Posted May 22, 201411 yr Today I felt like taking a picture of the Franklin County Courthouse. Here is an erratic journey to the courthouse and then up towards Clintonville to get a final look at a doomed school. I started walking until the C-Bus Circulator picked me up and carried me until I decided to exit near the Statehouse. Oh, and Mr. Burnham sucked at designing cities, but he was amazing at designing structures: (Wyandotte Building, 1898) Yes, I know the Courthouse is the other way, but first I had some coffee at Cafe Brioso, and then went east on Gay Street. (Law & Finance Building, 1927) Corner of Fourth and Broad. This is around the start of the evening rush hour out of downtown. Most of downtown Columbus is still set up for allowing cars to leave as quick as possible. some fancy brickwork... old church (Old Post Office/US Courthouse, 1887) listen closely, and you'll hear the echoes of thousands of bricks screaming as they are destroyed Schlee-Kemmler, the 1895 stone structure in Columbus is five stories, Pittsburgh has a similar one with 9...(maybe that means Pittsburgh is the fahrenheit to the celsius of Columbus) Franklin County Courthouse. Ugggh... Columbus' corinthian cocoa colored, continued, County Courthouse columns. I shot the courthouse, but I did not see the deputy. Okay, this one is out of order, but I forgot to place it in my last thread and of course I start heading towards Clintonville by going south from the Courthouse... yet another historic German neighborhood in Ohio... I really should be going the other way, especially as the weather forecast is heavy storms for the next few hours. Somehow the storm split and went around the city entirely though. rails residential bricks, yay go east, and eventually you'll get to Parsons Ave. time to take the number 7 away from here... ...now we are north of OSU, and will walk the last mile or two. and stop to look at detailed patio fences and look at bricks and more bricks Hail Seitan. Now we are in Clintonville, which has more vegan-power than the entire city of AustinTX from my observations. I got ninety-nine problems, but the non-functional external windows shutters falling off are not one... Hello, Clinton School Annex. I don't understand the need to take this building down. ...and no, we didn't just magically appear in St. Louis, there are turtle sculptures here too.
May 22, 201411 yr That's one handsome building they're about to wreck. Pathetic. I'm sure the builder of the replacement structure will eschew the virtues of LEEd design and on and on. Never mind the embodied energy that already exists in the current place, or the cost and energy to take it down.
May 22, 201411 yr Well done. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 22, 201411 yr This building would not be replaced -- the replacement is the complete renovation and tasteful addition of the adjacent main building. I'd like to see it renovated, but it's not so simple. Read my blog post about it: http://bwilli910.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/clinton-township-high-school-a-tough-call/
May 24, 201411 yr why does that school rate a nice addition when the rest of ohio gets their entire school bldgs torn down for those hideous cookie cutter bldgs? is it private or parochial?
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