Not Snout House Duplex Portland 2
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These houses meet Portland's anti snout house ordinance. The Garages are set back and the houses have porches. Note the step rise in the middle of the too shallow porch. It transforms a marginally useful porch into an utterly useless one. The residents respond by hanging out on the side patio rather than the porch. Clearly this ordinance did not legislate good design.
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George Cornell House (c. 1840), 114 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York
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originally was east half of duplex with Greek Revival design identical to No. 108 to the right • remodeled in Romanesque Revival style (c. 1887) by new owner, publisher and Gettysburg veteran Brig. Gen. Alfred Cutler Barnes (1842-1904) • later became headquarters of Brooklyn Women's Club, recently converted to co-op apartments • Brooklyn Heights Historic District, National Register of Historic Places #66000524, 1966
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A larger Dutch Colonial in Yakima, Washington, apparently now a duplex.
Nuvo Construction... (Part 4)
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GROUND FLOOR STUDIO SPACE... My studio is designed a bit differently than the one featured in the show home.
I have a row of windows as opposed to french doors. I also think that this area is a bit larger than the duplex version of my layout. Nevertheless, this will be a nice area where I can have my easels setup - with plenty of natural light from the outside.
Charleston, King Street, William Enston Homes
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Charleston, William Enston Homes, c.1888. Photo taken August 2008.
This was an early attempt to establish endowed public housing for the elderly in a village like setting. This was one of the first examples of municipal participation in the establishment of public housing in America. It was also an example of the experiments first put forward during the Great London Exhibition at the Chrystal Palace in the 1850's. Prince Albert was one of the proponents of the concept which found its way into communities all over Britian and Ireland before finding supporters of similar planned communities in the US and Canada.
This planned community designed for the elderly was constructed according to a master plan that took over 100 years to build out. Its first phase was completed before 1890. When it began, this was very near the limit of what would have been called a streetcar suburb. The second phase of similar buildings was constructed in the 1920's. The third and final phase was not completed until 2006, long after public transportation as a viable means of getting around had been almost totally abandoned. It is not without some irony that a fixed rail transportation system for the region, if implimented, would begin very near this now very centrally located neighborhood.
Though similar in size and shape, there are obvious differences in the original quadraplexes of the 1880's and the duplexes of 2006. This does prove the value of a reconstruction, or at least the employment of what some might call retro architecture, is more about validating the needs and desires of the end user than it is about validating the architect.
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