Houston Lodging Project
@19th-c-houston.bsky.social
Local independent history researcher, Houston, TX.
https://bnjd.substack.com/p/boarding-houses-households-homes
Dedicated to studying Houston as it existed before automobiles. Ask me about 19th-c hotels, restaurants, coffee houses, or boardinghouses.
https://bnjd.substack.com/p/boarding-houses-households-homes
Dedicated to studying Houston as it existed before automobiles. Ask me about 19th-c hotels, restaurants, coffee houses, or boardinghouses.
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Repost: "Urban Freeway" is an Oxymoron
Or perhaps it is more like a futon.
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#UrbanFreeways
Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
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Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
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#UrbanFreeways
Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
Repost: "Urban Freeway" is an Oxymoron
Or perhaps it is more like a futon.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#UrbanFreeways
Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
Urban locations are high access. Urban freeways destroy urban access. Urban freeways are garbage infrastructure.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
Not being able to bare feeling uncomfortable undermines your argument that you are well-equipped to fight fascists.
April 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Not being able to bare feeling uncomfortable undermines your argument that you are well-equipped to fight fascists.
This is a post from 2021 about residential boarding. In April, I will posting a four-part series about Rusk House, a hotel which operated from 1856-1866. Please consider subscribing to the What Are Streets For e-mail list.
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Residential Hotels and Boarding Houses
Working Victorians had little use for kitchens
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March 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is a post from 2021 about residential boarding. In April, I will posting a four-part series about Rusk House, a hotel which operated from 1856-1866. Please consider subscribing to the What Are Streets For e-mail list.
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ICYMI: while people in MSP fight to keep MnDOT from rebuilding I-94 in our already polluted neighborhoods, people in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center are being muzzled in their efforts to keep @mndot.bsky.social and their consultants from turning 252 into a highway. ***SHAME***
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March 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ICYMI: while people in MSP fight to keep MnDOT from rebuilding I-94 in our already polluted neighborhoods, people in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center are being muzzled in their efforts to keep @mndot.bsky.social and their consultants from turning 252 into a highway. ***SHAME***
The biographies on Houston architect Eugene Heiner are pretty thin, so I added my own:
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Eugene Thomas Heiner, Houston Architect, The Early Years
His Early Life (b. 1852) and Early Works (1878-1882)
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March 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The biographies on Houston architect Eugene Heiner are pretty thin, so I added my own:
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a drawing of a yellow circle that says i want to read all the books
Alt: a drawing of a yellow circle that says i want to read all the books
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March 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
📚 Interested in reviewing books for the Journal of Southern History? Please update the editors about your fields and interests by filling in the form here: thesha.org/book-reviewe...
There is not much published about the history of cycling in the 19th-c South--and nothing about Houston--so I am posting in few brief articles this year. Here is the first:
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Cycling in the South
New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston
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March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There is not much published about the history of cycling in the 19th-c South--and nothing about Houston--so I am posting in few brief articles this year. Here is the first:
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Current and forthcoming in the JSH www.thesha.org/contents
Contents
Contents
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March 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Current and forthcoming in the JSH www.thesha.org/contents
This 4th Ward Houston NH was thriving in the 1890s and early-20th-c. I know less about the neighborhood in the 1940s and the 1950s, leading up to "urban renewal." But this is one representation of a NH that was obliterated by I-45 and a parking garage.
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A Fourth Ward Neighborhood Lost
A freeway, office towers, and parking took its place
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March 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This 4th Ward Houston NH was thriving in the 1890s and early-20th-c. I know less about the neighborhood in the 1940s and the 1950s, leading up to "urban renewal." But this is one representation of a NH that was obliterated by I-45 and a parking garage.
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Honor his memory by repealing parking mandates in your city and state.
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Honor his memory by repealing parking mandates in your city and state.
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Just when you thought it was okay to use Saint Paul highways as quick routes through eternally dumpy (non-suburban) (other people's) neighborhoods, you get schooled on more of @mndot.bsky.social's actual, city-people-hating lies and community-crushing destruction.
Lost South St. Anthony Park
South St. Anthony Park’s homes, businesses and even a church disappeared for Highway 280. What was lost, and what still survives?
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February 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just when you thought it was okay to use Saint Paul highways as quick routes through eternally dumpy (non-suburban) (other people's) neighborhoods, you get schooled on more of @mndot.bsky.social's actual, city-people-hating lies and community-crushing destruction.
One reason that I deny that "urban" should be equated with "cities": Houston and many cities like Houston are not urban.
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Houston and Suburban Sprawl
Not caused by lack of zoning and regulation
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January 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
One reason that I deny that "urban" should be equated with "cities": Houston and many cities like Houston are not urban.
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JSH Vol. 91, No. 1 -- February 2025 -- is also now live on Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54191
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54191
January 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
JSH Vol. 91, No. 1 -- February 2025 -- is also now live on Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54191
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54191
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Unboxing!
