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Gustav Adolf Church or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church is a historical building located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883 and 1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community.The combined church and minister's house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
During the later part of the 19th century, large numbers of Scandinavian emigrants were passing though Liverpool, and there was a need to serve their spiritual needs. The first Scandinavian priest was appointed in 1870, who visited the emigrants in ships and boarding houses. There was perceived to be a need for a permanent centre. The commission to design a church and minister's house was gained by W. D. Caroe, whose father, Anders Kruuse Caroe, was the Danish Consul in the city. It was Caroe's first independent commission to design a church.[3] Building started in 1883 and was completed the following year, at a cost of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,430,000 in 2016).
I just liked the look of this building. Its raining pretty hard here and we're hiding under an awning waiting for a break. I took this and punched it up to make it more interesting. New Albany, Indiana
When we arrived on this lawn, there was a couple looking up at the house in absolute horror. They couldn't believe how ugly it was. It really is a monster from outside but, oh, the interiors! It's an incredibly homely home, if somebody offered, we could happily move in next week!
Winston Churchill bought the house in the early 1920s. He hadn't consulted his wife Clemmie, who was horrified. Mainly because they didn't have enough money, but also because the house faced eastwards across a small side valley to woodland, whereas to the south were these magnificent views stretching 40 miles across the Weald, but they couldn't be seen from the house at all.
The original house as they bought it is the part on the left. The Churchills built the enormous extension to the right to take advantage of the southerly views (almost bankrupting themselves in the process). On the top floor of the extension is Lady Churchill's bedroom, with the best views of the lot. Below that is the sitting room and underneath that (windows surrounded by shrubs in this photo) is the most exquisitely beautiful dining room imaginable.
A ginnel is an alleyway. This very simple shot seems to have a nice quality to its light and the car at the end even adds to the harmony...
Hmmm... what you think looking at this? I would like to go... slowly, step by step, go straight to the blue... ;)
But this is only tower of the castle in Radzyń Chełmiński :))
The grade 1 listed Seventeenth century Restoration era Mansion House on Church Street, Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
Dating back to 1685, this is one of the many impressive buildings in this market town.
The listing also includes the coach house wall.
Home to Dr. Taylor (sometimes known as the King of Ashbourne), the house was frequented by Dr. (Samuel) Johnson between 1737 and 1784.
The facade, Music room and many of the interior features were added between 1765 and 1784.
A crisp morning light catches the classical symmetry of this Renaissance Revival apartment building in San Francisco’s Richmond District. Clad in red brick with pale stone trim, the structure channels early 20th-century confidence — a time when craftsmanship and ornamentation lent even apartment buildings a sense of civic dignity.
The arched ground-floor windows, ornamental cornice, and fire escape zigzagging across the façade all tell a story of enduring urban rhythm. Against the deep blue sky, the warm brick glows like memory itself — part of the city’s vast patchwork of architectural eras, layered and alive.
There was a little alley in San Francisco back of the Southern
Pacific station at Third and Townsend in redbrick of drowsy lazy
afternoons with everybody at work in offices in the air you feel
the impending rush of their commuter frenzy as soon they’ll be
charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot
and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of
Walkup ?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third
Street of lost bums even Negros so hopeless and long left East
and meanings of responsibility and try that now all they do is
stand there spitting in the broken glass sometimes fifty in one
afternoon against one wall at Third and Howard and here’s all
these Millbrae and San Carlos neat-necktied producers and
commuters of America and Steel civilization rushing by with San
Francisco Chronicles and green Call-Bulletins not even enough
time to be disdainful, they’ve got to catch 130, 132, 134, 136 all
the way up to 146 till the time of evening supper in homes of the
railroad earth when high in the sky the magic stars ride above
the following hotshot freight trains--it’s all in California, it’s all a
sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my
jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not
working) on book, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and
feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me and I* have
insane conversations with Negroes in second*-story windows
above and everything is pouring in, the switching moves of
boxcars in that little alley which is so much like the alleys of
Lowell and I hear far off in the sense of coming night that engine
calling our mountains.
