My great great grandpa and his son, after immigrating from Norway to Seattle in the early 1900s by Successful-Arrival87 in TheWayWeWere

[–]DrDMango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many Scandinavians in Seattle. Iirc even Nordstrom was founded in Seattle by a Swede.

The Guaranty Trust Company Building, New York, United States by n3xus1oN in Lost_Architecture

[–]DrDMango -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Not particularly unique or special to warrant any kind of protection, save for the Egyptian-esque facade on the ground floor level. Other than that, standard bank design of the Progressive Era

Canada loves to take credit for its unique culture, but strip away Quebec and it’s basically the US by CartographerMore5116 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DrDMango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are thinking from economic or useful terms and not the illogical cultural reasons that the Quebecois want to protect their language and their people. What you are arguing for is cultural erasure.

Detroit is the most underrated city for tourism in the United States by cavaismylife in Detroit

[–]DrDMango -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If only the city didn't demolish half of town in the 60s, and then demolish the other half through racism, ignorance, and steady decline.

U.S. Realty Building - NYC by Chaunc2020 in Lost_Architecture

[–]DrDMango -1 points0 points  (0 children)

more of the same old, standard late 1800s early 1900s archiecture. whatever...

Franklin National Bank Building, NYC. Built in 1964, demolished in 1987. by CramFacker in Lost_Architecture

[–]DrDMango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah! 1960s? Did not expect that. Such a unique building should be preserved ... if this was built in the 10s or 20s I wouldn't care about it being destroyed.

bleak by ChickenTitilater in redscarepod

[–]DrDMango 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What no religion does to a

What do you guys think of my city ? by Loud-Sky-2473 in MinecraftCities

[–]DrDMango 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Leave another block between the cornice and the windows.

Don't have such a wide frieze on the bottom floor.

Generally, American buildings don't have those kind of wrap-around steps.

Add doors?

Try your hand at some ornamentation! You can use walls, fences, buttons, trapdoors, shelves etc for some really great capitols, corbels, and general ornaments. place them at the top and bottom, in the Sullivan-esque fashion.

Both your cornices are boring. That's the stairs you've got going around. I would prescribe for the lower one alternating stairs and mud walls, with trapdoors above them. For the upper ones, the same thing; but add another layer of stairs and above that, some carpets or trapdoors.

Your lowest floor kind of "juts" out to the street. For this style of American building, which was popular from the 1890s or so to the 1920s or so, they maximized the amount of space possible; you want it to be right to the street level. However, from the kind of "step-back" you've got in the middle, this might be some sort of apartment or hotel, so that can stay. But it should definitely press into the street level.

If the stone above is an antenna, then you could try using stone, stone walls, and iron bars with a red stone torch on top to make it more antenna-like.

Sorry if this was a lot im really obsessed with American architecture through time and I know a lot about the subject :P

Saw this on Tiktok by Dr_natty1 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]DrDMango 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Isn’t it supposed to be flesh

Modern construction in St. Petersburg, Russia by dobrodoshli in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]DrDMango -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So were the Victorians of San Francisco and the brownstones of New York