Uploads from Equinox27, tagged house

San Francisco, 1953 (Demolished in 1954)

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:03:26 -0800

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Photograph by Charles Cushman from the book "The Day in it's Color." This was taken on the Southwest corner of Franklin and Jackson Streets.

The book:
www.flickr.com/photos/50788895@N00/8385815167/in/photostr...

Several reasons why this was a fun discovery for me; It reminded me of the built landscape I grew up with as a child in the Fifties in Pennsylvania. This was a common sight on the streets of many American cities, aging Victorians, often painted white, unappreciated for their original design but still serviceable as a roof over your head. During the Seventies I lived in San Francisco and this era was coming to a close. I saw the last of the aging weathered Victorian houses gingerly moved to a new location for restoration and from then on there was an appreciation for their design and presence. The days of "urban renewal" in which entire blocks of old buildings were razed for new development were over.

I have so far been unable to determine whether this house still exists. If, as the caption states, it was taken right on the corner of Jackson and Franklin Streets, Google maps show it has been replaced by a large building. It would have been very close to the well known Haas Lilienthal house which is in very good condition at 2007 Franklin Street.

UPDATE: it's GONE!

1802 Meason Mansion, Uniontown, PA

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:11:52 -0800

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I had heard of this place for many years but never seen it. Then one day this summer when I was home in Pennsylvania I noticed a sign for it along Rt 119, just south of Laurel Mall. Fortunately the owners were home and they were gracious enough to show me around. It has been a labor of love for them restoring and maintaining it. It almost looks like something from the time period you might see in England.

"A premier example of an English Palladian villa in America, built in 1802. With its 7-part composition made of hand-cut limestone, remarkable forecourt, and balanced accessories, this house is the single most sophisticated building in the region from this early period. Meason built his Georgian mansion on the same land that Christopher Gist chose in 1753 as the first English Settlement west of the Alleghenies. Isaac Meason was a pioneer ironmaster and builder of one of the first successful rolling mills in 1817. His entrepreneurial skills link him directly to the creation of the iron industry. By far, the Meason Hoouse is the most elegant stone house in our reigion of the early period. This privately owned National Historic Landmark, visible from Rt. 119N, just south of Laurel Mall, is open for group tours by appointment only."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Meason_House.jpg

www.oldhousedreams.com/2010/09/24/isaac-meason-mansion/

www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/uncategorized/time-is-run...

www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/meason-man...

Queen Anne Turret in Wabash, IN

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:12:50 -0800

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Such a neat house. Someone can't make up their mind on the colors...

Second Empire, Fremont, Ohio - 1988

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:59:13 -0700

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This incredible Second Empire house used to sit on a hill on State Street just outside of Fremont, Ohio, heading towards Clyde. For a while it was used by the JC's as a haunted house which many people still remember. It burned in the Nineties and was a great loss to the historic architecture of the area.

I photographed this on a trip to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving of 1988. I posted shots of this house when I first joined Flickr that were in B&W. This is one of the originals in color.

Centerville, Pa, 2003

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:01:48 -0800

Equinox27 posted a photo:

A contact just showed me a picture of this old place near Brownsville, Pa and I remembered that I had once snapped a few quick shots from the highway. This is located on Rt 40, the old National Highway, west of Brownsville in Washington County. I didn't know it was abandoned since it still looks good here but now know it is very Addams Family decay inside. Also, I believe there are sort of two towers, including the part you can see in this shot on the right side.

See here:
www.flickr.com/photos/nessachan/4386464640/in/photostream/

And here for history:
www.ourfamilyhistories.com/hsdurbin/pike/part8.html

And the set of interior shots:
www.flickr.com/photos/28859871@N07/sets/72157624014041541/

And for more info from billrock54:
www.flickr.com/photos/bill_rockwell/5500923008/

This shows the building out back:
www.flickr.com/photos/leonandloisphotos/2292140765/in/fav...

This is a film photograph

Lucien Moore House; Four Views

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:39:49 -0800

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Upper left: Early Twentieth Century. This is not the first view available of the house when it still had it's original Victorian porch. Otherwise, the house is still in excellent condition.

Upper right; After the house had been abandoned, this shot taken sometime in the Seventies. Not sure what happened with the main tower, it almost looks like it's being dismantled or has suffered a fire.

Lower left; Our first trip to Brush Park in 2001 when the house appeared to be doomed, beyond repair.

Lower right; Our last trip to Brush Park we found the house almost completed after it was rescued by a complete makeover on HGTV. The main tower, which for decades did not have it's pointed peaked roof, now reappears with a modified Mansard roof. Many details are lost but the house, remarkably, will continue with a new life in the Motor City.

Incidentally, in the last picture the tower on the left side appears to have been removed. It is actually still there and just didn't show up here because of the low angle.

It's interesting how much of what strikes you about the face of the building are those limestone checkers above the windows. Even with some replaced, the weathering gives it a much different effect than when new.
Then there are those little pillars on either side of the windows upstairs, looks like they were the first thing to disappear! (And not come back)

111 Watson Street, Brush Park, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:27:08 -0800

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This was taken on our first trip to Brush Park, Detroit in 2001. The house was soon torn down though I believe the building behind it is still standing. A picture of this house before it experienced full frontal collapse can be seen here:
www.detroityes.com/gild/05bp-roundhouse.htm

Notice the Dutch style gables, unusual touches on a fantastic house.

