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Prescott Lighthouse
A redbrick building, constructed along the waterfront in Prescott in 1900 by the Imperial Starch Company, served as a Dominion Lighthouse Depot from 1903 to 1985. During World War II, war materials were manufactured in the building. The Canadian Coast Guard occupied the building in 1962 but moved into a new facility in 1985, and the old lighthouse depot was demolished in 1986.
An oversized lantern room that was mounted atop the lighthouse depot and used to train lighthouse keepers was retained and placed atop a tower built by the local Rotary Club at the harbour in 1989. The base of the modern tower is home to an ice cream shop during the summer, and visitors were allowed to climb the tower and admire a Fresnel Lens for some time, but due to a change in building codes climbing to the top is no longer permitted.
Since 2003, the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival has been presenting plays in an outdoor amphitheater near the harbour in July and August.
Early C19 building, actually comprising 3 dwellings, numbers 86 and 86A doors on left return. 2 storeys plus cellar, Doric pilaster doorcase with pediment. Grade II listed. Farnham, Surrey, UK.
Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything.
~ Leonard Misonne
On 161 Henry St,the northwest corner of Pierrepont Place,Schneider and Hueter (architects of the building) developed a Beaux-Arts style (a fine arts style,categorized by the historical forms and rich decorative detail) apartment building in 1906.9-stories high,161 Henry St has a rustic limestone base with a red brick and limestone trim including quoins (the angled masonry blocks at the corners) above it.Particularly distinguishing is its mansard crown and eight massive limestone brackets (count them) at the seventh floor Pierrepont Place side and seventeen brackets facing Henry St.While Beaux-Arts wasn't a popular style of the time,the distinguish nature of this building stands above the bland architecture of the modern period adding to the beauty that architects have developed in Brooklyn Heights since it's formation.Amen to that!-Architecture in Brooklyn Heights macaulay.cuny.edu
Grade II* listed, C18 residence. Two storeys plus cellar, red-brick construction, central front door with Ionic pilasters and open pediment. West Street, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
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A castle of labour
At first sight palatial redbrick facades and artistically adorned gables on buildings dotted around a grassy square are more reminiscent of an aristocratic residence than a coal mine. This was exactly one of the ideas behind the architecture.
Today the “mansion of labour” in the west of Dortmund is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and impressive testimonies to Germany’s industrial history. The engine house with its famous Jugendstil (art nouveau) doorway is already an icon. But the museum’s outstanding industrial architecture is only one of many different attractive facets. The various sections of the exhibition will take you into a world of harsh working conditions, and the stories of the men and women who worked in coalmining during the 20th century will bring this vividly to life.
One of the towers in the castle in Czersk, seen from the courtyard.
Czersk is a small town, 39 km from the center of Warsaw, in Piaseczno County. Czersk’s main tourist attraction is its medieval brick castle which was built on a hill between 1398 and 1406 for the Mazovia Prince - Janusz I. It had three towers and curtains which were 8 meters high and almost 2 meters thick. Czersk became the capital of the Mazovian Duchy due to its significant settlement along the Vistula river. Queen Bona Sforza, among others, lived in the castle.
In the 15th century, however, the Vistula river shifted its bed, moving away from Czersk. As a consequence the site fell into obscurity and the castle began to decay. During the war with the Swedes, in 1656, the castle became partly ruined. The retreating land army, close to Warta, under Stefan Czarniecki's command had captured the stronghold and had devastated it. The castle went through a reconstruction between 1762–1766, when Marszałek Franciszek Bieliński had commanded the reconstruction of the stronghold. However, due to the Prussian Partition, the Prussian leader had ordered for the demolition of the castle's defense walls, reducing the stronghold's military importance. From that time, nobody had every again took on the reconstruction of the castle. From the once mighty stronghold, all of the towers; a brick bridge from the eighteenth century; and the north and east wing of the castle had all survived. Today the castle ruins and the pituresque village have become tourist attractions. The towers were recently renovated and there is a fantastic view of the Vistula River valley from their terraces.
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Jedna z wież zamkowych w Czersku widziana od strony dziedzińca.
