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In downtown Rome, Georgia, on January 1st, 2025, was a sidewalk outside a commercial building at 17 E 3rd Ave (built in 1892 according to its datestone; a "contributing property" in the Between the Rivers Historic District, 83000193 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of East 1st Street and East 3rd Avenue.

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"Morning Disposal," er, "Moring Disposal," rather, is there. The Subaru is beigish gold, maybe.

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, in an alley between West Stephenson Street and West Main Street, east of South Walnut Avenue.

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In downtown East Liverpool, Ohio, on May 14th, 2020, off the north side of the alley "Summit Lane" between Market Street and Crook Avenue.

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I can still remember when that fencepost was attached to a fence. These are ruins!

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In downtown East Liverpool, Ohio, on May 14th, 2020, off the north side of Drury Lane, west of Washington Street. The wall at the right is part of the Golding Block, a/k/a the Erlanger Department Store, at 134 E 5th St, shown with the words "being built" on on an 1887 Sanborn map,
a "contributing property" in the East Liverpool Downtown Historic District, 01000591 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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See our city aggressively overtaken by uncontrolled plantlife: Are all of our city's human residents dying or moving away?, we begin to wonder.

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In downtown Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on August 19th, 2021, at the back of buildings on the south side of Front Street (U.S. 151 Business Route, Wisconsin Highway 33, County Road G, and County Road W), west of South Spring Street.

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Do it BIG AND PRETTY, ye plantae, in spreading "splat" shapes.

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In downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 11th, 2020, the backsides of buildings on the north side of Fort Pitt Boulevard, west of Wood Street, as viewed off the south side of First Avenue, in the Firstside Historic District, 88001215 and 13000248 on the National Register of Historic Places.

Per the 1988 federal nomination form for the historic district, the building with the vines (239-241 Fort Pitt Blvd) is from 1887. The building to the left is from 1900, and the building to the right is from circa 1885.

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A panel door!, white, situated diagonally within its alcove, with two "In" stickers on it.

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In downtown Zanesville, Ohio, on November 28th, 2020, on the south side of Damon Alley, at the back of a commercial building on the west side of South 4th Street between Main Street and South Street.

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The building was built in 1886 as the Whitney and Wilcox Commercial Exchange Bank, and was demolished in 2018. Oh, no!

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In downtown Adrian, Michigan, on October 25th, 2015, at the southeast corner of West Maumee Street and South Winter Street. The building was a "contributing property" to the Downtown Adrian Commercial Historic District, 86000803 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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In downtown Beaumont, Texas, on July 15th, 2014, on the west side of Park Street (U.S. Route 90), north of Forsythe Street.

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Yea the bldg is from 1930 and here it was in 2020. Great!

A chainlink fence's red privacy slats prevent us from seeing the red car parked on the other side of it.

Ah the views of the outdoors afforded to the BLDG'S LUCKY PAST OCCUPANTS by the long-gone upstairs windows.

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In Erie, Pennsylvania, on May 13th, 2020, a warehouse on the west side of French Street, north of East 16th Street.

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"And all over my torso and face!"

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In downtown Kittanning, Pennsylvania, on July 9th, 2020, off the north side of Market Street, west of North McKean Street.

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Also a gated community of air conditioners.

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In downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, on September 15th, 2020, at the rear elevation of the Ad-Lin Building (erected 1896, 87001969 on the National Register of Historic Places), at the southeast corner of Adams Avenue and Linden Street, as viewed from Kessler Court.

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This 1986 report asserts that the Steubenville Banking and Loan Association (SBLA) began operating at this site no later than 1905 (in some other building, not this one), and that this building was "probably" built "slightly later" than 1905 — but that "little" is known about the history of the building.

I think it's possible that this part of the building is actually from 1875, for the following reasons:

• PER MY REVIEW of Burch city directories at the library edition of Ancestry.com, the SBLA was operating at this site by 1899 (i.e., well earlier than 1905).

• MOREOVER, Sanborn fire insurance maps of Steubenville show buildings of the same footprint and layout here (the northeast corner of 3rd and Market) in both April 1900 and December 1913. The building on the 1900 map is labeled "Dougherty Block."

• This plate from 1877 in the David Rumsey Map Collection shows the Dougherty Block with an 1875 datestone. The building is of the same height, and has a similar arrangement of upstairs windows, as the SBLA building.

So maybe there never was a new SBLA building. Maybe the old Dougherty Block just got a new terracotta façade at some point.

If it turns out I'm right, I expect to be rewarded hand$omely $$!

Anyway, I like these old bricks better than the neoclassical pomposity on the other side of the building.

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In downtown Steubenville, Ohio, on July 8th, 2020, at the northeast corner of North 3rd Street and Market Street, in the Steubenville Commercial Historic District (86001877 on the National Register of Historic Places).

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Beautiful summer day!

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In downtown Jeannette, Pennsylvania, on June 30th, 2019, at the northeast corner of Clay Avenue and South 4th Street.

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A building of cars being driven indoors.

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In downtown Cleveland, Ohio, on May 9th, 2020, a parking garage (built in 1925 according to the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer) on the south side of Frankfort Avenue, west of West 6th Street.

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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, a building on the west side of East Avenue, north of 2nd Street.

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In downtown Flint, Michigan, on December 9th, 2018, in an alley west of Brush Alley, north of East 3rd Street.

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