The morning yards are filled with debris:
Those darned kids! ...that are seldom being watched and often found as young as two or three out on 18th street. Someone is going to get hurt...or worse...
Something seems so sad about a stroller, a cinderblock, and two boards...
So, does living here make you drink or does drinking make you live here?
This is either sad or scary. Thrown with such force as to break the fence. What was the emotional or physical effect on the child...
Somehow a flowerpot outside a house gives it promise, even if it has just transferred ownership and still has sores...
A pillow on the roof below a window with the screen torn. Also the blinds are all broken or bent up. This is a major problem in the neighborhood. How can you get your tenants to care? or for that matter the landlord?
Speaking of landlords, this home is the one directly behind my home that has been vacant for 17 years. Before my own son's birthday I "celebrate" the anniversary date of our moving in to our current home. No one was living here when we moved in...
This is one of my favorites that I have faith will someday be restored to its former beauty:
Behind apartments on 19th and Spring:
Caught in architectural confusion...
Sale pending? We hope we get a caring landlord here...
Next door...
So, Big Bird, who are the people in YOUR neighborhood? Do they sit on the front porch and drink at 8:00 am on Sunday morning a mere block from a large church?
The Lucky Lady. We don't feel so lucky to have her in our neighborhood. Who goes to the bar at 8:00 am? I must be missing out.
This is another I feel would be/could be very nice if fixed up:
At the far left of this former beauty are some more neighbors out drinking and whooping it up:
What are you dumping out your window that turns the building black?
This is one of the beauties that can be seen from Minnesota Avenue. I wonder if the neighborhood would be so bad if people would look and see a well taken care of property instead of this?
Queen Anne would turn over in her grave:
I see these poor sagging homes with their drunken tenants every morning on my way to work. I have seldom driven by any day or night where there isn't someone out drinking on the porch of one or both of these. Do they take shifts, or not sleep?
Sioux Falls, you boarded this up a long time ago. What is going to happen - when are you going to do something about it? We are board with looking at it like this!
Nice. Was it a hit and run, or is it okay to leave windshield glass on the ground following an accident?
If the neighbor's house didn't look like this:
And this:
Would this happen?
1 comment:
Well, I don't live in Sioux Falls, but I do know that in many Chicago suburbs, "four-square" owners are encouraged to demolish, rather than remodel or re-sell even. That's esp. the case in Naperville and other older railroad/farm communities. Apparently, no one likes "four-squares". Everyone wants a Queen Anne, or one of those "McMansions" with the assymetrically placed palladium windows. (I doubt that the owners of these house with the misaligned palladium windows would even recognize the term. . . )
So, if it's the case in Chgo, it may be the case thru-out the Midwest - the de-valueing of the four-square. Which is a shame, because the four-square is the epitome of efficient, elegant residential architecture. It's the direct descendant of the saltbox and the Italiannate, and other colonial architecture.
If there were a movement to help protect the disappearing four-square, then the gentrifiers might move in and buy some of the houses in your neighborhood and fix them up. But, you'd have to actually have gentrifiers and DINKS in South Dakota, and they're probably rarea round there.
This may be an indirect contributing factor to the demise of the neighborhood anyway.
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