Czersk- dawne miasto, obecnie wieś w gminie Góra Kalwaria w powiecie piaseczyńskim. Jedno z najstarszych miast na Mazowszu i stolica jednego z księstw dzielnicowych. Miasto założone przed 1350 rokiem. Miejsce obrad sejmików ziemskich ziemi czerskiej od XVI wieku do pierwszej połowy XVIII wieku. Obecnie Czersk znany jest głównie z ruin średniowiecznego zamku książąt mazowieckich, które są główną atrakcją turystyczną tej małej miejscowości i równocześnie jednym z najcenniejszych zabytków na Mazowszu. W XI wieku w miejscu dzisiejszego zamku istniał drewniano ziemny gród o konstrukcji izbicowej, który został zbudowany w czasach panowania Bolesława Śmiałego lub Władysława Hermana. W XIV wieku książę mazowiecki Janusz I, rozkazał w miejscu przestarzałego grodu zbudować ceglany zamek, który powstał w latach 1388 - 1410. Była to jedna z najważniejszych rezydencji księcia Janusza I, który zmarł na tym zamku w dniu 8 grudnia 1429 roku. Gdy tereny te zostały przyłączone do Królestwa Polskiego w 1526 roku, zamek stał się własnością królewską. W tym też okresie nadbudowano cylindryczne wieże. Od 1547 roku zamek podlegał królowej Bonie, która nakazała wymianę drewnianej zabudowy dziedzińca na murowaną. W czasie Potopu szwedzkiego, w 1656 roku, zamek w Czersku doznał bardzo poważnego uszczerbku, zaś po III rozbiorze Polski i objęciu Czerska przez Prusaków mury zostały częściowo zburzone. Od tego czasu zamek jest zrujnowany. Do dzisiaj zachowana jest większość murów zamku oraz wszystkie trzy wieże (Brama, Południowa i Zachodnia), z których można podziwiać panoramę okolicy. Obecnie ruiny zamku udostępnione są zwiedzającym.
It was a beautiful day last Sunday and while out walking the dogs this lovely Victorian style house caught my eye . . . initially I loved the shadows created by the lovely patterned iron work but I also loved all of the rich Autumn reds . . . a perfect pairing for this warming cappuccino who's grey cup and saucer just happened to match the door and window frame here beautifully!
You can see more of my Colour Palette series here:
Redbrick Estate, Islington. Canto Court (with the yellow shutters) stands on the opposite side of Old Street.
Burton Agnes
Norman Manor House
You enter the Manor House by the original low door into the undercroft, it is on the ground floor and is all Norman, there are massive round pillars with water flower capitals supporting the vaulted ceiling.
On one of the pillars are nine small holes in a square, which may be the peg holes for the game Nine Men’s Morris, a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The undercroft would have been used for storage and may also have provided sleeping and living quarters for the servants.
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Fisher Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services
914 Columbia St.
Lafayette IN 47901
Sean Lutes - Preserve Historic Lafayette
March 26, 2022
The Castle Cottage of Helen Gougar ⚜️⚜️⚜️
One of the Old City's few Romanesque Revival structures is also one of its most historically significant. March is Women's History Month, and what better way to celebrate it than a story of the Old City's very own suffragist and shaker mover Helen Gougar and her grand "Castle Cottage"?
Helen Gougar was born in a village in Michigan in 1843, and in 1860 she moved to Lafayette with her brothers and uncles. Lafayette in 1860 was a rapidly growing city, with layers of success built upon the river ports, canals, and now railroads, causing the Old City's population to swell from 6,000 in 1850 to nearly 10,000 by the time Helen arrived.
Helen took up work as a teacher and quickly found success, becoming a local principal in 1863, only 3 years after arriving in the city. But this was not enough for the hungry mind of Helen, and after her marriage in 1863 to John Gougar, a successful local attorney, Helen took up the task of being his legal apprentice. She took this pursuit of knowledge so seriously that she left her position as a principal to focus entirely on this effort.
Soon she was writing columns in the Lafayette Courier, and even started her own Lafayette paper, the "Our Herald" by the 1880's. By the 1870's she took on the matter of Suffrage, extending the vote to Women. Gougar was converted to the cause of women’s suffrage upon learning about the death of a mother of four in 1878 from domestic violence. Though Gougar had been “praying away the evil,” incidents like that convinced her that it would be more effective to “vote it away." Gougar did not shy away from the injustice nor fell to the weight of discouragement such circumstances must have presented, but rather pushed forward.
