The Flickr Remodeledbuilding Image Generatr

In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a brick infill at 12 Washington St, a/k/a 14 Washington St (built circa 1880, a "contributing property" in the Valparaiso Downtown Commercial District, 90000327 on the National Register of Historic Places), as viewed in an alley between Jefferson Street and East Lincolnway.

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"Now nobody can see in or out!" exclaimed the building's jubilant owner when the infill was complete.

On this particular afternoon the utility pole shadows were getting kind of silly.

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In downtown Delta, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was a building on the east side of Monroe Street between Main Street and Palmwood Street.

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Satellite dishes were upraised cheering pompoms, or perked-up ears. I felt welcomed.

Downstairs was '60s-'70s tan stone veneer. Upstairs was clay brick in brown paint. A wood shingle awning obscured the boundary between the stone veneer and the painted bricks. A neoclassical cornice spanned the top. Out front was parked a 2023 Jeep Compass. It all combined to handsome and comfortable effect.

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In downtown Delta, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was a commercial building on the north side of Main Street (U.S. Route 20A and Ohio state routes 2 and 109), as viewed from the southwest corner of Main Street and Lincoln Street.

The building appears on an 1893 Sanborn fire insurance map, so it's at least that old.

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The building is from 1907, and we can see that thar [sic] were formerly numerous windows, now bricked in. The canopy looks like it was installed circa the 1960s, right?

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In downtown Archbold, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was the backside of 219 N Defiance St (built in 1907, according to Fulton County property records at qpublic.schneidercorp.com) on the west side of North Defiance Street (Ohio state routes 2 and 66) between Stryker Street and Holland Street, as viewed from an alley.

According to Google Streetview, an identical logo (for CIG Financial Services) was installed at the front of the building sometime between 2009 and 2018. I assume this one was installed during that period also. Imagery from October 2009 shows the building occupied by a Huntington bank branch.

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, was the "Four Points by Sheraton Asheville Downtown" at the northwest corner of Woodfin Street and Central Avenue. It was built in 1970 as the Sheraton Motor Inn (shown here on a picture postcard) and last renovated in 2013.

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The building opened in 1924 as the George Vanderbilt Hotel, which was designed by William Lee Stoddart and was more ornate than it is now.

According to this 1999 article, it was converted to senior apartments in 1969, at which time its ornate façade was stripped and replaced with tan bricks. A semblance of its original appearance was restored in 1999, in part by staining the tan bricks red.

So the building is displaying 1924, 1969, and 1999, all mixed together. What a combination of years!

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, were the Vanderbilt Apartments at the northeast corner of Haywood Street and Vanderbilt Place.

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By its hilltop placement, the building has been made difficult to escape seeing.

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, were the Vanderbilt Apartments at the northeast corner of Haywood Street and Vanderbilt Place, as viewed from Rankin Avenue south of Hiawassee Street.

The building opened in 1924 as the George Vanderbilt Hotel, which was designed by William Lee Stoddart and was more ornate than it is now.

According to this 1999 article, it was converted to senior apartments in 1969, at which time its ornate façade was stripped and replaced with tan bricks. A semblance of its original appearance was restored in 1999, in part by staining the tan bricks red.

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This is in Menominee, Michigan. "Maybe it would be best to just tear it down? I mean, is it really such a wonderful building?" etc etc.

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In downtown Menominee, Michigan, on May 24th, 2024, was a commercial building at the southwest corner of 1st Street and 5th Avenue.

In the 1974 documentation packet for the federally-designated First Street Historic District, within which the building is identified as a "contributing property," it is identified as the former Richard Hotel, a/k/a the Bay Hotel: "Built of brick in a vernacular interpretation of the Mansardian style used in Michigan after 1865, this hotel is one of the oldest buildings in the district," it reports.

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"What a beautiful day in Menominee!"

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In downtown Menominee, Michigan, on May 24th, 2024, was the rear of the Spies Block, a/k/a the Spies Building, at the southeast corner of 10th Avenue and 2nd Street.

The building is depicted "from plans" on a fire insurance map from January 1901, at which time it was being rebuilt following a fire.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was the backside of 317 E Main St, the former McCarroll Brothers hardware store, as viewed in an alley between South Green Street and South Jefferson Street.

According to an article in the Ottumwa Courier ("Five buildings snatched up by downtown developer," Nov 16, 2017) the building was occupied by an adult movie theater for a time after the hardware store closed.

