Peacock Arms Apartments

by Gerard Harrison

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Peacock Arms Apartments

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Gerard Harrison

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Detail of the entrance to the Peacock Arms Apartments, in Houston, Texas. This century-old building featured these Italian tile peacock medallions above each entrance until fairly recently. One of them is now gone. This one remains, though this image dates back to the mid-1980s. The neglected paint is a stark contrast to the elegance below, and ironically seems to invert the old saying about a peacock being ashamed of its ugly feet. Scanned from a K64 transparency.

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May 29th, 2017

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