The Flickr Polishedgranite Image Generatr

I made the picture tall and skinny so I could crop out distracting elements to the left and right!!

Here was the former San Diego Trust and Savings Bank Building, built in 1927-1928, nowadays a "Courtyard by Marriott" hotel. Per this federal document, we have sandstone from the Briar Hill quarry in Ohio, which, according to Roadside Geology of Ohio by Mark J. Camp, is known geologically as the Massillon member of the Pottsville formation, formed during the Middle Pennsylvanian subperiod, 306.5 to 311.7 million years ago; and a base of "Scotch Rose granite," which I call "Ol' Pink-'n'-Black."

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In downtown San Diego, California, on July 2nd, 2024, was the Courtyard San Diego Downtown at the northwest corner of Broadway and 6th Avenue. The building is 99001565 on the National Register of Historic Places, designed by William Templeton Johnson.

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Ah yes MCMXXV, very fancy, the 23-story clubhouse of the Union League Club of Chicago.

I still remember Charles Dawes in there, swanning around in his undershirt, that crooked banker. He was Coolidge's vice president.

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In downtown Chicago on June 27th, 2023, at the Union League Club of Chicago (completed in 1926; designed by Mundie & Jensen) at the southwest corner of West Jackson Boulevard and South Federal Street.

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This one is classy with its polished panels of pink-and-gray speckled granite. "Let Your Love Flow," I call it.

The building is from 1963, but the surface of the wall is from sometime later. The original wall can be seen in an Ed Ruscha photo from 1974: Look for the two staircases at the lower right of the picture, immediately to the right of the "not a through street" sign.

I associate polished panels of pink granite with the 1980s. Maybe these are from the 1980s.

Ed Ruscha was here in 2007 too.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, at the Santa Monica Medical Building on the south side of Santa Monica Boulevard between North Serrano Avenue and Hobart Boulevard.

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Several of the massive granite figures form the "Existence" installation ensemble along one side of the central pond of the Japanese-style garden here. The foreground shows the polishing of the curving top head/shoulders, while the blurred background granite figure shows the overall design of each piece made to different heights.

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In the distance a shorter version of the foreground block of granite can be seen, although blurred. The head or shoulders on top are polished and curving, while the trunk or body is a hewn roughness without curve in the vertical or the horizontal. However, the granite blocks of this art installation are roughly cylindrical, so curve in the main body of each figure is not just the top, but also in the round shape of the rest of the mass.

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DATESTONES ARE OCCASIONS TO RECALL the hit songs of the years the datestones display.

For instance, from 1936 we got "The Music Goes Round and Round" by Edward Farley and Mike Riley, performed by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven, with vocals by Edythe Wright, which you could hear here or here if necessary. Me, I have never liked that song!

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In downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on March 7th, 2020, the Kalamazoo County Building (completed in 1937, surfaced in Mankato limestone and granite) at the southwest corner of West Michigan Avenue and South Rose Street.

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In downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 12th, 2020, the former Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania Western Headquarters Building (built 1956-1958, 11000921 on the National Register of Historic Places, also a "contributing property" in the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District, 13000252 on the National Register of Historic Places; now an apartment building known as "201 Stanwix Street Place") at the southwest corner of Boulevard of the Allies and Stanwix Street.

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In downtown Albany, New York, on September 24th, 2021, at 110 State Street (a New York state office building completed in 2002) on the south side of State Street (New York State Route 5), east of Lodge Street.

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Take these multistory oriel windows away from my eyes. I do not recall ever having wanted nineteen stories of cardboard-colored polished granite, from 1989 or any year.

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In downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 1st, 2022, "Renaissance Plaza" (built 1989, designed by HKS, Inc., clad in granite) at the southeast corner of North Elm Street and Abe Brenner Place.

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"Flower": sculpture in polished granite by Masayuki Koorida seen at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England, UK.

See also:

ysp.org.uk/openair/flower

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"Flower": sculpture in polished granite by Masayuki Koorida seen at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England, UK.

