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The Backside of America: What's in a Named Building? (Part 1)
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Thursday, December 26, 2013. What's in a Named Building? Architects still design buildings with corporate names on them, but too often these days signs designating a business tend toward the ugly and temporary. The same is true of apartment buildings and condos - the name may be on a sign out front, but rarely it is etched into the stone. This is the Elks Lodge in Newton, Mass. December 26, 2013 at 9:17 AM.
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The Backside of America: January 2015
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Get Thee to a Nunnery. I find it hard to square the popular, albeit outdated image of nuns as ruler-wielding autocrats, buttoned up from head to toe in black and white, with the smiling, geriatric faces of women in soft, cotton blouses in many pleasant colors on the web site for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. Still, the nuns have power. The convent and school building combined t...
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The Backside of America: What's In a Named Building? (Part 2)
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Thursday, March 13, 2014. What's In a Named Building? Late last year I posted the first part of this series (see December 26, 2013, "What's In a Named Building? Today I give you the second part, which really should have been the first, since the buildings here are the ones that inspired this concept. But I didn't focus my camera on these until after I'd taken other pictures of named buildings. Majestic - have be...
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The Backside of America: February 2015
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Friday, February 27, 2015. During King Philip's War in the 1670's, according to Wikipedia, the British interned as many as 1,000 Indians on the island, many of whom died. In the 1840's a hospital was established there to deal with the flood of Irish immigrants. In ensuing decades a poorhouse was built; by the end of the 19th century that facility was turned into a prison. I was even more surprised to climb a ste...
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The Backside of America: March 2015
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Friday, March 27, 2015. I'm not a religious man, but I do love a nice church. Built between 1910 and 1913 and opened in 1917 by the Boston Catholic Archdiocese, the church closed in 2004. The massive church (approximately 1/2 acre in size) was the centerpiece of a campus that included a rectory, a convent and two schools. As its Youth Community Development Center. I was so happy to learn through my research that...
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The Backside of America: Take Me Down to Panama City
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Take Me Down to Panama City. I visited Panama City Beach, Florida, recently with my wife and kids to get away from the brutal winter we've been having in eastern Massachusetts. We stayed in a pretty nice resort hotel, and spent a lot of our time eating at chain restaurants and hanging out in nicely buffed museums like Ripley's Believe It or Not. Sections of the Abandoned Gulf Coast site.
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The Backside of America: Odd-Church-Dive-Barn
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Friday, May 1, 2015. Dedham, Massachusetts, has an illustrious history. The early residents of town built the first American canal, the first tax-supported public school, run by Ralph Wheelock, and Jonathan Fairbanks built what is today the oldest wood frame house in North America.". The town center is beautiful, with historic homes aplenty and great commercial buildings and wonderful churches. Make sure you scr...
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The Backside of America: Blessed Renovation
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Friday, March 27, 2015. I'm not a religious man, but I do love a nice church. Built between 1910 and 1913 and opened in 1917 by the Boston Catholic Archdiocese, the church closed in 2004. The massive church (approximately 1/2 acre in size) was the centerpiece of a campus that included a rectory, a convent and two schools. As its Youth Community Development Center. I was so happy to learn through my research that...
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The Backside of America: Goodbye Reef, So Long Bill
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Goodbye Reef, So Long Bill. As I walked by this old brick building, it spoke to me. Although I drive and jog by this place regularly, I'd never been this close to it before (except when I parked nearby last winter when taking the picture for my January 7, 2011, post, "Trash Guitar". I got closer to the door and saw a dried rose hanging there, with a note attached, reading,. Ohand by th...
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The Backside of America: Named Buildings of Newton
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The Backside of America. It’s Really Big, Sometimes Beautiful and Always Worth a Second Look. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Named Buildings of Newton. Spinal tap - Stonehenge. For now, here are some of the named buildings of Newton:. Newtonville's Orr Building, longtime home of Armenian/Middle Eastern restaurant Karoun. The side entrance to the imposing Masonic Temple in Newtonville. Home to the Dalhousie Lodge. The building was erected in 1896.). Stevens Building, Newton Highlands. Built in 1888.). Detroitu...