Explore America With The Official Small City/ Town Thread

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

That building looks awesome^ also looks like the Davenport, Iowa city hall building...

It's Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture, so they're very similar.

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Oddly enough, I just watched this video about "Alfalfa" last weekend...

Oooh... gonna hafta check that one out. Thanks!

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Plankton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Illinois

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

That building looks awesome^ also looks like the Davenport, Iowa city hall building...

Originally Posted by Plankton

It's Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture, so they're very similar.

That's interesting, though gotta say that the Paris building looks way better than the Iowa one to me:
Paris: balanced, symmetric, with windows that match the age of the building style
Iowa: a clumsy cut and paste of different elements; one pyramid turret roof, one conical, both squeezed uncomfortably against the pitched roof behind. The main facade looks a mess to me: there's no consistant rhythm to the horizontal spacing of the windows; they and the smooth horizontal bands above them look like they come from a different era from the "historical" style attempted elsewhere.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

That's interesting, though gotta say that the Paris building looks way better than the Iowa one to me:
Paris: balanced, symmetric, with windows that match the age of the building style
Iowa: a clumsy cut and paste of different elements; one pyramid turret roof, one conical, both squeezed uncomfortably against the pitched roof behind. The main facade looks a mess to me: there's no consistant rhythm to the horizontal spacing of the windows; they and the smooth horizontal bands above them look like they come from a different era from the "historical" style attempted elsewhere.

The offset tower and the archways, although they tried to line the one on the right up with the tower, break the flow of the Iowa building up quite a bit. The haphazard spacing of the windows trying to work with the archways doesn't help it either.

With the Paris building, you could slice it down the middle, erase one side, and then mirror the remaining side and it'd be exactly what we see now.

[Lisnaholic]

Yep, you're right, Plankton.
What surprised me (thanx wiki) is that the Iowa building dates from 1895: I thought it was a much more modern pastiche. They apparently got a local architect to design it, which is in itself a good idea, but imo he wasn't really up to the job.

[Plankton]

I did see dates and names of archy's, but I was more interested in the material used, which was Sandstone for both, which Ohio Berea being listed for the Iowa building. I was curious if it was limestone from around here like quite a few buildings.

Ross appears to have a few other notable works as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W...Iowa_architect)

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Yep, you're right, Plankton.
What surprised me (thanx wiki) is that the Iowa building dates from 1895: I thought it was a much more modern pastiche. They apparently got a local architect to design it, which is in itself a good idea, but imo he wasn't really up to the job.

Fu ck your wiki rabbit holes... the building is amazing...

I understand the windows a little off and not as nice as the Paris building but it's still nice...

[Lisnaholic]

Of course, Mindfulness! It's only my opinion. Two things I like about the building: (i) the colour of the stone and (ii) the central tower with the clocks on it.

I would hate to put you off from posting more "small city" stuff as I really enjoy this thread.

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Of course, Mindfulness! It's only my opinion. Two things I like about the building: (i) the colour of the stone and (ii) the central tower with the clocks on it.

I would hate to put you off from posting more "small city" stuff as I really enjoy this thread.

[Psy-Fi]

Greasy

[Plankton]

Metropolis, Illinois