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It was missing four of its pale blue panels of exterior insulation finishing system!, but I still loved it because I love pale blue.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were "The Shops" at "31 Ocean," a mixed-use development including the "Summer House Apartments," at 300 Laskin Rd (built in 2013 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northwest corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and Laskin Road.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a mixed-use building (apartments and retail space; built in 2017 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) on the south side of 26th Street between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Avenue.

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This bldg's got several metal awnings hanging from its backside. I hope to be invited inside sometime.

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In downtown Archbold, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was the backside of a mixed commercial and residential building at 103 Vine St (built in 1951 according to Fulton County property records at qpublic.schneidercorp.com) on the west side of Vine Street, between East Holland Street and Depot Street.

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Bedsheets as window coverings are among the commonest things we see when we look around the U.S. Here was a red one.

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In West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 30th, 2021, 4733 W National Ave/1000 S 48th St (built in 1912) at the southeast corner of West National Avenue (Wisconsin Highway 59) and South 48th Street.

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A buff-colored commercial building from the 1940s and a white-colored sedan from the 2010s have found one another.

"1947 E. Dal Porto" reads the datestone at the top of the building. Chrysler 200s were manufactured in Sterling Heights, Michigan, for model years 2011-2017, and then discontinued.

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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, 2101 Pine Ave at the southeast corner of Pine Avenue (U.S. 62 Business Route) and 21st Street.

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Yea it was completed in 2023 but it looks like it was built sometime earlier than that, such as the 1990s, 2000s, or 2010s. To me it doesn't resemble a constellation at all.

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In downtown Hampton, Virginia, on October 13th, 2023, The Constellation on King at the northeast corner of Settlers Landing Road (U.S. Route 60 and Virginia State Route 143) and South King Street.

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My favorite thing about The New Victorian is the boundary between sun and shadow.

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In downtown Northville, Michigan, on November 12th, 2023, at a mixed use building (condominiums and commercial space) at the northeast corner of East Cady Street and Church Street.

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A cylinder of windows was partially embedded in a building, on purpose: So weird! Yet it happened all the time in the U.S. in the late 19th century.

It looks even weirder nowadays, with the blank wall of bricked-in doors and windows at its underneath.

CHERISH THY FOND NOSTALGIÆ for oriel windows with air conditioners poking out.

Run over there and sit on the bench, I'll take your picture. Watch for cars.

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, a building at the southeast corner of East Stephenson Street and South Chicago Avenue, built in 1880 according to a plaque mounted on it.

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Like all Dodge Journeys, this one was manufactured in Toluca, Mexico, outside Mexico City, and here we are in Freeport, Illinois. Does the driver know and like that their car is from Mexico I wonder.

The mysterious 21st-century people who reside in the upstairs apartments of old commercial buildings in the smalltown downtowns of the U.S. are fascinating to the rest of us. We wish we could observe their private routines.

As recently as 2019 the sign above the door said "LONDON" instead of "PRETZELS": Weird!

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, the Billerbeck building at the northwest corner of West Main Street and South Galena Avenue (U.S. 20 Business Route).

Per the signs on its doors, the building houses Air Gaging LLC downstairs, and the 202½ W Main Apartments upstairs.

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1880s people built hilarious buildings as pranks upon the future.

2020s people run their streetlights on sunny afternoons, but humorlessly, and hang banners from their streetlights with aggressive demands that we "PLAY."

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, the Billerbeck building (built in 1888 according to its datestone) at the northwest corner of West Main Street and South Galena Avenue (U.S. 20 Business Route).

Per the signs on its doors, the building houses Air Gaging LLC downstairs, and the 202½ W Main Apartments upstairs.

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The signs "Del-Rich Co." and "Neat Stuff" would have us think that there are two businesses here, but no it's a single pawnshop named "Del-Rich Loan & Neat Stuff Antiques." Each pawned antique you buy will come with an implied sad story of the poverty and desperation for which the U.S. is renowned.

The building is from 1901 according to the official documentation of the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District, which also identifies the ahistorical surface treatment on the upper floors as parge, applied over the building's original masonry.

