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To illustrate the words "a Midcentury Modern façade of light gray enameled metal panels."

"Alternating rectangles contain smaller rectangles in their upper right corners," was the idea here. "These aging caulk are an eyesore," I said swishily.

 

Wow those wall-mounted mailboxes are enormous back there aren't they.

 

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, the storefront level of the Gorbutt Building on the north side of SE 7th Street, west of SE Quincy Street, a "contributing property" in the South Kansas Avenue Historic District, 15000386 on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

Behind the panels, the original building is from 1880.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Shawnee (county) (2000748)

• Topeka (7013945)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• caulking compound (300015199)

• commercial buildings (300005147)

• exterior walls (300002523)

• façades (300002526)

• geometric patterns (300165213)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• letter boards (300395518)

• light gray (300130813)

• mailboxes (300003853)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• panels (surface elements) (300069079)

• porcelain enamel (300014915)

• rectangles (300055636)

• remodeling (300135427)

• storefronts (300002533)

 

Wikidata items:

• 28 March 2022 (Q69306380)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• March 28 (Q2458)

• March 2022 (Q61312974)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• South Kansas Avenue Commercial Historic District (Q116272094)

• Treaty with the Kansa, 1825 (Q111541683)

• Treaty with the Shawnee, 1854 (Q111540627)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Grids (Crisscross patterns) (sh2006005408)

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Uploaded on April 20, 2023
Taken on March 28, 2022