Historic Buildings | the Curator of Shit

Washington & Lee’s Italianate House and Its Gothic Revival Porch…Lexington, Virginia

Posted by admin on November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Washington & Lee’s Italianate House and Its Gothic Revival Porch…Lexington, Virginia While this house on the Washington and Lee... Read More

Filed under Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Preservation, Italianate, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Virginia · Tagged with 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

Very Bad Porch

Posted by admin on January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); This 19th century house located in rural Pennsylvania would have been an attractive house. While the current siding, window and roof replacement... Read More

Filed under 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... · Tagged with 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

Colonial Revival Locker Room, WPA Project, Emporia, Kansas

Posted by admin on December 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Federal Public Works Project No. 6420 was one of innumerable similar type projects of the WPA era. This Colonial Revival building appears as a dolls... Read More

Filed under Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Public Architecture · Tagged with Architectural History, Colonial Revival Architecture, Curator of Shit, Emporia Kansas, Federal Public Works, Golf Course, Historic Buildings, Locker Rooms, WPA Architecture

Once Even Our Science Buildings & Observatories Were Attractive.!?

Posted by admin on July 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Once Even Our Science Buildings & Observatories Were Attractive.!? Observatory, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi The observatory was a... Read More

Filed under Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Mississippi, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Style Section... · Tagged with Architectural History, College Architecture, Curator of Shit, Historic Buildings, Historic Preservation, Millsaps College, Observatory Buildings, Period Architecture, Science Buildings

Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln, Federal Style Buildings.!?

Posted by admin on June 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Don’t Blame Mary Surratt For The Assassination Of Our Pre-Abraham Lincoln Federal Style Buildings.!? Mary Surratt Boarding House, No. 541 H Street,... Read More

Filed under Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, District of Columbia, Federal (Urban), Greek Revival, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Occupancy and Building = Personal Feeling, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Turds · Tagged with Architectural History, Curator of Shit, DC Historic Buildings, Federal Style Architecture, Greek Revival Architecture, Historic Buildings, Historic Preservation, Lincoln Assassination Site, mary surratt, mary surratt boarding house, mary surratt house, mary surratt house dc, mary surratt house h street, mary surratt house in Washington dc, The Conspirator

Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!!

Posted by admin on March 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!! A Quick Rant On Ugly Home Depot Doors Throughout Various East Coast Cities Baltimore MD –... Read More

Filed under 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 · Tagged with Architectural History, Fogotten Architecture, Historic Buildings, Home Depot Doors, Mistreatment of Buildings, New York City, Old Buildings, Philadelphia, Ugly Doors, Washington DC

First Furness, First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, Penna

Posted by admin on September 9, 2010 · 4 Comments

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); “In front of the church there will be a cloister of six arches, two of which wil be occupied for doors. At one end of the cloister,... Read More

Filed under Building of the Week, Built Environment, Furness Electic, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Philadelphia, Style Section... · Tagged with Architectural History, Curator of Shit, eclectic architecture, Frank Furness, Historic Buildings, Philadelphia Architecture, Unitarian Church, Unitarian Church of Philadelphia