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Category Archive: places
Colfax Avenue runs east-west through Denver, Colorado and is an approximately 26 mile journey from the eastern plains through the heart of the city westward to the base of the mountains. Starting out as US Highway 40, it was the main entry into Denver from the east until the interstate highway system displaced its welcoming [...]
I recently attending some sessions of the Colorado Preservation Inc.’s Saving Places 2012 Conference. As usual with these things there are plenty of educational sessions that you can geek-out on various preservation topics, from process-heavy advice for preservation commissions to very technical analysis of window retrofitting techniques. For me the most interesting event was the [...]
An astute client pointed out that the magnificent house on Green Rock Drive, the Menkick House, by Charles Haertling, is up for sale. Completed in 1970, the Menkick House is among Haertling’s finest works and ranks alongside his Volsky House, Benton House and Willard House as one of the finest examples of late Modernist Organic [...]
I have finally gotten around to processing some more film from a very rewarding trip to the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado last year. I will certainly be going back there again this year, later in the Spring when the heavy snows have past but before the major snowmelt swells all the local [...]
a photographic ode to the grain elevator I I have written in the past about silos and grain elevators and the attraction of the their stark, pure forms dominating the midwest landscape. A couple of hundred years ago, English gentlemen would race their horses to the next church steeple poking its head above the lanscape, [...]
Housing construction has been in the dumps in the last few years. This means that not only the large, market developer home builders are out of work, but so are the small general contractors and all the associated trades – plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. Things are pretty dire but they do seem to be picking [...]
As I have talked about in a couple of recent posts on the flatness of the Midwest, a simple building standing in that relentlessly horizontal landscape is a powerful, singular moment. This is even more apparent when it is a church, rising upward to heaven, a determinedly vertical building contrasting the vast horizon. Unlike other [...]
On a narrow spit of land, at the confluence of two mighty rivers, lies ancient Cairo. Not the one in Africa, with pyramids and camels, rather the one along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, Cairo, Illinois. Cairo has seen better days, the 1920 population of 15,000 having dropped below 3,000 souls. Once a shipping center [...]