Glazed green bricks from the 1970s, at a former Sears store from 1949.

I was all excited to see glazed bricks from the late 1940s, but this book says they were added in the 1970s, along with the Cor-Ten steel beams — the runoff from which is causing damage to the glazed bricks!!

 

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In downtown Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, outside the offices of The Post Journal at the southeast corner of West 2nd Street and Cherry Street, built in 1949 as a Sears store, which moved to a shopping mall in 1970.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Chautauqua (county) (1002259)

• Jamestown (2069910)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• beams (structural elements) (300001497)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• commercial buildings (300005147)

• Cor-Ten steel (TM) (300178799)

• department stores (300005344)

• exterior walls (300002523)

• forest green (color) (300311422)

• green (color) (300128438)

• glazed (general coating process) (300053914)

• olive green (300129180)

• reflections (perceived properties) (300056034)

• remodeling (300135427)

• repurposing (300417716)

• water damage (300379358)

 

Wikidata items:

• 5 June 2021 (Q69306073)

• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)

• 1949 in architecture (Q944475)

• 1970s in architecture (Q17173162)

• June 5 (Q2622)

• June 2021 (Q61312778)

• newspaper building (Q51879674)

• The Post-Journal (Q15059326)

• Sears (Q6499202)

• Southern Tier (Q7570547)

• Treaty of Big Tree (Q7836988)

• utility location (Q7902846)

• Western New York (Q7988104)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Brick walls (sh85016796)

• Commercial buildings—New York (State) (sh85028923)

• Glazed brick (sh85055241)

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