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This was a favorite of TheLimey, what with the brick, second storey, shady tree, vines, sun porch, etc.
They also had a really neat back lot with garden patches.
For USk weekly theme "Fences, gates and walls"
Finished version at www.flickr.com/photos/jaguarish/15059037615
Shawnee Presbyterian Church 1752
Shawnee-On-Delaware,Pennsylvania
Shawnee Presbyterian Church in Shawnee-on-Delaware traces its history back to 1750, when William Allen of Philadelphia conveyed five acres of land to Nicholas Depui for a “Presbyterian Meeting House.” The meetinghouse was erected in 1753.
The “Old Stone Church” featured a high pulpit with a sounding board and window sills above the heads of the seated congregation to thwart Native American attacks. Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, Lutheran, German Reformed and Baptist congregations worshipped here in past generations.
The present brick structure was erected on the original stone foundation in 1853. Ann Depui Erb, great granddaughter of Nicholas Depui, laid the cornerstone. The names of the Building Committee and the initials of the 1752 Committee can be seen on the church foundation on the left.
Osgoode Hall is the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the venue for the provincial Superior Courts of Justice. The original building was erected in 1828; although 15 major additions have been constructed, the latest in 1991, the 19th-early building has been preserved.
I've always like the old-fashioned signs on the side of brick buildings. This building, in old Strathcona features signs for two businesses now no longer - Podersky's Furniture No. 2 and Kneen's Grocery.
Keraton Ratu Boko, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
(Ratu Boko's Palace/ Kraton Ratu Boko).
Ratu Boko Resto.
Ratu Boko is an archaeological site known to modern Javanese as Kraton Ratu Boko, believed built in 8th - 9th AD. The original name of this site is still unclear, however the local inhabitants named this site after King Boko, the legendary king mentioned in Loro Jonggrang folklore. In Javanese, Ratu Boko means "Stork King". Ratu Boko displays attributes of an occupation or settlement site, although its precise functions is unknown. Probably the site was a palace complex which belongs to the kings of Sailendra or Mataram Kingdom that also build temples scattered across Prambanan Plain. The argument was based on the fact that this complex was not a temple nor building with religious nature, but a fortified palace instead which evidence in the remnant of fortified walls and the dry moat as defensive structures. The remains of settlements also founds in Ratu Boko vicinity. Since the pillars, walls, and the roof were made from easily decayed material such as wood, sirap (wooden shingles roof) or ijuk (fibers collected around the trunks of Areng palm, Arenga pinnata). Only the stone base still remains while the organic wooden material of the building is gone.
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Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The exterior features of the set of buildings reflect a wide breadth of Frankfurt and Germany’s history, even though they were designed at the beginning of the 20th century. The famous three-peaked façade has medieval elements of design.
"We shape our buildings. Thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill
A piece of a drawing drawn during a keynote speech about architecture. First time I've heard this quote. I dig it.
Ancien siège social de la Southam Publishing Co (journaux, magazines, radio), construit en 1915-1916, déménagé à Toronto en 1965.
Architectes: Brown & Wallace.
Southam Publishing Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Architecture Néo-Gothique / Beaux-Arts.
New York = we protect our own.
The building under construction is One World Trade Center, the main tower and one of four new buildings planned in the reconstruction of the World Trade Center on ground zero. The two buildings and domed structure in front are all part of The World Financial Center.
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Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research – Public Hearing
Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research
| Apr 14, 2015 1:00pm
1300 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research – Public Hearing
RE: A Presentation by National 4-H Conference Participants Concerning the Future of Agriculture in the United States