Quasi-Urban Block

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #109

There’s a building in downtown College Park, Maryland—on Main Street/U.S. 1/Baltimore Avenue—that’s featured in Chester H. Liebs’s great roadside architecture book Main Street to Miracle Mile.

Liebs offers it as an example of a “taxpayer strip.” These are/were sort of “missing links” between genuine urban blocks and modern strip plazas. Taxpayer strips w…