Five thousand six hundred souls. Named after "local settler Blackburn Henderson Berry in 1850," so it could've been Blackberry Arkansas, if they'd wanted. Local places of interest: a museum with the guns of Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa. Among others.
That’s rather stark, but you know what it’s all about.
Update: no, you do not.
I can’t say if this was a rehab or not. I suspect it was, and the deeply recessed windows were not original.
Why no centered door?
I had no idea the Addams Family built an office complex:
I’m keen to know the purpose of those windows-in-the-middle. Surely a landing for a staircase.
It was the Grand View Hotel. According to this brief restoration video, “a compulsive hoarder lived there for 20 years.” One room was filled entirely with electric vacuum cleaners.
Were it not for the marquee, you’d have no idea this was a movie theater. In fact you’re not sure it is. But it is.
The Carroll County Heritage Museum. But of course it wasn’t always that.
It was the court house. My favorite element are the three repeating middle elements: the architect just copied and pasted the door.
Nice retouching, but is it missing something? Or did it always look like this, due to the staircase position?
Ah, the classic sign, undisturbed.
BROWN SMITH
The streets around the town square could stand a bit of work.
At least they left the old sign intact. The color does grab one’s eye.
According to the local paper in 1931, Delmar Carr operated a grocery store with his brother.
The unexpected drunk-confuser street:
If I posted this on Reddit, there would be a swarm of comments insisting it was AI.
Concrete bricks: never a good idea when you’re blinding a building.
Let’s zoom in on that faded sign. Why are the bricks lighter? There's not enough room fo another building, since lost.
This corner looks a bit chaotic now . . .
But better than the previous street-view visit.
Nice restoration - but as always, it’s a little too bright. A little too new.
I'm not complaining.
So it was then, so it is now.
Can't explain the shade on the right. Odd things happened in this town.
Nice mural, but it’s not period.
Source material is easy enough to find. They just flipped it.
