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Fort Amherst is located on the southern side of The Narrow (the entrance to St. John's Harbour). The first lighthouse in this location was built in 1810 and replaced a number of times throughout the years. This little one was build in 1951. Also seen are the remains of gun emplacements and pillboxes built during World War II to defend against U-boats and any uncooperative ships. For those brave enough, apparently you can jump the fence and go down there to explore. Maybe, one of these day days, I'll work up the nerve! ;-)
he stayed in that thing so long, i thought he was stuck!
but then he came out and ran away to freedom.
:*)
Amherst Island in Lake Ontario is west of Kingston and accessible year round by ferry. This happened while waiting on the ferry.
Ive been working on updating my Railroad Depots in Virginia Flickr album and spent several hours riding around the central part of the state yesterday. My first stop was Amherst, VA, where I found the station restored and in wonderful condition. It was a huge improvement from my last visit over 20 years ago www.flickr.com/photos/26352778@N08/6903176712/in/album-72... . It was used by the Southern Railway from 1913 to 1985, and is currently being used by the local Chamber of Commerce.
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When this woman came to shore, she and her dog disembarked delicately onto a flat rock. She said her dog has been going out with her since she was a puppy and is very comfortable on the water. I wondered how she was going to fit the long paddleboard into her compact car. She pulled a plug at the front, and air began escaping. She proceeded to roll it up like an air mattress and simply dropped it into the trunk. Nifty.
Buffalo NY, in the suburb of Amherst
On US 62 (Niagara Falls Blvd)
Gary Pools has been serving the Western New York area since 1958. Now, maybe it's just me, but isn't "poo" something that doesn't really belong on a pool company's sign? LOL
Built in 1924, this Gothic Revival-style Amherst sandstone church was constructed to house the congregation of the Old Stone United Methodist Church, but now houses the non-denominational congregation of the Old Stone Evangelical Church. The three-story building features a stripped-down form of the Gothic Revival style, with a decorative tower featuring large recessed gothic arched openings with two-over-six windows and decorative metal spandrel panels below louvers, a curved rear facade with stepped buttresses, triple windows, recessed stone spandrels, flanked by external stair towers with chamfered corners at either end, a front facade with three gothic arched stained glass windows, a one-story front wing with a large double front door and arched bays, stone buttresses, a two-story side wing with a front stone staircase, and a rear one-story building added in the mid-20th Century that houses additional space for the church. The church housed a methodist congregation until a few decades ago, when the congregation merged with the nearby Amherst United Methodist Church, with the building now housing the nondenominational Old Stone Evangelical Church.
While stopping briefly in Amherst, Virginia, a couple of weeks ago, I noticed some examples of very attractive artwork on the side of this building. According to the marker on the left side of the building and an online article from the local paper, the art was part of a project undertaken by art students at the local high school, with the individual murals honoring notable people in Amherst history. Three of the murals are visible in this shot, and the marker at the left indicates the project was implemented in 2012.
Built in 1939, this Colonial Revival-style building was designed by Louis A. Simon to house the post office for the city of Amherst. The building features a rustic sandstone exterior with a five-bay front facade with an arched front entrance bay with doric columns flanking the central doors, one-over-one windows, a hipped metal roof with a colonial cupola atop the center of the roofline, and a cornice with dentils. The building presently houses Main Street Amherst, a local nonprofit with the mission of boosting the local business community.
A re-edit of a photo that I took over 14 years ago with my Canon PowerShot S60 in the first month that I owned it. The S60 launched me on a decade and a half career as a photographer. Revisiting the image, I de-noised it using a Topaz plugin in Photoshop, made adjustments and applied a lookup table in Luminar 4.
Empty ballast train W087 passing the searchlights at SE Amherst on its way south with a clean rebuild in the lead
Built in 1906 and circa 1894, these Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival buildings were constructed to house a drug store owned by E. H. Nicholl which operated at this location from 1894 until 1910. The older building features a Queen Anne-style sandstone facade with a decorative parapet, rusticated stone blocks and pilasters with horizontal trim banding, stone brackets, and decorative lintels, while the newer building features an orange brick facade with paired doric pilasters framing a large second-story window with decorative transoms, a brick and stone pediment, a decorative stepped parapet, sandstone trim, and one-over-one double-hung windows. The buildings today house a Ben Franklin discount store and an insurance agency, and stand among other historic commercial buildings on Park Avenue in Downtown Amherst.
Amherst Dominion Public Building, 1936 AND First Baptist Church, 1895
The Amherst Dominion Public Building is a large sandstone building built between 1934 and 1936. It served as Amherst's post office from 1936 to 1976. Constructed as part of an active post office building program, the building replaces an original post office building (still standing) that had become overcrowded. Both architect and contractor associated with the Dominion Building were prominent in the history of building and industry, regionally and nationally. Nova Scotian architect, Leslie R. Fairn was one of Canada's most outstanding architects. Fairn's work included the design of courthouses, hospitals, apartment buildings and university buildings. The building's symmetrical front façade, the monumental effect of its dynamic sculptural projecting front façade, and the fact that it was constructed in light-coloured sandstone all identify this structure as part of the Beaux Arts architectural tradition. The Dominion Building now houses the Tantramar Theatre.
The church's core architectural style is Queen Anne Revival, however there are a number of Gothic Revival and Neo-classical elements skillfully blended in. The Queen Anne elements are its asymmetry, the two high curved turreted towers, and the variety of shapes and sizes of its many
windows. High gables, steeply pitched roofs and a variety of roof shapes make the tall, banded towers all the more prominent, and their height is accentuated by their straight tall windows. All the church’s main doorways and many of its windows have the distinct slightly-pointed arch of the Gothic Revival style. The heavy large-scale massing, the rough-cut sandstone walls, and the buttresses that skirt the structure contribute to the over all weight and monumental character of the church. The building was designed by well-known architect Harry H. Mott.