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[This set has 7 images] Built 1921-1922 in Spanish Mission style, St. Agnes Catholic Church in Mena, Arkansas, uses fieldstone as its primary building material, the entire structure on a continuous cast concrete foundation. The locally obtained stone enhances the architectural style well. All the roofs are clad with green ceramic tile, from the gable roof on the front (eastern) facade to the hipped roof surfaces over the asymmetrical towers flanking the front entrance. My bad knee prevented taking photographs of the 3-sided apse on the western facade and other facades. The church is a single story. In the central gable above the entrance is a monumental symmetrically placed Gothic window of leaded glass and a trim of bricks as its surround. Stone simulates quoins on either side of this window. Below is a large entrance that mimics the shape of the window above. There is a double-leaf door with large single-pane sidelights. Just above the door is a rectangular stained glass pane and above this a single pane of an exaggerated triangle. Brick surrounds the door frame on 3 sides. The shorter tower at the entrance has a low hipped roof and two lancet windows, a short one at the lowest part and a taller one above (again with the brick at the outer edges). There are corner buttresses to this tower. The taller tower has the two lancet windows plus an open belfry in addition to the corner buttresses. On each tower is a cross. The National Register of Historic Places nomination form (link below) provides more information on the other facades and details of the interior, which I was unable to photograph. The dimensions of the church and 85x50 feet, the walls being 1 1/2 feet thick. The final cost in the early 1920s was about $25,000. St. Agnes was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 5, 1991 with ID#91000696.
The nomination form in .pdf format is found at www.arkansaspreservation.com/National-Register-Listings/P...
The church website is at www.stagneschurchmena.org/
The photos in this series:
1) front facade
2) front facade and a partial view of the north facade
3) a portion of the tall tower at the entrance
4) the shorter tower at the entrance
5) the entrance
6) the monumental window above the entrance
7) a close-up of the building material used throughout
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This weeks theme "Material"
was chosen by Gary Gazman_AU
I chose building material.
Last week while walking on the beach I spied this sitting under Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, it had either been washed up on the beach or fallen from above!
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Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys.
This weeks theme "Material" was chosen by Gary Gazman_AU.
I chose building materials. This is part of an old wharf .
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Project 365 = Day 106 = 16 Apr 2025
Day 1202 (Since 1 Jan 2022)
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Processing the work from this shoot right now, going back for more, when the light's right.
© Blue Perez 2008 all rights reserved.
location | 'the flower show', leach pottery, st. ives, cornwall [pot by charles bound]
photography | blue
processing | not analog
blogged | here
prints | available
(Updated on May 14, 2024)
This series complements my recently published guidebook, Milwaukee in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Cream City's Architectural Geology. Henceforth I'll just call it MSC.
The MSC section and page references for the building featured here: 8.21; pp. 211-212.
In the Northpoint neighborhood.
One of my favorite dissonances in American residential architecture is what I call the Tudorranean style. In Milwaukee, the Wiswell House is its exemplar.
Wonderfully gloomy Lake Superior Brownstone and half-timbered Tudor gables have been set against jarringly cheerful Mediterranean terra-cotta roof tiles. It may seem the design equivalent of adding tabasco sauce to chocolate mousse, but it works. And architects Ferry & Clas knew it.
Geologically speaking, the maroon ashlar is Chequamegon Sandstone quarried on the Lake Superior littoral at the Prentice Quarry in North Washburn, Wisconsin. It belongs to the great sequence of clastic sedimentary strata that overlie the lava flows of the Midcontinent Rift.
For decades, the Chequamegon's age was "poorly constrained," which means it was difficult to pin down. Because it lacks index fossils and other traditionally sought-after clues, estimates of its antiquity ranged from the latest Mesoproterozoic to the Cambrian—a span of over half a billion years.
Fortunately, one newer technique, detrital-zircon analysis, has now established the Chequamegon's maximum depositional age as 1.039 Ga. This means that it is either very late Mesoproterozoic or early Neoproterozoic.
The roof tiles are unsourced, but probably were manufactured by either Ludowici or Celadon. At the time the Wiswell House was constructed, these were the two leading Midwestern producers.
This site and many others in Milwaukee County are discussed at greater length in Milwaukee in Stone and Clay (NIU Imprint of Cornell University Press).
The other photos and discussions in this series can be found in my "Milwaukee in Stone and Clay" Companion album. Also, while you're at it, check out my Architectural Geology of Milwaukee album, too. It contains quite a few photos and descriptions of Cream City sites highlighted in other series of mine.
The Chand Minar or the Tower of the Moon is a medieval tower in Daulatabad, India. The tower is located in the state of Maharashtra near the Daulatabad- Deogiri fort complex. It was erected in 1445 C.E by King Ala-ud-din Bahmani to commemorate his capture of the fort.
from Wikipedia !!
