Little buildings that shouldn’t have been built…

…but I’m really glad they were, because they have such character.

There are quite a few of these little oddities around…they’re really not structurally sound, just squeezed into a space between two “real” buildings, attached to the walls like barnacles. They don’t have much in the way of a well-built roof–they’d never get past the building inspector, today–and they tend to collapse, as this one did.

I can remember, when I first moved here, when this one was a quite lovely upscale little antiques shop. Now it is truly an “antique shop”–and on its way to destruction. This sketch was done a year or so ago…now it’s boarded up and the plywood is not really all that interesting to sketch. I have to wonder what’s going to happen to it…it had SO much charm.

This one was to have been made into a Missouri Wines shop, but the owner was over-extended, so it, too, is vacant. They DID get a start on rehabbing it, though, so it’s in better shape. (Anybody want to start a wee art gallery?)

You could see the sky through the ceiling on this one, too, until they began to rehab it…