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This is where Theodore Roosevelt was staying when he found out President McKinley was dying. It’s the last intact structure at the old mining site at Upper Works.
Taken near Findlay Market in the Over-the- Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Like many of the buildings in this area during the time I took the shot, this one is boarded and appears to be vacant. Since then, urban renewal (read gentrification) has taken over, prices have skyrocketed and things have changed greatly. My guess is that this particular building has been rehabbed or remodeled by now. Although I used to frequent the area, I've not been there in several years due in part to Covid, but also because the character of the neighborhood has greatly changed to the point I no longer find it as interesting or diverse as it once was.
Note the peeling paint and think about the reason for it = a lesson in why you should think hard before painting bricks and why you should maintain down spouts.
This abandoned building in Rhyolite was originally a train station in the days when the town was a thriving mining town. After the mines shut down and the trains stopped arriving the building was used as a casino. Now it stands as a symbol of the past.
Deserted Rose Crescent in Cambridge on a wet Saturday afternoon in black and white.
Hopefully it will be busier next week when the shops open again.
6.6.20
R.M. Walsh was a Newsagents that was present in the 1960s & almost certainly before that.
This shop has been closed for at least 15 years to my knowledge.
R.M. Walsh, Merton High Street, London, SW19.
This is one of many older buildings whose character and utility helped define this city over many many decades. I remember when there was a small variety store in this place, but unlike a number of other old buildings, it's a place I never really frequented.
In recent years, it's been home to a succession of mostly short lived ventures, one of the most recent being a pawn shop. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, but for the past few years it's been a boarded up canvas for local artists and for graffiti. Some of the tags are creative, others are suggestive of the deeper issues that seem to afflict modern societies everywhere. One tag boldly proclaims, "I'm flying to England."
Looking past the colourful decorations, this boarded up building is another that appears close to its end. Whitehorse is certainly changing.
This photo was taken during blue hour before sunrise on a cold minus thirty-two degree day. I used the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro mounted to a lightweight travel tripod. This image is a stack of three bracketed exposures. All raw conversion, stacking, and post processing were performed in Adobe Lightroom 12.1.
Many years ago this vacant structure was home to Franken-Sammler, Inc., a Studebaker dealership. More recently it housed Cyrulik's auto repair shop and sales; a fading ghost sign for Cyrulik's can still be seen on the side of the building. Schenectady, New York.
Last week I had some time to kill in downtown Hamilton, Ontario so I decided to do a bit of photography there. This shows the back of the building located at 20 King Street East. The stairs and the orange brick, green panels used to board up the old windows and the white paint (presumably covering graffiti) fitted nicely into my collection of images featuring rectangles. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-03-05
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm 1:4.0 lense set to 82mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Shutter Priority Mode, f/5.6, 1/500 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: very slightly darken the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV-0.15, slightly boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly cool the image by decreasing colour temperature to 5193K, boost Vibrance, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover both highlight and shadow details, crop off some of the left and right sides of the frame to get a 1:1 aspect ratio, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool on the green and cyan channels to darken the green-painted panels filling the old windows, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
The nicest house I know that is boarded up with steel shutters over the windows. Or does a wealthy recluse live there?
An abandoned rectory in Henbury has been the target for frequent arson in the last few years. Why has this old building has been left to decay by the church ?
It is hard to tell if these houses need to be repaired or rebuilt. The first one is on stilts, so supposedly they will be fixing the foundations or moving it to a new location
Soon to be demolished, 1960's council housing estate.
A small minority create hell for the majority on council estates and that includes local councillors.
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In a city where the town hall is a sheik’s palace, the Chamber of Commerce is a Turkish harem, and the train station is a mosque, you would probably expect to be somewhere in the Middle East. But no, this is Opa-Locka, Florida, a diminutive city northwest of Miami with the nation’s largest and strangest collection of Islamic Revival architecture.
Opa-Locka was built during the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s, when films like Rudolf Valentino’s orientalist fantasy The Sheik and Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Baghdad had harnessed the sultry and romantic appeal of the Middle East into a full-blown cultural fad.
Florida was hot and tropical enough to feel exotic, so when developer Glenn Curtiss built Opa-Locka, he did so around an overt One Thousand and One Nights theme. In addition to the orientalist architecture, the streets were given names such as Ali Baba Avenue and Sabur Lane.
Though the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 destroyed a number of Opa-Locka buildings, several of the Moorish buildings survived and have since been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The crowning jewel is the former Opa-Locka City Hall building, an onion-domed and minaret-sporting marvel inspired by the description of the palace of Emperor Kosroushah in One Thousand and One Nights.
Opa-locka is currently in a state of advanced decay as the cash-strapped city faces financial collapse. Many of the Arabian-inspired buildings are falling apart, and the former City Hall itself is boarded up and in a state of advanced disrepair, but a walk through the little town still offers a look at the 1920s’ idea of exotic luxury.
The building is at the intersection of Fisherman Street and Sherazad Street, about two blocks from the current (modern) city hall; the old city hall is clearly visible from the new one. There is ample free parking in the Sherbondy Park lot.
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I've always been intrigued by this building. It has been shuttered for years since an automotive glass and parts shop went out of business there in the 90s, but its doors have been breached many times. That happened again a couple days ago, and early this morning there was a fire in the back of the building.
Thanks for getting a look at the old Grand Theatre in Alton, Il. USA.
"The last movies shown at the Grand Theatre were a double-feature of “Heavy Traffic” and “The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat” in 1977. Afterwards, the theatre was “temporarily” closed, but the “temporary” closing has lasted until the present.- from a cinema website.