I saw the Beer Can House on the History Channel today. I had never heard of it. Houston doesn’t have any zoning laws.
Category: Architecture
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Main Building
MICA is located north of downtown Baltimore. I took photography classes there in the 1970s and learned how to develop film and print pictures.
Baltimore Building of the Week: Maryland Institute College of Art Main Building
Historic Homes of Baltimore on the Sellers Mansion (demolished 2/24/23)
Historic Homes of Baltimore on Instagram and Baltimore Heritage on YouTube both do a great job on Baltimore architecture.
It was destroyed by fire on 2/24/23.
White Tower architecture
White Tower Hamburgers was a restaurant chain that was founded in 1926. There is only one left. Here are pictures of the old buildings. Here’s an article from RoadsideArchitecture.com.
Architects Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour wrote a book about the buildings, White Towers, that was originally published in 1979. It was reissued in 2007. I have a paperback copy of the first edition
White Towers Revisited was an exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. I saw it and thought it was excellent. Here are two articles on the exhibit.
Penn exhibit revisits White Tower fast-food chain
AIA Baltimore & Baltimore Architecture Foundation: Baltimore Deco: Architectural Optimism in the Interwar Years
Pascault Row – Baltimore
Pascault Row is a group of 1891 townhouses about a mile from where I live. I have passed by it many times and it looks great.
I recommend following historichomesofbaltimore on Instagram. I also recommend donating to Baltimore Heritage which does a great job informing us about historic Baltimore architecture.
Baltimore Public School No. 103
Robert Long House – Baltimore
The oldest surviving home in Baltimore
Fire at a vacant former brewery
Flying saucer on top of a strip club in Tampa
My friend Tom sent me this link on the amazing flying saucer on top of a Tampa strip club.
Here is more information:
That spaceship on top of a Tampa strip club? It once was the house of the future.
Sad! 