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Another Farmer's Wife 1930s paper-pieced block (no. 34) and my favourite of the week (and the year so far!) Find out more about this block at the Patchsmith.
Blocks for Hettie K in the Always Bee Learning group. These are "Hobo Quilt" blocks and this block is "Poor Man." They measure 6.5" square.
Blogged - www.marcigirldesigns.com/1/post/2014/04/bee-blocks-and-a-...
These blocks set in at seven and a half inches, so the setting triangles were going to be pretty large. I set in the pink squares to add a little interest to the triangles.
the glass blocks window outside from outdoors of more stunned and amazing of the area of nature area need is looking sharp of the area for the temperature weather of the sunlight of the natural is brighten sunlight at outdoors
Preblock: 37x14"
Postblock: 49x22" and could have gone bigger.
Pretty photos when it's done drying.. and the light is ok. So like, in June ;)
The Presidio of Monterey's Hobson Recreation Center extended its normal operating hours throughout the annual 24-hour block leave shuttle bus program departure period Dec. 18 and 19. The Presidio Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (FMWR) provided refreshments for service members and a place to relax, call home and rest comfortably while waiting for their buses to depart to their flights at San Francisco and San Jose airports. Due to the volume of Presidio service members that depart for block leave every year in December FMWR uses an online ticketing and scheduling for participants to plan and book their shuttle destinations and travel times. A check-in and information desk was set up at the departure site to assist and ensure service members made a smooth connection to their flights. The program is coordinated and run by the Presidio Outdoor Recreation & Leisure Travel Services, but the entire administrative staff of the Presidio FMWR works the 24-hour departure period to ensure participants make it home for the holidays. In January FMWR "reverses" the program so that service members returning to the Presidio are bussed back from the airports safely and affordably.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
Photo by Michael Beaton, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
UP TO eight residential tower blocks once owned by Wirral Council are to be closed.
New owners Wirral Partnership Homes says bringing the towers up to standard, coupled with low occupancy rates, means they are no longer viable.
The blocks earmarked for the axe over the next one to three years are Melrose, Sandbourne, Thornridge (all Moreton), Flambards (Woodchurch) and Thorsway (Rock Ferry).
Five high rise blocks are to be refurbished: Sunningdale (Moreton), Liscard House (Liscard), Brackendale (Woodchurch) and The Towers (Tranmere) with Knowsley Court (Rock Ferry) and Neston Gardens (Birkenhead) being subject to minor remedial work and further review.
Council's cabinet member for housing, Cllr GD, said that times have changed and the desire for high rise living has dwindled.
"Some of these blocks used to have long waiting lists for tenants. Now they can hardly fill them," he said.
On April 12, 2017, a semi-tractor trailer struck the Scottsburg Bridge along Highway 38. The truck bent an important part of the bridge, which had to be repaired by heating and cooling the steel.
A shout out to this creative block/world builder app!
Gorgeous graphic, fast rendering, many worlds with a totally different environment.
With your imagination, you can build a fun roller coaster track, ride and fly a dragon, ride or even kill a wild boar, build and burn down trees etc... If you think you have build a fancy world and would like to share with your friend, just upload the world you've built to the game server so that the rest of the world can rate and download it to look at what you have done, or continue to build on to make a bigger and better world.
Wild Olive provided the free EPP pattern for this cross. I've made a few more since this one and have discovered that I LOVE EPP.
441 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Deane Block is a two-storey commercial masonry building, located on a steeply-sloping corner lot on the north side of Columbia Street at Church Street in New Westminster's historic downtown core.
Heritage Value:
The Deane Block is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of Columbia Street, much of which dates from 1898 and 1913, when New Westminster was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area. Built in 1908-09 as a speculative property for Evans Brown Deane (1857-1950), a Vancouver real estate investor, by 1911 it had been sold to another owner. In addition to four ground floor retail spaces, for a few years the Deane Block housed the Westminster Club, a New Westminster private members club established in 1889 for the social needs of the business and political elite of the area.
Additionally, the Deane Block is valued for its association with its architect, Edwin George William Sait (1867-1949). By 1892, Sait had settled in New Westminster, where he was a long-term resident. He achieved early success following the Great Fire of 1898, but experienced a decline in his career following the collapse of the local economy in 1913.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Deane Block include its:
- location on a corner lot at Columbia and Church Streets, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- form, scale and massing as expressed by its two-storey plus lower level height, flat roof, chamfered corner and rectangular plan
- regular fenestration
From 2009 in Penticton when I was there for a soccer tournament...
