Unusually bad pilaster at a pale orange office building.

According to this news report the builidng is from the 1970s and apparently the columns of bricks have been falling from the pilasters in a series of massive collapses, one pilaster after another.

 

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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, the "Executive Building" at the northwest corner of Locust Street and Ringgold Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Allegheny (county) (7013272)

• McKeesport (2090470)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• abandoned buildings (300008055)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• concrete blocks (300374976)

• corners (attribute or configuration) (300404760)

• damage (condition) (300068940)

• lampposts (300101536)

• light orange (300126763)

• office buildings (300007043)

• pilasters (300002737)

• shrubs (300132407)

• urban blight (300163405)

 

Wikidata items:

• 1 July 2019 (Q57350260)

• 1970s in architecture (Q17173162)

• July 1 (Q2700)

• July 2019 (Q47087600)

• ornamental shrub (Q41705489)

• Pittsburgh metropolitan area (Q7199458)

• Rust Belt (Q781973)

• streetlight (Q503958)

• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Q246501)

• vacant building (Q56056305)

• Western Pennsylvania (Q7988152)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Office buildings—Pennsylvania (sh91002286)

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