See this fancy 1903 in Racine Wis.

See how the oriel windows have sheet metal panels with embossed images of torches and festoons.

 

The frieze of brickwork beneath the cornice displays a "diaper pattern," ugh. Everybody should have stopped using "diaper" in decoration contexts as soon as the word acquired its associations with poop and pee. Shame on English speakers, for having allowed a "diaper" homonymy to develop.

 

I happily truncate steeples anytime I can.

 

I think some kind of sculptural metal ornament ought to be hung upon the plain expanse of bricks at the center of the building.

 

I see you admiring that Honda Accord from model years 1997-2000. Its color is "Heather Mist Metallic."

 

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the former Frank Lintner Building (built 1903) on the east side of Wisconsin Avenue, north of 7th Street, a "contributing property" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Racine (7014308)

• Racine (county) (1002815)

 

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• 25 April 2021 (Q69306031)

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• Dwellings—Wisconsin (sh85040266)

• Grids (Crisscross patterns) (sh2006005408)

• Sheet-metal work (sh85121251)

• Torches in art (sh2005002495)

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