Summit Street

Damn, there are so many amazing buildings in Detroit. C. Howard Crane also designed the STL Fox Theatre. It is slightly smaller, but it has the same level of awe as his Detroit version.

Looks like an awesome place.

Maybe another year. For this adventure I stayed in Texas.

No...Franklin County is 1,378 square KMs, which is about 532 square miles.

Port Arthur, Texas Population ~53,000 (67,000 in 1960) Grew out of the southeast Texas oil discovery in 1901. The Sabine Hotel (1929) is vacant, as is most of the entire downtown. From what I have read, it needs an investor soon, or could face demolition. ____________________________________ Beaumont, Texas Population ~118,000 (~119,000 in 1960) metro ~375,000 From what I have discovered, Beaumont is possibly the only city in east Texas that does not have any vacant Art Deco towers. Orleans Building (1925)- Hotel Beaumont (1922)- Jefferson Theater(1927)- Tyrrell Historical Library (First Baptist Church-1903) Julie Rogers Theater (City Hall 1928)- Jefferson County Courthouse (1931)- San Jacinto Building (with clock tower) (year unknown)- Goodhue Building (1927)- Crockett Street. One side is full of contributing buildings, and across is a giant automobile-parking lot. It appears this block is the entertainment district- Edison Plaza (and within, a museum dedicated to Thomas Edison even though he never visited Beaumont...) (1982)- Largest functional fire hydrant in the world… Edison Hotel (1928)- (The towers may not be vacant, but plenty of the other structures are)

Here are some Texas County Courthouses that I have collected. I have only about a tenth of all them, and have no desire to actually visit the entire set, but there are totally some good ones in the state. I think my favorites are the ones James Riely Gordon made before 1900. There are also several good ones that have been demolished. This isn't in any specific order...and does anyone else have any more TX Courthouses? (Special thanks to the 254texascourthouses.net site as a way to reference which counties have ones worth seeing, and which aren't worth the trouble to go much out of the way.) Wharton - Wharton County: Eugene T. Heiner (original 1889, altered, and restored in 2007) Georgetown - Williamson County: Charles H. Page, 1910 Victoria - Victoria County: James Riely Gordon, 1892 Tyler - Smith County: 1954 Livingston - Polk County: 1923 (McLelland and Fink) Waco - McClellan County: James Riely Gordon, 1902 La Grange - Fayette County: James Riely Gordon, 1891 Hallettsville - Lavaca County: Eugene T. Heiner, 1897 Giddings - Lee County: James Riely Gordon, 1898 Beaumont - Jefferson County: 1931 (Fred Stone and A. Babin) Marshall - Harrison County: James Riely Gordon, 1901 Hillsboro - Hill County: 1890, W.C. Dodson Goliad - Goliad County: 1894, Henry E.M. Guidon Gonzales - Gonzales County: James Riely Gordon, 1894 Longview - Gregg County: 1932, Voelcker and Dixon Seguin - Guadalupe County: 1935, L.M Wirtz and Harold Calhoun Waxahachie - Ellis County: James Riely Gordon, 1897 San Antonio - Bexar County: James Riely Gordon, 1892 Angleton - Brazoria County: 1940, Lamar Q. Cato Rusk - Cherokee County: 1941-WPA, Gill and Bennett Cuero - DeWitt County: 1896, Arthur O. Watson New Braunfels - Comal County: James Riely Gordon, 1898 Dallas - Dallas County: 1891, Orlopp and Kusener Houston - Harris County: 1910, Charles Erwin Barglebaugh Denton - Denton County: 1896, W.C. Dodson Fort Worth - Tarrant County: 1893, Gunn and Curtiss

