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It is probably unfair to throw all of these in a single despicable category, but the abuses in the last 40 years are so egregious that only a complete moratorium on all mansard roofs will suffice to still the repulsion of most architects. A mansard roof is unusually a full story of a building masquerading [...]
I have written in the past about the efforts to save the Loveland Feed and Grain building. Novo Restoration, the group trying to save the building, sponsored some tours inside the building this last weekend and I took the opportunity to climb through this hulk, dragging my kids along for the ride. The building was [...]
In Colorado and much of the Rocky Mountain West, the welcoming signs at the arrival of every town proudly or perhaps matter-of-factly, announce the most important attribute of the settlement: its height above sea level. In the midwest and, at least in my recollection, most towns across the nation, the introductory boundary sign of a [...]
As a bit of a follow up to a post from last year on the small village chapels in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado, I recently took a trip down to the Sangre de Cristo mountains. This range is in southern Colorado and makes the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley. On [...]