She became a national figure for suffragists, and in the 1890's sued the county for her right to vote in the 1894 election, the case ultimately leading to the Indiana State Supreme Court. Though she did not win her case, she paved the way for those after her, even being admitted to the Tippecanoe Bar in 1895.
By the 1890's, Helen Gougar and her husband, John, had accumulated enough wealth to construct a new grand home in the heart of the Old City at 10th and Columbia. An old canal era wood frame house was pulled down to make way for the Romanesque Revival (a style inspired by the early Medieval architecture of Europe) edifice in 1896. The red brick and stone structure was deemed one of the finest homes in the city, and earned the nickname "Castle Cottage." The home was noted not only for its architecture, but the handsome parlor for maids and servants constructed in the rear of the home, a sign of a truly "progressive" family to treat the maids to such a dignified space.
In 1907 Helen Gougar died. Her husband John would pass many years later in 1925. Though Helen did not live to see the 19th Amendment (which gives women the right to vote) ratified, John did and could see the ultimate fruits of the labor of suffragists like Helen.
The Old City has always been a welcome home for the thinker, the philosopher, the artist, the shaker and mover. Here cognitive dissonance finds no home where the city's ancestors found solace from their relentless Muses either through the bottom of a bottle or fierce community effort, or, in many cases, both.
Shortly after the death of John, the house was sold to undertakers who converted the home into a funeral parlor. It remains a funeral parlor to this day. In recent years the owners at Fisher Funeral Home had Castle Cottage made a protected structure, and have worked diligently to maintain, restore, and care for the important landmark in our Old City so that it can continue to inspire for generations to come.
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Contributing Property - St. Mary Historic District - NRHP - 01000622
Inspired by Dyxie...http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyxie/ ....she does brick so well. Actually she does old, decaying, chipped, broken, peeling architecture so well.
Just like Teter... www.flickr.com/photos/davidteter/
And Scout.... www.flickr.com/photos/scoutj/
And JKonig.... www.flickr.com/photos/jkonig/
And quite a few others that I can't think of at the moment. You guys inspire me but I can't take good architecture pics worth a shit. I just don't have that "thing" that makes them look so cool. Can I blame it on my camera?
So I guess you'll just have to let me keep faving yours ;-)
Sorry that I can't link properly on Flickr...I'm a dumbass with computers...
The redbrick gables, tall chimneys, and ornate bell turret of Crosby Moran Hall caught my eye while walking on the other side of the Thames near the Albert Bridge. Now the residence of Christopher Moran, this Chelsea building was in part relocated from Bishopsgate in 1910 and retains portions of the original 1466 structure.
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
~ Duane Michals
Taken on 23 January 2014 and uploaded 18 August 2024.
I uploaded a later photo of this, showing its frontal aspect.
This is one of two brick built guard huts on the concrete road leading through Filborough Marshes to the ruin of Shornemead Fort. One at each end of the road, I don't remember which end this is at and I'm not sure this and the other photo are the same hut (I'm getting old...). It is as it is, as is said.
I'm surprised a thrusting go-getter like the former Secretary for This-That-And-The-Next-Thing, Grant Shapps, or one of his alter egos, didn't make more of this and others like it: it's an attractive brick built outhouse in a charmingly bucolic setting with nearby amenities (paths, a river, big electricity pylons) and would probably attract bids in excess of £400,000 in London (close to direct rail links).
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A revamp of one of my all time favourites - because I felt like it ... !
Off camping in Cornwall for a week or so ... Enjoy ...
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Another my collage in the theme "formerly and today", this time the hospital in my hometown :)
The hospital, which was built from 1892 to 1894, took pattern from the most advanced at that time Carla Hospital i Dresden. The building cmplex was erected acording to the introduced at that time pavilon style and surrounded by greenery and equipped with electric instalation, central heating and sewerage. Now the main entrance is on the other side, but the building still has its original functions.
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Kolejne zestawienie z serii "dawniej i dziś", tym razem budynek szpitala w Żyrardowie :)
Zbudowany w latach 1892-1894, wzorowany na jednym z najnowocześniejszych w tym czasie szpitali "Carla" w Dreźnie. Zespół budynków wzniesiony według wprowadzonego wówczas systemu pawilonowego, otoczony zielenią, wyposażony m.in. w instalację elektryczną, centralne ogrzewanie i kanalizację. Obecnie główne wejście znajduje się z innej strony, lecz budynek wciąż pełni swoje pierwotne funkcje.