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This is my old work place slightly less demolished than the other 3 pictures I put on earlier. If you make it larger you can see the Mural..
Taken at Latitude/Longitude:19.330256/103.368478. 0.38 km South Ban Siphôm Xiangkhoang Laos (Map link)
laos, xiengkhuang, hospital
Joni Mitchell said we paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In Harrisonburg, JMU tore down the Rockingham Farm Bureau Co-op and put up a parking deck. The GUNS sign was the last thing to go.
For those wondering, the photographer -- that would be me -- is married to BRCC econ prof Deb Fitzgerald and -- yes you remember correctly -- was mayor of Harrisonburg 20 years ago.
Former Clensmore Business Park & industrial area currently being cleared (Dec 2011) to make way for residential development.
This area has been in a disused state for sometime & development will brighten it up.
These houses in a small Avondale neighborhood at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Reading Road include some unique structures, such as the weird ramshackle house in the first two pictures, and the small bungalow with a large rear wing in the last two pictures, though most of the buildings on this small street were standard 1910s/20s houses that can be found throughout the city. A 1950s apartment building was built later, completing the development of this neighborhood. Most houses in this area have already been demolished, and the city seems to be looking to demolish what remains in order to amass a mega-block parcel that they can then redevelop as part of the Uptown Innovation Corridor, displacing the low-income residents who owned and rented the well-kept historic homes in the area. Though unfortunate, there do exist many other swaths of similar homes in the city, meaning that this vernacular house type isn't going to disappear soon, but the loss of so many affordable housing units in such a prime, easily accessible location will hurt low-income residents and families the most, and is an unmitigated consequence of the current city government's policies that needs to be addressed.
This is the demolition of a newly constructed building in Plantation, Florida. The building caught fire one week before getting its occupancy license and had to be torn down because of the extensive damage. The spot is now a park.
Perhaps they aren't demolishing the museum.
Perhaps they are demolishing the trees.
They are engaged in some sort of public work.
I wonder what they ARE demolishing.
Built in 1922 and demolished in 2006, it was one of New York's first Art Deco structures. The medallion shows a Model-T Ford emerging from the not-yet-built nearby Holland Tunnel.
The corridor bit linking the two parts of the former Community College building in Old Swan, before it bit the dust.
Built in 1931, this complex of sandstone-clad Art Deco-style buildings at the edge of Amherst, Ohio were designed by architect Frank Wooster Bail and constructed to house terminally ill tuberculosis patients in Lorain County, utilizing easy access to fresh air and ample natural light to help alleviate their symptoms, and being constructed with beautiful details and a warm-colored stone exterior. Following the advent of effective cures for tuberculosis, the building fell out of use for housing people afflicted with the disease, and became a nursing home in 1967, replacing the old Lorain County Home, with a major renovation and addition being carried out on the building in 1979. In 2015, owing to a lack of funding, the nursing home was closed, and the building has since sat vacant, with a proposal to convert it into an addiction treatment center being rejected by Lorain County voters in 2017. The building, as of Spring 2022, was being offered for sale to developers, and was undergoing asbestos abatement at the time. By November 2022, the building had been demolished.
Chicago, Illinois. 2919 S. Prairie Avenue (right) and 2917 S. Prairie Avenue (left), both residences demolished sometime between 1939 and about 1965**. This image is a copy I made from a book* I own using a Nikon Z8 camera mounted on a tripod. I then did some editing of that photo.
*This photograph first appeared in "L' Architecture Americaine" published by Andre, Daly fils Cie, Paris (France) in 1886. In 1975 Dover Publications, Inc., New York City, NY published, unabridged, the only known extant copy of the Paris book held by Architektursammlung Technische Universitat (Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität) Munich, Germany. The Dover title is "American Victorian Architecture." My main interest in these houses is the depictions of dragon-like creatures (here in what I believe is terra cotta) on the facades. The architect for 2919 was (as noted) Wheelock & Clay (Otis Leonard Wheelock [1816-1886] - William Wilson Clay-1849-1926]). The location was not given in the 1886 Paris publication or the Dover reprint. However, I found that "2919" on the glass transom panel referred to Chicago south side street numbers and specifically those located south of E. 29th Street. I then found 2919 on both Robinson's 1886 Atlas and Sanborn Volume Three, 1911. The latter was especially helpful in that the turret and the vacant space to the next house (right or south) was clearly shown on this map (see Flickr-02373b). In the Dover book the publisher noted that the photographer, or more likely several photographers, were responsible for all the 120 images comprising the Paris book, but that the name of this person or persons is unknown. I find it curious that the image I post here includes so much of No. 2917 when the intended subject seems to be only No. 2919. I can't find the architect for No. 2917. Was the photographer's intention to include all of No. 2917, but when published the image was awkwardly cropped? My speculation is that No. 2915-2917 was also designed by Wheelock & Clay. I base this on the dormer with the row of identical closely spaced windows. This four window row feature was used by Wheelock & Clay in the Henry A. Chapin house they designed in 1882 (and still exists) located in Niles, Michigan. (refer to Google Maps Street View).
