An expression of the year 1956 as a funeral home of light bluish-green tiles in Altoona.

It is connected to both of the circa-year-1900 houses behind it. Crooked light fixtures are almost always comical-looking!

 

It is physically within the federally-designated Downtown Altoona Historic District but is not part of it, because of bias against 1950s architecture.

 

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In downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania, on June 28th, 2019, the Jones Funeral Home at 1222 13th Avenue.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Altoona (7015966)

• Blair (county) (1002185)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• additions (general components) (300055458)

• architectural canopies (300375688)

• capital letters (300055061)

• flags (300195678)

• funeral homes (300005868)

• light bluish green (300128678)

• lighting fixtures (300180081)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• personal names (300266386)

• shop signs (300211862)

• tile (material) (300010676)

• tilted (300250429)

 

Wikidata items:

• 28 June 2019 (Q57350251)

• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)

• 1956 in architecture (Q2812151)

• all caps (Q3960579)

• flag of the United States of America (Q42537)

• Jones (Q59853)

• June 28 (Q2660)

• June 2019 (Q47087599)

• Western Pennsylvania (Q7988152)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Business names (sh85018315)

• Grids (Crisscross patterns) (sh2006005408)

• Small business (sh85123568)

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