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Alfred Street, Brush Park, Detroit, 1881

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:23:14 -0800

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The Italianate to the left, 83 Alfred St is the Hodge-Ash house, the tall one in the middle is George Jerome House. The James V. Campbell residence in the middle is the only survivor from this picture. The house on the far right that is barely showing with the Mansard roof is next to the two surviving "Mansard twins" that are also presently mothballed.

This picture was stitched together from two views taken at the same time that are in the Burton Collection at the Detroit Library. The left side of the Hodge house was missing in the picture and was recreated using another old but unclear real estate photo from a newspaper clipping. I wanted to get as much of the original neighborhood in the shot as possible.
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=dpa1ic;select1...

James V. Campbell House at 261 Alfred Street

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:24:37 -0800

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One of the survivors on Alfred Street in Brush Park, Detroit. This house was stripped of it's Italianate ornamentation long ago and almost was lost. Recently it was mothballed by the city to be restored at a later date.

Compare the detailing left under the eaves with what you can see in Marty's view and in the 1881 view. All that good stuff gone!

One puzzle I'm having a little trouble with is why the chimneys on my 2001 view show up in the back and on the others they are on the sides. Perhaps there were four chimneys that weren't visible from the front in some views and the ones on the side disappeared some time in the nineties?

Glover House, (Brush Park Conservatory)

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:32:20 -0700

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Compare to the "before" shot to see what is happening with this building. Some features will inevitably be lost but, hey, it's still there. Once complete it is slated to house the Brush Park Conservatory of Music and the Arts. This organization brings appreciation and teaching of the arts, with an emphasis on music, to the community. It was started in 2003 and targets both youth and adults with a special Kindermusik program for students as young as 1 year old.

About the Conservatory:
bpcmusicschool.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=...

Winder St wrapup

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:50:22 -0700

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The first couple of times we went to Brush Park we missed Winder Street and some really neat buildings. The third trip we found this one, among other houses in a state of suspended repair. Unfortunately, the only shot I have of the front was taken in the rain. Many other views of this place on the net always show it with it's cornice wrapped in shredding plasic. Looks like a place with still lots of potential. I guess it's better to go through a decade looking like a Christo art piece than to spend the rest of your life devoid of all those gorgeous brackets and stuff!

UPDATE, GONE!!
fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/2010/01/brush-park-failure-269-...

Wabash City Hall

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:15:27 -0700

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101 S Wabash St, 1883 Italianate style
Architect: Frederick A. Grant
When the building was first constructed, the lower floors were used for the fire department and the upper floors were offices for the chief municipal officials of Wabash. Typical of the Italianate style, the building features bracketed cornice, hipped roof and an arcade along the ground floor. The original double doors that accommodated the firehouse were removed and the first floor was remodeled for offices in a 1970's renovation.
www.wabashmarketplace.org/walking_tour_downtown.pdf

What turned out to be even more interesting was that, on my most recent trip to Wabash, I was photographing the building next to this (the Hess building to the right) and had continued on down the hill. There I was approached by a young man who said he had just been texted that someone, perhaps an insurance adjuster, was taking pictures of the building he had just bought. Turns out, he had just purchased the wonderful old stone building at an auction for $1500! There was only one other person there , who was also not seriously considering buying anything. Now the owner of this piece of history, he is at work to preserve the facade and remodel the interior.