I recently came across this unique apartment building on W. Adams Street that has no less than 38 cartouches and medallions on it's facade!
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Back in 2009 the color scheme was more severe (and tacky). Aquamarine, Turquoise, Gold...and Purple on all the wrought iron,
even the brackets under the eaves were painted purple.
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Between the apartment and the church down the street there this large vintage brick building that resembles a fortress (in
my imagination anyway
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-the sign above the door says it's a community center.
I admit, it resembles a school as well.
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There's probably an impressive auditorium inside, but I wasn't able to find an interior photograph.
I just noticed it hasn't been retrofitted for earthquakes.
-that's several tons of bricks
The community center is extremely close to the church next door; they might even be connected but it's difficult to tell.
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The church next door is quite beautiful.
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And it has a neat old blade sign with neon.
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First A.M.E. Zion Church
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I just realized
Flyingwedge already alerted us to 1745 W. Adams Street in an earlier post (see below). Sorry for the redundancy folks.
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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
J. M. Close completed 1475 W. Adams in 1928; I couldn't find any more information about him after that:
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