Greer Block - 1922
LOCATION
Address # Street Community Postal Cadastral
410-414 Main Street Penticton V2A 5C5 P.I.D. 012-459-551
DESCRIPTION
The Greer Block is a two story cement block commercial building on the west side of Main Street. It has a
false front and Edwardian Classical Revival design elements.
Boundaries
Located on the northern half of the east side of the 400 block of Main Street
Heritage Value
The building is of value because of its location in the 400 block of Main, which not only reflects the
economic boom of the post-war, early 1920’s but also reflects the expansion of Penticton’s business district
as it grew south from its core around the waterfront and the two lower blocks of Main Street and Front Street
historic areas.
The building is also notable for its association with Charles Greer, who was typical of the resilient,
resourceful and opportunistic pioneers who were prevalent in the area during its early period of settlement,
exemplified by the many ventures he undertook including farming a pre-emption near Fairview; commercial
building construction in many south Okanagan communities; the livery business; orcharding; building the first
cement block house in Penticton; road construction; proprietor of an early Ford dealership in Penticton; civic
politics; real estate; and finally the establishment of a business block which bears his name.
The continuity of commercial uses to the present day is a reflection of the continuing economic value of
Main Street to the City, and is illustrated by the varied uses this building has had: holding two stores on the
main floor and a hall upstairs, it was initially home to a children’s wear store, a tea house / sweet’s
confectionary, and a dance hall, and has subsequently been home to the Masons, a meat market, a grocery
store, professional offices for accountants and lawyers, and a dance studio. Currently, the upstairs has been
converted to apartments.
Aesthetically, the building is valued as an example of Edwardian Classical Revival architecture, which has
a symmetrical façade framed by two brick pilasters, with a large central window and two narrower ones on the
second floor, surmounted by a cornice and high pediment on the front façade of the building, reminiscent of
earlier false fronted buildings on the street and the era.
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Munson/Cleland property include:
- Brick pilasters
- Cornice line and pediment
- Original upstairs windows
- Decorative finials above the pediment
- Interlocking rusticated concrete block façade
- Name and date stone
COMMENTS and INFORMATION (not used by registrar)
The Greer Block was associated with Charles Greer who came to Penticton in 1905. He was a business
man involved in many ventures. He had a pre-emption near Fairview and was involved in construction
projects in the south Okanagan, including the Alexandra Hotel in Oliver.
In Penticton, he is the first to have built with concrete, building his house of concrete block construction in
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1907. He was on City Council in its early years and again in the years leading up to his death in 1922. He
was involved in the livery business, road construction, and later became the Ford dealer.
The Greer Block was built during the early 1920's boom period. Main Street businesses were expanding
and several buildings were erected during this period. Unfortunately, Mr. Greer died suddenly of a stroke just
as the Greer Block was being finished. A Mr. Rossum took it over and opened up a confectionary, while a
clothing store opened up on the other half, and a hall on the second floor. Mr. Rossum went bankrupt in
about 6 months, but the building continued to function. The upstairs hall was rented to the Masons for a
period. Other uses have been a bakery, professional offices, a dance studio, a butcher, grocery store.
Mr. Greer died as the construction of the building was nearing its end, and his name stayed with the
building, being left on the name and date stone on the building's façade. Mrs. Greer stayed on in Penticton
after Mr. Greer's death.
Equipment Used: Hasselblad 501CM - 60 mm Distagon
Film & Developer: TMY 400 - D76
Paper & Developer: Ilford Warmtone - Dektol - Selenium
The CP Canada 150 train is stopped on CN's Wharf Spur in the Port of Montreal on a beautiful summer afternoon.
VHR citation
BLOCK ARCADE
Location
280 - 286 COLLINS STREET 96 - 102 ELIZABETH STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
Google Maps and Google Streetview
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H0032
Heritage Overlay Number
HO596
a Level of Significance
Registered
Extent of Registration 1. All the building known as the Block Arcade marked B1 on Diagram 32 held by the Executive Director.
