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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
1,569 photographs
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McDougal Building (1898), entrance detail, Main & Gabilan, Salinas, California
Polish-American Club, straight-on view, Bellows Falls, Vermont
Polish-American Club, angle view, Bellows Falls, Vermont
American Legion Post, 4th Avenue, Independence, Iowa
American Legion Hall, Route 160, Del Norte, Colorado
B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge, Main Street, Ouray, Colorado
B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge, Main Street, Alturas, California
Moose Lodge, Chester Avenue, Bakersfield, California
Masonic Temple, angle view, Mineral King Avenue, Visalia, California
Masonic Temple, straight-on view, Mineral King Avenue, Visalia, California
Masonic Temple, horizontal view, Harrison & Garfield, Alexandria, Indiana
Masonic Temple, vertical corner detail, Harrison & Garfield, Alexandria, Indiana
Moose Lodge, 3rd & Union, The Dalles, Oregon
Empire Lodge #269, Church Street, Ottumwa, Iowa
I.O.O.F. Building, Market Street, San Diego, California
I.O.O.F. Building (now an antique store), Oak Street, Red Bluff, California
Masonic Temple (and a drug store next door), Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado
Masonic Temple, straight-on view, Main Street, Walsenburg, Colorado
Masonic Temple, angle view, Main Street, Walsenburg, Colorado
Elks Lodge, 181 Maple Street, Trinidad, Colorado
Elks Lodge, Cedar Street, Wallace, Idaho
Henry County Savings Bank, Washington Street, Abbeville, South Carolina
Farmers & Merchants Bank (now a used book store), Broadway, Hannibal, Missouri
