Shutze's Gate Gets a Circle that Improves My Life

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bless those engineers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you live near Emory University, drive through Emory, visit Emory from time to time?</span> I do and my life has just improved thanks to the traffic engineers and to the planners and the politicians that put them to work.<br /><br />Emory Village has a traffic circle and I feel fine. (I hope you don't mind if this Georgian pays a oblique tribute to <a href="http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1446">R.E.M.</a>)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxZvmBaytDT3ekmiBuameTdfHYZmJ6F1EUgqFSz3qKTFQiPHTBG04cCFZg2cGc72Hu8NDVAshVp45w7go26F585k1IeF8f0-83BYahkkFpFZUBrYYY0igGb25G2qdyMUDOOtMulXsBZJM/s1600/P1000610-2010-02-07-Shutze-Emory-Haygood-Hopkins-Gate-Lantern-Arch.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655172529917795106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxZvmBaytDT3ekmiBuameTdfHYZmJ6F1EUgqFSz3qKTFQiPHTBG04cCFZg2cGc72Hu8NDVAshVp45w7go26F585k1IeF8f0-83BYahkkFpFZUBrYYY0igGb25G2qdyMUDOOtMulXsBZJM/s400/P1000610-2010-02-07-Shutze-Emory-Haygood-Hopkins-Gate-Lantern-Arch.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />The <a href="http://architecturetourist.blogspot.com/2010/02/haygood-hopkins-gate-at-emory-by-philip.html">Haywood Hopkins Gate by Philip Trammell Shutze</a> is on the circle. It's Emory University's front door per the master plan by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hornbostel">Henry Hornbostel</a>. It's a modest entrance to a campus that seems set in a wooded park.<br /><br />Until this summer the gate faced a bleak, busy, bottle-necking 5-points wasteland, the intersection of North Decatur, Oxford, and Dowman, home of <a href="http://www.everybodyspizza.com/">Everybody's Pizza</a>. It's been horrible since my first visit in 1968.<br /><br />If you've driven there, you know what I mean. If you've crossed the streets on foot, you know.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4338966532/" title="P1000611-2010-02-07-Shutze-Emory-Haygood-Hopkins-Gate-Wide by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000611-2010-02-07-Shutze-Emory-Haygood-Hopkins-Gate-Wide" height="480" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4338966532_b72310d9b5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />So they moved gate a little, made it an entrance, closed it as an exit...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/6164023814/" title="P1000222-2011-09-19-Emory-Village-Traffic-Circle-VIDEOpreview by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000222-2011-09-19-Emory-Village-Traffic-Circle-VIDEOpreview" height="360" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6173/6164023814_fe380ce6b1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />...and put in the circle. It's not quite done yet. It's going to have trees and bushes and less paving.<br /><br />Bless those engineers. They've removed 2 traffic lanes lanes, cut paving in half, made space to landscape, improved auto and pedestrian safety. In the process they gave Emory Village a more friendly center.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They improved traffic flow by slowing things down.</span><br /><br />It's all so I can spend less time driving and more time at home.<br /><br />Remarkable. Here is new left turn to the west from Oxford to North Decatur. This simple turn could take forever. Here I breeze though without a full stop.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-PwobFwNd88" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bess those engineers.</span>

Shutze's Gate Gets a Circle that Improves My Life

Bless those engineers. Do you live near Emory University, drive through Emory, visit Emory from time to time? I do and my life has just imp...

