Unique Houses of Waterloo Region

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What I could never understand is how it's even remotely possible that I'm the only person who thinks that in 2015, houses should look futuristic, not like they have for the last several hundred years.  Why don't we have concrete cubes?  Why don't we have white shiny surfaces? Why on earth do we still have crown moulding and gingerbreading?!??!?!  Arrrrrrghhhh!!!

This.

Part of the problem is that we don't have examples of what is possible. The house of 237 Mary St. is one example of what we could moving towards. In many ways we've moved backwards. Most people today would reject a Lloyd Wright house as too modernistic even though his iconic Fallingwater was built in 1935. But cheap faux plastic stormshutters (installed upside down) are always in style.