PM Linkage: Jim Denevan Interview; Chinese New Year Parade Photos; More Photos From Rincon Hill Dog Park; More!

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AM Linkage: Conservatory of Flowers Wedding Crasher; Glorious Fog Photos; All-Door Muni Boarding; More!

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[9/11] Appraisal Photos We Took Before And After

Here’s a few before and after photos we took while inspecting properties for appraisals in downtown Manhattan. I got the idea to share these from Curbed’s post on this (and was taken aback by the unusually nasty reader comments) and from this interesting piece on City Journal called The Vanished Skyline.

< - BEFORE | AFTER -> [click on any photo to expand]

I took the “before” photo from outside the World Financial Center in Battery Park City. I looked up and was blown away with the scale of the towers and the light. I made it a page on my fledgling web site and embedded the graphic in it. The pink “millersamuel.com” logo on the “after” photo was embedded on all our digital photos back in the day. It was really disorienting to take that photo.

We took this photo from the terrace of a downtown apartment a few weeks before and after.

Taken during an appraisal near the UN looking south on 9/10/01 and then a month later I believe.

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AM Linkage: Goodbye, Andronico's; Photos of the Alamo Square Flea Market; Wacky Berkeley Shenanigans; More!

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Artistry: Architizer has truly arresting photos of...

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PM Linkage: Pride Parade History in Photos; SF Art Works Win National Honors; Alexandria Theater Sign Is Back; More!

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Dwelling: Gatsby House: Really Old Listing Photos Reveal Former Grandeur

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, March 10, 2011, by Sarah Firshein Photos via SPLIA via Old Long Island

Land's End, the Sands Point, N.Y., estate rumored to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of Daisy Buchanan's house in The Great Gatsby, has surely seen fairer times. The colonial revival is spending its final days as a decaying, peeling mess as it waits to be razed and turned into a development community. But like all Stanford White-designed properties built during the turn of the 20th century, it once had serious grace and grandeur, as proven by an old listing brochure posted on blog Old Long Island. We're awaiting confirmation of what year it's from, exactly, but it lists the house (as well as its on-grounds caretaker's cottage and two greenhouses) for $2.5M—and that includes "all furniture, drapes, linens, complete service of English threat silver and Baccarat crystal for 48, furnishings in all bldgs." To boot: we're assuming the brochure is from far before November 2009, when Land's End hit the market for $30M. In the mean time, have a look at the really terrific photos above.

UPDATE: Old Long Island estimates the photos are from the '70s or early '80s, before Land's End was purchased in 1983.

· Gatsby House to Become True "Valley of the Ashes" Development [Curbed National]
· When 'Kidd's Rocks'/'Land's End' Was For Sale [Old Long Island]

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Dwelling: Gatsby House: New Photos of Decaying Property REVEALED

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Now that the news of the sad fate of Land's End, the Long Island estate said to be the inspiration for the setting of Daisy Buchanan's parties in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, has shocked and awed preservationists, lovers of literature, and haters of high-end development communities near and far, today the Daily Mail releases some new photos of the neglected property. Built in 1902, the house and its grounds cost owner David Brodsky $4,500 per day to maintain—and it was that hefty $30M price tag that apparently detracted potential buyers. Have a look above.

· Farewell to a golden age: Crumbling $30million 'Great Gatsby' mansion faces demolition... because no one will buy it [Daily Mail]
· Gatsby House to Become True "Valley of the Ashes" Development [Curbed National]

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Tour Oprah&apos;s Home: Aside from a few select photos...

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Celebrity Real Estate: UPDATED: Charlie Sheen Buys Med Manse; Photos REVEALED!

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Word on the street in that bad boy Charlie Sheen is in escrow to purchase a 10,000-square-foot Beverly Hills, Calif., estate from Black Swan producer Mike Medavoy for $7.495M. The home is reportedly for ex-wife Denise Richard and their kids.

UPDATE: The photos splashed across the Internet on Friday were of the wrong property. Correct photos above and after the jump.

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The Printed Page: Fashion Designer Revives Legendary Interiors Photos in Clothes

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It's a normal occurrence for our sister site Racked, but how weird is it to see catwalk-strutting models on Curbed! There's a method behind the mania; today, the folks over at Lonny give airtime to fashion designer Mary Karantzou, whose new collection features '70s interiors shots by lens wizards Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin rendered on fabric. The photos were all taken from the archives of World of Interiors and Arch Digest. None of that "match your outfit to your room!" or "match your room to your outfit!" mumbo-jumbo—but this is hella cool.
· Office Obsession: Mary Karantzou Spring 2011 [Lonny Blog]

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That&apos;s Rather Lovely: Ten Unbelievably Beautiful Photos of Decrepit, Decaying Interiors

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· Rusty Jaw's Photostream [Flickr]

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That&apos;s Rather Lovely: Ten Unbelievably Beautiful Photos of Decrepit, Decaying Interiors

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