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Ethiopia is one of the oldest civilizations in existence but it has been a symbol of poverty, hunger and human struggle in modern times.
An old broken down dwelling that likely belonged to a day laborer at some point in time. It's fence is shared by the Riverside Cement Plant in Oro Grande, Ca just off route 66. It once housed children and probably several families. Now feral cats run in and out and strangers strip the front stoop for fire wood. Image property of BTSphotos.com. All rights reserved.
Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona
The best-preserved cliff dwellings in the U.S., built by the Sinagua culture 600 years ago. Scanned from a photograph taken in December, 1999. Read all about it in the scientific tourist #14.
We took a day trip to Walnut Canyon National Monument, just south of Flagstaff Arizona. The cliff dwellings are from the Sinagua culture
The side and back of the house are evidently the point of entrance, at least that's what I've deduced.
The left, white building is the original 1836 meeting house. The red-brick building is the extension built in 1903. The meeting closed in 1992 and in the following year both buildings were sold for conversion to a dwelling.
Currently (May 2008) new owners are sympathetically altering the inside (the notice of meetings for worship hangs in the draught lobby for example, and they have re-named the dwelling "The Old Friends' Meeting House").
**Lexington Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 72001506, date listed 7/26/1972
Roughly bounded by Chesapeake and Ohio RR, Graham and Jackson Aves., and Estill and Jordan Sts.
Lexington, VA (Independent City)
Nestled in the Rockbridge County countryside, the well-known community of Lexington boasts a rich history and outstanding architectural variety. Building types range from Shenandoah Valley vernacular forms through sophisticated examples of Romantic Revivalism. Lending luster are works by the nationally prominent architects Thomas U. Walter, Alexander Jackson Davis, and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. The town was authorized in 1778, and was a prospering county seat by the 1790s. Growth was stimulated by the establishment of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. Their adjoining campuses constitute one of America’s celebrated architectural assemblages. Scattered through the shady residential areas is a delightful mix of dwelling types. Prominent representatives are the Federal Reid-White-Philbin House of 1821, and the Presbyterian Manse, an archetypal Gothic Revival villa. The Lexington Historic District is now protected by historic zoning with the commercial area having undergone extensive rehabilitation spearheaded by the Historic Lexington Foundation.
Additional documentation to update the 1971-1972 Lexington Historic District nomination was accepted to the National Register in 2019. (1)
William G. McDowell designed a new courthouse (117-0027-0053) in the Neo-Classical Revival style at West Washington and South Main streets, diagonally across from the Alexander Withrow House. (pg 11)
South 2 Main Street 117-0027-0053 Other DHR Id#:
Primary Resource: Courthouse (Building), Stories 3, Style: Neo-Classical Revival, 1897
Contributing Total: 1 (pg 33) (2)
References (1) VA Dept of Historic Resources www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/117-0027/
(2) NRHP Nomination Form www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/117-0027_...
Ancient cave house in the beautiful, heavily eroded red cliffs above the village of Dhakmar, Mustang, Nepal
Orson Squire Fowler, The Octagon House: A Home For All, or A New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building, printed in the year 1848..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_house
"Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000" At the Grolier Club December 11 2013-February 7 2014; Curated by Richard W. Cheek
"In December of 2013 the Grolier Club will host an extraordinary exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
"The plans, elevations, and large, elaborate, and often colorful perspective views in these books fueled the growth of home ownership in America. The story begins in 1775 with George Bell’s reproduction of Abraham Swan’s The British Architect, credited as the first architectural book published in America. The show will contrast early American editions of luxurious pattern books for the wealthy with a selection of the more modest “builder’s guides” used by most Americans who desired to construct a house. As the Republic grew, and novel styles of design began to challenge Classical and Federal norms, new domestic pattern books such as Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) began to offer plans and elevations in the new Italianate and Gothic styles.
"After a hiatus in building during the Civil War, American house building resumed in earnest, fueled by an explosion of architectural book publishing, which now focused on providing house plans by mail. The trend begins in 1856 with Cleaveland and Backus’s Village and Farm Cottages and Cummings and Miller’s Architecture (1865), and grows throughout the 1870s with Hussey’s 1875 Home Building, and Palliser’s Model Homes for the People (1876).
"By the 1880s the quasi-periodical publications of Robert W. Shoppell’s “Co-operative Building Plan Association” illustrate the growing importance of magazines -- Godey’s Lady’s Book, Ladies’ Home Journal, House Beautiful and House and Garden -- as a vehicle for popularizing house designs. At the turn of the century, as the demand for more small houses increased, local millwork companies and national retailers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began to produce pre-cut homes that could be shipped by railroad for assembly by local carpenters. The exhibition devotes a special section to the advertising and marketing of this new mode of house-building.
"With so many different businesses issuing house plan books simultaneously, an incredible variety of often elaborately-designed and printed publications was produced, usually accompanied by other forms of advertisement such as home planning guides, company journals, flyers, posters, calendars and paper models. Focusing directly on the consumer, chiefly on women, this vast panoply of promotional material promised a tasteful, convenient, and comfortable dwelling to anyone who purchased the products and services or followed the advice being offered. The post-WWII home-building boom reinvigorated plan book production, with modernism gaining a foothold when the undecorated version of the ranch house became part of the vogue for wide, single-level houses in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The exhibition tracks extensive and rapid changes to the literature of house building after 1970. The level of house catalogue publication declined in the 1970s and 80s, chiefly because large tract developers were making more of the design decisions for new dwellings than prospective homeowners were. Many smaller house plan publishers went out of business, and the supply of plan books was further diminished in the 1990s, as house designs became increasingly available on internet sites which offered CD-ROMS instead of printed catalogues.
"The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder’s guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. Curator Richard W. Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling examples of this genre, focusing on books that reveal the character of our country as much as they do the style of our houses."
Photograph by James Russiello
Mesa Verde was another place on our trip that Brian's grandpa had visited four decades earlier. His photos can be found here
Located at 109 East Cary, within the Monroe Ward Historic District, the brick, two story, 3-bay facade has a flat roof with parapet. The building was designed by Carl Lindner in 1923 in a restrained Collegiate Gothic style. The collegiate look of the building addressed the Press's frequent scholarly publications. Small professional offices also relocated to the neighborhood's abandoned dwellings, particularly in this 100 block of East Cary Street, where a concentration of design-related professions established themselves following the 1923 arrival of the Dietz Press Building.