Jack Kerouac-October in the Railroad Earth
On 12 Februrary 1974, a friend and I visited the Bay Area for a first ride on BART as well as a trip on the SP commutes. We were planning to go over Christmas break, taking the Coast Starlight from Davis to Richmond, riding BART, then going to the SP's 3rd and Townsend Street station to catch a commute, pulled by an H-24-66, to San Jose and the Starlight back to Davis and home.
This was the very end of 3rd and Townsend, the station SP had built for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition as a temporary structure that somehow held on for almost 60 years, through wars and streamlined Daylights and Larks and dieselization and Amtrak ending long distance passenger service into SF, and now, here it was, with a couple of SDP45s supplementing the F-Ms and Geeps that had been the commute power since the day I was born when diesels took over the commutes from the last of SP's steam.
Within a year or so, the F-Ms were gone and a new station was built south of 4th Street, which Caltrain still uses and is now over 40 years old itself, as old as 3rd and Townsend was when Kerouac and Neal Cassady were working for SP and they and their fellow Beats were having poetry readings in North Beach.
In 1974, there were flagmen who would block 4th Street to traffic when a train was due to leave or arrive at the station during the day. They would come out with their STOP signs from their little cabins and hold up cars for a few seconds until the train cleared, then go back to doing whatever they had been doing.
When rush hour approached and some of the trains extended beyond 4th Street, they would extend a chain across 4th Street and open up 5th Street a block south and flag that for the evening commute parade. 130, the first train that Kerouac mentions in Railroad Earth left at 514 and ran non stop down to what we now call Silicon Valley, before making its stops. In 1974, it was one of the first trains to have an SDP45 and ran with 9 gallery cars, which extended over 4th Street, as did some of the other trains. SP dispatched trains at 3 minute intervals at the rush hour, and my 1958 Official Guide shows the same train numbers and times as prevailed at rush hour in 1974.
Today, Caltrain runs a different service, reflecting that many people are commuting south in the morning and north in the afternoon as Santa Clara County has turned from a bedroom community to an economic powerhouse. The whole neighborhood has changed with former SP yards and freight houses now apartments and condos, and the Giants' 3 Com Park a few blocks north. Streetcars again serve the station with Muni's E, N and T lines.
The Chilehaus (Chile House) is a ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany. It is located in the Kontorhausviertel. It is an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture.
This building was designed by the architect Fritz Höger and built between 1922 and 1924. It was commissioned by the shipping magnate Henry B. Sloman, who made his fortune trading saltpeter from Chile, hence the name Chile House..[wikipedia]
Free texture. Commercial or whatever. Credit is nice but not mandatory. No rules. Go crazy. My thanks to those who shared texture before me. Let me know if I chose the wrong attribution. I chose wrong before and someone got upset. :P
This building in North East, Pennsylvania, used to be, I believe a hotel. It located adjacent to the railroad tracks through town and the sites of the former railroad stations. Today I presume it has been converted into apartments.
Built in 1893, this redbrick complex was originally Europe's largest solitary confinement facility, and used to hold political prisoners, including Trotsky in 1905 and, in October 1917, the entire provisional government.
Camera: Canon A-1
Film: Silberra RS100
Lens: Canon FD 50mm 1:1.8
Saint-Petersburg, June '22
A marriage of two old pubs, the Green Man was built in 1750 to service the coaching trade of the town but as the traffic diminished during the early Nineteenth century, the owner purchased the neighbouring Blackmoor’s Head Inn and amalgamated the two. The new inn provided the area with local meeting rooms which included meetings of the local Magistrates and County courts. It also went on to become home and headquarters of the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Committee.
It took its "Royal" from the visit of Princess Victoria in the 1830's, later to become Queen.
It has a rather rare sign in the form of an iron and wooden "gallows" style sign which spans Saint John's Street in front of the inn. The signage would originally have represented a Green Man and not the present day hunter.
This is another building in Ashbourne reputed to have been frequented by Dr. (Samuel) Johnson.
The hotel was included in the Guinness book of records for having the longest pub name "The Royal Green Man and Blackamoor's Head Commercial and Family hotel"
The Black's Head (Blackmoor's Head) originally stood a few buildings to the left of the shot and is now in use as retail premises. When joined it must have been a rather large property.
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.
