The Deleted Scenes - Can You Find My House?
Sometimes, I come across something that I really wish I’d written. Case in point:
This is a fascinating piece of detective work and history. That was the first tweet in this thread. This is the last one:
All I can really tell you is click through and read the whole thing! This Chicago sleuth noticed a structure that looked uncannily like one of these somewhat famous cottages, but it was not listed anywhere as one of the surviving buildings. He did the work, with records, Sanborn insurance maps, and more, to see if this tiny cottage far away from the century-old construction site could be identified as a lost Pullman workers’ cottage. It couldn’t be positively identified—some records simply do not exist—but every available piece of information points to it having been moved without a paper trail, and being an undocumented surviving cottage. This despite the fate of these buildings having been tracked by many people over the years. This reminded me of my article about a non-standard Pizza Hut, which led to the unearthing of a largely forgotten local fast food chain, which originally built the building. I wrote:
Piecing this sort of thing together now, even something as seemingly mundane as the history of an unremarkable old building, requires doing history. Some history is done in universities. And some is done on Twitter. Related Reading: Kinney Shoes’ Architectural Afterlife Dollar Stores and Retail Evolution Revisited Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 500 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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