The Flickr 1969Building Image Generatr

Do you have a favorite occurrence of brown brick veneer?

How 'bout concrete pilasters: Do you have a favorite occurrence of those.

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In downtown Rome, Georgia, on January 1st, 2025, was First National Community Bank at 501 Broad St (built in 1969 according to Appendix A of this architectural survey; originally the National City Bank of Rome; later the First Union National Bank of Rome and the Heritage First Bank) at the northeast corner of Broad Street and West 5th Avenue.

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A brown-shingled mansard roof is to a brown blouse as brown brick veneer is to brown slacks.

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In downtown Wayne, Michigan, on April 7th, 2024, was 34844 W Michigan Ave (built in 1969 according to City of Wayne property records at bsaonline.com) on the north side of West Michigan Avenue (U.S. Route 12), west of 2nd Street.

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Five traffic cones were lined up adorably in the driveway.

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At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Watterson Towers, a/k/a the Watterson Residence Hall, completed circa 1969, at the northwest corner of West Beaufort Street and South Fell Avenue.

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Parked outside were a 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander, a 2014 Ford Taurus, and a 2024 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid. All of them were mine at the time, but I have since sold the Outlander.

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At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Watterson Towers, a/k/a the Watterson Residence Hall, completed circa 1969, at the northwest corner of West Beaufort Street and South Fell Avenue.

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It's an impressive building but after 55 years I'd expect that its immediate surroundings would be a bit more dressed up.

Funfact: The small commercial building in the foreground was built in 1961.

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At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Watterson Towers, a/k/a the Watterson Residence Hall, completed circa 1969, at the northwest corner of West Beaufort Street and South Fell Avenue.

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Here were the Watterson Towers, a residence hall at Illinois State University, said by the university to have "opened in 1968," and said by Wikipedia to have been "completed in 1969," and said by various online sources to have been "completed in 1968" or "opened in 1969."

According to an October 1968 article in the student newspaper, the first five floors were opened to 220 students in the fall of that year, while the remainder of the building continued to be built. According to a December 1969 article in the same newspaper, the "North Tower was due to be finished in September of 1968 and was just completed, and the South Tower was scheduled to completed in September of 1969 but is still not done." So it's possible it wasn't technically "completed in 1969," but I haven't seen any online sources asserting it was "completed in 1970."

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At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Watterson Towers, a/k/a the Watterson Residence Hall, at the northwest corner of West Beaufort Street and South Fell Avenue.

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That's a bunch of beige-'n'-tan!

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, at a 1969 expansion of 200 E Main St (built 1955-1956 as the Owosso Federal Savings and Loan; expanded in 1969; later Charter One Bank; a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of East Main Street (Highway M-21) and South Park Street.

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It was a weird and funny idea to paint the bricks gray, but that's none of my business, it's not my building. See what the building looked like just five months earlier, before the paint.

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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, a fourplex apartment building at 400 W 26th St (built in 1969, according to the "Norfolk Address Information Resource" website) at the northwest corner of West 26th Street and DeBree Avenue.

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At an office building, an ornamental tree suffers an attack of parasitic mistletoe, during a duststorm. The office building is a small one-story building and was built in 1969.

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In downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, on February 14th, 2023, a building on the east side of Austin Street between 9th Street and 10th Street.

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Since 1969 a magnificent display of corrugated concrete DELIGHTS THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ROCK ISLAND ILL, at a bank branch on a prominent streetcorner in the city's downtown.

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In downtown Rock Island, Illinois, on May 20th, 2023, a branch office of American Bank & Trust, formerly a U.S. Bank branch (built 1969, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Rock Island Historic District, 100004433 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and 16th Street.

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This was Raleigh N.C.'s longtime "Tower of Lovemaking": Everybody knew what was going on in there.

It was built in 1969 lol. Supposedly it will be demolished at any minute and could be gone by the time you read this. Goodbye!

As of this writing Wikipedia says this was the TALLEST SKYSCRAPER IN ALL RALEIGH from 1969 to 1977, lol can you imagine.

It looks round but it's sixteen-sided at the top, hexadecagonal.

