Shorpy again!

[Whitehouse]

What a great picture. It seems, from the cars stacked up on Fort St., that there was already a parking problem downtown in 1910.

Everytime I see a picture of old City Hall I am always amazed by the shifts in taste that found this building the height of monumental municipal modernity [[say that 3 times fast...) in the late 19th century, and an embarrassing civic eyesore to be eliminated by the mid-20th century. And now, when you show pictures like this one to people today, they find it hard to believe that such a building was purposely torn down.

Makes me a little more careful in my own aesthetic judgements about what is and is not dated or ugly.

Buildings still standing that are in this picture: Central Methodist and St. John's Episcopal churches up Woodward and the Bagley Fountain [[although not in the same spot). Any others?

You mean, in 50 years they will mourn the loss of the Ford Theatre?

And also, that church is strictly spoken also not on the same spot, having some of it eliminated due to widening of Woodward.
Edit: Was mentioned above.