This Place Mattered

I thought I'd do a follow-up to my "This Place Matters" May blog entry with photos of "This Place MATTERED"...due to the fact that these buildings have been demolished or so egregiously altered that in essence they have been demolished.

958 Thayer Avenue, site of a commercial structure designed in 1946 by the Pittsburgh Place Glass Co. Building demolished in 2009. Photo by George French.

What the above location looked like in 2008. Photo by Jerry A. McCoy.

8222-26 Georgia Avenue, the 1922 "Cissel-Lee Building" whose exterior was completely intact until 2009 when the structure's original slate canopy roof, windows, and Georgia Avenue elevation (left) were destroyed. Photo by George French.

What the above location looked like in Spring 2009. Photo courtesy Silver Spring, Singular.

8230 Georgia Avenue, site of the 1938 Little Tavern Hamburger Shop (gravel bed), demolished in 2003 by Pyramid Atlantic after the organization failed to sell the structure on eBay and then opposed historic designation of the building. Photo by George French.

What the above location looked like in 2003. Photo by Jerry A. McCoy.

Wayne Avenue Parking Garage, site of the 1927 Maryland National Guard - Silver Spring Armory. This Montgomery County Master Plan for Historic Preservation-designated historic site was allowed to be demolished in 1998 by an uncaring community for construction of a seven-story, 1,789-space parking garage (that eventually opened in 2005). I am standing next to a section of the bas-relief concrete Maryland state flag that graced the facade of the Armory. The remaining sections of the flag are mounted onto a similar support base at the other end of the parking garage. Photo by Georgia French.