The Flickr 1906Building Image Generatr

1906 was a very good year for me personally. ;)

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In downtown Winona, Minnesota, on September 3rd, 2023, was a datestone at a commercial building at the northwest corner of East 4th Street and Lafayette Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Wikidata items:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Commercial buildings—Minnesota (sh2005005686)

In my opinion the upstairs windows need decorative shutters at their sides.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, 412 N Trade St (built 1906; designated a "noncontributing building" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District due to "loss of integrity in materials and design") on the west side of North Trade Street, north of West 4th Street.

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This is hot!

Instead of being unhappy about your present circumstances, you could choose to live in the past. Let yourself be comforted by your memories of 1906.

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In Quincy, Illinois, on October 30th, 2020, outside "La Gondola Spaghetti House" in the former Heidbreder Bros. & Co. Drugstore buildng (built 1906, a "contributing property" in the South Side German Historic District, 92000484 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of South 8th Street and State Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, the offices of The Day newspaper (built 1906), a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places, on the east side of Eugene O'Neill Drive, south of Masonic Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Buildings—Connecticut (sh92001808)

In Lansing, Michigan, on February 4th, 2022, a house from 1906 at the northeast corner of North Magnolia Avenue and Vine Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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The blackened area at the bottom of the fire escape is my favorite part of the building, because it is less bland than the rest of it. My second favorite part is the fire escapes' spiral staircases.

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In downtown Kittanning, Pennsylvania, on July 9th, 2020, the Colwell-Arnold building, built in 1906 according to its date stone, at the northwest corner of North McKean Street and Market Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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According to the authors of the federal documentation form for the Washington Street Historic District the house is "faced with concrete block with Georgian Revival detailing," by which they mean the quoins I guess?, sheesh.

Personally I am glad I don't feel like I need to run around declaring a damn Georgian Revival everytime I see quoins.

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In Cumberland, Maryland, on June 26th, 2019, the "Lewis House" on the east side of Greene Street, south of Baltimore Street, a "contributing property" to the Washington Street Historic District, 73000884 on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1906 (according to the plaque to the left of the door) for future U.S. congressman David J. Lewis.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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I am sorry to gross you out with pictures of puke but I liked the pink paint and I needed to document the help-yourself surgical mask distribution sites of the year 2020. You remember seeing those everywhere. Doesn't this one resemble a blue flower.

Oh wow the building is from 1906.

Oh wow look at the staircase's support posts.

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In downtown Canton, Ohio, on July 2nd, 2020, at the northwest corner of 3rd Street Northeast and Walnut Avenue Northeast (Ohio State Route 43).

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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This was an experience of seeing beige paint on bricks, at a seven-story hotel from 1906, in weird light.

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In downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on September 16th, 2020, the former Hotel Redington, later the Gus Genetti Hotel, built in 1906 and designed by McCormick & French, at the intersection of South Pennsylvania Avenue and East Market Street, during hazy conditions caused by wildfire smoke from the western U.S.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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"Before I looked at this digital picture I had not thought about 1906 for a long damn time," is the thing I am trying to get you to say. Say it!

Here was "The Peoples Building," a/k/a the People’s Union Bank & Trust Company Building, erected 1906. Haha "peoples."

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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, the Peoples Building at the northwest corner of 5th Avenue and Walnut Street (Pennsylvania Route 148).

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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A classical revival is worsening by the day, in oriented strand board. A former "delight of modillions and festoons and colonnettes" is a ruin.

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In Parkersburg, West Virginia, on December 23rd, 2018, the Oeldorf Building, a/k/a Wetherell's Jewelers, built 1906, 82001781 on the National Register of Historic Places, and a "contributing property" to the Avery Street Historic District (86000849 on the National Register of Historic Places), on the north side of Market Street, east of 8th Street.

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