May 25, 2025 - Trinity Episcopal Church at the corner of E Broad Street and S Third Street in downtown Columbus.
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May 25, 2025 - Trinity Episcopal Church at the corner of E Broad Street and S Third Street in downtown Columbus.
May 25, 2025 - Trinity Episcopal Church at the corner of E Broad Street and S Third Street in downtown Columbus.
"Privacy slats?! I can see right in!" I guffawed.
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In downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, on April 1st, 2022, behind the Pullman Place Family Restaurant on the east side of South 3rd Street between Delaware Street and Cherokee Street.
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The building is damaged because four of its ridiculous phony shutters are missing. Do you like the color combination of reddish purple and dark green? Do you like my silver Honda Ridgeline?
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In downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, on April 1st, 2022, Pullman Place Family Restaurant at the northeast corner of South 3rd Street and Cherokee Street.
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Of five tiny windows on the first floor, two are keyhole-shaped. The third floor gets nonwindows, much larger.
Two air conditioners are on elevated platforms. One is behind a latticed barrier and the other is nakedly, embarrassingly visible.
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In downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, on April 1st, 2022, a commercial building (erected 1888 according to the Leavenworth County government's online parcel search tool) at the southeast corner of South 3rd Street and Cherokee Street.
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According to the 1905 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Leavenworth, this was a foundry on the grounds of the Great Western Manufacturing Company, "m'f'rs of flour mill and grain elevator machy." I said Machy, M'f'rs!
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In downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, on April 1st, 2022, a building (erected 1899 according to its datestone) at the Leavenworth Public Schools (Leavenworth Unified School District 453) Facilities Department complex, a "contributing property" in the Leavenworth Historic Industrial District, 02000406 on the National Register of Historic Places, on the east side of South 3rd Street between Choctaw Street and Custer Street.
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The openness of the parking lot makes the buildings easy to see. Their backs are better than their fronts!
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In downtown Hannibal, Missouri, on October 30th, 2020, the Hickman Block on the southwest corner of Broadway and South 3rd Street (Missouri Route 79), built in stages circa 1865, with the one at the right built after 1869, all "contributing properties" in the Broadway District, 86002128 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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I need VCRs and CDs and a diamond ring that looks like the one pictured. I do not care about any of the other merchandise. Especially the guns, yuck!
Doesn't the picture of the ring resemble a clothes dryer on a pallet! I bet there's a 9-square grid of concrete openwork hidden underneath it.
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In downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia, on July 6th, 2020, at the northeast corner of South 3rd Street and Traders Avenue, in the Clarksburg Downtown Historic District, 82004794 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Wow the sidewalk is pink. Weird!
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In downtown Zanesville, Ohio, on November 28th, 2020, on the east side of South 3rd Street, north of South Street.
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May 2, 2021 - Second Presbyterian Church more commonly known as Central Presbyterian Church located at 132 S 3rd Street. The church dates from 1857 and was built in the Romanesque Revival Style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The church closed in November 2011 and has remained vacant. Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) purchased the building in 2013 and plans to use it as a performance venue but it doesn't appear any work has commenced to make this a reality. Columbus, Ohio
May 2, 2021 - Second Presbyterian Church more commonly known as Central Presbyterian Church located at 132 S 3rd Street. The church dates from 1857 and was built in the Romanesque Revival Style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The church closed in November 2011 and has remained vacant. Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) purchased the building in 2013 and plans to use it as a performance venue but it doesn't appear any work has commenced to make this a reality. Columbus, Ohio
Brick up my eyes!
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In downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia, on July 6th, 2020, the Will H. Melet Building (erected 1924) on the west side of South 3rd Street between Traders Avenue and West Main Street, as viewed from the south side of Traders Avenue. The building is a "contributing property" to the Clarksburg Downtown Historic District, 82004794 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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...to Grandmother's house we go.
This was my Grandma's house in Old Louisville when I was growing up. Last time I saw it, it had been converted to a law office.
Yea per the pictures on the Wikipedia article about the Cadillac Seville it's a "first generation" Seville, meaning model years '76-'79.
This particular instance of "the comfort of luxury" is an old comfort of midsize luxury!
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In downtown Toronto, Ohio, on July 8th, 2020, on the east side of South 3rd Street, north of Henry Street, outside B&W Repair, a/k/a B+W Repair.
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In downtown Elkhart, Indiana, on September 14th, 2014, in an alley between West Jackson Boulevard and West Lexington Avenue, east of South 3rd Street.
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These slippery conditions have worsened our trudge through the cold. We mutter curses at local property owners.
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In downtown Steubenville, Ohio, on December 23rd, 2009, on the west side of South 3rd Street, north of South Street.
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Merchants’ Exchange Building
143 S 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA
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