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Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track
I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.
I suppose I’ve passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for
a minute
And look at the house, the tragic house, the house with nobody in
it.
I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there
are such things;
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.
I know this house isn’t haunted, and I wish it were, I do;
For it wouldn’t be so lonely if it had a ghost or two.
This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen
panes of glass,
And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass.
It needs new paint and shingles, and the vines should be trimmed
and tied;
But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside.
If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid
I’d put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade.
I’d buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be
And I’d find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free.
Now, a new house standing empty, with staring window
and door,
Looks idle, perhaps and foolish, like a hat on its block in the
store.
But there’s nothing mournful about it; it cannot be sad and lone
For the lack of something within it that it has never known.
But a house that has done what a house should do,
a house that has sheltered life,
That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife,
A house that has echoed a baby’s laugh and held up his stumbling
feet,
Is the saddest sight, when it’s left alone, that ever your eyes
could meet.
So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track
I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back,
Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen
apart,
For I can’t help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken
heart. Author: Joyce Kilmer
View on the buildings of the old flax factory from another old 19-th century building :)
Smile on Saturday - theme: "Room with a View" :)
It is a long time since this lovely dark redbrick building on Donegall Street in Belfast has been a school—it's currently the Roman Catholic chaplaincy for the new campus of the University of Ulster next door—but the signs are still up.
Remarkably, this is Belfast's last surviving neo-Gothic building. It was built in 1828 to the designs of the Newry architect, Timothy Hevey, and was the first Catholic school to be built in Belfast. The land was donated by the 2nd Marquess of Donegall, and had been the town dump until the school was built.
The go-ahead boomtown that was Victorian Belfast did not treasure the buildings that had come before, so this is, remarkably, one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city, full stop.
To its left is the enormous Gothic mass of St Patrick's Church, completed in 1877.
Thanks to the "Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland" blog for much of the information in this description.
The redbrick building barely visible, beyond and beneath, the sign, is the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin.
Miracle required - head for Heaven!
WILMINGTON NC: THE WATERFRONT: Having roamed the waterfront for a couple of hours I came upon this fellow with his easel, canvas, brushes, paints, and Honda Element.
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Built of red brick in 1878, the Wandiligong Public Library is a simple building that may be found along Morses Creek Road in the pretty Alpine town of Wandiligong.
Simple it may be, with minimal ornamentation and elegant lines, but this building shows how important and populated Wandiligong was during the Victorian Gold Rush. Not every town had a public library, which makes this survivor a significant piece of history.
Today the Wandiligong Public Library is used as a small local art gallery.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
View of traditional entrance to St Pancras Station. Old lanterns light the way to a waiting Eurostar train.
The Coates Hotel was designed by Van Brunt & Howe in 1891.
The Coates Hotel is on the National Register #72000715. And it is also in the Wholesale District (also known as the Garment District) Historic District, National Register #79001375.
Lunchtime stroll around the neighborhood. I saw this gentleman on his phone this way. Not wanting to creep on him, I introduced myself, explained myself, and asked if I could take a couple of pictures of his back. Bemused, he asked what he needed to do. "Nothing. Just do what you're doing." He was willing to do that.
It is always nice to find a new view of the University and this back entrance looks rather grand in the sunshine. It was featured on The BBC local weather as well.
Standing silently at the heart of the courtyard, the brick tower watches over time, weather, and the quiet lives within.
Really grainy film, but an interesting building none the less.
Zenit 11
Truprint 400 film (expired)
Helios 44m-4
Took a photographic walk along the alley behind the business district in East Liberty along Penn Avenue, a stretch that has seen many changes over the decades. I found several stupendous walls reflecting the passage of time and fashion, left raw and exposed because this is a back alley meant for deliveries, trash, etc. and no effort has been made to render them more presentable. (In this case, the front facades of the same buildings are not in especially presentable shape, either). Now that East Liberty has gone upscale in recent years, this kind of quaint connection to the past is likely to be tidied up--a sign of good times, for some anyway, and better times yet to come, but also a loss for those, like me, who find beauty in these untidy places.
