Scraper in New York City
We Wouldn’t Want Mud In Our House Either…
The Once Ubiquitous Balustrade Boot Scraper in New York City
Above: Note the Greek Revival balustrade with the open baluster without the prevalent base detail block that is replaced with an opening for the said tool. In this case, the actual band is stylized such as a fillet with [...]
Another is Thrown Away in Baltimore, Maryland
Taken at the demarcation cross roads of Liberty Heights, Woodbrook, and Druid Hill Park, the photograph shown above depicts a derelict Second Empire style carriage house in the rear of large, formerly upper middle class, row houses. The row houses in this photograph face Swann Drive, overlooking Druid Hill Park in the City of Baltimore. The carriage house is located [...]
Bartholomew County Courthouse and Veterans Memorial, Columbus, Indiana
Blending the old withthe new in Columbus, Indiana’s public square, Bartholomew County has embraced embraced both the past and the future through historic preservation and the employment of high styled modern architecture.
The Bartholomew County Courthouse completed in the French Renaissance taste in 1874. Over 100 years later, the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial was completed from a [...]
What, other than gay, does Apex Night Club Washington DC and Ogden Codman Jr. Have in Common?
(Looking East at the Apex Night Club Entrance)
Whether your into gay clubs or architectural history (or both), you might find the story of 1415 Twenty-second Street rather an ironic matter of interest. Now home to the “oh sooo gay” Apex Night Club Washington DC, the building itself, extant in a state of degradation due to “progress,” was [...]
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Architecture Lesson: The Mansard Roof and its Mansardic Absurdities
When we think of the mansard roof we are instantly brought to a smile. Seeing it, however, in seventeenth, eighteenth and/or nineteenth century form, sends us in to paroxysms of pleasure. Mansard emits the most flames of any roof type in our older buildings. This four-sided gambrel-style hip roof type is most often at the top floor(s) of a [...]
Some Decorating and Taste Related Tips for Paris Hilton…
While we thoroughly enjoy the whole Louis-the-whatever theme, we had hoped for the same sophistication in decorating as is present in certain enjoyable fashion choices of our little American princess. But alas even the rich need edification:
We darkened this photo to give the room a more Salon-esque feeling and actually admire some of the choices, [...]
