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The fall season is seen in the changing color of the leaves along W. 2nd Street on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
The fall season is seen in the changing color of the leaves along W. 2nd Street on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
The fall season is seen in the changing color of the leaves along W. 2nd Street on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
The fall season is seen in the changing color of the leaves along W. 2nd Street on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was a Wells Fargo bank branch at the northeast corner of West 2nd Street and South Marion Street.
The building was built in 1966 and was formerly a Norwest Bank branch. Based on its design (with a drive-through), I am confident the building has always been a bank branch, but I do not know what the bank's name was in 1966.
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Next, the concrete blocks were painted, again and again and again, over the course of several decades.
The building is from 1948, but these concrete blocks were probably added later, right? Like sometime between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, right?
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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was an exterior wall at an Enterprise car rental business at 302 W 2nd St, at the southwest corner of West 2nd Street and South Marion Street.
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This might end up being one of my favorite walls. I don't know yet!
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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was an exterior wall at the Hofmann Building (10001085 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of West 2nd Street and South Market Street.
The building was built in 1941 but the tiles were added later, covering a window.
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All my memories come flooding back everytime I see it: the Quebec independence referendum, the Bombay-Mumbai renaming, the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, on and on, the Unabomber Manifesto.
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In downtown Zumbrota, Minnesota, on September 2nd, 2023, at the Zumbrota Public Library off the northwest corner of West 2nd Street and West Avenue.
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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, at the southeast corner of Perry Street and West 2nd Street.
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The former BB&T Financial Center soars 340 feet (100 m) into outer space, and is unlikely ever again to be fully occupied with tenants. The endeavor was a regrettable waste of resources that has led us nowhere good. This should not have been built.
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the former BB&T Financial Center (built in 1987 as One Triad Park, later briefly known as the Southern National Financial Center; designed by Hammill-Walter Associates) at the southwest corner of North Liberty Street and West 2nd Street, as viewed from the southeast corner of West 2nd Street and North Main Street.
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I feel that the front of the concrete overhang should have a horizontal row of globular light fixtures across it. But I suppose this would be more expensive than anybody is willing to pay.
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, at The Retreat Hair & Nail Studio, located in commercial space in the Liberty Plaza parking ramp (built in 1974 as the NCNB [North Carolina National Bank] Parking Deck, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of Town Run Lane NW and West 2nd Street.
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Here we have "pre-cast concrete panels with an irregular fenestration pattern" joined with a windowless wall of "blond brick veneer," according to the building's entry in the federal documentation of the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District.
In my opinion "blond" suggests a yellower color than this. I prefer to describe the brick veneer as "light brown."
To call this a "hall of justice" is to assert that perfection has been achieved in the administration of justice therein. The name is loaded with preemptive defiance of earnest public questioning as to whether a given outcome represents actual justice; and mocks the victims of miscarriages of justice that have occurred there. It would be better (i.e., more humble) to call it a "courthouse."
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Forsyth County Hall of Justice (built 1974-1975, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of West 2nd Street and North Main Street.
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In a real estate listing from 2017, I found a funny picture of the building with a Wells Fargo sign on it.
Most online sources say the building is from 1927. The official documentation of the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District from 2019 says it's from 1928, and I found a post in a local history enthusiasts' chatgroup on Facebook that says it "was ready for occupancy on June 1, 1928..."
I have DECIDED TO BELIEVE it's from 1928.
Speaking of local history enthusiasts' chatgroups on Facebook: If these local history enthusiasts wanna retain access to their pictures and documents and discussions for many many years into the future, they need to duplicate it all and put it somewhere that isn't Facebook. Facebook could decide to shut down at any moment! It's not a reliable home for literally anything! Sheesh!, my gosh!
Relative to the other sides of the building, this side (the south side) has much less neoclassical ornamentation, but it's still too much. The tower has a clock which I have intentionally hidden from you.
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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the Davenport Bank and Trust building (known until 1932 as the American Commercial and Savings Bank building; designed by the Weary and Alford Company; 83002395 and 16000249 on the National Register of Historic Places; also a "contributing property" in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District, 100005546 on the National Register of Historic Places; partially converted to apartments in 2012) on the southwest corner of West 3rd Street and Main Street, as viewed from the southwest corner of West 2nd Street and Main Street.
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A view of charging stations on Electric Drive, a portion of West 2nd Street, between Walter Seaholm Drive and Sandra Muraida Way, that is Austin Energy's showcase for electric transportation in Austin’s new Seaholm EcoDistrict.
Electric Drive is a mobility hub that features bike sharing, car sharing, access to the hike-and-bike trail, and charging options for two- and four wheel electric vehicles (EVs). It is a key component of Austin Energy's Plug-In EVerywhere network and demonstrates Austin as a Smart City leader in electric transportation. Plug-In EVerywhere allows EV drivers to charge at 1000+ charging ports throughout Austin for only $4.17 a month.
Straight ahead is the iconic City of Austin Power Plant sign outside the Seaholm Power Plant, a historic former power station located on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in Downtown Austin. Opened in 1951, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
The plant remained an active part of the city’s power generation system until 1989. Re-development of the plant began in 2013. The interior of the turbine generator building was converted to a mixture of office, retail and restaurant space, with tenants occupying the facility beginning in 2015.
I think the green horror in the tree is invasive Euonymus fortunei, a/k/a winter creeper.
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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, at the northwest corner of Perry Street and West 2nd Street.
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• Yea, 1936 per the Defiance County Auditor's property search website
• It has been the Crescent-News building this whole time, per Defiance city directories at ancestrylibrary.com.
• Voilà!
Jesus Christ this town I tell ya: Ya step over here a few paces off the main drag through downtown and suddenly the City loses all interest in prettifying the streetlights: Strictly utilitarian!
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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, The Crescent-News at the northeast corner of West 2nd Street and Perry Street.
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I was born in 1964 and it hurts my feelings to see the datestone in such a condition of filth and deterioration!
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In downtown Dayton, Ohio, on October 12th, 2019, outside the Montgomery County Courts Building at the southwest corner of North Perry Street and West 2nd Street.
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"It was yet another horrible year!"
It is weird to see five parking meters so close together!!
According to the City of Jamestown "Online Assessment Roll System," the parking ramp was actually finished in 2005. That's how datestones work: The construction is jinxed from the start by premature memorialization of the year the project is begun. It is a stupid way of doing things!
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In downtown Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, at the southwest corner of North Main Street and West 2nd Street.
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If the missing letter were in their possession they'd probably hang it back up but I bet they don't have it.
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In downtown Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, the offices of The Post Journal at the southeast corner of West 2nd Street and Cherry Street, built in 1949 as a Sears store, which moved to a shopping mall in 1970.
According to this book the glazed bricks and Cor-Ten steel beams were added in the 1970s.
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I was all excited to see glazed bricks from the late 1940s, but this book says they were added in the 1970s, along with the Cor-Ten steel beams — the runoff from which is causing damage to the glazed bricks!!
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In downtown Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, outside the offices of The Post Journal at the southeast corner of West 2nd Street and Cherry Street, built in 1949 as a Sears store, which moved to a shopping mall in 1970.
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