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Where did Noah's ark land? Programmatic Architecture Original postcard c. 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Vernacular Architecture Noah's Ark in the Desert
B. F. Perkins Brick Tower Words of God Vernacular Architecture
B. F. Perkins Brick Tower Words of God. Original photograph Jim Linderman 1992 Alabama
Vernacular Architecture Folk Art Miniature Building constructed with One Hand
Miniature building on Original postcard c. 1950. I haven't identified the person who built this scale copy of the Colorado State Capital building with ONE HAND, but maybe you can. It's too nice a day to stay inside. Apparently the model no longer stands.
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Folk Art Environment Vernacular Architecture Photograph Anonymous
Folk Art Environment Vernacular Architecture Photograph Anonymous. A grotto-like installation around living quarters. No date. Thanks to BOX LOT on Facebook.
See also the 250 page book In Situ: American Folk Art in Place by Jim Linderman
The Curio Gallery is Open for Business! Vernacular Photo of a Bizarre Gallery Vernacular Architecture
The Curio Gallery is Open for Business! Vernacular Photo of a Bizarre Gallery.
Wonder House by Conrad Schuck is For Sale in Florida Vernacular Architecture Outsider Art Folk Art Environment
Would anyone like to purchase a WONDER HOUSE? Conrad Schuck's Wonder House in Florida is available, and you can get "outsider" art at an "insider" price! Real Estate Listing is HERE. Dull Tool Dim Bulb Previous Post on the Wonder House is HERE
Rough Hewn and Hacked Vernacular Architecture Extreme RPPC
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Real Photo Postcard circa 1905 "Cyko" stock. Cyko was an early competitor to Kodak. Collection Jim Linderman
Wegner's Garden of Prayer (Booking Weddings Now)
Act NOW to book your wedding at the Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto and Garden of Prayer in Sparta Wisconsin. Site is HERE
Real Photo Postcard circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
Vernacular Architecture Stump House Kind Two Views
Two Views (of a two room house with view!) Stump House of Washington. First pic a photo with dimensions (18 feet) and the other a Real Photo Postcard with inhabitants.
Both collection Jim Linderman
Vernacular Architecture in the Desert Old Man Kelly and his Rhyolite Bottle House
Are bottles good insulation? I guess. You never heard Tom Kelly complain, but then he lived in the Death Valley desert and it probably only got cold at night, but certainly well below freezing. (Actually the maker never lived in the house.)
I bought this photo because I like vernacular architecture. Little did I know it is seemingly the most documented bottle house in the world! HERE is the link to Rhyolite, where the house is documented in excruciating detail, with pictures from 1905 when the house was built, all the way to a fascinating group of photos showing the restoration one hundred years later.
It was an adobe construction, and the bottles came from one of the 53 (!) saloons in the town at the time. Yet today, it is a ghost town! Mr. Kelly was 76 years old when he started construction. The complete story is HERE and quite a story it is.
I haven't dated my snapshot exactly, but it seems pretty early in the history. I have cribbed a few photos of the site, but do check the above links, it is a fascinating story, and a wonderful example of documentation, restoration and teamwork.
Snapshot of Kelley's Bottle House collection (top) Jim Linderman
Other Photos Rhyolite Site
Antler House Frank Jay Haynes of Yellowstone Dull Tool Dim Bulb Unsung Hero of Photography
Unsung Heroes of Photography runs on Dull Tool Dim Bulb and on Vintage Sleaze on occasion. See others in the series HERE
Frank J. Haynes was a master photographer, but then he had a good gig for a man with a camera...official photographer of Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Haynes was born in Michigan in 1857.
The Antler House (or House of Antlers) was one of the rare "unnatural" beautiful parts of the park. In a somewhat misguided attempt to attract visitors, it was erected by man pretty much to appeal to the common Joe...after all, antlers fall off, but they do not fall off into a house shaped pile. It was constructed by Ranger Woodring in 1928, I suspect simply so it could be turned into a tinted postcard to entice visitors.
With the park firmly established on travel agendas after every home had an automobile, the antler house was taken apart. Park officials feared it would encourage others to harvest antlers from the wild, and its phony purpose had been fulfilled.
There is another photo of the Antler house by Mr. Haynes and an astounding group 60 of the 1500 photographs he took (along with other members of his family), in the park over the period of decades appears HERE on the Montana State University Flickr page.
Mr Haynes went by the name "Professor" or "F. Jay" Read more about the Professor HERE
Antler House Photograph, circa 1930 by Frank J. Haynes Collection Jim Linderman
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Crazy Concrete Monumental Monolith of Ed Galloway Cement for Sooners
Imagine my surprise when I learned this 90 foot cement tribute to an imaginary mish-mosh of Native American Tribes not only still stands, but it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places! (Not the more exclusive register of Historic LANDMARKS, but still) I thought I had just bought yet another photograph of a long forgotten goofy thing. Goofy it may be, but it was carefully restored and repainted by the Kansas Grassroots Art Association. That it is in Oklahoma seems not to have mattered to the Kansans. It is claimed to be "The World's Largest Concrete Totem Pole" (um...yeah, duh) but maker Ed Galloway cheated...he built it on a giant five foot tall turtle barely seen in the photo.
This Press Photo dates to 1947, just about near the time Ed claimed it was finished. It was even given an unusual amount of respect at the time from the press...note the text on the reverse says nothing about Ed's mental state, though if you look really close you CAN see they titled the caption "Monumental Joke." They also call it "grotesque" and infer it was made to trick future paleontologists. However, as Ed is passed away now, I can question his sanity! What crazy Okie would build a giant cement totem pole?
Whether Ed's mind was fit as a fiddle is questionable, but he made fiddles too...400 of them, though many were stolen out of the Fiddle house he also built next to the totem to hold them a few years after he passed away.
Ed's pole is estimated to weigh 134 tons. The big goobers on the side here also still remain. Ed mixed up his tribes a bit, putting some traditional Northwestern motifs down in the Sooner State too. In fact, the Indians Ed is depicting in his gravel and stone monolith are in a way responsible for the State's nickname, as after having driven them all further west (or 6 feet underground for good) the territory was opened up for all (All Non-native that is) in a giant landrush...and the cheaters who snuck in early received the more charming name of Sooners.
Ed Galloway was born 20 years before Oklahoma became a state, and started building his thing thirty years after.
Original Press Photograph 1947 Collection Jim Linderman
Land of Big Trees Serious Big Wood
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Collection of Giant Tree Postcards and Real Photo Postcards 1880-1940 Collection Jim Linderman
"How He Looked" Place your Head Here Remnant
The remaining portion of a "place your head here" box from Holy Land environment in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Original Photograph (detail) Jim Linderman 1994
Stanley Smolak and the Legs Inn RPPC
Not only is Stanley Smolak's creation, the Legs Inn still operating after 80 years, it is thriving! Live bands and the greatest Polish food outside of Poland. You HAVE to read the menu HERE. Only in America? Nah...only in MICHIGAN!
Three real photo post cards, c. 1950? Collection Jim Linderman
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