Historic Eighth Avenue

[bburton]

This block of historic homes on Eighth Avenue in Fort Worth's Medical District includes, from left to right, the Irion House (1910), the Winfield Scott House (1909), and the Mitchell-Schoonover House (1907). All of these fine buildings have been restored and converted into lawyers' offices.

[JohnT]

Dallas has Regal Row. Ft. Worth has Legal Row.

I took your image and modified it just a little. May I post it?

[Roy]

I still want to get over there and get a close look at the Winfield Scott House. Should of known it was lawyers. Still looks better than what it was before.

[bburton]

Originally Posted by JohnT

I took your image and modified it just a little. May I post it?

Sho nuff!!

[JohnT]

The sky bothers me, but I don't know how to fix it.

[lancemoreland]

Deleted

[venchka]

Interesting adaptive use and WAY better than tearing them down.

Is it just me, or do all three homes have essentially the same green color scheme and why? Even in B&W they are all the same shade of grey. I wonder if the same contractor did all 3 renovations? Very interesting.

[bburton]

Originally Posted by JohnT

The sky bothers me, but I don't know how to fix it.

John, that's noise from my P&S Sony F707 which doesn't show up in color but does markedly in b&w. The only solution is first to denoise the original-size photo, then convert to b&w. Here's mine:

I think I like the color version better.

[JohnT]

I agree, Bruce. The color is better because, well, it's colorful. :-) The only thing I did here was open the shadows some and crop.

[savitale]

Wow, green houses and green grass. Neat. I wonder if they work extra hard to keep the grass green so it highlights the paint. I wish I could increase contrast and saturation in my front yard.

[L Stegall]

Originally Posted by venchka

Interesting adaptive use and WAY better than tearing them down.

Is it just me, or do all three homes have essentially the same green color scheme and why? Even in B&W they are all the same shade of grey. I wonder if the same contractor did all 3 renovations? Very interesting.

Love old houses like these. Don't know the specifics of why these are all shades of green, but I live in a 1916 house in one of the historic districts in Dallas and my guess is that if these are in a designated historic district, they had to be painted with a color that would have been in use at the time. We see lots of greens, tans, dark reds, white and soft yellow in our neighborhood.