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12-story residential building completed in 1907. Designed by Fred Eberling as a store-and-lofts building, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a ground floor lined with storefronts and a rusticated limestone 2nd floor. The windows are organized into bays of three, recessed between the piers.
The Silk Building ,12-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1909. Designed by Clinton & Russell as an office building. It was converted to condominiums in 1982.
Looking Downtown along 7th Avenue at West 4th Street in the Village
A Con Ed Steam vent on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village
On Mercer and West 4th Street, in the West Village, Lower Manhattan. (Spring Cafe Aspen is an organic food and juice bar.)
"The installation of permanent advertisements for real estate development firms is the kind of distasteful display of power and self-congratulation that people would expect to flourish in the United States. Hardly anybody will be happy about it. Let's do it!"
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, "One West Fourth" (an office tower built 2000-2002) at the northwest corner of West 4th Street and North Main Street.
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Personally I would have chosen to commemorate the year of the successful completion of the building, rather than the year of an idea to start building a building. I wish the builders of the past thought like I think today.
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, an addition to the former Forsyth County Courthouse (built 1959-1960, 13000205 on the National Register of Historic Places, converted to an apartment building named the "50 West Fourth Residences" in 2015) at the northwest corner of North Main Street and West 3rd Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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At the base of a tower at Davenport City Hall, 1895 is announced by Berea Sandstone, quarried in Ohio, formed during the Famennian stage (~372.2 to ~358.9 million years ago) of the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era, long before 1895.
Has there ever been a person named Berea Sandstone. It's a good name.
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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, at Davenport City Hall (built 1894-1895; designed by John W. Ross; 82002639 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) at the northeast corner of West 4th Street and Harrison Street (U.S. 61 Business Route).
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"Perché vorresti dirlo? L'edificio è sgraziato."
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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Pepper Building (built 1928, 12000263 on the National Register of Historic Places; historically occupied by a department store and offices; occupied since 2019 by the "Hotel Indigo Winston-Salem Downtown, an IHG Hotel") at the southwest corner of North Liberty Street and West 4th Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to satellite imagery on Googe Earth [sic], the addition at the nearest corner (immediately behind the dumpster, blocking the "Pepper Building" painted sign) was completed in 2018 or 2019.
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["Sweet Jesus! What a beautiful building!"] / ["Why would you say that? The building is ungainly."]
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I still remember the windows it once had.
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In Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the backside of 1029 W 4th St as viewed from an alley east of Myrtle Street.
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Out here inspecting and admiring the local stoplights with their oversized reds.
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In Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, West 4th Street as viewed to the east from the southwest corner of its intersection with Warren Street.
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West 4th Street, Greenwich Village, NYC, 1982
Canon AE-1, scan from Tri-X
Embrace the shitty light.
Seen through a chain link fence, players warm up in the West 4th St Courts (aka The Cage) in Greenwich Village.
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Taken in 2012.
The West 4th Street subway station in Greenwich Village.
