“Lafayette Hill,” Zion Road, Albemarle County, Virginia, 1933, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Unfortunately, I was not able to find out anything about this interesting-looking house.
Tag: double porches
The Sunday porch: Houston, Texas
Originally posted in October 2013:
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.
The Sunday porch: shadows
First floor porch of the Kenneworth-Moffatt House, Montgomery, Alabama, October 1935, by W. N. Manning for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Second-floor porch of the Kenneworth-Moffatt House, Montgomery, Alabama, October 1935, by W. N. Manning.
Front view of the Kenneworth-Moffatt House, Montgomery, Alabama, April 1934, by W. N. Manning.
The building — constructed in 1855 — is now called the Gerald-Dowdell House and houses a law office. A recent view on Google Maps is here.
The Sunday porch: Houston, Texas
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.
