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Originally Posted by Onn
Sure you can change your word, I misspoke. I know what I mean in my own mind and that's really all that matters at the end of the day. I know what I'm speaking here, I could write an entire book on it all...with a lot of facts.
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If you mis speak then you admit that you simply used the wrong word and replace it with another more accurate one. You don't attempt to change the meaning of the word you originally used...
Oh and by the way, what you "mean" doesn't mean shit at the end of the day if you are trying to communicate with people. Communication is not about the thought in your head, its about the thought that comes out of your mouth...
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Large yards, cookie-cutter like construction, skewed and dubbed down architectural elements. I've been around them quite a lot as well, I can see a resmblance.
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Nope, Nope, Nope, try again. Large yards in the 1800's were extremely rare unless you count a 100 acre farm as a yard and entire counties full of farms as small towns. Cookie cutter construction did not exist in small towns since nearly every building was built by hand to the preference and specification of the owner. Remember, mass production did not exist until the 1900's and having repetitive designs was generally frowned upon until then. And again, the architecture in small towns was actually quite vibrant, maybe the design of farm houses was plain because farmers didn't care to make the extra expense, but when it came to townfolk, they dolled their houses up pretty well.
For example, I grew up in Cedarburg, WI. It is a nearly perfectly preserved small town that was founded in the 1830's and built primarily between 1850 and 1900. Here is a plat map of the lots in 1892, see how small the lots are in the actual town? Those big lots all around are entire farms. The houses in the town nearly touch at the lots lines, just like they do in downtown Chicago. All the hashed in areas are where the buildings are so close together and the lots are so small that they couldn't be shown in detail on this map.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wi....Cedarburg.jpg
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Here are the details of the hashed in area:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wi....CdbgcityN.jpg
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wi....CdbgcityS.jpg
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Notice how the town is laid out in square blocks whenever possible just like the major cities (COUGH CHICAGO COUGH) that were developing at the time.
Here is a picture of main street. Notice how all of the buildings come right up to the street and directly abut each other. Show me one suburb that has this. Also notice the extremely different architectural styles on each building:
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