Clarendon

Here are some pictures that I took today (in my neighborhood, more or less) in order to make myself get outside while there was still light:





(There was no hardware store underneath this sign--only restaurants.)





(It clearly wasn't.)




The one thing I will say for Clarendon--it has its own style, a vernacular architecture, as Roger Scruton would say. I think it has a lot to do with the signs on the buildings.


Additionally, I do love the identifying marks put directly into the building--it gives the building a history like a palimpsest.