The Glory of Regional Silurian Dolostone, Part 14: The Old Waukesha County Courthouse from Another Angle, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA (1894)
This overall view primarily shows off the Courthouse's eastern elevation. The photos following will offer close-ups of this side of the structure.
For the lover of the Richardsonian Romanesque, not to mention for the geologist, this building presses all the right buttons. While it's obviously derived from the European Romanesque, there's something quintessentially American about this design ethic, and it harmonizes remarkably well with both the urban and rural landscapes of this country. And where in particular would the built environment of the Midwest be without it?
While this style is often at its most powerfully chthonic when it uses dark-tinted rock (Lake Superior Brownstone, for example), it also works remarkably well in lighter tones, too. Here, for instance, the locally quarried Waukesha Area Dolostone makes a very effective rock-faced ashlar.
The other photos and descriptions in this series can be found at Glory of Silurian Dolostone album.
The Glory of Regional Silurian Dolostone, Part 14: The Old Waukesha County Courthouse from Another Angle, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA (1894)
This overall view primarily shows off the Courthouse's eastern elevation. The photos following will offer close-ups of this side of the structure.
For the lover of the Richardsonian Romanesque, not to mention for the geologist, this building presses all the right buttons. While it's obviously derived from the European Romanesque, there's something quintessentially American about this design ethic, and it harmonizes remarkably well with both the urban and rural landscapes of this country. And where in particular would the built environment of the Midwest be without it?
While this style is often at its most powerfully chthonic when it uses dark-tinted rock (Lake Superior Brownstone, for example), it also works remarkably well in lighter tones, too. Here, for instance, the locally quarried Waukesha Area Dolostone makes a very effective rock-faced ashlar.
The other photos and descriptions in this series can be found at Glory of Silurian Dolostone album.