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Non-descript, vacant Allston house turned into giant piece of art

By adamg on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 9:04am
House as art in Allston

Fresh coat of paint. Photo by Turlach MacDonagh.

Designboom gives us a tour of 273 Western Ave. in Allston, which a pair of Baltimore artists used as a canvas. The house in more boring days.

Earlier:
A different breed of house painters in Jamaica Plain.

Neighborhoods: 
Allston
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Western Avenue


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Comments

By Ari O on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 9:33am.

But hopefully it's only temporary. That house would look even better as four or six units of actual housing.

By Suldog on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 9:34am.

I see that building, while driving by, several times a week. I had no idea what it was supposed to be until now. Cool.

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By BlackKat on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 10:56am.

Zoned commercial and was the site of a decrepit foam mattress distributor or retailer. Hopefully it's a teardown so some more dense and appropriate housing can be built there, perhaps with ground floor commercial space still.

By ElizaLeila on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 12:26pm.

I'd bought some foam for furniture re-work a while ago and was planning for more, in the future.

I'll have to find another foam retailer, then.

The owner made me laugh, mostly because I was prepared for gruffness from the Yelp reviews, I love shops/shop owners like that, when I know to expect tough personalities. Well, if they know their stuff, of course. If they don't and they're jerks? Nope.

By Kaz on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 2:26pm.

Ok, I drove by this the other day for the first time in a while and thought "Ah...a homeowner lost their mind".

Interesting to know it's actually public art instead.

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 07/03/2017 - 10:28pm.

Church of LSD?

By avv on Wed, 07/05/2017 - 1:19am.

Anyone know what happened to the owners/business? They were there for so long.

By anon on Wed, 07/05/2017 - 11:32am.

wondering that too.. Of course you know Harvard probably owns all that land so it was something to do until they turn it into something useless. I did buy foam from there before.