I reside in a small town that was first settled in the early 1869s.
Although most of the seasoned architecture is destroyed from years of weathering and degradation, there is a small district downtown area that still has a number of historic buildings.
The post office on Main Street is just one example, and it has been around since the 1920s and it has some of the most appealing brickwork I have ever seen on a building. It’s a relief to know that the neighborhood has every desire to keep it pristine and to restore any pieces that get disfigured over time. I’m ecstatic that I reside in a neighborhood that still retains a lot of its former cultural identity, because many American cities these days are becoming completely homogenized to the core. Whatever still standing historical sights are hidden and know tucked away amid a sea of other businesses. For example, there is this restaurant here that has been operated by the same family for several generations now. They make mostly Italian food and their pizza is the highest ranked in the city. Although I love their pizza enough to swim across an ocean for it, I quit laying down at the seafood restaurant to eat because the a/c inside was regularly so uncomfortable. You could know the steam coming out of the family room as the food was being cooked. I guess this was also from bad ventilation in the family room, but all of these troubles were fixed recently when the seafood restaurant replaced all of their Heating and Air Conditioning systems indoors.