Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Ruins

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor bilbao58.

There was always something strangely beautiful about the underside of the Southwest Freeway elevated structure that used to cut through Montrose. Driving underneath it, lines of concrete arches stretched off seemingly as far as the eye could see in both directions — it always made us think of a cathedral, or maybe one of those Roman buildings with their arched arcades. (Yeah, we know, it was really just holding up the freeway, but we like to be exotic sometimes.) The new trench freeway is much better-looking at street level, but we admit that we kinda miss the arches.

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