Moorish Architecture v. European RE-CONstruction.

In preparation for the Spanish-American War, troops mobilize at the Lucas County Armory (old Moorish Castle) on Spielbush Avenue in Downtown Toledo in 1898. Photo courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/

Islam Family,

When the veil is pierced, vision is unobstructed. The picture above is of the Armory in old Downtown Toledo in 1898. Look at the architecture. Do you see all the Moorish arches? Europeans want you to believe that they built this building in 1891. As we explore European RE-CONstruction in America,  I will show you Moorish architecture versus European construction, and in the process show you that Europeans simply just moved into our buildings.

The back of the photo reads “the armory – built 1891 – burned 1934 – Photo in early 1900’s Spielbusch at Orange.” From the University of Toledo, “Toledo Armory” (2016). Local History Files. Paper 173. http://utdr.utoledo.edu/local-history-files/173

Look at the existing structures compared to the newer ones. Clearly two different styles of building. The most notable feature missing the arches. There are no arches anywhere in the newer structures. Triangle roofs on box shape structures. No circular domes or parapets. Now look at first picture from 1898. You see the poles, but where are the power lines?  

Photo: Stephen Kelley, 1977.

Adams County, Toledo Ohio, log house owned by a Samuel Page Cluxton (born 1838) in 1880. Now compare this building to the Armory picture. Are you telling me that the same people who built this building are the same people who built a castle in downtown Toledo? The building's date of construction is unknown, but it was owned in 1880... and even at in its finest condition... it's clear to see this is completely two different building techniques. Shoddy construction and not even one arch. 

Left: Floor plan for Cluxton Log House. Right: Reconstructed in Sketchup from floor plan. What does this look like to you? The same floor plan with interlocking walls to make it a larger building right? From just this illustration, it is clear to me that Europeans weren't building the structures we see in pictures of pre 1900's America... or even for a long time after, but let's keep it moving.

"Alleged" Early FBI Field Office, Chicago, Circa 1900.

If this was an EARLY FBI Field Office, what was it before? Once again, look at the evidence in the picture. The dome, the arches, and the columns. All features of Moorish architecture. 

Now look at the buildings in the background. Square buildings with no arch windows... yet the one building to the left of the field office has arch windows on the 2nd and top floors. Can you see the difference? 

Moving on.

The Capitol Building is in the background. Now look at the buildings in the foreground? 

The people who built the Capitol building were clearly not the same people building the town. Construction on the Capitol building started in 1793... allegedly, yet in ​1865, the quality of the structures in the foreground isn't reminiscent of earlier work. So you have to ask yourself... between 1793 and 1865... who were the people building the city of D.C.? Surely wasn't the people who were building before the arrival of Europeans. 

Capitol building in 1861. Look at the green arrow and ​circle at the top of the building. Clearly they are ADDING on to the existing structure. Who built this? It looks nothing like the construction underneath... and is clearly made of red brick.

Now look at the green arrow at the bottom... who built this? What is this? Less than one hundred feet away they are buidling with perfection, and this shed like buildng is on site? In 1861? Looks like the engineering skill of that Cluxton log house... to me. Remember, they allegedly started buiding the Capitol in 1793. Somebody lying.

First look at the size of the Capitol, and then look at the size of the other structures. Miniature in comparison. Now look at the green arrows. Spires and a dome. Why don't the other buildings around it mimic the same architecture?

Once again, look the size of the Smithsonian (circled in red) and the size of the buildings in Murder Bay. Now look at the green circles. Zoom in. More domes right? Now look at the buildings in Murder Bay. None of these structures mimic the architecture of the Smithsonian... in size or appearance. Not one dome on one building.

This photo is from 1855. So you mean to tell me that prior it 1855 they were building structures like the Smithsonian and the Capitol, but in the 1850's... they started building like what we see in Murder Bay? Why? Lol.

​Are you starting to see the real picture now?