Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: Washington Street

The American Bank Building is a 15-floor building in Portland, Oregon, U.S. It stands 63 metres (207 ft) tall, and was built in 1913. The building was the tallest in the city for 14 years until surpassed by the Public Service Building in 1927. Designed by A. E. Doyle, it is located at 621 SW Morrison Street, and was formerly known as the Northwestern National Bank Building. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The Hotel Vintage Plaza, formerly the Imperial Hotel and The Plaza Hotel, is a historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Construction began in 1892, and the Imperial Hotel opened in March 1894. The building is in the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. It has also been known as the Wells Building, after one of its builders, George F. Wells. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

In 18th and early 19th century America, traditional burlesque productions were travesties or satires. The modern burlesque, a broadly humorous theatrical entertainment of a more earthy character, began to develop in the late 19th century. The tried-and-true formula combined ethnic comics, variety acts and sketches with a chorus line of girls in tights, led by female stars known as soubrettes. Later more risqué belly dancers, known as "cooch" or "hootchy-kootchy" dancers, were added. While some variety acts played at both vaudeville and burlesque houses, the difference in underlying principles has been described as "one of night and day," with burlesque being "all the things vaudeville wanted no part of." One of only two remaining Boston theater associated with burlesque is the Globe, which still stands at 690 Washington Street. The Globe was built by Weber and Fields, who at the turn of the century were the most successful producers of "clean" burlesque. They were the most famous comedy team of their day and toured the country with their own stock productions, which were able to attract first-class talent. Their productions harked back to the travesties of previous generations. The Globe was designed by noted Boston architect Arthur Vinal and opened on Sept 14, 1903. The Weber and Fields partnership dissolved in 1904 but the theater continued to attract quality productions. In the early 1910s, the Globe was producing all-star vaudeville. Over the years, it was used for drama, musical comedy, vaudeville, burlesque, and films. Major stars who appeared there included James K. Hackett, Weber and Fields, Lillian Russell, Al Jolson, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, and Gypsy Rose Lee. In 1947 the old Globe burlesque house was renamed Center Theatre and devoted itself to the screening of B movies. The auditorium of the Globe now houses a Chinese restaurant and a Chinese grocery store. Although the grocery store has totally altered the ground floor, most of the decor survives in the former balcony area upstairs, which houses the restaurant. The newly constructed second floor extends through the proscenium arch, which provides a rather more lavish decor than is typical in most diners!

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There was a time, more than two centuries ago, when a narrow neck of land, barely 40 feet wide, was all that connected downtown Boston – then known as the Shawmut Peninsula – to the mainland. The peninsula, originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km2) in area, more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts, a feature of the history of Boston throughout the 19th century. Reclamation projects began in 1820 and continued intermittently until 1900 and created the Boston neighborhoods of the South End, Back Bay, and Fenway-Kenmore. The Back Bay Fens, a freshwater urban wild in the latter area, is a remnant of the salt marshes that once surrounded Shawmut Peninsula. Although this project eliminated the wetland ecosystem that existed there at the time and would be impossible under modern environmental regulations, it was considered a great boon to the community for two reasons. Firstly, it eliminated the foul-smelling tidal flats that had become polluted with sewage. Secondly, it created what is now some of the most valuable real estate in New England. LandWave is a public artwork that marks the site of the historic Neck to the Shawmut Peninsula. Its creators describe it as a metaphor of land that was once water. Created by artists Shauna Gillies-Smith, Michael Kilkelly and France Cormier, among others, LandWave runs 130-feet in length, and includes two separate waves. On one side of each wave, a gradient of blue tiles spill over the surface, creating a reflective "ocean." On the other side, a collection of just-bloomed purple flowers peek their way past fresh mulch. At night, the crest of the wave, lined with soft, blue, LED bulbs, lights up.

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