Lighthouse Dentist Office

I think that about sums this up.  A lighthouse dentist  office bad mansard.  It is called Lighthouse Dental.  This beacon of light is in Washington, Missouri.  Their tagline?  "We light up your smile."  

Was it built to look like a lighthouse, or did it have its origin as another business? Might it have previously been a Kindercare?  Or a Long John Silver? 

   

Just some Tuesday ugly

I don't know if this is an office or a house. It's located in Washington's downtown district, which means it could be either. This is the first bad mansard I've ever seen with the big/little window pairing and the porch-under-mansard thing going on.

I have a "photo shoot" planned- the Bad Mansards of Lindbergh Boulevard. Hoping for some good material out of that.

I've been writing bad mansard for more than 3 years. Someone asked me when I planned to stop. I told him when I run out of material. So far that hasn't happened. The only thing that keeps me from posting every day is a job and four kids.

Please keep your suggestions coming. I love getting your photographs.

Mismatched Mishmash

Look closely at this building in downtown Washington. The front mansard looks ok. The back, not so much. And there's a lot more going on- the parking lot wall, the facade of the store, the AC units, the windows on the 3rd floor of the south elevation. And yes, that is a deck off the back wall.

The awning announces a small grocery store, Droege's. You have no idea how hard it was to get a decent picture. I had to drive around the block 3 times to get a picture from all angles. It didn't help that my husband's camera was having focus issues.

Tonight young Audrey has been invited to a rollerskating party at the Skatium down in the Carondelet neighborhood. There are TONS of mansards down there, good and bad. Wish me luck in getting a picture of some of them.

Where would you move?

One time at a dinner party we played a game*. Each guest had to pick 5 cities to be transferred to. It made for interesting conversation. We learned where other people had lived and what was important to them in selecting a new city. I picked Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City and maybe New York or Austin. My reasoning was having many friends and families in those cities, decent culture, and school options .

There is a spin on the big city transfer game. It's the small town Missouri game. Pick a small town to live in if you couldn't liv

e in St. Louis. Hands down my pick is cute Washington, Missouri. About 50 miles down interstate 44 to the west of St. Louis on the Missouri River, Washington was founded by Germans features great houses, big churches, a cute downtown and neat restaurants and shops. Washington is a combination of two places I already have lived- the small town feel of Webster Groves mixed with the big bricks, river and festival-centric nature of the City of St. Louis.

And this cutie-patootie mansard. Where would you live if you had to pick a big city or a small Missouri town?

**Beware my dinner parties. There will be a good chance you will play a hypothetical game or a board game or a drinking game.

Washington

I go to Washington, MO about 4 times a year. This is a public works building built a few years ago. I think it is attractive and blends in well with the downtown Washington area.