Two sundials on the castle's tower refer to the passing hours with Latin mottos:
• “Practereunt” (“They pass by”)
• “Imputantur” (“They are reckoned unto us”)
Sundance Square
Fort Worth, TX
The Knights of Pythias Building is an historic three-story redbrick Knights of Pythias building located at 315 Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Also known as the Knights of Pythias Castle Hall, it was built in 1901 on the site of an 1881 structure, the first Pythian Castle Hall ever built, which had burned earlier the same year. The building housed the city's first offset printing press and coin-operated laundry. On April 28, 1970, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL). In 1981 it was restored and is now part of the Sundance Square area of downtown Fort Worth.
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Taken in my hometown. The same place in 1937 and in 2014 :)
The edifice of the Town Hall was built in 1910. Its ground floor served as the Factory Shop with the textile products and the post office. The first floor was the Town Hall itself. The second floor was adapted for the service flats. Now, the entire building is the seat of the municipal Office.
Żyrardów - small town in Central Poland with short, but interesting history :) It is located in the Mazovia region, the heart of Poland. It owes its unique atmosphere to the characteristic architecture of an industrial town. The original spatial layout of the community, which grew around a manufacturing plant in the mid-19th century, has been preserved to the present day. The historic center of Żyrardów (mostly buildings from red bricks) is the only industrial architecture complex from the turn of the 20th c. in Europe that has been preserved to modern times in full. The old settlement covers a 76-ha area in the central part of the town. Diversified architectural forms and styles characterize the city, which has resulted from the multi-cultural character of Żyrardów.
The flax trade gave the town its origins. A plant manufacturing flax that was one of the largest and modern factories in Europe was established there in 1829. Karol Dittrich and Karol Hielle, two industrialists from Germany, founded the plant. The town derives its name from the first technical director of the plant, Philip de Girard who, among others, invented a mechanical flax-spinning machine.
Magistrat - wybudowany w 1910r., przeznaczony na siedzibę władz miasta. Początkowo na parterze mieścił się sklep firmowy z tkaninami z żyrardowskiej fabryki oraz poczta. Na pierwszym pietrze usytuowane były gabinety kadry urzedniczej. Ostatnia kondygnację zaadaptowano na służbowe mieszkania. Obecnie cały budynek jest siedzibą Urzędu Miejskiego.
Żyrardów leży w centrum Polski, na Mazowszu. Swój niepowtarzalny klimat zawdzięcza charakterystycznej architekturze miasta zaprojektowanej w połowie XIX stulecia. Zabytkowe centrum Żyrardowa jest jedynym w Europie zachowanym w całości zespołem urbanistyczno-architektonicznym miasta przemysłowego przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Do czasów nam współczesnych na terenie położonej w centrum miasta osady fabrycznej zachowało się blisko 95% pierwotnej zabudowy, która w większości przypadków wciąż pełni nadane jej przez budowniczych funkcje. Osada fabryczna obejmuje centralną część miasta o powierzchni ok. 76 ha. Charakteryzuje ją różnorodność form architektonicznych i stylów, co wynika ze zróżnicowania narodowościowego mieszkańców Żyrardowa.
Początek miastu dała fabryka lniarska, która powstała na terenie dzisiejszego Żyrardowa w 1829 roku. Była to jedna z największych i najnowocześniejszych fabryk ówczesnej Europy. Została założona przez dwóch przemysłowców z Niemiec: Karola Dittricha i Karola Hielle. Żyrardów zawdzięcza swą nazwę pierwszemu dyrektorowi technicznemu fabryki, Philipowi de Girard. Był on m.in. wynalazcą maszyny do mechanicznego przędzenia lnu.
Gustav Adolf Church or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church is a historical building located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883 and 1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community.The combined church and minister's house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
During the later part of the 19th century, large numbers of Scandinavian emigrants were passing though Liverpool, and there was a need to serve their spiritual needs. The first Scandinavian priest was appointed in 1870, who visited the emigrants in ships and boarding houses. There was perceived to be a need for a permanent centre. The commission to design a church and minister's house was gained by W. D. Caroe, whose father, Anders Kruuse Caroe, was the Danish Consul in the city. It was Caroe's first independent commission to design a church.[3] Building started in 1883 and was completed the following year, at a cost of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,430,000 in 2016).