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Evening Star Building, once home to the now-defunct Evening Star newspapaer, at 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. The building is a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue Historic District, which stretches from the White House to Capitol Hill. A few weeks ago, I purchased a book entitled "Washington, D.C. - Then and Now." It shows a comparison of street corners and buildings from the late 1800s until now. The book has a picture from 1890 showing this location. Interesting book if you're into that sort of thing.
**Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 82003125, date listed 1982-09-02
1406 Old US 40W
Columbia, MO (Boone County)
The Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel (1929) complex is a significant surviving example of a early hotel built in specific response to the automobile age, and is a good example of the Colonial Revival architectural style. Another area of significance is its association with the training of female aviators during World War II.
The Pennant complex, consisting of the terminal building, the hotel-garage and the service station, was intended by the Pierce con:pany to be one of the first of a string of such facilities to be located every 125 miles between New·York and San Francisco. When most motels were merely groups of cabins on busy highways outside of towns and cities, the Pierce cogipany aimed to provide in its facilities the ultimate in comfort and service.
During World War II Stephens College conducted a training program for women aviators and ground personnel, using the Pennant buildings and the runways and the hangar of the nearby Columbia municipal airport. It has been estimated that as of 1955, approximately ten percent of the nation's women aviators had received their training at Stephens College.
Presently the Pennant complex is operated by Candle Light Lodge, Inc. as one of Columbia's most popular and successful retirement centers. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/82003125.pdf
dates from a major rebuilding of between 1412 and 1429. However, the feature that cannot be ignored is the chapel and porch of John Greenway built in 1517. The carvings are just amazing. There are anchors and waves and ships of all kinds coming at you from all angles; not to mention the Barbary apes. This church was built on the back of trade: the wool trade which made Tiverton rich in the early 16th century.
Greenway was a poor Tiverton lad who rose to join the Drapers Company of London in 1497. His later association with the more widely trading Merchant Adventurers led him to become not only a wool-trader, but a ship owner with vessels such as the Trinity Greenway and Charity Greenway working out of Dartmouth. They are perhaps depicted on his chantry chapel. His monograms and merchants marks certainly appear within, along with his fine brass memorial.
A second chantry chapel, in memory of the famous Courtenay family, the Earls of Devon, once stood in the churchyard. It housed, amongst others, the gilded effigial monument of Princess Katherine, daughter of King Edward IV and wife of Sir William Courtenay, who died in 1527; but, unfortunately, the, already dilapidated building, was all but demolished during the Civil War.
[Britannia.com]
July 31, 2018:.
18-542973.
Toronto,
Toronto Skyline,
Mixed-use,
311 Bay Residences/Adelaide Hotel,
(Was Trump Tower),
(Talon International Development),
JFC Capital ULC,
57s,
Zeidler Partnership Architects,
Office Buildings,
Scotia Plaza,
Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower,
Bay Adelaide Centre East Tower,
First Canadian Place,
Stores located in Portal.
In the November 30, 1909 edition of The Statesboro News, the following advertisement ran:
Portal on the S.A. & N. RY is one of the coming towns of Bulloch County. A few months ago it was a cotton patch, now a booming town with ten stores and handsome residences, and public enterprise. Do you want to rent or lease a nice brick store at the place?
The Three Brothers (Trīs brāļi in Latvian) is a building complex consisting of three houses, situated in Rīga, Latvia. The houses together form the oldest complex of dwelling houses in the city. The houses are situated at the addresses 17, 19 and 21 Maza Pils Street (Mazā Pils iela), and each represents various periods of development of dwelling house construction.
The building in 17 Maza Pils Street is the oldest, dating from the late 15th century. The exterior of the building is characterized by crow-stepped gables, Gothic decorations and a few early Renaissance details. Originally the building consisted internally of one large room and an attic in use as a storage. The house was restored in 1955–57 by architect P. Saulitis.
The neighbouring house, 19 Maza Pils Street, has an exterior dating from 1646, with a stone portal added in 1746. The style of the building shows influences from Dutch Mannerism.
The last house of the three, located in 21 Maza Pils Street, is a narrow Baroque building which gained its present look probably during the late 17th century.
The Three Brothers complex today houses the State Inspection for Heritage Protection and the Latvian Museum of Architecture.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Brothers,_Riga
Dome Saint Salvator of Fulda. The Fulda Dome is the symbol of the city. Inside the cathedral is, inter alia, the tomb of St. Boniface, the first apostle of the Germans. The plans of the cathedral were in 1700 by one of the most important German baroque architects, Johann Dientzenhofer (1663-1726), on behalf of Prince-Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras manufactured. The previous building, the Ratgarbasilika, once the largest basilica north of the Alps, has been razed to the ground in favor of the new cathedral, before in 1704, the construction in the (then current) Baroque style was begun. On August 15, 1712, cathedral was consecrated. The Fulda Cathedral in its internal system is modeled according to the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Ratgar Basilica was built in 791-819 in Fulda monastery and named after the builder, the monk Ratgar. The basilica was a Holy Sepulcher over the relics of St. Boniface. It was created after the model of the great Peter's Basilica in Rome and was the largest church building north of the Alps. Construction swallowed so considerable amounts of ressources that Abbot Ratger was expelled from the convent of the monastery.
