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364 Water Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Holland Block is a three storey plus basement mixed-use flatiron Victorian Italianate masonry building with retail areas on the ground floor. It is located on the western edge of the historic district of Gastown, on a triangular lot at the convergence of Cordova and Water Streets.
Heritage Value:
Gastown is the historic core of Vancouver, and is the city's earliest, most historic area of commercial buildings and warehouses. The Holland Block is valued as an early Gastown commercial building and hotel, representative of the area's mix of uses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Vancouver emerged as western Canada's predominant commercial centre. Hotels such as this provided both short and long-term lodging, serving primarily those who worked in the seasonal resource trades such as fishing and logging. Many of these hotels had combined functions of commercial services on the ground floor and lodging rooms on the upper floors, which contributed to the lively street life in Gastown.
The Holland Block is valued for its architecture as a fine example of the Victorian Italianate style from the late nineteenth century, illustrating how popular architectural styles were used by the hotel business to market a progressive image. The building was constructed in 1891-92 for James M. Holland, an early real estate developer, to take advantage of a wedge-shape lot that allowed the ground-level retail stores access to two street frontages. The Holland Block is also valued as evidence of the influence of American architecture, as illustrated by design elements such as the repetitive bay windows that provide increased light and space in the second and third-floor rooms. Also of significance are the ground floor cast iron columns, manufactured by B.C. Iron Works, which demonstrate the use of prefabricated elements that enabled large storefront windows that maximized merchandising display space and took advantage of natural light.
The landmark location and flatiron shape of the Holland Block marks the western boundary of Gastown. This unusual lot was created when the subdivisions adjacent to the original 1870 Granville Townsite survey were oriented to different compass directions. Until the north side of Water Street was filled in at the turn of the nineteenth century, this site would have faced the waterfront across the street.
Source: City of Vancouver, Heritage Planning Street Files
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Holland Block include:
- landmark location at the western edge of Gastown, at the convergence of Water and Cordova Streets, in close proximity to the waterfront of Burrard Inlet and the Canadian Pacific Railway yard
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- form, scale and massing, as exemplified by its three storey height, flat roof and flatiron shape, resulting from the converging relationship of the two streets
- masonry construction: rough-dressed sandstone piers at the ground floor level; brick cladding above with flush-struck mortar joints
- repetitive double-height semi-octagonal bays, clad in wood with formed sheet metal cladding on the curved base
- fenestration: double-hung 1-over-1 wood-sash windows on the upper floors; and large rectangular storefront windows with wood-sash storefronts
- wide projecting wood-clad cornice with sheet metal edges and flashings, with large decorative scroll-cut brackets between each bay
- prefabricated elements such as the storefront cast iron columns, with 'B.C. Iron Works' maker's stamps
- entry at front corner to basement level that extends in areaways under the sidewalks on both Water and Cordova Streets
- entry to the upper floors from Cordova Street
- surviving interior features such as original room configuration
The Buhl Building (c.1913) Pittsburgh, PA. This is one of my favorite buildings downtown. The facade is being restored, and a Depression-era first-floor alteration is being removed. The blue and cream terra cotta tiles are meant to evoke the popular Wedgewood Jasperware china patterns.
View Large to see the patterns better.
Ambasada Litwy, Uus, Tallinn, 5 października 2016 r.
Ulica Uss była pierwszą ulicą zbudowaną poza murami obronnymi Tallinna. Barokowy budynek zajmowany od 1995 r. przez Ambasadę Litwy jest najznamienitszą budowlą na tej ulicy. Powstał w 1751 r., ale piwnice i parter pochodzą ze starszego XVII-wiecznego budynku. Budynek, w którym odbywało się sortowanie tkanin, był własnością bogatych kupców i mieszczan. Od 1876 r. do 1988 r. w budynku mieściła się szkoła.
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Embassy of Lithuania, Uus, Tallinn, October 5, 2016
Uss street was the first street built outside the Tallinn city walls. The Baroque building which since 1995 has been occupied by the Embassy of Lithuania is the most distinguishable building in the street. It was built in 1751 but it incorporated basement and ground floor of an older 17th-century structure. The building which was used for sorting fabric was a property of rich merchants and burghers. From 1876 to 1988 a school was in the building.
Do arquiteto italiano Joaquín Toesca. Construído entre 1786 a 1812 e convertido na sede do governo Chileno em 1845.
Rosa Parks' childhood home. Abbeville, AL
I didn't see the dragonfly until I opened the photo up on the computer.
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On the 15th November 2018 I decided to take a walk through the centre of the city of Glasgow. There are so many points of interest that it can be difficult to settle on what it is you want to capture from a walking style photoshoot. On this one, I decided I wanted to capture a typical day in Glasgow as seen by the many people who pass through it but maybe never have the time nor inclination to stop for a moment and actually take in the surroundings.
This small series of images show a very interesting building which looks like it has long since gone out of use in the Charing Cross / Dowanhill area featuring a large bust at the front of the roof, reflections from the window of a coffee shop on Ingram Street, The Gallery of Modern Art, The Cameron Memorial Fountain which has a great story to it, and the long since closed and out of use Charing Cross Victorian Toilets, so you may find yourself feeling needy while seeking another loo somewhere.
It seems like the neatest things in Cleveland, TN have the Cragmiles name on it, and so it is with this house along Ocoee St., not far from the center of town. Today the house is used as the History and Archives branch of the county Library system, which contains significant records about the Civil War and Reconstruction years in Bradley County and East Tennessee.
The home was built in 1866, when business leader P. M. Craigmiles announced the beginning of post-Civil War recovery in Cleveland with the construction of this impressive Italianate-style brick home. Today, the building is on the National Registry of Historic Places