The male of most species gets a bad rap when it comes work around the house and rearing of offspring , so I was happy to find this lowly sparrow dressed in his Sunday best working hard to get the house finished.
(Updated on February 18, 2025)
Taken from the fabled belltower and former minaret, La Giralda. Facing west-northwestward.
The famous patio and its Seville Orange trees (Citrus x aurantium) is, with La Giralda, the remaining portion of the earlier Almohad-era Mosque complex. It was built of both brick and recycled stone.
Later, after the mosque had been converted into a church and was subsequently torn down, the current Cathedral was built. Completed by 1507, it was constructed with stone from many quarries.
The northern-transept spire partially visible at left may well be made of the building's predominant rock type, a yellowish, Pliocene-epoch limestone that weathers to gray and is also liable to conversion to gypsum and the development black crusting. Rock of this description was taken from Puerto de Santa Maria and other towns to the south and east of Seville.
So far, my two main sources for stone use in the Cathedral are
- Saiz-Jimenez, C., P. Brimblecombe, D. Carmuffo, R. Lefèvre, and R. Van Grieken. “Damages Caused to European Monuments by Air Pollution: Assessment and Preventive Measures.” In Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage. London: Taylor and Francis Group, 2004.
- Bello, M. A. and A. Martín. “Microchemical Characterization of Building Stone from Seville Cathedral, Spain.” Archaeometry 34:1, 21-29 (February 1992).
The first of these describes the limestone above as a biocalcarenite, an unusual type of carbonate rock made of fossil remains cemented with calcite. Another notable biocalcarenite is the most commonly used building stone in the US—the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Salem Limestone, from southern Indiana.
While nether of these references contains reliable age citations for this rock type, I've inferred it's Pliocene from the EGDI online geologic map of Europe.
As to that handsome and soul-restoring planting of citrus trees, its members are also know by the rather tart common names of Bitter Orange and Sour Orange.
While I'm told peak flowering time for Seville's orange trees is usually in February and March, some of these trees here appear to be in bloom in this photo, in early April.
Regardless of whether their fruit is bitter or sweet, Orange trees produce blossoms that are an olfactory delight of the first order. Anyone who has caught their scent has already experienced paradise.
Oh that I were an Orenge-tree,
That busie plant!
Then should I ever laden be,
And never want
Some fruit for him that dressed me.
– GEORGE HERBERT, from "Employment”
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Architectural Geology of Seville album.
Seen in my set entitled "Mississauga"
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I've often mentioned that I work at RONA, which is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes.
When I was growing up, our family business (Pleasant View Farms) was engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of farm and landscaping/nursery supplies: hardware, fencing, pesticides, plants, hay/straw for bedding, containers, firewood, seed, clothing, paint and on and on.
In 2002, after many years in various endeavours (museums, teaching English, marketing, I was accepted in the seasonal department at RONA, where I employed the skills and knowledge that I had garnered so many years before at Pleasant View Farms.
If you visit while I'm at RONA, you'll likely find me in the greenhouse and/or garden centre. I also spend a good deal of time on the seasonal hardware floor.
It's just part-time... a day or two a week, but it suits nicely.
About RONA
wrightreports.ecnext.com/coms2/reportdesc_COMPANY_C1248L300
Rona Inc. The Group's principal activity is to retail and distribute hardware, home improvement and gardening products in Canada. The Group operates in two segments namely Corporate and Franchised Stores and Distribution. The Corporate and Franchised stores segment relates to the retail operations of corporate stores and the Group's share of the retail operations of the franchised stores in which the Group has an interest. The Distribution segment relates to the supply activities to affiliated, franchised and corporate stores. As of 19-Feb-2008, the Group had 77 Big-Box stores, 327 Proximity stores and 235 Specialized stores and 40 specialized ICI.
RONA.ca Information
www.rona.ca/content/investor-relations
General Links:
www.mssociety.ca/en/events/biketour/default.htm
RONA History
1982 - Ro-Na purchased the assets of Botanix.
1984 - Ro-Na created a purchasing alliance with Ontario-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. through Alliance RONA Home Inc.
1988 - Ro-Na merged with Dismat, another building materials company, to create Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc.
1990 - Ro-Na formed an alliance with Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 - ITM Entreprises S.A., a France-based group, invests $30 million in the Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. ITM becomes a shareholder and forms a purchasing alliance with Ro-Na.
1998 - Ro-Na eliminates the Le Quincailleur and Dismat names and introduces RONA L'express, RONA L'express Matériaux and RONA Le Rénovateur Régional. It also changes its name from Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. to RONA Inc.
