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This is great! It shows the Studebaker factory/showroom building (built in 1885) before it added some stories and became the Fine Arts Building (in 1898). (The floors behind the arched windows were the showrooms for Studebaker horse-drawn carriages, and the smaller windows above were for the assembly of the carriages.) You can also see that Adler & Sullivan's Auditorium Building had not gone up yet, to the left.

Viewers interested in the modern-day history of this building may be interested in the following illustrated post: "The Fine Arts Gets a Face-Lift" on the website Celia Her City. I appreciate Cornell's making this magnificent photograph available online. Susan Barsy, PhD

Irina Hynes Susan Barsy Thank you for your contributions!

Nos. 12-13 & 14-15 Parks Road, North Oxford, seen from north east. Built in 1868 and 1869, architect(s) unspecified, Semi-detached houses on the Keble Road Triangle, called "South/North Grove" (Nos. 12/13) and "East View" (Nos. 14/15). The two remaining of originally four Victorian buildings on this section of Parks Road. Though no informations are available about the architects, Nos. 12-13 can be attributed to Frederick Codd, whose designs at 2 Bevington Rd and 58 Woodstock Rd are identical in style and workmanship. Nos. 14-15 represent a semi type which is quite common in this area, similar buildings can be found near Museums Rd and on Blackhall Rd, and particularly on Winchester Road. No. 15 was later enlarged at the north side, with additional windows and a chimney, furthermore attaching an extension at the north west corner. Everything else looks today almost like on this photograph, just 150 years older. A blue plaque at No. 12 notes today that this was the home of Novelist Joyce Cary from 1920 until his death in 1957. In 1963, Oxford University's Department of Theoretical Physics, headed by Prof. Rudolf Peierls, moved into Nos. 12 to 14. At that time the Victorian houses were already surrounded by modern buildings of the developing Science Area. Today, both buildings are housing offices and laboratories of the Department of Materials. The houses - not occupied yet - look brand new on this photograph, as if the last brick was set moments ago, the site not completely being cleaned up, thus the date of the photograph should also be around 1869. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Town Plan of Oxfordshire XXXIII.15.7 (1876), National Library of Scotland - Internet Archive (archive.org)

Roughly modelled on this one in Sussex, UK....