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Can someone explain to me why so many Evanston apartments are on the National Register? This Georgian Revival building was designed by Roy F. France in 1922.
Taken from the small compound outside the old village wall.
Within an hour's drive of ancient Pingyao is the Zhangbi Underground Castle. Though a bit of a misnomer (in my opinion), it is still an interesting place to see.
There are really two aspects to Zhangbi. The first is the underground. It's not a castle at all, but rather a system of defense tunnels that were built during the Sui Dynasty (581 A.D. - 618 A.D.)
They were never actually used as defense tunnels to my knowledge, but the fascinating part is the extensiveness with which they were constructed. There are caves for soldiers, prisoners, the general, lookout chambers were built up to the ground level, etc.
There are more than 1,500 meters of tunnels built on three levels with the deepest reaching 26 meters (about 80 feet). The underground exits are constructed at the base of a mountain/hill.
The second aspect is the above ground component, Zhangbi Cun (Village). It's a Yuan Dynasty village (~800 years old) and the buildings in the old village date to that time. There are a few temples, but it's still a living, breathing village -- measuring about 250 meters by 250 meters, so quite small -- where the majority of residents are octogenarians. (The younger residents have relocated nearby to the "new village," which we didn't see.)
Besides the village and tunnels, there are a few structures -- performance stages, temples, a watch tower -- just outside the south gate that are part of the tour.
Zhangbi, like the Wang Family Courtyard, is a short distance from old Pingyao and tours here can be arranged at most any guesthouse in the old city.
Empire State Building, New York, on a very overcast day.
Hasselblad 500C/M with 50/4 lens.
Tri-X in D-76.
Ancestral Temple outside Zhencheng Lou.
Zhencheng is a village right in the centre of Liulian Township.
Zhencheng Tulou is a relatively new one,having been built in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China.
The former Bishop's Palace has been transformed into the main post office building and the public library in the old walled town of Avila.
Sargents, Colorado.
Sargents is located about 30 miles east of Gunnison, at the western foot of Marshall Pass. Marshall Pass was once the Rio Grandes narrow gauge main line through the Rockies, and Sargents served as a helper station for trains climbing the pass. The water tank is one of the last remaining railroad structures at Sargents, which was once home to a depot (now at the Pioneer Museum in Gunnison), a coal chute, a roundhouse and yards.
**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_...
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]
Fresh Meadows (1946–49)
Architect: Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith
Landscape Architect: Alfred Geiffert Jr.
Fresh Meadows, Queens
In 1946, the New York Life Insurance Company bought the 175-acre Fresh Meadow Country Club (opened 1923) for development as housing. Designed with people in mind, it consists mostly of two-storey row houses, three- to four-storey walkups and two thirteen-storey apartment towers.
© Matthew X. Kiernan
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Former Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, England. Truman's Brewery was a large East London brewery and one of the largest brewers in the world at the end of the 19th century. Founded around 1666, the Black Eagle Brewery was established on a plot of land next to what is now Brick Lane. It grew steadily until the 18th century when, under the management of Benjamin Truman, and driven by the demand for porter, it expanded rapidly and became one of the largest brewers in London. Its growth continued into and through the 19th century with the expansion of its brewery and pub estate. In 1873, it purchased Philips Brewery in Burton and became the largest brewery in the world. The situation changed for Truman's in the 20th century as it had to come to terms with the rise of lager, cheaper competition from imports, and the consolidation of the biggest names in British brewing through mergers. Attempts to come to terms with these changes through management restructures and rebranding did not succeed, and in 1989 the brewery was closed. The Truman's brand was revived in 2010 and, since 2013, beer is again being brewed in East London under the Truman's name.
"Named after its location on Lake Superior's Raspberry Bay, this one-room school offered educational opportunities for the surrounding families until 1914."
They have a shoe repair shop here as well as a post office which is nice as part of the building was originally Vancouver's first post office.
project: Meat Cutter's Medical Clinic.
architect: Harris Armstrong.
date: 1957.
location: 4488 Forest Park Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri.
condition: good condition, somewhat modified.
For more on the architect, Harris Armstrong, see architectural ruminations.
Photograph by Andrew Raimist, December 2006.
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.
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.