Uncovering architectural details lost to layering | May is National Historic Preservation Month
The kitchen floor when we moved into our house, was covered in flaking linoleum, which I took off. Underneath was original pine wood flooring, which in a way had been preserved from being covered.
There are reports that people are taking on DIY projects, since they are shut in by the coronavirus ("How Coronavirus Has Made Us All Very Handy," New York Times).
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop reports that City Hall floors covered in linoleum hid beautiful original tile (it needed to be buffed up to show its beauty).
Similarly, in England, Kate Cowher's bathroom project uncovered Edwardian era tiling.
posted by Richard Layman @ 2:19 PM&Permanent Link
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Not sure if you've seen this series:
https://www.popville.com/tag/archeological-finds/
I have no idea who did the fire alarm station "preservation" but it is pretty cool.
Bloomingdales/LeDroit park so nice! I've only gone there on foot through Rhode Island which is depressing. So nice when cutting through Howard.
nope. thanks. I don't normally look at Popville...
Yes, those neighborhoods are amazing.
Checking out random blocks shows so much vernacular beauty.
Bloomingdale is lucky in that they have a lot of 3 story buildings. And LeDroit Park has a bunch of buildings that seem to have been drawn on the designs of Andrew Jackson Downing.
Fire alarm boxes project = CulturalTourismDC.
My only problem with it was that it was time limited and extranormal assistance wasn't provided to those neighborhoods possessing less social and community capital.
Neighborhoods with able capable people managed to apply for the funds, create and execute a program.
The neighborhoods without that (e.g., H Street, etc.) ended up without a program.
(Similarly, DDOT should have funded capacity building for information and art projects in bus shelters. Instead, pretty much only BIDs managed to produce directories and such to place in them.)
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