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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
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Doggie in the Window: 1908
Washington, D.C., circa 1908. "Harris & Ewing. Exterior, old studio, F Street." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
H&E To Go
Every day at work, I look out on this address from the 13th floor of National Place. The building that replaced this Harris and Ewing studio still has the name engraved in large letters, but is currently Organic to Go, a takeout joint.
Old-School
Interesting to see the horse and wagon reflected in the window.
Dentist
In these old shopfront and street scenes, there's always a dentist sign somewhere, it seems. Really. Why is that?
Electrifying photo
I love the Detroit Electric runabout with tiller steering!
Transport
I wonder if that's Dr. Daly's horseless carriage. And that is a good pose by Nipper! Today, that doggie in the window would be priceless!
Spooked, Too
Those men looking, seemingly, directly through time and across into our view is interesting, in a spooky kind of way. What or who were they seeing? Love those awnings! They really dress up the buildings.
Beady Eyes
I am a bit unnerved by that mustachioed gentleman in the upper left window staring directly at us.
[Look again. - Dave]
Still there
Nice to see it still intact.
[Count the floors. The building as seen in our photo dates to 1924. Below, a brief history. - Dave]
The building is at least 115 years old. Developer Frank Andrews and architect George S. Cooper removed the walls between the two addresses in 1904 and built a rear addition in 1911. Architect S.J. Prescott designed a second addition in 1924.
The Harris & Ewing firm initially rented space here, but Harris bought the building in 1924. After architects Alexander Sonnemann and Louis Justement renovated the building and dressed it in four stories of limestone, President Calvin Coolidge attended the reopening and sat for the first portrait in the new studio.
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