Four miles east of Johnstown, near Mineral Point, the Little Conemaugh River swings in a long loop around a ridge. In the late 1820s, the
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There is a building at the corner of Tenth and Columbia in Lafayette, Indiana, that has been refusing to become ordinary for going on 130
A Stone Amplifier from the New Deal Era In Roxbury Park, on the western edge of Johnstown’s urban basin, sits one of the most unusual
There is something about civic buildings that has always stopped me in my tracks. I can drive past a strip mall without noticing it. A
Man Made: A Building Built for Authority (Now Selling Trust) This is the kind of structure that was never meant to be invisible. It isn’t
Androscoggin Swinging Bridge There are bridges you drive over without noticing. And then there are bridges you walk toward. In this photograph, the red steel
Craft and Courage Meet: A Victorian Apartment House There is a moment in every building project when the plans are “good enough.” The walls are
The Johnstown Tribune Building Small-City Architecture, the Free Press, and the Quiet Work of Beauty There are buildings that shout, and buildings that hold. This