One of my favorite walls in the city, displaying the remnants of numerous businesses that had their stint downtown in the past (or at least their advertising dollars did). The red bricks are very characteristic of this gorgeous city, and the tiered roof is very cool. The little alley nestled in between Granite State Minerals’ scales and the start of Ceres St. makes this building much more ominous to passers by in this little alley. Taken on 5/4/2009 under a bright and hazy grey sky.
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May 21, 2009 at 7:15 am
[...] The salt piles appear to have been capped for the spring season now that the brutal New England winter has subsided for at least a couple months. These behemoths arrive on Portsmouth’s working waterfront from huge freighters coming from around the globe…if you’re lucky enough, you’ll see one coming under one of the lift bridges, or even unloading at the downtown Granite State Minerals post on Market Street. For whatever reason, I find these huge fabric covers quite aesthetically pleasing. Maybe it’s the symmetry, or maybe it’s the lipstick on the pig of materials underneath. What do you think? To the left you can see the Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth. View is opposite the Prudential building photographed in this post: Olde Harbor Area. [...]
November 20, 2009 at 11:35 pm
[...] town, to say the least. The old rowhouses along Market Street have more awesome bricks, and near the salt piles and on Penhallow Street you’ll find some cool old [...]