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Boyce Elementary / High School School, Boyce, LA. Completed in 1927 it replaced the previous school building located where the water tower now stands. The school building started as an elementary school, but in 1971 became the town's high school. In 1974, the school saw its last graduating class and shuttered its doors shortly after. The building fell into decline. Parts of the original building still exist and have been repurposed as the town hall and the utilities department of Boyce.

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Abandoned House, New Orleans, La. The FEMA markings form an X shape, with four blocks to be written in. The top block shows the date that the house was checked. The left block is signed by the task force that inspected the house. In the right quadrant are special instructions, anything from "Gas Off" to "F/W" (food and water left) to any pets or other issues the houses might have had. The bottom block records how many people were found in the house. Often, the solitary number counts those who have died. But sometimes, the block contains two numbers, one with an A ("alive"), another with a D ("dead").The markings were drawn by task forces deployed to New Orleans in the aftermath of the levee breach. Despite being spray-painted on the exteriors of houses, and despite the resurgence parts of New Orleans have seen since, the Xs are still visible around town.  [NOLA Curbed]

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City Skyline, Dayton, OH. Unlike many Midwestern cities its age, Dayton has very broad and straight downtown streets (generally two or three full lanes in each direction) that improved access to the downtown even after the automobile became popular. The main reason for the broad streets was that Dayton was a marketing and shipping center from its beginning; streets were broad to enable wagons drawn by teams of three to four pairs of oxen to turn around. Also, some of today's streets were once barge canals flanked by draw-paths. Dayton's two tallest buildings are the Kettering Tower at 408 ft and the KeyBank Tower at 385 ft. Kettering Tower was originally Winters Tower, the headquarters of Winters Bank. The building was renamed after Virginia Kettering when Winters was merged into Bank One. KeyBank Tower was known as the MeadWestvaco Tower before KeyBank gained naming rights to the building in 2008. [Wikipedia]

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Weller Avenue Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, LA. 

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Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Dayton, OH. The field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The 84-acre patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the difficult and sometimes dangerous task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots. Many early aircraft records were set by the Wrights at the Huffman Prairie. In this field the brothers perfected their flight skills in the Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical airplane. [Wikipedia]

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Natchez, MS

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John R. Taylor Drugstore, New Iberia, LA. The drugstore's corner location provides an opportunity for a recessed corner entrance, as well as for two of the building's exterior walls to be styled. The resulting design is meant to be viewed from a three-quarter angle. The two styled walls are composed of glazed white brick, while the rear wall is a less expensive plain brick. The structure's fourth side consists of a party wall shared with the building next door. 

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Aloft Hotels, Houston, TX. The Stowers Building is a building named for G. A. Stowers Furniture Company and George Arthur Stowers, who developed the property for its retail store in 1913 at the corner of Fannin and Walker streets in downtown Houston. The architecture firm of Green & Finger composed its structure from reinforced concrete, clad the building in white brick, and capped it with a pressed metal cornice. Drawing some of its inspiration from the Chicago style, the facades are rectangular, with pilasters defining vertical bay structures, with seven of these vertical modules facing south and five modules facing east to the Fannin side. As of 2016, the Stowers Building was under the ownership and management of Trend Hospitality, a hotel operator with an agreement to brand the facility with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, a division of Marriott International. It named the Hotel Aloft, one of two in Houston. [Wikipedia]