Advance copies of the February 2025 issue arrived today. SHA members, look for your copies in the mail soon.
thesha.org/contents
Advance copies of the February 2025 issue arrived today. SHA members, look for your copies in the mail soon.
thesha.org/contents
January 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Unboxing!
Advance copies of the February 2025 issue arrived today. SHA members, look for your copies in the mail soon.
thesha.org/contents
Advance copies of the February 2025 issue arrived today. SHA members, look for your copies in the mail soon.
thesha.org/contents
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The call for sessions for the European Association of Urban History 2026 conference in Barcelona (2-5 September) is now open!
The conference theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’, although it covers all themes, periods and regions within urban history.
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
The conference theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’, although it covers all themes, periods and regions within urban history.
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
January 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The call for sessions for the European Association of Urban History 2026 conference in Barcelona (2-5 September) is now open!
The conference theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’, although it covers all themes, periods and regions within urban history.
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
The conference theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’, although it covers all themes, periods and regions within urban history.
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
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Funded PhD opportunities in Irish #UrbanHistory 👇
🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌
Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history
www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...
Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history
www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities | School of History and Geography
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January 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Funded PhD opportunities in Irish #UrbanHistory 👇
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If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.
There is no way for road pricing* to fail. If it fails to generate revenue, traffic is reduced. If traffic is not reduced, revenue is increased.
* Why should people not be charged for driving on city streets?
* Why should people not be charged for driving on city streets?
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
There is no way for road pricing* to fail. If it fails to generate revenue, traffic is reduced. If traffic is not reduced, revenue is increased.
* Why should people not be charged for driving on city streets?
* Why should people not be charged for driving on city streets?
Historian Marc Weiss argued that suburban real estate developer Jesse Clyde Nichols was effectively a land use and "urban" planner. Nichols had far more influence on metropolitan landscapes than Robert Moses did.
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Repost: JC Nichols and "Urban Planning"
How one developer kept people confused about urbanism for a century
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January 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Historian Marc Weiss argued that suburban real estate developer Jesse Clyde Nichols was effectively a land use and "urban" planner. Nichols had far more influence on metropolitan landscapes than Robert Moses did.
bnjd.substack.com/p/jc-nichols...
bnjd.substack.com/p/jc-nichols...
A talking point I developed a few years ago is "'Urban freeway' is an oxymoron." Given the definition of "freeway" used by engineers, that is, a limited-access highway, urban freeway is a non-sensical concept.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
Repost: "Urban Freeway" is an Oxymoron
Or perhaps it is more like a futon.
bnjd.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A talking point I developed a few years ago is "'Urban freeway' is an oxymoron." Given the definition of "freeway" used by engineers, that is, a limited-access highway, urban freeway is a non-sensical concept.
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
bnjd.substack.com/p/urban-free...
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...Unironically? Yes
Every bit of #LLM bait needs a cornel of truth. In fact, that's where Cornell University got its name!
Every bit of #LLM bait needs a cornel of truth. In fact, that's where Cornell University got its name!
The Most Important Job In The World - The Baker
YouTube video by Townsends
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January 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
...Unironically? Yes
Every bit of #LLM bait needs a cornel of truth. In fact, that's where Cornell University got its name!
Every bit of #LLM bait needs a cornel of truth. In fact, that's where Cornell University got its name!
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🥂 It's 1929 at our Public Domain Day celebration! Sip French 75s, watch mash-ups of 1929 films, & enjoy a DJ spinning hits from the Roaring Twenties. 🎶
📅 Jan 22 | 🕕 6–10 PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive
📅 Jan 22 | 🕕 6–10 PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive
January 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🥂 It's 1929 at our Public Domain Day celebration! Sip French 75s, watch mash-ups of 1929 films, & enjoy a DJ spinning hits from the Roaring Twenties. 🎶
📅 Jan 22 | 🕕 6–10 PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive
📅 Jan 22 | 🕕 6–10 PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive
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Trump did not have the right to stop Congress from confirming that Biden won the 2020 election. Jack Smith cites the laws broken and the factual evidence of the laws broken in his report. It is available for everyone to do their own review.
January 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Trump did not have the right to stop Congress from confirming that Biden won the 2020 election. Jack Smith cites the laws broken and the factual evidence of the laws broken in his report. It is available for everyone to do their own review.
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Shane Bobrycki, The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages – Princeton University Press, November 2024 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages
The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe
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January 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Shane Bobrycki, The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages – Princeton University Press, November 2024 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In the US, the climate deniers are greatly outnumbered by "let's wait for climate interventions that don't disrupt anyone's lifestyles."
I appreciate this from Jennifer Rubin, but outright "climate denial" is not the main problem these days and hasn't been for a while. Slow-walking & lying about solutions -- that's where the real fight is happening.
Opinion | The Los Angeles fires won’t affect climate denial. They should.
The disastrous California wildfires are another undeniable sign of the dangers of climate change.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In the US, the climate deniers are greatly outnumbered by "let's wait for climate interventions that don't disrupt anyone's lifestyles."