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- 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
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
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Castle of Commerce: 1905
Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "Chamber of Commerce." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Flour and Grain Exchange Building
One of my favorites.
+108
Below is the same view from June of 2013.
Xmas Bow
The building always had a big red ribbon and bow around it during the holidays. I bet it still does.
De Gustibus
I know that there cam be no disputes about taste, but I must say that, to me, this building is somewhat hideous and a whole lot funny. Just sayin.
Goodbye Central Artery
For the better part of half a century, the old elevated Central Artery - 6 overhead lanes of dirty, noisy, interstate highway, bisecting the City of Boston from Chinatown to the North End and cutting the waterfront off altogether from the rest of downtown - ran right behind this building (just about where the "Retail Grocers Association" building is located in the photograph). It was so close, you could look inside the windows of the offices in the building as you crawled along the Artery, watching people talking on the phone. Thankfully, the Artery is gone, the highway is now underground (the Big Dig project), and as I sit here in my office on the other side of the former Artery, I have a clear, unobstructed view of one of the 10 best buildings in all of Boston.
It looks just like
a five-year-old's party hat. All it needs is an elastic chin strap.
Art as Architecture
If ever art was architecture and architecture was art, this is a perfect example. It's great for Boston, and the world, that it's still around.
Gorgeous
What a great old building. And very encouraging that it still stands. I worked in downtown Boston in the early 90s and I am sure I passed by this building many times, but I am surprised, and somewhat chagrined that I don't recall it. Thanks to Shorpy I get a second chance.
Diminished
Somehow Google Street View just doesn't do it justice the way the old view cameras could. Beautiful building!
The "L"
That elevated track on the left has got to be the old Atlantic Avenue "L." It would be torn down for scrap 35 years later.
Survivor
Richardsonian Romanesque at its Finest
This very "Richardsonian" building got its inheritance straight from the source: it was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors to H. H. Richardson's architectural practice. It was built in 1890-1892 (even though the date over the door says 1891) and was originally called the Flour and Grain Exchange.
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