A City of Chicago Building Permit was issued to F. G. Logan on May 23, 1884, for No. 2919 Prairie. Frank Granger Logan (1851-1937) was a well-to-do Chicago commercial merchant. A City of Chicago Building Permit was issued to J. H. Wrenn on July 27, 1882, for No. 2915 Prairie which was the north half of double house 2915-2917. John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) was a well-to-do Chicago banker and owner of John H. Wrenn & Co. For confirmation, he lived at No. 2917 in 1885 (Chicago Directory) and for many years afterward. I wasn't able to find a construction cost for the Wrenn residences. The published construction cost for the Logan residence was $10,000.
**Today where these houses once stood is completely transformed. Not only are the buildings gone, but the section of S. Prairie Avenue from E. 29th Street south to E. 31st Street has been vacated - street and sidewalks gone. This location was part of a 20-acre site acquired in 1962 and developed into the Chicago Park District Dunbar Park between 1964 and 1966. It was named for poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (refer to Google Maps).
Dover Publishing, Inc. copyrighted their reprint in 1975 with additional commentary to the 1886 Paris book. In 1975 U.S. copyrights were governed by rules established in 1909. This allowed a period of 28 years with an option to renew the copyright for another 28 years. I don't know if such an extension was granted but probably has been. So, the 1975 copyright would still be in force until 2031. I claim no copyright of any kind to the altered image I post here.
Built in stages between 1922 and 1962, this large Catholic Church and School complex at the corner of Glenway Avenue and Overlook Avenue comprises the parish of St. Teresa of Avila, founded in 1916. The original church for the parish was located on the grounds, but was demolished some time after the construction of the oldest part of the current church. The oldest remaining part of the complex is the former sanctuary and original section of the current school building, constructed in the Mission Revival style in 1922, featuring a multi-color tile roof, stucco exterior, keyhole-shaped openings in the church belfry, a decorative door surround, a Mission-style rose window, arched windows, and a rear tower with broad overhanging bracketed eaves and arched vent openings. The original school, to the rear of the church, is also clad in stucco, with arched windows, wooden brackets, the same type of tile roof, and Mission-style gables. The area underwent a period of rapid and massive growth following the construction of the church and the extension of the streetcar line on Glenway Avenue up to Ferguson Road, leading to the construction of many houses and several families becoming part of the parish, quickly placing the school and church built in 1922 over capacity. In 1940, the school was massively expanded to the north of the original building, with the addition being built in the Spanish Revival style with limestone cladding, a red tile roof, decorative front entrance surround, and a large wing containing an auditorium/gymnasium and cafeteria at the north end of the enlarged complex. The next building constructed for the parish was the Rectory, built in the Renaissance Revival style, clad in limestone, and completed in 1951. The church by this point had outgrown the old sanctuary and was holding several masses to accommodate the number of parishioners, leading to the planning of the current Sanctuary beginning in the mid-1950s. The school’s enrollment peaked around this time, with 1100 students, but has since seen declines as demographic shifts in the surrounding areas have occurred. Built between 1960 and 1963, the Romanesque Revival-style limestone-clad sanctuary building was designed by Jack Burdick, and when completed, the former sanctuary was reconfigured to house the primary grades for the school. The new sanctuary building features several portals at the front entrance with decorative friezes, an octagonal bell tower, a red tile roof, arched windows with modernist stained glass, a large rose window on the front, and a five-sided rear apse. In 1969, a new one-story buff brick modernist school building for the primary grades was constructed south of the original school building. The church is a landmark along Glenway Avenue heading west out of Price Hill and into the nearby suburbs, and has retained its older buildings alongside the more modern additions to the parish.
An old building in our downtown was pulled down on the weekend. The huge machines always remind me of dinosaurs. This one seemed to be looking for a bit of lunch.
I guess now we're fully committed :-)
(And our dining room walls aren't actually pink -- thank digital camera white balance and fluorescent lighting for that.)
The buildings which were boarded up in May 2007 have finally been knocked down.
The sign's wrong. The station is Elstree & Borehamwood, not Borehamwood & Elstree.
Former Clensmore Business Park & industrial area currently being cleared (Dec 2011) to make way for residential development.
This area has been in a disused state for sometime & development will brighten it up.
Bit surprised to see that the shopping arcade between Castle Place and Rosemary Street has largely been knocked down...
Ever wake up in the morning and go outside, only to find that your steps have been demolished without your even knowing?
Yeah, I hate days like that.
Former Clensmore Business Park & industrial area currently being cleared (Dec 2011) to make way for residential development.
This area has been in a disused state for sometime & development will brighten it up.
The kitchen of a house after Israeli soldiers destroyed the inside of a home in Bethlehem. Israeli soldiers were looking for a member of Hamas. They didn't find anyone.
These homes are being cleared for the expansion of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital across the street, which will disrupt the lives of those who live in the Avondale neighborhood. These homes were largely constructed in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, when Avondale was one of the choice neighborhoods for the city's middle class and rich. However, demographic shifts have seen many of these houses become low-income housing, and despite investment in the major institutions in the neighborhood, the residents have seen little change in their situation. The loss of the architectural heritage, along with the lack of mitigation measures for local residents, make the current situation a mess and something that needs to be changed, but there remain doubts that will happen. I have hope, however, that Avondale can be reinvigorated whilst preserving the historic buildings in the neighborhood and improving the lives of the residents in a meaningful, measurable, and noticeable way.