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Scottdale Gables

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Scottdale Mills? Scottdale, Georgia? </span><a href="http://www.agnesscott.edu/about/traditions" style="font-weight: bold;">Agnes Scott College</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">? Same family.</span> When I'm in the area, I take a little drive around. It's only a few blocks. I am a gable guy and swoon at views like this. (There is a secret picture for garden bloggers <a href="http://taradillard.blogspot.com/">Tara</a> and <a href="http://egardens.blogspot.com/">Pam</a>, will they notice?)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4272915772/" title="P1000223-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000223-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2690/4272915772_77d30f7b8f.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Scottdale is one of the Atlanta area's milltowns,</span> preserved differently than those in Cabbagetown, The Old 4th Ward, and Home Park.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4272175095/" title="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4272175095_46458bbc9c.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's not in a "hip" area.</span> These 2 are on a green, unlike any other in Atlanta, as far as I know. No hip shops or restaurants; no cool residents in sight (but they must surely be very cool). No tourists, no parking problems, no scene.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/2930039636/" title="PA100019-Scottdale-Georgia by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="PA100019-Scottdale-Georgia" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2930039636_73b9022c5e.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">These 2 houses were built as duplexes. </span>They didn't need these nice details. Notice the two chimneys, one for each apartment.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4272916852/" title="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close-Window-Chimney-Detail by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close-Window-Chimney-Detail" height="315" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2693/4272916852_79b0393a83.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The modest chimney has looked great every day of it's life.</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4272175255/" title="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close-Chimney-Detail by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Close-Chimney-Detail" height="411" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4272175255_ff803a07fe_o.jpg" width="366" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You see these hipped roof porches on period houses everywhere.</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/4272916956/" title="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Porch-Through-Crepe-Myrtle by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1000222-2010-01-13-2-Scottdale-Gables-Porch-Through-Crepe-Myrtle" height="500" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686/4272916956_fc0ac3d8d1.jpg" width="457" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faith Walk</span> is the house with the fancy gable window.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/2930039692/" title="PA100020-Scottdale-Georgia by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="PA100020-Scottdale-Georgia" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2930039692_580cdb3589.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I don't think the other house has a name but it's a beauty too. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is the secret picture</span> for garden bloggers: Gravel and grass, know what I mean?<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/2929179851/" title="PA100015-Scottdale-Georgia by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="PA100015-Scottdale-Georgia" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/2929179851_dc85dc5c93.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />There are single family millhouses too, one in pink, or is it salmon?<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrykearns/3185983845/" title="P1091658-Pink-House-Scottdale-GA by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1091658-Pink-House-Scottdale-GA" height="461" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/3185983845_675209d3d7.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You visit the </span><a href="http://www.dekalbfarmersmarket.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Dekalb Farmers Market</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> right? </span>So drive a bit further out on Ponce. Find the antique stores in cute little houses, turn left and find the green. There you are.<br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=eliza+street+scottdale+georgia&sll=33.788341,-84.265952&sspn=0.003852,0.006899&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Eliza+St,+Scottdale,+DeKalb,+Georgia+30079&t=h&ll=33.787672,-84.267282&spn=0.006242,0.010729&z=16&iwloc=A&output=embed" scrolling="no" width="500" frameborder="0" height="350"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=eliza+street+scottdale+georgia&sll=33.788341,-84.265952&sspn=0.003852,0.006899&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Eliza+St,+Scottdale,+DeKalb,+Georgia+30079&t=h&ll=33.787672,-84.267282&spn=0.006242,0.010729&z=16&iwloc=A" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small><br /><br />Thanks,<br />Terry<br />terry @ surf303.com

Scottdale Gables

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Briarlake farmhouse vernacular beauty

<span style="font-style: italic;">FLASH March 14 2009. I've just learned that this is the </span><a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vanga/id:dek070-85" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">John N. Gresham home place built Built in the 1880s(?) by Forrest P. Hudson</a> another picture.<br /><br />It's a farmhouse with out-buildings. It's inside I-285! You probably can't even see it in summer. Unless you live in the neighborhood or are an extreme architecture tourist, you'll never see it in any season. It's on a relatively huge property and is certainly doomed to be a tear-down.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18814459@N00/3237731344/" title="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularTight by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularTight" height="261" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3346/3237731344_080e87d4cf.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />It's a southern version of a <a href="http://www.katiehutchison.com/house-enthusiast/design-snapshot-connected-building-vernacular.html">"connected-building vernacular" described in Katie Hutchison's House Enthusiast post</a>. Ms. Hutchison's example is in Maine, where keeping warm is the thing. Down here, cooling off on the porch is the thing.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18814459@N00/3237731326/" title="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularPorch by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularPorch" height="276" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3237731326_91f762c4a1.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />Well, I'm totally charmed. I regret that I'll never know how this home came to be and how it managed to stay around this long.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18814459@N00/3236891131/" title="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularWide by clambake444, on Flickr"><img alt="P1291842BriarLakeVernacularWide" height="198" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3474/3236891131_0820a3d33d.jpg" width="500" /></a>

Briarlake farmhouse vernacular beauty

FLASH March 14 2009. I've just learned that this is the John N. Gresham home place built Built in the 1880s(?) by Forrest P. Hudson ano...

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