2. All the land marked L1 on Diagram 32 held by the Executive Director, being the land described in Certificate of Titles Vol. 4645 Fol. 875, part of Vol. 9409 Fol. 669, Vol. 9924 Fol. 206, Vol. 9409 Fol. 669 and Vol. 4645 Fol. 874.
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Block Arcade was developed by financier Benjamin Fink. The Collins Street section of the building was completed in February 1892 and is similar in style to the Milano Galleria Vittorio Arcade in Italy. The new shopping arcade was designed by David.C.Askew of the architectural firm Twentyman and Askew. The cost of erection was £46 233. The bluestone footings for the building came from the original structure on the site, the Briscoe & Company Bulk Store. The site of 96-102 Elizabeth Street was purchased by the City Property Company Ltd in January 1892. Architect David Askew was called upon to continue his style for the arcade and this area was completed in October the following year. The Block Arcade comprises of arcade shops with mezzanine levels above for social rooms and offices, shops to Collins Street, Block Place and Elizabeth Street and four levels of office space above. The arcade forms an L-shape with a polygonal planned space with a glazed roof at the corner of the L. The kink in the plan was due to the shape of the original block subdivision and the location of Block Place, the lane behind. Linking the two spaces is an elaborately patterned mosaic floor of tiles, which were imported from Europe. When the arcade was constructed the Building and Engineering Journal noted that the flooring contained the largest area of mosaics yet laid down in Australia. In 1907, scenic artist Philip Goatcher for the Singer Sewing Machine Company decorated the ceiling of their premises on the east corner of the Collins Street entry to the arcade. The other shop to Collins Street, which housed the first Kodak shop in Melbourne contains an elaborate pressed metal ceiling. The facades to Collins and Elizabeth Street are designed in the Victorian Mannerist style with elaborate stucco decoration. Particular facade elements include; triangular and segmental pediments; rustication and an exaggerated cornice with brackets. Features of the upstairs office spaces include timber joinery around lift entries, tessellated tiles to the lobby spaces, elaborate leadlight windows and decorative plasterwork to arches in the corridors. There is also one surviving communal timber telephone box situated in a corridor.
How is it significant?
The Block Arcade is of architectural, aesthetic, social and historical importance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Block Arcade is of architectural and aesthetic importance as an excellent intact example of a shopping arcade. The design draws on early and influential European models and as such is important in its ability to demonstrate the essential and typical qualities of those designs and the continuity of the tradition of covered shopping streets. The Elizabeth and Collins Street facades are fine examples of the Mannerist style demonstrating many of the characteristic elements, such as a combination of triangular and segmental pediments and rustication. The Block Arcade is of architectural and aesthetic significance as it features lavish interior decoration, including an extraordinary mosaic tile floor. Based on the Milan Galleria Vittoria, it has a glass roof over the arcade with a glass dome at is corner. Its internal spaces, with their high quality finishes, have been maintained and the arcade remains a grand and prestigious retailing precinct. Attention to detail has also been carried through to the office spaces on the levels above the arcade.
The Block Arcade is of social and historical importance as the grandest and most fashionable amongst what became an extensive network of retail arcades that provided an alternative pedestrian route to Melbourne's major streets. Many of the arcades constructed in Melbourne before the turn of the century have not survived or have been altered considerably. The Block Arcade is important as an essential element in the social institution of doing The Block. This was a friendly expression referring to the stylish shopping trend of the late 19th century which involved starting in Collins Street at Swanston, then moving west to Elizabeth, north to Little Collins Street and back to Swanston. The Block was the place to be seen and those who frequented the popular thoroughfare, its shops and tea houses were often recorded by caricaturists in the city's social pages.
Year Construction Started 1891
Architectural Style Victorian Period (1851-1901) Mannerist
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place
Municipality MELBOURNE CITY; MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0032 Statement of signficance
What is significant?