Galveston, Texas Ashbel Smith Building (1891, Nicholas J. Clayton) Bishop's Palace (1887 or 1893, Nicholas J. Clayton) Grand 1894 Opera House (1894, Frank Cox?) Jean Lafitte Hotel (1927, Andrew Fraser) US National Bank Building (1924, Alfred Bossom) Medical Arts Building (1912, Andrew Fraser) One Moody Plaza (1972) (358 feet, tallest building in downtown) One Shearn Moody Plaza (1932, E.A. Harrison) Post Office/Federal Courthouse (1937, Alfred C. Finn) Ashton Villa (1859) The Trade Winds / The Beach Club (2007, both 382 feet) Hey, I think I found what helped inspired the design of that tower: First Presbyterian Church (1872, Nicholas J. Clayton) Ending it with another of the Ashbel Smith, because it deserves it…

Which do you mean, the loggers or the protesters?

Amsterdam, New York Population: ~18000 (~35000 in 1930) In Montgomery County, but not the seat. Settled by the Dutch, and later grew big from manufacturing and sitting along the Erie Canal. ______________________________ Auburn, New York Seat of Cayuga County Population ~28000 (~36,000 in 1930) City Hall…When it started raining, like really hard…so I left. (Because of the rain, I didn't get to finish, and missed a few historic sites. Harriet Tubman houses, a wicked awesome looking prison just outside of downtown, and a few churches of note.) _________________________ So here is a a bonus, quick revisit of Springfield, Massachusetts Hampden County Courthouse. 1871-HH Richardson, with Shepley adding to it later on… (I still haven't figured out exactly which parts are HHR, and which were his apprentice's)

Why is the address considered on E. Fourth? It looks to me like the actual entrances and the front of the structure will be along Mt. Pleasant. Also, is that a garage on the ground level of the furthest left (northern most along Mt. Pleasant) unit? I don't believe I have ever seen something like that anywhere before, with a garage cut out of the side...they even have the windows continuing along just like it is a human area.

Gloversville, NY Population ~15,000 (~25,000 in 1950) Within Fulton County, at the edge of the Adirondack Mountains. Close enough to the Capital District that an interurban line (The Fonda, Johnstown, and Gloversville Railroad) connected them to Schenectady until 1936. The area made almost all the gloves in the country here about a hundred years ago. Johnstown, NY Fulton County Seat Population ~8,500 Fulton County Courthouse (1773):

Not as urban as I expected. 8-)

I think Pigboy is too busy making maps of 'Ohio as a piano' or random colorful lines around the Boston area. Some of his photos are still on his galleries at http://www.flickr.com/photos/awwoodruff/

Nice! A rail would have been awesome for me today... COTA buses were really tardy.

This is fun... 26 people just got on the bus at my stop. (#2)

Aurora is within Portage County.

221 S. High is gone.

Yay!

The graphic in reply #116 shows an outline of a box that only extends part of the way towards Elm. Columbo also shows a map that designates north of that area to be owned by a different entity.

Is there anything yet that actually shows whether the new building stretches to Elm? Nothing I've read has suggested that to be true.

Airlines are this way too.

If we want pedestrians to be considered safe in a crosswalk, then why make a law that disregards the whole concept of a 'Walk light' having safe-crossing status?

It seems they first noticed a tree in 1870, and still haven't figured out how it is there. They can't even completely figure out which kind of tree it is, but the last study by Purdue said it is a Mulberry tree.

If the Heidelberg project hasn't been completely destroyed by arsons yet, it would be a fun thing to check out. Beyond that, there are a lot of awesome looking buildings downtown to look at.

My understanding of this thing is that it when the traffic turning needs to clear the intersection as red comes, they are allowed to go. (Instead of staying in the intersection and 'blocking the box.') I think it is still illegal to run a red light, so this wouldn't really be too different. /// For those of us that are use crosswalks while the Walk sign is on, and still get hit by non-attentive drivers turning (with a green light), yes that is putting us in jeopardy. I've been hit, and seen others hit too many times. If the vast majority thinks that is acceptable, then this is a situation when the majority shouldn't be allowed to have the decision.