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Daniel Cantwell

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Registered architect. Municipal musings, mainly.

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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
History does not repeat itself but, perhaps, it rhymes.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I observe that the Venice Biennale is doing the ageism again. #architecture #biennale
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A Guide to New York State's Vacationlands New York Central Railroad circa 1948 #passengerrail #newyorkstate streamlinermemories.info/NYC/NYC48NYS...
A map of New York State showing vacation spots served by the New York Central Railroad. The Catskills, Adirondacks and Finger Lakes are especially called out.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A Delightful Summer Resort. (Nota bene: Cohasset, MA has four commuter rail stations)
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
'The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends.' ~ Abigail Adams #bunkerhillday www.masshist.org/publications...
Image of Charlestown Ma showing the locations of military operations at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
Swett, S. (1826). Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle [Map]. Retrieved from https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3t947b90p
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'd rather take the train, but overnight, between NYC and Montreal.
Circa 1950s it was possible to take an overnight train between Montreal and NYC as this Delaware and Hudson condensed schedule shows. The Laurentian was a day train and the Montreal Limited was an overnight train between the two cities.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It all makes sense now !
Kings views of New York, published in the early 1900s proposed or predicted skyscrapers and flying machines with fantastical drawings.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
'The pair ended up painting the outside of an old house in colors approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review — but in a camouflage pattern, which was hardly what the preservationists had in mind.' #painting #architecture www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/a...
In 1991 a 'single house' in Charleston South Carolina painted in historically approved house paint in a camouflage pattern. For more description click link to the article.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Monon Corridor, you say ? #Indiana
A map of the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisvile Railroad, also known as the Monon Railroad, that operated freight and passenger rail service throughout Indiana.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
They accepted CIAO, ROTI, HARICOT, and RICOTTA
CRAIC not accepted by the NYT spelling bee.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good night.
The crown of the Chrysler Building illuminated at night.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Big Arches and such. #architecture www.ribaj.com/culture/seve...
A monumental parabolic arch,
Arco Imperiale, EUR, final project, Adalberto Libera, 1940-43
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Post a ship that's not Star Trek or Star Wars.
A travel poster for the SS Leviathan, the Largest Ship in the world in the early 1900s
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
1. Their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other;...
Print copy of the Atlantic Charter
Text at the link in the comments
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Gimbel Holiday Book 1915 #cybermonday2025
Image shows a hearth with holiday stockings hung by the chimney with care.
Gimbel Brothers department store
New York - Philadelphia 'All the new handkerchief ideas at Gimbels'
Gimbel Brothers department store
New York - Philadelphia 'Very worthy gifts to please the athletes'
Gimbel Brothers department store
New York - Philadelphia 'These gifts avoid the beaten path of usualness'
Gimbel Brothers department store
New York - Philadelphia
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The principals of McKim, Mead & White (left to right): William Rutherford Mead, Charles Follen McKim, and Stanford White
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Bronx botanicals #photography #newyorkbotanicalgarden
Chrysanthemum displays at the New York Botanical Garden. Chrysanthemum displays at the New York Botanical Garden. Chrysanthemum displays at the New York Botanical Garden. A golden leaved ginko at the New York Botanical Garden ready to shed its fall foliage.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
According to my timeline, the next Ken Burns documentary should be based on the instructive 'Boston, a Topographical History' (third edition, out of print, but available).
Image: Cover of 'Boston, a Topographical History' image shows a scene from Georgian era and early 21st Century Boston. 

Synopsis text via Abe Books:

'This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city.

About the Authors

The late Walter Muir Whitehill was the Director of the Boston Athenaeum.

Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.'
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Travel right Day or Night
Travel right, Day or Night 
Chicago and Northwestern advertising blotter 
for the 400 Daylight train and the Northwestern Limited night train 
Between Chicago and St Paul/Minneapolis  circa 1950
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Les jeux sont faits #NYC #NYCvotes
A new york city I voted sticker
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New York City #Halloween
Halloween display of skeletons tableau of a skeletal dog walker and their skeletal charges on leashes.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
'Facts are stubborn things;...'
    The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings New York City.
No Kings NYC, Times Square
No Kings NYC, Times SquareNo Kings NYC, Times SquareNo Kings NYC, Times Square
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Vought 'em out !
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Unlikely.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
World Trade Center from Johnson Avenue. Jersey City, New Jersey, October 1972. Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. digital.library.yale.edu/catalog/2036...
A view of the World Trade from Jersey City. The Woolworth Tower is framed in between the two towers of the original World Trade Center.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Why Soybeans Have Become The Second Largest Crop In The U.S. www.forbes.com/sites/steven...
A chart created from data provided by USDA-NASS shows soybeans as the second most planted crop in the USA (85.5 million acres) and corn as the most planted crop in the USA (91.5 million acres)
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Post your dream ride
An image of the Twentieth Century Limited, which maintained a 16-hour overnight express schedule between New York City and Chicago.The schedule of the Twentieth Century Limited, which maintained a 16-hour overnight express schedule between New York City and Chicago. Westbound leaving New York City at 6pm and arriving  Chicago at 9am the next morning. Eastbound departing Chicago at 4pm with a 9am arrival at New York City's Grand Central Station.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Larkin Company made much of its new administration building in 1918. #architecture #buffalo archive.org/details/1918... via @internetarchive
'Your Trip Thru The Larkin Factories' - published by the Larkin Company 1918. Multiple people on the cover with a tour guide. Larkin Administration Building, designed, constructed 1903–1906, now demolished, at Buffalo New York. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. Exterior of the building. Interior view of the main court of the Larkin Administration Building, designed, constructed 1903–1906, now demolished, at Buffalo New York. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.Larkin Administration Building, designed, constructed 1903–1906, now demolished, at Buffalo New York. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. Interior views showing various department, mail room and order rooms.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Non! Nous avons le vrai hôtel de ville de Boston à la maison!
Sainte Marie de La Tourette designed by Le Corbusier.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The Carbon Footprint of Passenger Transport
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Battle of Bunker Hill, on this day in 1775 #rev250 www.masshist.org/features/bun...
A plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill, showing the Town of Boston and the Town of Charlestown and the battle lines on the day. 
Transcription: https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=801&img_step=1&pid=39&noalt=1&br=1&mode=transcript#page1
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
1. Too flat.The flatness and lack of depth found on modern buildings prevents surfaces that light and shadows can play on.

2. Too plain. A lack of ornamentation leads to boring buildings. Even everyday buildings should incorporate intricate designs.

3. Too straight. Straight lines at scale create repetitive horizontality, at odds with nature, where nothing has straight lines or right angles.

4. Too shiny. Smooth, flat materials like metal and glass become desensitising when used too densely, providing nothing for our senses to latch on to.

5. Too monotonous. Modern buildings that take the form of rectangles made up of smaller rectangles appear both monotonous at a distance and closer up.

6. Too anonymous. Buildings with no sense of personality or place. A far cry from buildings that used to tell a story and celebrate their surroundings.

7. Too serious. Buildings that are too intimidating, evoking negative emotions.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New Haven Railroad, New York and Cape Cod, day and overnight, summer schedule, 1937. #traintwitter #capecodtrain #capecod #transit #infrastructure #summerbyrail
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Certainly You Can Send POSTAL TELEGRAMS by Telephone.
Certainly you can send
POSTAL TELEGRAMS
by Telephone
Just lift your telephone receiver and say “Postal Telegraph” to send your telegrams, cablegrams or radiograms.
Postal Telegraph has centered its services to the Hamptons in its modern, well appointed office at 72 Main Street, Southampton, At this office are available all the special ser¬ vices that Postal Telegraph has provided. Here, too, you can obtain choice seats for any New York theatre. The theatre ticket number is Southampton 1680, and special charge accounts for this service can be arranged by calling this number.

Postal Telegraph
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Summer Stock
A program advetisement for The Hampton Players a theater company in Southampton New York. Ninth summer season, four productions (to be named later)
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Some Chicago. #chicago
The gothic styled former Chicago Tribune tower.Claes Oldenberg's 'Batcolumn' in front of the Harold Washington Social Security Administration Building at 600 West Madison Street near downtown ChicagoThe rear façade of a brick building with a water tower seen from the platform at the Lasalle Street Station.Two metra suburban commuter rail trains standing at the Lasalle Street station
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This guy
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Yes. Yes, indeed you did. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Kansas presidential election results 2024.
More in linked article.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
 New York Senator Chuck Schumer (L), Cardinal Timothy Dolan (C) and former President Donald Trump are seen at the 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on October 17, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Who ? This guy ?
 New York Senator Chuck Schumer (L), Cardinal Timothy Dolan (C) and former President Donald Trump are seen at the 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on October 17, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I think it's tacky to stage a faux negotiation/photo-op whilst attending someone's funeral.
Norman Rockwell's freedom of expression poster. A man is freely expressing himself in a public forum.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Patriots Day 2025. #nyc #spotted
A discarded christmas tree on the sidewalk of a new york avenue. Spotted on Saturday, April 19.
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Daniel Cantwell @danielhcantwell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
April 19, 2025, New York City. #nyc #protest #resist #50501 #DueProcess
Protestors gathered outside of the New York Public Library 42nd Street main library building. An upside down American flag is being waved.Protest sign while marching on Fifth Avenue reads 'Due Process for EveryoneMarch on 42nd street and fifth avenue. The Chrysler Building is seen two blocks away.
Signs read Hands off Student Visas and
Hands off our Democracy A flag sign on Fifth Avenue and a skyscraper behind 
The sign reads 'Pro America. Anti-Trump'
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