The Flickr Storefrontwithupstairsapartments Image Generatr

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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Here was a display of the locally famously yellow "Cream City brick" common to southeastern Wisconsin — from 1947!, a fascinating year for U.S. architecture.

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the William C. Proost Building (a "contributing property" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of College Avenue, north of 7th Street.

The upstairs apartments are said here to have been offices. Do we think that's true?

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"Huh!, the Maplewood."

Supposedly the building is from circa 1930. Huh!

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In downtown Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, Grako, LLC Indoor Mini-Storage on the west side of Maplewood Avenue, north of 4th Street.

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A Honda Pilot from model years 2009-2011 is parked out front!

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In Waterbury Connecticut, on September 20th, 2021, a building on the north side of West Main Street, west of French Street.

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"Wow 3 condos w/firstfloor commercial," I practiced saying reverentially as I took pictures.

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In downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, on May 13th, 2020, a building (1213, 1215, 1217, and 1219 Peach Street) erected 2012 at the northeast corner of Peach Street and West 13th Street.

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Customers report that they "love times six" the rectangles of siding above the apartment windows upstairs.

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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, a building on the west side of Walnut Street (Pennsylvania Route 148) between Spring Street and 10th Street.

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I had to use my camera as my "eyes" because the shine was too bright to look at irl.

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In downtown Lima, on January 1st, 2017, a buildint at the northeast corner of West High Street and North Elizabeth Street (Ohio Route 65). The building was http://oh-allen-auditor.publicaccessnow.com/Property.aspx?mpropertynumber=37-3106-21-010.000.

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