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The artificial stone veneer at the bottom is comically distasteful and was installed later in the 20th century and I like it. In fact it would be alright with me if the artificial stone veneer covered the whole building.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was the former Iowa Telephone Company building at 116 N Green St (built circa 1904; designed by George M. Kerns; later an office building; a "contributing property" in the Greater Second Street Historic District, 16000365 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of North Green Street and East 3rd Street.

According to PDF page 27 of the above-linked documentation, the building became an American Legion home after World War I. It was later an office building, identified in the 1957 Ottumwa city directory (at ancestrylibrary.com) as the Ottumwa Labor Temple.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was the side of a commercial building at 104 S Market St (built in 1924), on the east side of South Market Street, south of East 2nd Street.

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The Peoples Store in Manistique, Michigan, opened in 1915 and was remodeled in 1966. It appears to have still been in business as of August 2023, per Google Street View imagery.

As of July 2024, it is listed as "permanently closed" on various websites. I haven't found any news reports, etc., about the store's closure. Local journalism has largely collapsed in many parts of the U.S., and much of what remains is being excluded from Google search results.

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In downtown Manistique, Michigan, on May 18th, 2024, was the former Peoples Store at the northeast corner of Cedar Street and Oak Street.

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The local county government's property database says the building was built in 1920, but round numbers in such databases are often suspect, so I went rummaging through city directories at AncestryLibrary.com and discovered: The building is not listed in the 1930 directory, and first appears in the 1932 directory, identified as "Dayton Power & Light Co (store room)."

Therefore I assert that the building is from the early 1930s. The beige siding came later.

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In downtown Piqua, Ohio, on November 18th, 2023, a storage building (owned since 2006 by the Salvation Army) on the east side of South Wayne Street, north of Wood Street.

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An expanse of dirty white corrugated siding for a windowless second floor.

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In downtown Piqua, Ohio, on November 18th, 2023, a building housing Wyandt & Silvers Accounting & Tax Services at 523 N Main St, on the east side of North Main Street, south of East North Street.

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According to a reasonably well-referenced Wikipedia article about the building, it was built as a Blue Cross Blue Shield building in 1958-1960, then remodeled with glass panels in 1982, after Blue Cross Blue Shield moved out. In the foreground is a yellow guardrail parking lot.

KEEP STARING AT THE PICTURE UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS. Just kidding!

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In downtown Dallas, Texas, on February 18th, 2023, 2201 Main at the northeast corner of Main Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard.

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CHUS is also known as Chu's Dining, Chu's Dining Lounge, and Chu's Chinese Food. I think the characters are "超時尚酒家," which Google translates as "super stylish restaurant" or "super trendy restaurant." Please feel free to offer a correction, if that's not right.

There's a building from 1928 in there, behind the façade of concrete bricks, which looks to be from the 1990s or late 1980s, right?

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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, 1019 Main St on the east side of Main Street (New York State Route 104), south of Ashland Avenue.

According to Google Streetview, the awning is from circa 2007-2011, and the CHUS sign is from circa 2011-2017.

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In downtown Hampton, Virginia, on October 13th, 2023, at "Carpet Mill Outlet," located in a former automobile showroom (per this fire insurance map) at the northwest corner of North Armistead Avenue (Virginia State Route 134) and West Queen Street.

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Here was 328-330 W 25th St, built in 1941 as a warehouse for the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company. The gable roof was added in 1986 and looks wonderful. 1986 is closer to 1941 than it is to 2023, when this picture was taken.

In 2006, the building was officially recognized by the U.S. government for its historic significance as part of the federally-designated Park Place Historic District.

A garage entrance was partially filled by a metal wall and pedestrian door. A 2020 Toyota Tacoma was partially blocking our view of a half-gazebo porch. An exterior light fixture was caged to protect it from rock-throwing teens of earlier generations.

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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, at the northeast corner of DeBree Avenue and West 25th Street.

Historical details are from the official documentation of the Park Place Historic District, 06000029 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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"Oh, no!" lol. Nah I'm just kidding I love it.

There's a building from 1907 hidden in there according to the official documentation of the Newport News Downtown Historic District, wherein the building is rejected as a "noncontributing property," apparently because district's curators disliked the remodeled façade.

Feh, it's as historic as anything else, it shouldn't have been rejected.

There's the big rear end of a 2022 Ram 1500 Laramie.

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In downtown Newport News, Virginia, on October 9th, 2023, 225 28th St on the north side of 28th Street, between Huntington Avenue and Washington Avenue.

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