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Joseph and Mary Hessler built this pine and hemlock log cabin in 1854-1856 on Mission Point Peninsula. According to information given at Mission Point Lighthouse Museum, the Hesslers being non-citizens could not own the property on which the cabin was built. They became citizens in 1859, and their final deed was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
It may not look like much, but I am sure it seemed like a cozy mansion to the Hesslers on cold Northern Michigan nights in the wilderness.
Mission Point Lighthouse, built in 1870, guided ships through West Traverse Bay, until it was decommissioned in 1933. Today, it is owned by Peninsula Township, and is staffed mainly by volunteers. A small fee is charged, and donations are accepted to view the museum and to climb the stairs to the top of the lighthouse.
Many viewers have commented that The Guardian Building (originally The Union Trust Company Building) reminded them of a church.
This picture shows approximately half of the bank lobby on the main floor. Imagine the original bank building with 60-90 bank teller cages lining the entire length of both sides of this "nave". The ceiling was composed of a 3/4 inch (1.9cm) of horsehair and coated with a layer of plaster cement. Then, a canvas layer was applied, and painted with designs reminiscent of the patterns of Navajo rugs. This was a sound-deadening system.
The "altar piece" ( I suppose) was the three-story mural of the map of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Highlighted were the major Michigan moneymakers of the1890s to 1920s: mining, manufacturing, lumber, fishing, commerce, and agriculture. It was completed in 1929, unfortunately the year of the beginning of "The Great Depression".
This superbly decorated Art-Deco bank building was nicknamed "The Cathedral of Finance." So, if the earlier pictures reminded you of a church (reprised in the first comment below) --you were very observant : -)
What once was, is no longer! When Hurricane Ian came through, it took these structures with it. The small buildings could not take another strong storm. Over the years, little by little the sea and Mother Nature, had it's way.
BUILT IN FLORIDA IN 1981 on Ten Thousand Island which is south of Marco Island, and only accessible via water. The island belongs to a larger group of Ten Thousand Islands. The ultra-modern Dome House is a complex of stilted concrete igloos slowly being reclaimed by the sea.
On the Ruinenberg in Potsdam, on the northern side of the water retention basin, there is a wall of ruins which was modelled on the enclosure wall of a Roman amphitheatre.
Renovated with air conditioning old New Orleans French Quarter style ...
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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A lamp and windows on the extension to a 140 year old house on the Main Street of Unionville. The old building houses a popular restaurant that is over 40 years old. But like all the restaurants in the area, business is slow because of COVID-19 and winter.
Historic shrimping dock, China Camp, San Rafael, San Pablo Bay, Marin County, Northern California, USA
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Known simply as "The Castle, it's a landmark icon in "Heritage Hill", a historic district of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was built for the lumbermen Fox brothers in 1884-1886 (architect: William G. Robinson). The granite block castle is in the Chateauesque style of architecture. (Romanesque ?)
It was converted to a restaurant in 1978, but when my wife and I visited in 2019, it was the home of the Stonecastle Dentistry.
Two blocks from the Frank Lloyd Wright house (pictured in first comment below), The Castle is a Registered Michigan Historical Site at 455 Cherry St. SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Note: Despite three sources of information (on-site historical marker, Wikipedia entry, text "Walking Tours of Heritage Hill", Thomas H. Logan) that all ID this castle as Chateauesque, I think Bill ( Onasil~Bill Badzo-66M ) has a more credible ID of Romanesque style. Thanks Bill.
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Early Evening China Camp Village, San Rafael, Marin County,
San Pablo Bay, Northern California, USA.
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In the 1800s Bergen was Europe’s biggest wooden city, a distinctive city environment with closely spaced wooden buildings, busy streets, markets and alleys. At old Bergen open air Museum you can experience some of this atmosphere and it has today 55 wooden houses, most of which originally stood in the centre of Bergen.
The sign warned of being prosecuted or shot. So I took my photo and backed quickly away. It is possible this intriguing building is part of the Techatitticup Mine tour. Some day we will go back and find out.
