Wow this 1951 commercial building I found downtown looks really awful! Its beige bricks have unsightly stains! It looks like trash!

However, I was astonished by the beauteousness of the ornamental ginkgo and the ornamental grass.

 

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In downtown Jackson, Michigan, on August 12th, 2018, a building (erected 1951) on the south side of West Michigan Avenue, east of North Jackson Street.

 

A "Huron Camera" shop occupied the building from who-knows-when until 2005, then it was something called "Image Gallery" until 2008, then it was vacant.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Jackson (7013800)

• Jackson (county) (1002509)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• banners (300195679)

• beige (color) (300266234)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• commercial buildings (300005147)

• deterioration (300054106)

• oriented strand board (300380238)

• remodeling (300135427)

• stains (damage) (300379497)

• storefronts (300002533)

• trees (300132410)

• urban beautification (300055429)

 

Wikidata items:

• 12 August 2018 (Q45921009)

• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)

• 1951 in architecture (Q2812025)

• August 12 (Q2777)

• August 2018 (Q31179558)

• business failure (Q5001874)

• Ginkgo biloba (Q43284)

• ornamental grass (Q938961)

• ornamental tree (Q33249028)

• photographic retailer (Q83050137)

• Rust Belt (Q781973)

• Southern Michigan (Q7570136)

• Treaty of Chicago (Q928799)

• vacant building (Q56056305)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Buildings—Remodeling for other use (sh85017791)

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