Painted Bricks: June 2015

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Barteldes Seeds, Denver Colorado.

The Barteldes Seeds building in downtown Denver Colorado. Built as a seed warehouse in 1906, the building today apparently is used for lofts.

Friday, June 5, 2015

United States Post Office (Sweetwater County Historical Museum), Green River, Wyoming.

This classic U.S. Post Office building in Green River, Wyoming was built in 1931 in the classic Greek Revival style then popular for Federal buildings. The structure now houses the Sweetwater County Historical Museum. Directly across the street from the Sweetwater County Courthouse, I thought at the time I photographed it (poorly) that it might have housed a Federal courthouse, as some posts offices did, but that does not appear to be the case for this one.

Painted Bricks?

As we noted in our very first post on this curiously named blog, this blog started off as an effort to photograph and document the painted "ghost signs" on buildings in Casper, Wyoming.

It has since expanded, as we have photographed most if not all of those, into one that captures generally interesting older buildings anywhere, while still recording painted signs on buildings where we run across them. It is one of a series of photograph blogs we have, including our main site, Holscher's Hub, our site dedicated to churches in our region, Churches of the West; our similar site on courthouses, Courthouses of the West; our railroad site, Railhead; and our site dedicated to war memorials, Some Gave All.

In a way, however, this site is a history site, attempting to record a bit of the history of the West through the depiction of its buildings of a certain era. We have a couple of history sites as well, including Lex Anteinternet and Today In Wyoming's History. This one mostly lacks text, unlike those other two, with the buildings speaking for themselves.