#row house

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026.

Prospect Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn.

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Buick

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I reblogged that post about how stores and cafes should sell shitty local art, and today I finished an example of shitty local art!! This magnificent specimen of shitty amateur art got its start when a well-meaning neighbor gifted me a stretched canvas with some word art on it for Christmas, and I thought: "not my thing." I've been salivating over pictures of row houses for a while now, and thought I would use the canvas to bring my own little row of houses into being.

This took me all my art time for January. ONE MONTH baby! Awesome rate of art production, so proud of myself.

Here are some close-ups. See the windows on the gray house to the left? I freehanded those. The blue windows on the center house are perfect squares and rectangles because I dipped a Lego in paint and used it as a stencil.

The gray and brown houses are fabric. The center house is cardstock.

I painted the top third of the canvas for the sky, and painted in the tree. I've done about a dozen of those "how to paint" tutorials on YouTube (JoonyArt shoutout!) and used those techniques to paint this tree.

See the roof tile half-circles on the lavender house on the left? That's the lid of a pen dipped in paint. I'm all about random home items as stencils. Then I got tired of using that and freehanded the rest of the half-circle roof tiles.

And note the lawns -- those are pieces of fabric that I fused to the canvas. I used Heat'n'Bond and an iron. I tried a glue stick, but I don't trust glue sticks to hold long-term. The lines on the pavement are drawn with black ink and then shaded with pencil.

Anyway, I had a great time making this. My favorite thing is that it's mixed media. Paint with a brush, fabric, scrapbooking cardstock, paint markers, pencil. This is probably my most MIXED mixed media, as other projects are mostly fabric with a little bit of paint.

It's going up on my wall. No one gets to sell my shitty amateur art to a tourist. 😁 😁

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Five Patio Houses, Stocklenweg, Meilen, Switzerland - THINK Architecture

https://www.thinkarchitecture.ch/

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Nathan and Elizabeth Parallel Scenes Aesthetic

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Polly had discovered long ago that if you opened a certain little door in the box-room attic of her house you would find the cistern and a dark place behind it which you could get into by a little careful climbing.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" - C. S. Lewis

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Architectural Finds, 06/25/2023

Today's walk was short, I was just going in to DoBro to get some things from target but of course I had to stop and take some pictures along the way. Here are some architectural highlights from the walk there.

First were these row-houses along Fulton St, and this cool corner window aspect that the end house had.

Built 1882.

Located at 664-674 Fulton St, these seemed like they were all the same architect save for the third house in at 668 which looked like it been rebuilt at some point or maybe covered with a brick facade.

You can see some of the rusting from the old Cast-Iron facade that was cutting edge technology in the day in the second picture.

Another row of houses that caught my eye were this row of brownstones with their beautiful ornamentation around the door frames. This is right around the corner at 109-117 S Elliot Pl.

I have no way of knowing if they were all built by the same owners originally as I cant seem to find any records for them online :/, but they were likely built around the turn of the last century 1890-1910 when this style of building was commonly constructed. It was likely that they were built by separate owners/architects, as their ornamental stone decorations aren't all exactly the same.

Moving on, A CHURCH! That's right I love a good ornate church and this one surely delivered. Just look at that gothic stone articulation above the entrance! Its so organic looking, it sends shivers down my spine just looking at it and I want to sink my teeth into it all in one.

Built in 1931 to the tune of the Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church, and today it sits abandoned, boarded up, and full of black mold.

The overall shape of the building is so interesting it has so much going on with its MASSIVE brick pillar motifs, likely intended to vertically gesture up toward the creator.

One source describes it as "Gothic restyled in modern dress, an exercise in massing brick and tan terracotta that might be called cubistic Art Moderne."

Someone with more theological architectural background could go further in depth than I can on it I'm sure, but it's always exciting to see the passionate attention to detail that a good cathedral has in it's architecture.

Next I don't know if I love this one but I just wanted to shout it out as having a BIG clock face! Like that thing is so high upppp it must be 100 feet in diameter!

Without even looking it up I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say this is maybe Brooklyn City Hall, or another government building??? It resembles the thing they're doing in all of the governing buildings I've seen up in Albany.

I don't particularly like this architectural style its boring and chunky in my opinion, but I have to say its not the ugliest thing I've seen. I respect the sense of radial symmetry its upper terraces and flanks suggest, and cmon you cant knock that clock.

(update: it's a bank building)

Second to last, we have this red & black beauty. Love the Greek-Revival pediments on each wing of the building as well as the renaissance revival inclusions in the carved cords/ribbons hanging in between the pilasters.

After some research, this seems to be an old Schoolhouse built in 1892 that has unfortunately since been absorbed by the ultra-modern townhouse on the end of the street at 81 Hanson Pl and transformed into a massive painting studio/home by painter David Salle. Wish I could find more info on the original schoolhouse tho :/

(Second photo ripped from google images)

HONORABLE MENTION: Caught this Mansard Roof moment on my way into the subway station and oof, tug at my heartstrings this is cute.

Across the street from the dream studio/abomination this guy sits pretty at 83 Hanson Pl and is the only brownstone on the block with a cute hat (mansard roof).

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The Painted Ladies of Charles Village - Baltimore, Maryland. by Kevin B. Moore