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Starforts.com catalogs bastioned fortifications around the world and explains why artillery changed medieval walls into geometric defensive systems covered in triangles, ravelins, and overlapping fields of fire.
Kirksville’s official Irwin Dunbar Architecture Tour links eight buildings associated with one of the city’s most prolific architects.
The Outhouses of America Tour began as a Thanksgiving Day joke in 1996 and grew into a sprawling archive of real outhouses, folklore, postcards, models, racing, restoration, sanitation history, and user-submitted photographs.
Irwin Dunbar was one of Kirksville’s most prolific architects, with work spanning churches, theaters, apartments, civic buildings and commercial architecture.
Debra Jane Seltzer's RoadsideArchitecture.com documents signs, diners, gas stations, theatres, roadside giants, mid-century buildings, and other surviving commercial architecture across more than 3,500 pages and 75,000 photos.
Underground Homes is a sprawling independent reference about earth-sheltered houses, pit houses, underground cities and converted missile silos, preserving the kind of hyper-specific housing rabbit hole the old Web was good at producing.
DupontCastle.com follows a decades-long attempt to build a private castle, while also cataloging hundreds of castle-like structures across the United States.
Roberto Piperno's Rome Art Lover places Giuseppe Vasi's 1747 engraving of Porta Pinciana beside modern photographs, maps and layers of Roman history.
FloorBorders.com documents hundreds of face-nailed parquet border patterns found in Brooklyn homes, with photographs, measured drawings, spreadsheets and historical construction details.
Debra Jane Seltzer's RoadsideArchitecture.com preserves tens of thousands of photographs of old signs, diners, gas stations, giant statues and mid-century roadside buildings.
EarthbagBuilding.com documents the history, engineering and practical construction methods behind homes built from bags filled with soil, gravel and other materials.