The scaffolding is coming down at 143 Spring Street , the 1818 Federal-era building taken over and extensively renovated by footwear company Crocs, and our history-loving homey Lost City has the pictures. The biggest change (other than the building going from selling BBQ to rubber sandals) is the re-bricked south wall , which Lost City thinks looks “a bit antiseptic, a tad too scrubbed clean . Is it me, or does that brick wall look like it could be on the side of a brand new condo in Queens?” Racked seems to agree, calling the botoxed beauty the ” Nicole Kidman of Federal-era architecture .” Ouch! Still looks better than what’s going to be displayed on the inside, no? Here’s how the building looked back in the Tennessee Mountain days: · Crocs Store Looking a Little Over-Scrubbed [Lost City] · Historic Spring Street Corner Goes Crazy for Crocs [Curbed]
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