Happy Window Wednesday!
The history of Redpath Memorial Presbyterian Church is as unique as the beach stones used to make this church in 1921. After a fire destroyed the original church, Reverend Redpath worked tirelessly to build this little chapel. After he died in 1926, the small congregation renamed it in his honor.
When lumbering in the area declined, the population decreased, and eventually the little church was abandoned. It stood empty for decades, until the 1960s when the church reopened to a small congregation. Today, summer services are conducted , mainly by lay persons and visiting speakers.
Seen in Cross Village, Michigan.
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Tiburon, Marin County, Northern California, USA
One of several buildings from World War II. Depot was to maintain the submerged anti-submarine nets under the Golden Gate Bridge.
St Bartholomew's Church operated as an Anglican church from 1841 to 1967. It is located in Prospect . Blacktown Council acquired the property and has restored it, with an official re-opening in 2001.
I have a lot of family members here in the surrounding cemetery. Some recent others from way back when it opened, I also live not far from this historic site. This is one of our early Churches in Australia.
William Lawson one of three men to first cross the Blue Mountains is buried here on 16 June 1850.
The original castle kitchen was housed in the temple ruins on the left, which was connected to the palace by an underground corridor. The GDR Army Museum was temporarily located in the Marble Palace. Incredible, isn't it?
Moated Tudor house and gardens. Built in the early 1500s by a courtier of Henry Fitzroy. The latter was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
The moated area has an even earlier history. It housed buildings and safe storage for adjacent medieval fish ponds. Dug out in around 1150, they provided eel, perch and pike for the Prior and monks of Norwich Priory and other local monastic establishments.
A view down William Street to the old Launceston Gasworks. This Vertical Retort building was once used to convert coal to methane gas.
This building's flint chequered exterior stonework echoes a chequered and contrasting dark and light history.
Trinity Guildhall of King’s Lynn dates from the 1420s. It was originally the meeting place of the religious Guild of Merchants of the Holy Trinity. The Guild was abolished at the English Reformation of Henry VIII.
The hall's uses darkened. Half became a prison - the remainder a House of Correction for those "unwilling to work". A courtroom was added in 1767 to ensure an adequate supply of inmates,. The town gaoler had a house built next door in 1784. Cells were still used as the town lock-up until 1937!
For the comforts of other half, Georgian Assembly Rooms and a Card Room were added in 1768. The building is now the Town Hall with function spaces for more cheerful events like weddings.
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China Camp Village, San Rafael, San Pablo Bay, Marin County, Northern California, USA.
This is a shot of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento. On this day there was a MS walk (multiple sclerosis).
This building housed a series of printing companies from the 1870s to the 1940s in the hamlet of Slingerlands. The printing companies mostly served the railroads that used the D&H line running in back of the building. More recently it has been turned into apartments, undergoing major renovation just a few years ago.
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Fort Baker is a historic army post located in the Marin Headlands. The post, built between 1902 and 1910, is one of the park's best examples of the army's “Endicott Period” military construction, named after the late 19th century Secretary of War, William C. Endicott.
Sausalito, Marin County, San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, USA
The view south on the Erewash Canal, captures the former junction with the now closed Derby Canal (mid-r/h side) with Sandiacre Lock and cottage in the background. The Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust is working on the restoration of the Derby Canal westwards towards the City of Derby.
The Entrance to St Anthony's A little touch of Italy very near to my home. There will be about 11 more photos to come.
A short walk from my home
Construction of the nineteenth century similar to one of the haciendas of the time, eclectic architecture, composed of brick, stone, arches and nostalgia, which accompanies as a silent witness to the river Cupatitzio en Uruapan, Mexico.
The Weaver Hotel was built in 1905–06 in Waterville, Kansas. The only three-story building in Waterville, it was built by William E. Weaver for his parents. The hotel has operated more or less continuously ever since.
The Weaver Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1975.
Jackson County
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