ABSTRACT PHOTO: This looks like a vanilla birthday cake.

13th Street near 4th Avenue

Park Slope

Brooklyn, New York

View On Black

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Photo: A Steven Chateauneuf Creation.

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Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Duplex!

And there's an old izba hiding under the vinyl siding: flic.kr/p/9nYLg8

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_siding

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Also united in blue siding: two more buildings!, both from 1890, which I didn't have room for in my picture, except for a little at the right.

Siding-covered oriel windows are funny-looking and therefore good.

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In Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, Nelson Electric Supply Co. Inc. at 924 and 926-928 State St (1907 and 1908, respectively; 924 was formerly Nelson's Hardware) at the northeast corner of State Street (Wisconsin Highway 38) and La Salle Street.

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