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Participant1/23/23 World Cup. Audi Field, DC United.
Participant1/22/23 DC Music
Former venue for the Beatles first US appearance. Now REI.
ParticipantEaster Market Sandwich Board. Lots of cheese! Eastern Market.
Participant1/19/2023 Popcorn
Yay! Got the photo on tonight 1/20.
Alamo Cinema & Drafthouse near the MBT.
ParticipantI was just searching for the steps to be a “Friend of BAFS” and the wonderful search feature took me here instead! This is like one of Neely’s puzzle boxes. I don’t even want to try to figure out what you just said . . . in 2021.
ParticipantOblate Spheroid (Nadine is bringing attention to one!)
Flowering Tree (Nadine’s Jersey)
Moon (It’s up there, you just can’t see it directly, but the light it reflects is totally obvious, so MOON.) (And I forgot everything had to be in one picture lol!)
Indigo (The petal near Nadine’s hand (somewhat blurry here, but check Strava), actually, Sam’s shirt may have some too, street lights and sky, lights mixed with violet in the foreground)Art Deco (Maybe the bike I’m holding is old enough to be Art Deco. . . )
Bicycle
Wine (Sam)Participant@CaseyKane50 218541 wrote:
3/19/2022 Bonus Day
Crosswalk and a bike.
WHAT IS BONUS DAY?! LOL! Anything??
ParticipantWashington Monument
Participant3/18/22 Cool House
It was so hard to choose again! This is one of a group of carriage houses near Howard University, between 4th & 5th St. NW. It might not be the classiest cool of the group, but I thought it was the “coolest” art-wise. It even had a wall-size mural on a different side. They’ll all be on Strava eventually, but I still have miles to complete before I sleep!
Participant@Boomer2U 218450 wrote:
Belated 3/17/22 – Ugly House (submitted post midnight deadline)
Two houses remodeled into one, IMHO, is both weird and ugly. Located behind the National Masonic Temple in Alexandria VASent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lol! I think that’s kinda cool!
ParticipantThere were quite a few, which you can see on Strava when I get home and post the ride. There were probably worse that were vacated, but this was listed in uglyhousesdc.blogspot.com
ParticipantI found this confusing. This article uses the terms Arts and Crafts and Craftsman interchangeably, so I found a house mentioned.
https://patch.com/virginia/vienna/viennas-craftsman-style-home-building-boom-0
“Craftsman is a term given to homes largely built between 1905 and the early 1920s, Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House, a National Historic Landmark in Pasadena, Calif., recently told The Wall Street Journal in its article. The Gamble House is considered a prime example of craftsman architecture
It’s a design style that’s so popular it has at least two magazines devoted to the subject, Arts & Crafts Homes and American Bungalow Magazine. Each year, the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. holds an Arts & Crafts Conference.”
Another article:
https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/williammorris/morris-influence/arts-and-crafts-movement
“William Morris believed people should be surrounded by beautiful, well-made things. This vision inspired the emergence of the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860s. Morris’s lectures and essays on art and his rediscovery of traditional craft techniques helped spread the movement, as did the decorative designs and products from his company: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
As a diverse international movement, Arts and Crafts encompassed many characteristics. There was no single manifesto and no one style to which it adhered. Several Arts& Crafts guilds, organizations, and schools helped fuel the movement.
The core characteristics of the Arts and Crafts movement are a belief in craftsmanship which stresses the inherent beauty of the material, the importance of nature as inspiration, and the value of simplicity, utility, and beauty. The movement often promoted reform as part of its philosophy and advanced the idea of the designer as craftsman.
Image: The entrance hall at Wightwick Manor incorporated many Art and Crafts elements including Morris designed fabric on the wing chair.”
405 Nutley St., SW in Vienna is for sale for $1,349,000. See more about the home on Zillow.com.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/405-Nutley-St-NW-Vienna-VA-22180/51771254_zpid/
ParticipantAt the beginning of my ride. I included my neighbor on the left because it has three colors. Mine is basically two, unless you count the whites probably being slightly different. I think the official definition is three or more colors, but I don’t know if every definition follows that format.
“In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.”
-Wikipedia
Richardson Place NW
Ha! Mine has three colors if you count where the removed ivy peeled the paint away!
Participant“British Columbia’s Arthur Erickson designed the Embassy of Canada with long horizontal shapes and wide open spaces. Despite it being Brutalist, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker described the structure positively, saying, “I think [it] conveys the warmth and the openness of the people of Canada.”
Still out here ridin’! Bathrooms at Jones Point are a nice place to warm up and load photos.
ParticipantWheat Row is a row of four Late Georgian style townhouses located at 1315, 1317, 1319, and 1321 4th Street SW in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Begun in 1794 and completed in 1795, the structures are some of the oldest residential homes in the District of Columbia. They served several uses in the early and mid 20th century, but were integrated into the Harbour Square apartment cooperative in 1963. Wheat Row was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1973.
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