June 2023 – Gardens to Gables

June 16, 2023

Two days before horrific floods devastated parts of Eastern Kentucky in July 2022, I wound my way up some tiny hollows and over bridges in Floyd County for a work project. The road network, like the earlier rail lines, curves to follow the meanders of the Levisa Fork of the Kentucky River, which in (read more)

Category: Floyd County

Tags: #floydcountyky, #kentuckyarchitecture, #vernaculararchitecure

June 12, 2023

I took a rainy detour through Huntington, West Virginia, yesterday and encountered a number of wonderful historic buildings. The sleek, curved lines of the circa 1953 former Greyhound Bus Station shone like a historic neon sign through the drizzle. The one-story Art Moderne style building was designed by George D. Brown, an architect who (read more)

Category: West Virginia

Tags: #artmoderne, #georgedbrown, #greyhoundbusstation, #huntingtonwv

June 5, 2023

My recent jaunt to Virginia was marked by a lovely visit to Monticello and stops at every playground in Charlottesville. Since the weather was unseasonably cool, our historic site visiting was tolerated quite well by the younger set, and Jefferson’s lawn at the University of Virginia quickly became the stage for tumbling, rolling, and (read more)

Categories: Other Places, Virginia

Tags: #thomasjefferson, #universityofvirginia

June, 2023

A Vernacular Queen Anne Style House, Stanville, Floyd County, Kentucky

Greyhound Bus Depot, Huntington, West Virginia

Jefferson, Latrobe, and the Playgrounds of Charlottesville, Virginia

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