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Bracket
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Row of Windows, Carson Street
A row of more than usually ornate Italianate windows on Carson Street, South Side.
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Brackets
Ornamental brackets on a corner building on Carson Street, South Side.
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Carved Brackets on Carson Street
This doorway could use some fresh paint and a little wood repair, but it would certainly be worth preserving the Victorian carved ornaments.
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Finial
Decoration on the roof of a Victorian building on Carson Street, South Side.
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Victorian Storefronts on Carson Street
A pair of storefronts in a commercial building between 15th and 16th Streets. The decorations are very well preserved—enlarge the picture to see how the ornaments in the carved cornice match the keystones in the flattened arches. Notice also the recessed entrances. Old Pa Pitt is still astonished that we have forgotten the reason for those. The reason is that, if the entrance were flush with the sidewalk, someone leaving the store could swing the door out into a passing pedestrian’s face. This happens more often than we realize in modern storefronts, or old ones that have been modernized, and apparently the reaction each time is “Who could have seen that coming?”—to which the answer is “Any Victorian architect.”
Note the distinctive beehive ornament in the middle of the building that serves as the date stone.
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Victorian Details on Carson Street
Ornamental details on a row of commercial buildings on Carson Street.
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Victorian Commercial Buildings on the Boulevard of the Allies
Among the few human-sized buildings left in the area, these two at the corner of Stanwix Street are dwarfed by the skyscrapers around them. The large windows suggest workshops of some sort on the upper floors; the tasteful ornamentation suggests prosperity.
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Splendidly Victorian
Even on a splendidly Victorian street like Carson Street on the South Side, this building stands out as unusually ornate.
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Front Door on Sarah Street
