Last House Standing
- Words
- Hannah Edwards
The houses in Ben Marcin’s project ‘Last House Standing’ seem oddly misplaced, lost and forgotten. The series reads like a homage to the forgotten solo row house. The Baltimore based self-taught photographers interest ‘in these solitary buildings is not only in their ghostly beauty but in their odd placement in the urban landscape.
+ Read MoreOften three stories high, they were clearly not designed to stand alone like this’. He calls the solo row house an architectural quirk of certain cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Many details that might not be noticed in a homogenous row of twenty attached row houses become apparent when everything else has been torn down. And then there’s the lingering question of why a single row house was allowed to remain upright. Still retaining traces of its former glory, the last house standing is often still occupied.
All images © Ben Marcin
