Another look at old and new, traditional and modern, wow and now.
This is one of my favorite buildings: Romanesque revival, twelve-sided, and almost one hundred years old (1917). And yet this lovely building leads the most functional of lives: It’s something called the “wash water tank” at the water treatment plant. But what do you expect from a water treatment plant whose architects included Joseph Pelich, who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris? It’s a wonder that tank doesn’t turn the water into wine.
Also from 1917, the Binyon-O’Keefe storage company warehouse (Sanguinet and Staats) on Calhoun Street.
The Texas & Pacific passenger terminal (1931, Hedrick).
The panther catnaps at Franco Alessandrini’s fountain (2002) in Hyde Park (1873), unimpressed by its reflection in the Carter+Burgess tower (1982).
Mike,
I’m so glad that you’ve transferred your Hometown by Handlebar from Facebook to a WordPress blog. Now, we’ll be able to find everything in one place, instead of rummaging through your Facebook postings. And, you can link your blog to Facebook so that whenever you do a blog post, it will also show up automatically on Facebook. I plan to link your blog to mine in my “blogroll.”
Jim