The Block Arcade was developed by financier Benjamin Fink. The Collins Street section of the building was completed in February 1892 and is similar in style to the Milano Galleria Vittorio Arcade in Italy. The new shopping arcade was designed by David.C.Askew of the architectural firm Twentyman and Askew. The cost of erection was £46 233. The bluestone footings for the building came from the original structure on the site, the Briscoe & Company Bulk Store. The site of 96-102 Elizabeth Street was purchased by the City Property Company Ltd in January 1892. Architect David Askew was called upon to continue his style for the arcade and this area was completed in October the following year. The Block Arcade comprises of arcade shops with mezzanine levels above for social rooms and offices, shops to Collins Street, Block Place and Elizabeth Street and four levels of office space above. The arcade forms an L-shape with a polygonal planned space with a glazed roof at the corner of the L. The kink in the plan was due to the shape of the original block subdivision and the location of Block Place, the lane behind. Linking the two spaces is an elaborately patterned mosaic floor of tiles, which were imported from Europe. When the arcade was constructed the Building and Engineering Journal noted that the flooring contained the largest area of mosaics yet laid down in Australia. In 1907, scenic artist Philip Goatcher for the Singer Sewing Machine Company decorated the ceiling of their premises on the east corner of the Collins Street entry to the arcade. The other shop to Collins Street, which housed the first Kodak shop in Melbourne contains an elaborate pressed metal ceiling. The facades to Collins and Elizabeth Street are designed in the Victorian Mannerist style with elaborate stucco decoration. Particular facade elements include; triangular and segmental pediments; rustication and an exaggerated cornice with brackets. Features of the upstairs office spaces include timber joinery around lift entries, tessellated tiles to the lobby spaces, elaborate leadlight windows and decorative plasterwork to arches in the corridors. There is also one surviving communal timber telephone box situated in a corridor.
How is it significant?
The Block Arcade is of architectural, aesthetic, social and historical importance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Block Arcade is of architectural and aesthetic importance as an excellent intact example of a shopping arcade. The design draws on early and influential European models and as such is important in its ability to demonstrate the essential and typical qualities of those designs and the continuity of the tradition of covered shopping streets. The Elizabeth and Collins Street facades are fine examples of the Mannerist style demonstrating many of the characteristic elements, such as a combination of triangular and segmental pediments and rustication. The Block Arcade is of architectural and aesthetic significance as it features lavish interior decoration, including an extraordinary mosaic tile floor. Based on the Milan Galleria Vittoria, it has a glass roof over the arcade with a glass dome at is corner. Its internal spaces, with their high quality finishes, have been maintained and the arcade remains a grand and prestigious retailing precinct. Attention to detail has also been carried through to the office spaces on the levels above the arcade.
The Block Arcade is of social and historical importance as the grandest and most fashionable amongst what became an extensive network of retail arcades that provided an alternative pedestrian route to Melbourne's major streets. Many of the arcades constructed in Melbourne before the turn of the century have not survived or have been altered considerably. The Block Arcade is important as an essential element in the social institution of doing The Block. This was a friendly expression referring to the stylish shopping trend of the late 19th century which involved starting in Collins Street at Swanston, then moving west to Elizabeth, north to Little Collins Street and back to Swanston. The Block was the place to be seen and those who frequented the popular thoroughfare, its shops and tea houses were often recorded by caricaturists in the city's social pages.
Source Victorian heritage database: vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/result_detail/730?print=true & vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic_new#detail_places...
Is it any wonder that a geometer loves quilt blocks? These blocks were all pieced by hand and measure 12 inches square plus a seam allowance.
Farmer's Wife 1930s paper-pieced block no. 25. Not a nice block to paper-piece - it took forever and the middle was particularly nasty.
You can find all my Farmer's Wife 1930s quilt blocks over at the Patchsmith's blog.
Block 25 at BIa sector of Birkenau camp (also known as the block of death) was called “waiting room for the gas” (Warteblock für die Vergasung). After chasing all the prisonersback to the camp a special group of the strongest women was formed and forced to collect all remaining corpses of women who had died under the blows of the SS and female guards during the roll call. The corpses were placed in the courtyard of block 25.
Hand printing fabric is a time consuming process. This man in Jaipur, India prints one color at a time and then adds other color with different blocks.
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Muscatine, Iowa; built in 1854. Only two sections remain of what was once a five-section block. The other three sections were demolished in 1949.
Winter windows looking out during the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022. Buffalo, New York.
Blizzard conditions with up to 70 mph winds, heavy snow, and whiteout visibility lasted for 36 consecutive hours on 12/23 and 12/24/22. Wind driven snowcover ranged from bare ground to drifts greater than 6 feet in height throughout the neighborhood. Major streets had access restored by late 12/26, side streets had access by late 12/27, and mostly clear by 12/28. Many snow piles from cleared snow reached 10 to 20 feet in height.