Tag: Baden

Baden in Winter #30, 1000 Block of Gimblin #2

The eastern half of the 1000 block of Gimblin is devastated. It’s hard to imagine this when it was still occupied. There’s also huge amounts of illegal dumping, and the streets are littered with trash.

Baden in Winter #29, 1000 Block of Gimblin #1

Up away from Broadway, at the west end of the 1000 block of Gimblin, there is increasingly abandonment. The houses are a mix of old and new. More wood frame houses that one would expect to see in brick also pop up again.

Baden in Winter #28, Gast Place

Gast Place clearly was where the upper middle class lived in Baden, with larger, single family house with large yards. The houses look to date from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s.

Baden in Winter #25, 700 Block of Baden Avenue

East of North Broadway on Baden Avenue is an interesting mix of housing styles, again with wood frame examples normally seen in brick, such as the Second Empire house below. But then there is this sturdy Italianate rowhouse that I would expect to see in Midtown.

Baden in Winter #24, 8144 Church Road

This is an interesting house, with a rubble wall front porch support. The city’s date of 1890 is clearly wrong, as the architecture looks more like something built before the Civil War. It is even a duplex, if you look closely.

Baden in Winter #22, 1000 Block of Bittner Avenue

Update: The house on the left in the picture above, and in the one below, had been demolished by July of 2019. Bittner Avenue just south of Holy Cross Church is beautiful, but it’s so sad to see all of the abandonment. Update: The house in the middle, already damaged by fire, was further gutted…

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