Air conditioner aloft!

At the back of a brownish-orange brick commercial building from the early 20th century, an air conditioner is elevated on a shelf above a door frame, between two enormous segmental-arch nonwindows of white siding. Disused wooden pallets are present, four or five in number.

 

Similar arrangements of objects can be found in the downtown backalleys of many U.S. towns.

 

We suffer unwanted thoughts of violently injurious pranks: Heavy objects are caused to fall onto people's heads as they exit the building.

 

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In downtown Rochester, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, the back of a building on the south side of Brighton Avenue between the Rochester Roundabout and West Washington Street, as viewed from an alley.

 

The building appears to have been built sometime between 1903 and 1908, per Sanborn fire insurance maps.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Beaver (county) (1002171)

• Rochester (7016204)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• air conditioners (300135620)

• alleys (streets) (300008248)

• beige (color) (300266234)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• brownish orange (300126858)

• central air conditioning (300051563)

• commercial buildings (300005147)

• elevated (300136014)

• oblique views (300015503)

• pallets (platforms) (300298970)

• panel doors (300002880)

• rear (300010287)

• remodeling (300135427)

• segmental arches (300001059)

• shelves (300165847)

• white (color) (300129784)

 

Wikidata items:

• 10 July 2020 (Q57396811)

• 1900s in architecture (Q16482507)

• July 10 (Q2689)

• July 2020 (Q55281154)

• Pittsburgh metropolitan area (Q7199458)

• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) (Q3536790)

• vinyl siding (Q7932947)

• Western Pennsylvania (Q7988152)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Buildings—Pennsylvania (sh85017803)

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