Friday, April 10, 2009

537 Congress


A nice old building, now gound floor retail and lofts above. Source of old photo
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7 comments:

  1. This is so cool! What a fantastic idea! Well done!

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  2. thanks for this fun blog. i live between portland and baltimore, so when i am homesick for portland, it's great to take a look at your photos. i took a painting class at MECA once and have a painting i made of that old bank building in the background.

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  3. Love it!
    My grandmother had a few old photos of Congress Street in the 1920s... I should go find them!

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  4. Very cool! Perfect positioning and scale of the old picture and new building. You must be quite patient!

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  5. Nice idea. What does the front of the building look like now? Are the steps still there?

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  6. Catherine: You should definitely dig up those old postcards and try some of these types of shots with them, I'd like to see how they turn out.

    Gail's Man: The building looks exactly the same today, which is a good thing as it's a nice looking structure.

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