This is the rear of the former Woolworth store, the anchor of the neighborhood at one time, in much the same way that the Target store now is. It's a reminder of simpler times of prosperity, of a thriving community before it fell victim to utopian 1960s urban redevelopment schemes and "white flight" triggered by the influx of poor blacks from the neighborhood near downtown that was removed to construct the Civic Arena, a hockey and performance venue. The Civic Arena itself, having lost a community fight for adaptive reuse, has been replaced by a parking lot for the new hockey arena, financed by profits from the natural gas fracking boom in this part of the state, the subject of a political fight between energy industry interests and environmental groups.
One of the red brick chimneys of Lincoln Castle's Victorian prison, with Lincoln Cathedral centre stage and to the right, the Castle's Observatory Tower.
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The Malbork convent kitchen - in the first interior with a huge hood oyer the hearth, food was once prepared, and then transported by lift to the refectory on the second floor. Now, both this interior and the next room, which was probably a bakery in the old days, have been turned into an old convent kitchen equipped with pots and plates, and all sort of utensils from different historical periods. Dishes served on the tables of medieval Malbork reflected the power and prosperity of the Teutonic Knights' state. People ate there pork, beef, poultry, and game prepared in different styles. Fish was rated highly. A supplement of the main dishes was bread, barley, and rice. Among dairy products, mainly cheeses were consumed. Cream and milk played a minor role. The latter was replaced by an extract from almonds. Beers and meads were the basic drinks. It is known, that 19 brands of wine were brought to Malbork; most of them from the Rhine region, but there were also Hungarian, Greek, and Italian wines. The monks drank no less than 12 kinds of beer.
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest Gothic castle complex in the world, is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork on the river Nogat in Poland. It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years’ War, it was sold by the Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemnities and it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions, interrupted by several years of Swedish occupation, and fulfilling this function until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997.
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Kuchnia konwentu malborskiego - w pierwszym wnętrzu z wielkim okapem nakrywającym palenisko przygotowywano kiedyś potrawy, transportowane windą przy południowej ścianie na drugie piętro, do refektarza. Dziś, zarówno w tym, jak i w sąsiednim wnętrzu będącym najprawdopodobniej piekarnią, zaaranżowano dawną kuchnię klasztorną w oparciu o dostępne obiekty muzealne. Wnętrze zaaranżowano w ten sposób, by można było odnieść wrażenie, iż kucharz właśnie był odszedł od paleniska i garnków, by udać się do piwnicy po przyprawy i zioła. Zakonny charakter kuchni podkreśla zmieniająca się każdego dnia scenografia, zależna od kalendarza krzyżackiego regulującego porządek świąt i uroczystości, dni postnych, jak również okresów zwykłych. W zamku jadano wieprzowinę, wołowinę, drób, dziczyznę. Istotną rolę odgrywały ryby. Uzupełnieniem dań głównych było pieczywo, kasze i ryż. Z nabiału najwięcej spożywano jaj i serów. Mniejszą rolę odgrywała śmietana i mleko, te ostatnie najczęściej zastępował wyciąg z migdałów. Do podstawowych napojów należały piwa i miody. Wiadomo, że sprowadzano do Malborka 19 gatunków win, najwięcej reńskiego, ale było także węgierskie, greckie i włoskie. Bracia pijali nie mniej niż 12 gatunków piwa.
Zamek w Malborku – jeden z największych zamków na świecie, położony na prawym brzegu Nogatu, wzniesiony w kilku etapach od 1280 do poł. XV w. przez zakon krzyżacki. Początkowo konwentualna siedziba komtura, od 1309 po przeniesieniu przez Siegfrieda von Feuchtwangena stolicy zakonu do Malborka, siedziba wielkich mistrzów zakonu krzyżackiego i władz Prus Zakonnych do 1457, w latach 1457–1772 rezydencja królów Polski, od 1466 siedziba władz Prus Królewskich, od 1568 siedziba Komisji Morskiej, w 1772 zajęty przez administrację Królestwa Prus i zdewastowany w latach 1773–1804; rekonstruowany w latach 1817–1842 i 1882–1944, zniszczony w 1945, ponownie rekonstruowany od 1947; w 1949 wpisany do rejestru zabytków, w 1994 uznany za pomnik historii, w 1997 wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO jako jeden z najznakomitszych przykładów średniowiecznej architektury obronno-rezydencyjnej w Europie Środkowej. Od 1961 zamek jest siedzibą Muzeum Zamkowego w Malborku.