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A hatted woman sits on a balcony, looking away out over the Plaza de Mayo, the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, and the city beyond.

It looks like the sort of thing taken by one of the French photographers, but in fact it is by a total amateur: Henry Dart Greene, the son of the Californian architect Henry Mather Greene (of Greene & Greene).

From 1928 to 1931, Dart Greene worked for the Argentine Fruit Distributors Company, founded by the Southern Railway to make use of the individual smallholdings long its line.

Upon his death, Dart Greene’s papers were deposited in the library of the University of California at Davis including this photograph from his time in Argentina.

While the building it’s taken from has been demolished and replaced with a bank, most of what you see beyond is still there.

Published at 11:45 am on Tuesday 24 November 2020. Categories: Architecture Argentina Tags: , , , .
Comments

You do find the most amazing things Cusack.
We are of course all great fans of the splendid Greene & Greene houses which grace Pasadena. I would suggest that the scion of such a family would never be a “total amateur” when turning his hand to any artistic endeavour.

Allow me to correct your incongruously respectful memorial of David Dinkins – “106th and worst mayor of New York City” is what you meant to write, surely?
Not counting the present grotesque incumbent of course.

— L G Clark 25 Nov 2020 4:19 pm

Dinkins was only the second-worst mayor. He was well-intended, unlike the current incumbent of Gracie Mansion who is definitely the worst.

DiBlasio apparently decided to run for president because he was bored of being mayor. Imagine being bored with being mayor of “the greatest city on earth”?

— Andrew Cusack 1 Dec 2020 4:14 pm
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