Cross Manor, near St. Mary’s City, Maryland, 1936 or 37, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Some big boxwood love. The house (with 110 acres) still exists and may be the oldest in Maryland. Click here to see photos from 2013, when Ted Koppel lived there.
Upper porch of a house being torn down on Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., June 1942, by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This picture is one of a series taken by Parks documenting the “demolition of private property along Independence Avenue opposite the Smithsonian Institution. . . to make way for government housing.”
Today the location is filled by some particularly unappealing government office buildings, built during the 1960s.
Up — or out? — here:
a problem of preposition,my uneasy relation
with the world. Whether I’mabove it or apart. . . .
— Jameson Fitzpatrick, from “Balcony Scene“
Wicker and wood. (Check out the lamp/table in the lower left corner.)
From the outside: Leonard Mudge residence in Delray Beach, Florida, February 1959. The upper porch is shown above.
Both photos are by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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