Russell Street, Covington, KY : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Russell Street, Covington, KY / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built around the turn of the 20th Century and in the early 20th Century, the larger part of this two-building complex originally housed housed the dance hall and bowling alley for Germania Hall, a large saloon and dance hall that catered to the local German-American community in Covington, which was owned by Joe Jansen, and opened in 1903. The building also housed the Germania Building Association, which was founded in 1882, and building to the north along Russell Street, today under separate ownership, housed the Germania Hall Dance Hall on the second floor and the Germania Hall bowling alley on the first floor. Germania Hall became a target of the anti-German xenophobic mob that terrorized and intimidated German-American citizens of Covington during the lead up to World War I in 1918, with the liquor license of Germania Hall being terminated by Stephens Blakely, the xenophobic and bigoted then-Kenton County Attorney, without due process, four days before the United States entered World War I, with false charges being leveled at Jansen. The charges were eventually dropped and the liquor license was restored, but the disruption to business and the painting of Jansen as pro-German and anti-American ended up dooming Germania Hall to failure, leading to its closure. Blakeley was guilty of multiple crimes while serving as the Kenton County Attorney due to his involvement with the Citizens Patriotic League, a xenophobic mob that terrorized the local German-American community with threats, violence, and intimidation tactics, and Jansen and other victims of the mob never received justice for the crimes committed against them. The smaller building, built a little later, was built to house a machine shop once the two-story section of the building ceased to be utilized as a dance hall, instead becoming a garage. The building features a painted brick exterior with stone lintels, gabled and hipped roofs, and simple, minimal exterior detailing. The addition has a gable parapet on the front facade, a large garage door, and larger window openings, while the older section of the building is two stories tall. The buildings are contributing structures in the Downtown Covington Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2015, the larger building was rehabilitated for adaptive reuse as the offices of Biologic and Sidis by Hub + Weber Architects, followed by an adaptive reuse project on the smaller building in 2018, becoming the Warehouse at Sidis. Today, having outgrown the building in 2020-2021, Sidis and Biologic have moved to a larger building two blocks to the south, and the building now houses other office tenants. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-06-26 12:38:44 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Covington, Kentucky, United States 地図 |