Notes, 2025 Charles Henry Notes, 2025 Charles Henry

Carscapes

I did the unthinkable and walked in a city as a pedestrian, reminding myself that we live in car scapes. The fact that nobody stopped and asked me to explain myself surprised me.

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New York Town
Findings, 2023 Charles Henry Findings, 2023 Charles Henry

New York Town

I caught the subway and went downtown. Helvetica lettering pointed the way. Passenger cars rocked, rattled, and clanked in the dark, and a platform musician sang Country Roads. People smiled on the boat to the Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan’s mountains rose above the harbor, where I later walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, picturing it as I would in a dry, dusty town.

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Notes, 2024 Charles Henry Notes, 2024 Charles Henry

Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings. 

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