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Old Posted Jun 12, 2013, 4:30 PM
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absolutely fantastic thread. thanks for sharing. the amount of substantial 19th/early 20th century masonry building stock is impressive for such a small city. the city forefathers were certainly dreaming big and obviously expected quincy to become a place of more consequence than it ended up becoming.




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Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan View Post
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Quincy, Illinois 79 by exithacan, on Flickr
WOW! i've seen a lot of bad in my day, but this might just be the worst building i've ever seen. i mean, you have to have a grudge against humanity itself to design a building that awful.

junior draftsmen: "do you think the people who use this building might want some bigger windows for daylight?"

architect: "no! make the windows as inhumanely small as possible."
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