Another photo by John Vachon — an old house with a double porch in Houston, Texas, May 1943.* I love the tower room.
You really need to click on the photo and enlarge it to enjoy all the details of this one.
Sharp-eyed commenters on the Library of Congress’s Flickr Commons project noticed that the address on the curb is 1900 Franklin Street. The location is currently a parking lot next to the US Route 59 overpass, close to Minute Maid Park.
*via Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection, Library of Congress.
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Great house! When I saw the thumbnail it looked like you could see right through to the other side…no house…just porches!:)
It is really a porch with a house attached — which is understandable given Houston’s hot, humid weather. I think it must be a duplex or maybe a boardinghouse.
The poor inhabitants: their drying underthings preserved forever in the Library of Congress.
I’ve never seen a double wrap-around porch like that – how beautiful!
It is, even attached to a fruit stand.
I love the stand. Do you suppose it is the business of the building’s owner. The juxtaposition is so quirky otherwise.
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