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the Weinecke Block (a "contributing property" in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District, 100005546 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of Brady Street (U.S. 61 Business Route), south of West 4th Street.

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Here, read this description of the building from the official documentation of the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District:

"1302 4th Avenue, Paulsen Building (1900): This two-story brick Queen Anne commercial-residential anchor block's main entrance is canted with an oriel suspended over the doorway. It has a stone belt course beneath the second-floor windows, and another above the windows with a smaller window situated within a patterned brick arch beneath a small centered gable."

Well if you want to see any of that, you'll need to walk around to the other side of the building. I'll be over here looking at this nice expanse of siding!

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In downtown Moline, Illinois, on May 21st, 2023, the east elevation of the Paulsen Building at the southeast corner of 4th Avenue (Illinois Route 92) and 13th Street, a "contributing property" in the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District, 07000856 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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I feel that the entire wall should be covered in weathered white paint with the bricks showing through, not just half of it.

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In downtown Moline, Illinois, on May 21st, 2023, the former Shallene Brothers Furniture building (built 1919, a "contributing property" in the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District, 07000856 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of 5th Avenue between 13th and 14th avenues; since December 2020 the site of Meli's Pancake House.

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Hey look here's a picture of the building from 1988, when it was the Doo Dah Saloon.

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the John Mass Building (built in 1901 as a saloon with upstairs apartments, a "contributing property" in the West Third Street Historic District, 83003741 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of West 3rd Street and Gaines Street.

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Here was a software business, "Thoroughbred Computer Systems," occupying the building one hundred years later. Are these businesspeople enjoying their time here?

Upstairs, a glazed terracotta frieze, a pair of spiral columns, and a clay tile roof are expressions of "Spanish Eclectic."

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, 116 SE 8th Ave (a "contributing property" in the South Kansas Avenue Historic District, 15000386 on the National Register of Historic Places, exhibiting 1920s renovations to an older building) on the north side of SE 8th Avenue, west of SE Quincy 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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According to Sanborn fire insurance maps, the building appears to have been built sometime between 1912 and 1921: On the 1912 map an asymmetrical two-story brick building was at this location, and on the 1921 a symmetrical three-story brick building (like this one!) is depicted. This leaves open the possibility that maybe the two-story building was expanded/remodeled sometime during that period.

I browsed through old New London city directories from 1912-1921 at ancestrylibrary.com, and found the listings to be inadequate for a confident determination as to when exactly a new or expanded building appeared here, but on the basis of those listings, in combination with the fire insurance maps, I think the building (or this iteration of it) is probably from the mid-to-late 1910s.

Anyhow, "I like to be over here by the trash," I like to say.

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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, the James P. Shea Building at 29-33 Golden St, site of "Mi Casa Restaurant [and] Bar" and "The Shea Residences," on the north side of Golden Street between Eugene O'Neill Drive and Bank Street; a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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"An abandoned convenience store!" I exclaimed, and I giggled and clapped my hands and did a little "running in place and twirling" dance.

But per some online searching, it looks like the supposed "corner store" might never have actually opened?

There used to be a Subway restaurant here, as seen in 2013.

The City of New London's online property database says the building is from 1924. Do we think that's true?

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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, 2 Bank St, a/k/a 2-4 Bank St, a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the southeast corner of Bank Street and State Street.

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That the "Bank Street Cobbler" shop is an actual cobbler shop is baffling to many U.S. people: "Are they getting some kind of government subsidy? Is this a theme park? Is it a front for the mob? Are they filming a movie?"

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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, the Tate Block, a/k/a Tate's Building, at 187-195 Bank St (built 1890) on the north side of Bank Street, west of Pearl Street; a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District (79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places).

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"There's a vacant restaurant downstairs with a circular doorway. The circular doorway is surely not from 1904 but I think it's funny to imagine that it was."

"Do I 'enjoy' living in New London. What the hell kind of question is that."

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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, 357 Bank St, a/k/a 357-363 Bank St (built 1904), a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places, on the north side of Bank Street, west of Woviotis Place.

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