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the Holiday Inn Downtown Raleigh at the northwest corner of North Dawson Street (U.S. routes 70 and 404 and North Carolina Highway 50) and Hillsborough Street.

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They are delighted by its elegance and awed by its monstrous size. They are proud that something like this could have happened here. Plus there's a parking garage downstairs!

Narrow vertical concrete bands up the sides of the building form short "spires" at their tops, which at least one commentator has called "Gothic-like." Okay!

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, "800 SW Jackson Street" (built in 1969 as the Merchants National Bank Building, later the U.S. Bank Building) at the southeast corner of SW Jackson Street and SW 8th Avenue.

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The restaurant is from 1969. This was early 1960s California in late 1960s Kansas.

The restaurant is dominated by the autos that surround it.

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, the Hanover Pancake House at the northeast corner of S Kansas Avenue and SE 11th Street.

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Ah the Hillsborough River. Back in the 1990s when that Sheraton was a Radisson I would rent a room there and chainsmoke til 4 or 5 in the morning, moving back and forth between the air-conditioned room and the hot humid balcony, Winston 100s full flavor. I was so trashy and Tampa was perfect!

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In downtown Tampa, Florida, on November 23rd, 2021, the Hillsborough River as viewed from the south side of the Kennedy Boulevard. There is the "Tampa Riverwalk," yonder.

The "Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk" was built in 1969. It has been a Sheraton since October 13th, 2005, what a day. To its right are "100 North Tampa" (built 1992) and "Wells Fargo Center" (built 1985).

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In downtown Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 14th, 2020, at the southwest corner of West Maple Street and North Lee Court, outside the Hazleton Area Public Library (built 1969).

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In downtown Akron, Ohio, on March 13th, 2021, Three Cascade Plaza (built in 1969, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz) at the southeast corner of Quaker and Ash Street, as viewed from West Bowery Street and Quaker Street.

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Aren't these pilotis supporting an impressive weight.

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In downtown Lackawanna, New York, on June 11th, 2021, Lackawanna City Hall on the north side of Ridge Road opposite Victory Avenue.

The orange addition was built in 1968-1969.

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In 2018 Lackawanna's dreadful mayor at the time said it is "the ugliest building on planet Earth" and promised to demolish it ("We'll be bringing that down"). I am glad he failed!

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In downtown Lackawanna, New York, on June 11th, 2021, Lackawanna City Hall on the north side of Ridge Road opposite Victory Avenue.

Per the news article linked above, the orange addition was built in 1968-1969.

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• 1969 in architecture (Q2812513)
• Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area (Q199196)
• flag of the United States of America (Q42537)
• June 11 (Q2617)
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• Western New York (Q7988104)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• City halls—New York (State) (sh85026274)

BUILDINGS' UNSIGHTLINESSES DISHONOR both the years in which they were erected and the entireties of the cities in which they are located.

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In downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, on May 13th, 2020, an office building (built 1969) at the southeast corner of West 8th Street and Sassafras Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Erie (7017542)
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
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• damage (condition) (300068940)
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• office buildings (300007043)
• pebble dash (300014958)
• traffic signals (300003915)

Wikidata items:
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• May 2020 (Q55019753)
• Northwestern Pennsylvania (Q16895965)
• streetcorner (Q17106091)
• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Q3536790)
• Western Pennsylvania (Q7988152)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Office buildings—Pennsylvania (sh91002286)

Yeah it has 10 of the long sides and 20 of the short sides. I used online satellite imagery to count them up. The building is triacontagonal.

I would like to see the building clad in green metal instead of light brown metal.

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In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 30th, 2021, Locust Court, also known as the Locust Court Apartments, a senior housing tower built in 1969, owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, on the north side of East Locust Street, east of North Dousman Street, as viewed from Gordon Park.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• apartment houses (300005707)
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Wikidata items:
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• Milwaukee metropolitan area (Q1146039)
• Riverwest (Q28125590)
• Treaty of Chicago (Q87256769)
• triacontagon (Q1898252)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Apartment houses—Wisconsin (sh2010001736)
• High-rise apartment buildings (sh85060689)
• Trees in cities (sh85137261)