Untapped Cities presents a look at the lost mansions of Fifth Avenue. The article examines the grand Gilded Age residences built by New York's wealthiest families - Vanderbilts, Astors, and others - that once transformed Fifth Avenue into America's most opulent residential street.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #HistoricPreservation #FifthAvenue #LostArchitecture #UntappedCities
https://www.untappedcities.com/lost-mansions-5th-ave-nyc/
8 Lost Mansions of Gilded Age 5th Avenue in NYC - Untapped New York

Revisit the opulent lost mansions of 5th Avenue in Manhattan, where families like the Vanderbilts and Astors once lived!

Untapped New York
Is there a fad or mission to knock down every historical pub in the UK? #lostarchitecture https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-66498496
Punch Bowl Inn: Surveys under way at site of illegally demolished pub

The owners of the 18th Century Punch Bowl Inn tore it down in 2021 but were ordered to rebuild it.

BBC News

Lost architecture

The Etham Barrell Restaurant (Bavarian themed, as was the style at the time). Built in the early 70s out of recycled convict era handmade bricks and Oregon timber. Sadly she burnt down in 1989

Etham, Victoria

I believe that car is a Wolseley 1500

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Filed under places I wished I'd been

#KansasCity, #Missouri; Junction of Main and Delaware Streets. 1906 vs 2015.

#America used to be a proper country, with proper cities... What a tragic, mindless self-destruction... Will we be able to go back?

(via @the_transit_guy) #city #thenandnow #photography #street #urbanism #architecture #lostarchitecture