See also:

ysp.org.uk/openair/flower

Press "L" to view large.

Taken and originally posted in 2014.

Millennium Place modestly claims that it's "THE place to live." Its facade reflects the art deco marquee of the Paramount Center across Washington Street.

This is a postcard taken and published by Albert Flint who ran a photographic studio at 68 Camberwell Church Street and was famous for his views of south London. In 1887 he took over the business of Herbert Hartwell whose premises were called Royal Academy Studios at 211 Clapham Road, just down the road from the subject of the postcard. The view is looking north and shows a drinking fountain which is situated on Clapham Common just opposite the junction of The Pavement and Bromells Road in the Clapham Old Town area. The postcard was posted in March 1906, but the drinking fountain had been there since 1895 and it is one of the large number of London’s wandering memorials. On Tuesday 28th October 1884 the drinking fountain was unveiled minus the statue on top by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir.Robert Fowler MP outside No. 1 Adelaide Place in the City of London, the premises of the sponsor of the fountain, The United Kingdom Temperance and Provident Institution for Mutual Assurance. It replaced an earlier drinking fountain which had been there since 1860, the founding year of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Institution. The statue, which depicts a woman giving water to a beggar with a crutch, had been cast at the Royal Bronze foundry in Munich and had been delayed in transit. The fountain weighed 45 tons, most of the weight comprised of the polished granite which had been quarried near Falmouth in Cornwall, and during the following years cracks began appearing in the bridge supports over Lower Thames Street and in the warehouse buildings below the drinking fountain. The Temperance and Provident offered the fountain to the London County Council and their Parks committee decided to relocate the drinking fountain to Clapham Common. The cost of the fountain was originally £1500.0.0 and the LCC stumped up £300.0.0 for its removal and transport. The statue is by August Von Freling who was a print maker, sculptor, and painter. He was also Director of the fine Arts Academy in Nuremberg and a close associate of Ferdinand Von Miller who was director of the Royal Bronze foundry. When I was researching the fountain, I discovered that the factory was probably most famous for the Tyler Davidson fountain which is in Cincinnati, Ohio. The drinking fountain is a very large and elaborate affair with over nine statues, it was designed by Von Miller and Von Freling sculpted some of the statues. It was so large and over the top that no customer was interested in purchasing it until 1871 when an American businessman turned up in Munich looking for a memorial to his business partner and brother in law, Tyler Davidson. Henry Probasco saw the plans for the fountain which is called “The Genius of Water” and promptly bought it. The fountain came in 100 parts and it was shipped to Cincinnati where it now is the centrepiece of the business district. The unlikely connection between Clapham and Cincinnati is the statue of the woman and the beggar because the same statue appears on the Tyler Davidson fountain, a fact which is not recorded in any of the material that I researched.

It will continue to be unfashionable forever and nobody will ever feel nostalgic for this style of architecture!!

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In downtown Philadelphia on January 23rd, 2020, outside "The Logan" hotel (erected 1983, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates), at "One Logan Square," at the southwest corner of Benjamin Franklin Parkway and North 18th Street.

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"Ain't that granite brownish pink and polished nice?"

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In downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 25th, 2009, the Dennis Chavez Federal Building and United States Courthouse, erected 1965 and designed by Flatow, Moore, Bryan & Fairburn, as viewed from the southwest corner of 6th Street Southwest and Gold Avenue Southwest.

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Was the whitishness inflicted to the smooth granite panels as part of a wrongheaded graffiti removal project or...?

Or ?!!?

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In downtown Flint, Michigan, on December 9th, 2018, the former Genesee County Savings Bank, said to have been built in 1920 and remodeled in 1947, 100001836 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the northwest corner of South Saginaw Street and West Kearsley Street.

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Photographed during a stroll through San Francisco's business district into Chinatown. In San Francisco, California, USA.

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Oh my gosh the cheaplookingness of this, badly wasting granite.

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In downtown Springfield, Illinois, on August 19th, 2017, on the south side of East Washington Street between South 6th Street and South 7th Street.

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