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Preston, Lancashire
The Corn Exchange was built to provide a market hall and a venue for meetings and exhibitions. In 1882 it became the Public Hall.
The Corn Exchange was completed in 1824 for the town’s wheat, flour, butter and cheese markets. In 1853 a glass roof was added and the fish, egg and poultry markets were moved here from the Market Square. The building became a venue for fairs, arts and science exhibitions, public meetings and temperance tea parties. After the building of a new covered market the Corn Exchange became the Public Hall, which could hold up to 3500 people.
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This building replaced the hospital destroyed in the Great Quake of 1906. A new modern hospital replaced this building in 1974. Health Care Ministry of the Sisters of Mercy and Dignity Health System.
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Headed to the Grand Hilton in Seoul over the New Years Eve weekend with the little lady. Let me tell you, that place is SWANKY. This is the view from the balcony of our real hotel room at the Hilton Grand Suite just across the way. Our building shared all the amenities of the Grand Hilton, but for a fraction of the room cost. Score for us!
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Stephen Harris House, 135 Benefit Street (1763) — “The Shunned House” of Lovecraft’s story, which Lovecraft referred to as the Babbitt House. This house was abandoned and in poor condition during Lovecraft’s day.
"The house was - and for that matter still is - of a kind to attract the attention of the curious. Originally a farm or semi-farm building, it followed the average New England colonial lines of the middle eighteenth century - the prosperous peaked-roof sort, with two stories and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian doorway and interior paneling dictated by the progress of taste at that time. It faced south, with one gable and buried to the lower windows in the east ward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street. Its construction, over a century and a half ago, had followed the grading and straightening of the road in that especial vicinity; for Benefit Street - at first called Back Street - was laid out as a lane winding amongst the graveyards of the first settlers, and straightened only when the removal of the bodies to the North Burial Ground made it decently possible to cut through the old family plots.
At the start, the western wall had lain some twenty feet up a precipitous lawn from the roadway; but a widening of the street at about the time of the Revolution sheared off most of the intervening space, exposing the foundations so that a brick basement wall had to be made, giving the deep cellar a street frontage with the door and two windows above ground, close to the new line of public travel. When the sidewalk was laid out a century ago the last of the intervening space was removed; and Poe in his walks must have seen only a sheer ascent of dull grey brick flush with the sidewalk and surmounted at a height of ten feet by the antique shingled bulk of the house proper.
The farm-like grounds extended back very deeply up the hill, al most to Wheaton Street. The space south of the house, abutting on Benefit Street, was of course greatly above the existing sidewalk level, forming a terrace bounded by a high bank wall of damp, mossy stone pierced by a steep flight of narrow steps which led inward be tween canyon-like surfaces to the upper region of mangy lawn, rheumy brick walls, and neglected gardens whose dismantled cement urns, rusted kettles fallen from tripods of knotty sticks, and similar paraphernalia set off the weather beaten front door with its broken fanlight, rotting Ionic pilasters, and wormy triangular pediment."
Note: NC, then and now, the then picture is:
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The restored home af Thomas Wolfe, an American writer. The first time I visited it had a nostalgic feeling and smell like my grandmother's house. Soon after, there was a fire and a restoration. Now it does not have the "old" smell.
Quería captar las manchitas rosas entre esas formas de nubes. La de la izquierda me recuerda un rostro. La de la derecha un monstruo.
The beautiful gatehouse of the Mercure Hotel in Madely. My sister is having her wedding here in September, so I'm trying to get lots of practice shots in - she wants me to photograph the whole thing (what a cheepskate, 'hiring' your own sibling to shoot your wedding!)
The first snow storm of winter 2017 fell on the afternoon and evening of December 9, providing the Mount Hermon Campus with delightful morning snowscapes on Sunday, 10 December. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Ballarat's Pleasant Street, was completed in 1867 for the princely sum of £1700.00 The price and the Methodist Church's grandeur shows how the Wesleyan Methodist congregation had grown in both size and wealth as Ballarat's gold rush grew.
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church was designed by local architect J. A. Doane and has been built in Victorian Academic Gothic style. Built of red brick with a tiled roof, the church has clear architectural elements associated with the Gothic style including flying buttresses that define structural bays, a steeply pitched roof, a parapeted gable and narrow windows. It is an almost exact replica of the second Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Neil Street in the Ballarat suburb of Soldier's Hill, and incidentally was also completed in 1867. In 1886, additions for choir purposes were made to the church, after designs by prolific Ballarat architect Charles Douglas Figgis, who also designed the adjoining Victorian Romanesque Sunday School.
Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values. Its revival was thus seen as virtuous and equated with moral revival. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant.
Charles Douglas Figgis (1849 - 1895) also designed the Ballarat Presbyterian church, the former Ballarat Congregational Church, the former Ballarat Mining Exchange and the Geelong Club amongst many other buildings during his short life.