The building used to house a run-down pool hall and an outlaw band space where Pamela Echeverría, the gallery's owner, remembers spending many a late night of her youth at the tocadas, or gigs, the decrepit floors a chronicle of "years and years condensed in a thousand thin layers of dry beer and cigarette ash".
Today the society, founded in 1804, opens the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, a complete remake of its once decrepit fourth floor into a display space that suggests a brilliantly organized attic -- an attic, to be sure, whose content is more out of Edith Wharton than Jacob Riis.
And in a wide shot taken from farther back, the fire appears to have grown amongst the numerous graffiti tags and red Solo cups littering the decrepit theater floor.
And in a wide shot taken from further back, the fire appears to have grown amongst the numerous graffiti tags and red Solo cups littering the decrepit theatre floor.
What kind of decrepit story have we bought into?
It was the end of 1987 in Washington, in the decrepit eighth-floor headquarters of Vice President George Bush's presidential campaign.
The other place had been decrepit, with a floor of packed earth.
It did nothing for basketball to place the West Regional in Portland's decrepit Memorial Coliseum, whose floor had more dead spots than Donald Trump's comb-over.
The houses, built around the turn of the last century, are tiny — each just a few rooms on a single floor — and decrepit, with peeling paint and sagging floorboards.
Like the house itself, with its creaky floors and decrepit panelled rooms, once used by the family of a prosperous master weaver, it formed a suitably poignant setting for an exhibition during Refugee Week last month.
