Some new photos from Fort Wayne

[gilpen123]

Great pictures I can feel the emotion in them. Your son is very handsome, surely he'll be better with you.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Thanks, Gil.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This is one of the best preserved one-room schoolhouses in Allen County. It is the Jefferson Township #5 Center School on Old US 30 near Besancon, Indiana. I discovered this one after photographing a wedding nearby several years ago and have been back to it periodically ever since. The road actually splits to go around the building!

The old woman who lived across the street owned the property. She told me that her mother had been a student at the school.

 

[zauhar]

This is one of the best preserved one-room schoolhouses in Allen County. It is the Jefferson Township #5 Center School on Old US 30 near Besancon, Indiana. I discovered this one after photographing a wedding nearby several years ago and have been back to it periodically ever since. The road actually splits to go around the building!

The old woman who lived across the street owned the property. She told me that her mother had been a student at the school.

Chris, this is a wonderful photo - I like the way the lovely little building is framed by the utility poles, and the stark character of the scene.

I actually attended a one-room school house for my first two years, reminiscent of the one in your photo (although less elegant). It was an anachronism that was maintained by some neighborhood traditionalists who had pull with the local school board, but of course in the end 'reality' won out.

Randy

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

When I photographed these chairs back in 1998, the house was being renovated by a young couple who had just bought it, after it had sat empty for several years. They had a bunch of these old metal motel chairs in the yard, and these two sat next to the house. A couple of years later, the house was suddenly demolished. The house was at the corner of Sandpoint Road and Mason Drive in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another one of the Embroidery shop on Bluffton Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

These are the chairs that started my fascination with pairs of old metal chairs. They have sat beside my grandparents house for more than 50 years and have changed color a number of times. They are currently yellow. I photographed them after a rainstorm in late summer, 1998.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Two trees stand together on a foggy day along the fencerow on the edge of a field at the abandoned sheep farm on Pleasant Center Road, east of Bluffton Road, on the southern edge of Allen County, Indiana. When I first photographed this place eight years earlier, there was an old man living here who raised sheep in a fenced barnyard on the other side of the property.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

This little door is only about four feet tall. It is in the wall of an upstairs bedroom in an abandoned house. The door leads to the attic space over the kitchen below.

The house was at the corner of Airport Expressway and Coverdale Road, near Fort Wayne International Airport, in southwest Allen County, Indiana.

When I photographed the house the first time, in 2002, it was locked up, so I only photographed the outside. Years later, I went back and the doors were all open. The inside was full of interesting things. It was demolished in 2011.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

These stairs are in the same house as the photo in my last post.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A pair of chairs sit behind an Old farmer's house, like an old couple. They were later painted blue! This house is on Aboite Center Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. I photographed this farm several times over the years.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A third chair from the same farmhouse as the photo in my previous post.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Several years before I made this photograph, I visited this place and photographed a pair of red motel chairs that sat on this spot under the window behind the house. This, however, is not the same pair of chairs! The blue and green one in this later photograph are a slightly different design. I wonder what happened to the originals?

This house is on Aboite Center Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana. I photographed this farm several times over the years.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I just created a new portfolio with all of my photographs of the old metal motel chairs.

 

[jwc57]

Impressive. My grandparents had two of these style chairs, and a matching glider, on their front porch. Theirs had a basket weave pattern. I don't know where that furniture ended up.

There is an abandoned house near here with a glider on the front porch. I'd love to find the owner and buy it...though I've noticed the gliders are going for several hundred dollars now unrestored.

 

[mbdiesel]

The flag is hung incorrectly. Stars should be in the top left corner if hung vertically.

This little building on Bluffton Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne has been home to a number of small businesses over the years. The embroidery shop that now occupies it recently hung a small American flag in the front window. I photographed it last night as the sun was setting.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Impressive. My grandparents had two of these style chairs, and a matching glider, on their front porch. Theirs had a basket weave pattern. I don't know where that furniture ended up.

There is an abandoned house near here with a glider on the front porch. I'd love to find the owner and buy it...though I've noticed the gliders are going for several hundred dollars now unrestored.

The gliders seem to be rare, I have only seen a couple of them, most in antique furniture shops at very high prices. Even the single chairs sell for over $100 each for old ones with rust. I've bought a lot of them in garage sales, none over $10. I think I have 12 of them in different styles and colors. They're in my parents back yard since I live in a small apartment. I don't have a glider yet.

This company makes new ones, but they're pretty pricey too!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another one of my grandparents' chairs.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I first saw this house with its gigantic flag covering the porch while driving through the city on the way to the Fourth of July fireworks. It was too dark to photograph, so I went back another day. It is the biggest flag that I have ever seen on a house, anywhere. This old house is at the corner of Broadway and Home Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I shot it early this morning around 7:30am.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Each flowerpot in front of this house has a Geranium plant and an American flag growing in it! The house is on Broadway, south of Thompson Avenue, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it yesterday morning, a few minutes after the house with the giant flag covering the porch.