Then there's this:
www.detroitfunk.com/?p=3045

Originally the home of lumber magnate, Robert C. Faulconer on the corner of John R and Watson Streets. A quote from the Detroit Free Press in 1891 reports:

"It is an attractive house from the exterior but the feature which strikes one most conspicuously is the fact that proportions rather than details characterize the dwelling. It is exceeding spacious, having been built for room and comfort rather than outside beauty which is noticeable in many homes, the interior of which may be very inconveniently arranged.
Mr Falconer's house was designed by Hess and Raseman and was built about three years ago. (1888) It is what is known as the Elizabethan style of architecture, with large Dutch gables. It is red brick with brown stone trimmings and the bay windows and other exterior woodwork are painted black."

Alfred Street, Brush Park, Detroit, 1881

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

Equinox27 posted a photo:

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...

291 Erskine Street, Brush Park, Detroit 2007

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:17:16 -0800

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These two houses are part of the Erskine Street section of Brush Park that is still fairly intact and are up for renovation. From the Bing satellite map below you can see them in the middle. The one on the left is a latecomer to the Brush Park neighborhood with it's Arts and Crafts style architecture. It is also so deteriorated (as can be seen from above) that one wonders if any kind of restoration is likely.

UPDATE: After a little research I find that the house on the left is less than a shell and the one on the right is no more. So much for dreams of renovation!
fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/2010/01/another-loss-291-erskin...

Just found this, the house to the right of the one on the right that is also gone:
www.flickr.com/photos/17971010@N06/4115402688/in/set-7215...

Schoolhouse Doorway

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:35:17 -0700

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Gingerbread House

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:57:37 -0700

Equinox27 posted a photo:

A fun discovery today in the rain, a little gingerbread house like nothing I've ever seen around here. The details were remarkably intact!

This is on County Road 11, north of the Union Center Cemetery near Nappanee, Indiana.

Stonework, Meason House, Uniontown, PA

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:11:53 -0800

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I had heard of this place for many years but never seen it. Then one day this summer when I was home in Pennsylvania I noticed a sign for it along Rt 119, just south of Laurel Mall. Fortunately the owners were home and they were gracious enough to show me around. It has been a labor of love for them restoring and maintaining it. It almost looks like something from the time period you might see in England.

"A premier example of an English Palladian villa in America, built in 1802. With its 7-part composition made of hand-cut limestone, remarkable forecourt, and balanced accessories, this house is the single most sophisticated building in the region from this early period. Meason built his Georgian mansion on the same land that Christopher Gist chose in 1753 as the first English Settlement west of the Alleghenies. Isaac Meason was a pioneer ironmaster and builder of one of the first successful rolling mills in 1817. His entrepreneurial skills link him directly to the creation of the iron industry. By far, the Meason Hoouse is the most elegant stone house in our reigion of the early period. This privately owned National Historic Landmark, visible from Rt. 119N, just south of Laurel Mall, is open for group tours by appointment only."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Meason_House.jpg

www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/uncategorized/time-is-run...

www.oldhousedreams.com/2010/09/24/isaac-meason-mansion/

www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/meason-man...

House near Cedar Creek Park, Dec, 1991

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:41:09 -0800

Equinox27 posted a photo:

I just got a new contact in Pennsylvania that has some of his paintings on his photostream. When I saw the one below I immediately recognized this unique house. I only saw it once, about twenty years ago, and was lucky to get a picture of it. According to his accompanying blog, Scott had taken a picture about the same time which he used for reference. He also reported that, as I had suspected, the house was torn down about ten years ago for no apparent reason. Check out his blog about the house here:

scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2009/11/gem-of-lost-house-in-...

This is a scanned film print from the archives.

Flynn House, Edmund Place, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:49:35 -0800

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This is the only house on Edmund Place in Brush Park that is still open to the elements. The neighbor to the west here is the Glover House which is supposed to become the Brush Park Conservatory. My guess is this one gets bulldozed.

Sagging House in Owensdale, PA

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:11:34 -0800

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Somewhere under there is a real house, I think I see it peeking over the top of that add-on. I also just noticed that the house has a little baby house that's peeking too!

Quaker Meeting House, Perryopolis, PA

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:48:34 -0800

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The original stone church was built for the local Quaker group in 1793 and abandoned several decades later when attendance declined. In 1895, the remains of the stone structure were reassembled into this building as a memorial to the original in a somewhat reduced size. It was used mainly as a funeral chapel for the adjoining cemetery and has stood open for many years.

More info on this gem:
www.perryopolis.com/providence.shtml

James V. Campbell House at 261 Alfred Street

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

Equinox27 posted a photo:

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?

Ransom Gillis House, 2007 Update

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:56:39 -0800

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One of the most remarkable houses in Brush Park, Detroit. The Ransom Gillis house has quite a history and has been photographed many times in various states of decay. I never saw it until the signature tower had fallen off and I assumed it would soon be rubble. At the last minute it was rescued and sealed up to prevent further decay. Though not like it was when new, it at least will remain on the same location it has occupied for over a hundred years.

For a book written by John Kossik on the history of the Ransom Gillis house:
www.amazon.com/63-Alfred-Street-Capitalism-Venetian/dp/14...

Red House, Brownsville, PA

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:46:46 -0800

Equinox27 posted a photo:

A gorgeous sunset in Brownsville caught this beautiful historic house in all it's abandoned glory.

Jacob's Creek House

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:48:15 -0700

Equinox27 posted a photo:

The town of Jacob's Creek was shaken by the nearby Darr Mine explosion in 1907 which killed 239 miners. More information here:
www.usmra.com/saxsewell/darr.htm