During the Middle Ages the building structure crumbled more and more, so that the Ratgar Basilica in 1700 was demolished. In its place, the baroque Fulda Cathedral was built by Johann Dientzenhofer over the tomb of Boniface.
Die Ratgar-Basilika wurde zwischen 791 und 819 im Kloster Fulda erbaut und nach dem Baumeister, dem Mönch Ratgar, benannt. Die Basilika war eine Grabeskirche über den Gebeinen des Heiligen Bonifatius. Sie entstand nach dem Vorbild des großen Petersdoms in Rom und war der größte Kirchenbau nördlich der Alpen. Der Bau verschlang so große Mittel, dass Abt Ratger vom Konvent des Klosters vertrieben wurde.
Im Verlaufe des Mittelalters zerfiel die Bausubstanz immer mehr, sodass die Ratgar-Basilika 1700 abgerissen wurde. An ihrer Stelle wurde über der Bonifatiusgruft von Johann Dientzenhofer der barocke Fuldaer Dom errichtet.
Dom St. Salvator zu Fulda: Der Fuldaer Dom ist das Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Im Inneren des Doms befindet sich u. a. die Grabstätte des Hl. Bonifatius, des ersten Apostels der Deutschen. Die Pläne des Doms wurden im Jahr 1700 von einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Barockbaumeister, Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726), im Auftrag von Fürstabt Adalbert von Schleifras angefertigt. Der Vorgängerbau, die Ratgarbasilika, einst größte Basilika nördlich der Alpen, wurde zugunsten des neuen Doms niedergelegt, ehe 1704 der Bau im (damals aktuellen) barocken Stil begonnen wurde. Am 15. August 1712 wurde der Dom geweiht. Der Dom zu Fulda ist seinem inneren System nach an den Petersdom in Rom angelehnt.
a picture of Buckingham Palace, taken at Xmas. Lazerlights illuminated the exterior of the building in varying color shows.
**Wytheville Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 94001179, date listed 1994-09-30
Roughly bounded by Monroe, Eleventh, Jefferson and Twelfth Sts. and W. Railroad Ave.
Wytheville, VA (Wythe County)
The Wytheville Historic District is located in the center of Wytheville, an incorporated town of slightly over 8,000 population located in Wythe County, Virginia. The approximately 170-acre district is located between 2,260' and 2,320' in elevation and is characterized by gently undulating topography. A small spring-fed stream flows southeast through the center of the district to Reed Creek, a tributary of the New River. The district contains 292 buildings, mostly commercial and residential buildings with an admixture of churches, schools, government buildings, and transportation-related buildings. Of these buildings, 245 are classified as contributing and forty-seven as noncontributing to the historic character of the district. The oldest buildings in the district appear to date to about 1830, although it is possible that some date to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The most recent contributing buildings date to the early 1940s, and there are buildings in the district constructed as recently as 1994.
115-165 E. Main St. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Birthplace. Ca. 1845. 139-2. C.
Two-story brick building with a stretcher-bond front elevation, metal-sheathed gable and shed roofs, and an unusual and complicated form. The building consists of three two-story units-- two front-gabled end units flanking a shed-roofed center unit--that share a single parapeted front with a false third story. The front has three shop fronts at street level under a simple cornice, and a second story with 619-sash windows.
Edith Bolling was born in a second-story apartment in 1872 and lived in Wytheville until 1887. Edith's second marriage, in 1915, was to President Woodrow Wilson, and after Wilson's stroke in 1919, she played an unprecedentedly active role in the operations of the executive branch. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson died in 1961. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/139-0029_...
All is quiet here, on the morning that the Amtrak Capitol Limited would arrive in Connellsville with both a Phase IV and Phase II 40th Anniversary locomotive. I got here early just in case. This station will have an official ribbon-cutting and grand opening on April 29th, though it is already being used.
A view of downtown Madrid showing the Metropolis Building or Edificio Metrópolis, Madrid, Spain. Photographed on 15 October 2014.
©© Arthur Chapman and Audrey Bendus.
The main purpose of a smokehouse was not to improve taste, but for preservation. This was achieved by salt curing and prolonged smoking which with cold smoke could take 2 weeks or more. The products continued to hang in the smoker, sometimes up to two years. During that time the meats lost moisture and acquired more smoke, although at smaller rates.
The 100ft tower of the keep at Richmond Castle, which was built in the mid-12th century, during the reign of King Henry II.
Richmond Castle was at the heart of the medieval Yorkshire town of Richmond, around which the rest of the community grew.
Dating back to Norman times (it was started in 1071 by William the Conqueror’s Breton supporter Alan the Red), it is among the oldest Norman fortresses still standing in Britain and stands overlooking the Swaledale valley.
The keep which dominates the remains – maintained by English Heritage – dates from the reign of Henry II a century later and stands more than 100ft high, the top offering views over the town and the surrounding hills and valleys.
As well as being used as a fortress and castle, it also served as a prison for two medieval Scottish kings and a large group of conscientious objectors who refused to fight in the First World War.