1999 - RONA opens a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (61,000 m²), doubling its warehousing capacity and achieving considerable cost savings.
2000 - RONA acquires Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. It permanently opens its online store on the rona.ca website.
2001 - RONA acquires 51 Revy, Revelstoke and Lansing stores and thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.
2002 - RONA closes a public offering consisting of a total offering of $150.1 million of Common Shares. RONA's Common Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".
2003 - RONA acquires Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores. RONA also opens its third large distribution center in Calgary, Alberta.
2004 - RONA acquires Totem Building Supplies Ltd., an Alberta company. RONA Dream Home airs on Global. RONA also joins the AIR MILES Reward Program.
2005 - RONA Dream Home 2 airs on Global.
2006 - RONA acquires a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc..
2006 - RONA acquires Curtis Lumber Building Supplies
2007 - RONA acquires Burnaby, BC based Dick's Lumber
2007 - RONA acquires Nova Scotia based Castle Cash & Carry
Post Processing:
PhotoShop Elements 5: crop, equalize, posterization, rough pastels.
Topaz: vibrance (HDR)
This building features a foundation of bricks and ballast stones. The stones don't come from the area. When ships came form England loaded with supplies, the loads had to be balanced with stones, less the load cause the ship to pitch forward. When the ship wa unloaded there was no need to take the stones back to England, as they would only weigh the ship down. They were unloaded and left by the docks. Locals used them as building materials and as paving stones.
The Chand Minar or the Tower of the Moon is a medieval tower in Daulatabad, India. The tower is located in the state of Maharashtra near the Daulatabad- Deogiri fort complex. It was erected in 1445 C.E by King Ala-ud-din Bahmani to commemorate his capture of the fort.
from Wikipedia !!
Dedicated in 1928, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Springfield was designed by Joseph W. McCarthy (1884-1965), an architect in the early 20th century most famous for his work on buildings for the Roman Catholic Church. The Cathedral is designed in Greek Revival style, with Mankato Kasota limestone used for the exterior.
The Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, which includes 28 of Illinois' 102 counties. A 14-month long interior and exterior restoration of the Cathedral was completed in 2009.
Striking in its brutalist simplicity and preserved industrial texture, this photograph captures a significant section of a historic warehouse facade at San Francisco’s Pier 70. Unlike the previous night-time images, this view is bathed in harsh, midday sunlight, which accentuates the raw, weathered materials and the geometry of the structure. The composition is highly symmetrical, emphasizing the sheer scale and uniformity of the building.
The lower third of the building is a formidable foundation of red brick, showing age and endurance, topped by a wide band of clean, pale-colored paneling. Above this base are the two primary floors of the warehouse, dominated by repeating modules of grid-paned windows. These windows are vast, stretching almost the full width of the wall, allowing immense amounts of light into the factory interior, which remains mostly obscured by glare and dust. The glass is often broken or missing in places, revealing the interior structure and hints of brickwork beyond.
The sections between the windows are clad in corrugated metal siding, likely steel, which is heavily weathered and rusted to a warm, earthy patina. The vertical lines of the siding create a strong visual contrast with the horizontal lines of the brick base and the window sills. In the foreground, the urban environment of the pier is evident: a clean concrete sidewalk and curb line an empty street. A bright red stop sign on a pole stands prominently on the left, a modern marker against the massive, historic backdrop. The strong shadows cast by the midday sun reinforce the relief and texture of the brickwork and the corrugation. This image is a celebration of utility, labor, and the architectural remnants of San Francisco's pre-tech, working-class history along its waterfront.
"Everything featured in this picture is bound together by one common factor - Portland Cement" - what? Even that tree?
A rather fine period piece this, 1971 being almost the high water mark of the 'brutalist' architectural use of concrete that would have meant excellent business for Blue Circle, one of the most recognisable trade names in the cement business. It was, as the brochure states, owned by the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd (Blue Circle being somewhat catchier than this title) and the selling organisation, The Cement Marketing Co Ltd. The company had its origins in an attempt in 1900 to bring together all UK manufacturers of cement that ended up 'only' bringing together around 70% of production; by 1911 another attempt brought in more and they were certainly for decades the major producer of cement and Portland cement. In 1920 the 'selling organisation', that included the famous and still independent name of Earle's, was formed and in 1978 they formally became 'Blue Circle'. The tradename is still with us but now owned by the French company Lafarge.
It isn't common to see a designer credited but here Don Kidman is. He appears to have been an illustrator as well as some BBC Publications contain drawings by him. This cover is a very fine bold image of the new world of planning and architecture and yes, I have known of concrete boats! It was printed by the well known Westerham Press who also undertook much work for London Transport in the day.