Painted Bricks: Abandoned building, Port Arthur Texas

Friday, October 28, 2016

Abandoned building, Port Arthur Texas

I don't know what this building was, but it must have been a good looking building in its day.

Downtown Port Arthur is undergoing a much needed renovation. It's a bit of a mess right now, but it's being worked on.

2 comments:

Saxman said...: This is the old Post Office. Built in 1910. Looks post-apocalyptic inside. Very strange that it could just be left to completely deteriorate like this.; February 24, 2017 at 8:18 PM
The Weary Yeoman. said...: Thanks for the added detail. My email notification feature wasn't working so I didn't realize there was a comment that was pending.

A lot of downtown Port Arthur shares that bombed out feel to it, I'm afraid.; August 9, 2017 at 7:25 AM

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.