A bit of fancy, a stone wedding cake on Olive Street in midtown. It was a major commercial laundry for many years, the two names referring to the families who owned it. The laundry went out of business some years ago. There may or may not still be some loft apartments upstairs. The ground floor left houses a new microbrewery. The rest of the ground floor is vacant.
This may be the most elaborate surviving terra cotta work in town. One online reference describes it as "either a heavenly flight of fancy or the product of a bricklayer on
LSD: Moorish architecture on steroids, replete with spires wrapped in
carved grape vines and snowflakes, flower blossoms and clamshells."
Some detail of the facade tomorrow.
3 comments:
We miss buildings like that in the netherlands.
I just love the online description. So fitting.
Fascinating architecture.
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