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Where in Burque is Adelita? - The Door Edition

My mother put a new door in her den and said that I could have the old one to use when I remodel my house. I love this door. The door itself is plain, but solid, and has the most outrageous hammered iron embellishments. I can't wait to use it in my house.

I love a beautiful door. In my first Where in Burque post, I took a picture of the carved doors at Saggio's. Having eaten there a million times, it wasn't until that day I noticed the doors. There are so many plain and ugly doors that we walk through, sometimes we don't notice the really beautiful ones.

My daughter and I set out to find cool doors. We felt that we shouldn't take pictures of doors that were at private residences - we didn't want to be invasive. All the pictures we took are of doors in public places. When I got home to start working on this post, I was going to write about door metaphors. I decided I wasn't in the mood! Let's just have some fun and see if you recognize any of these really cool doors.

Door #1

Door #2

Door #3

Door #4

Door #5

Door #6

33 Comments

Comment by sophie on March 4, 2009 at 11:07am: I assume that #5 is from a local synagogue. It's beautiful!

Comment by Paula Manning-Lewis on March 4, 2009 at 11:39am: I recognize #s 1,3 &4, but can't for the life of me, tell you where they are!

Comment by Sí Serrano aka psychomom on March 4, 2009 at 11:56am: Knock, knock....

Sorry, I couldn't resist but I really do want to paint my front door cobalt blue.

Comment by My other name is... on March 4, 2009 at 12:21pm: I want to paint my kitchen door #2 blue but my husband laughed and said no.

Such beautiful doors!

Comment by Krista on March 4, 2009 at 12:31pm: #4 is the NHCC, yeah? and I think #2 is Saggio's...maybe? I love the first one; very unassuming.

Comment by misterhinkydink on March 4, 2009 at 1:43pm: #6 is San Felipe de Neri

Comment by jeff on March 4, 2009 at 1:52pm: is #5 the mosque on yale?
that #1 facade is great.

Comment by Patricia on March 4, 2009 at 3:31pm: I might be confused, but is #3 at the back of the Frontier?

Comment by Sarahjmd on March 4, 2009 at 3:53pm: This is cool. I don't know any of them but I'm having fun with the doors and watching you guys guess.