Architectural details like those shown here can be found on many otherwise unpretentious houses in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Although much of the town, especially its commercial property, has suffered from modernizing the appearance of facades, most of the older downtown residences and a few of the businesses preserve interesting decorative touches to eaves, lintels, porches, etc. To bring out the contrast in the dark-painted decorations which were in shadow, I altered the contrast to the point where the walls all but disappear.