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November 2005: To the north is 1300 block of Monroe Street, where the slow death of a house has played out over the last few years. |
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October 2002: The center house features well-proportioned windows, a modestly ornate cornice... and a front facade which is bulging out alarmingly. |
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December 2002: The 13th Street house from the previous page is visible at lower-right. The bulging-facade house is at left. |
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November 2005: Three years later, the unsurprising result of the facade bulge is calamitously visible: the entire front facade has collapsed. |
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A few brackets are barely hanging on to what's left of the cornice; plaster, lath, joists, and floors are rotting away, and household items have spilled into the front yard. The house has become a dumping ground as well.
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The rear facade of the house is hardly doing any better. In such condition, it's a wonder the building still stands at all. |
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October 2002: At the end of the same block, the mandard-fronted house at 1300 Monroe has also suffered a disastrous collapse of its rear wall. |
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November 2005: Surprisingly, it is still standing nearly three years later. |
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