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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.
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”)
Walpeup.
The towns along the railway line from Ouyen to Pinnaroo in South Australia were the first towns in Victoria to follow the railway rather than precede it. To the north of this Wimmera region was the Mallee and scrub lands towards the Murray River which eventually became the Murray-Sunset national park. To the south of this Wimmera region was the Big Desert which also became a national park. The suitable soils and underground water reserves from wells and pumps made about 750,000 acres of cereal lands open for farming. The government sank over 120 bores and wells in this area by 1914. The farmers moved into these lands in 1910 and the railway was extended from Ouyen to Walpeup and westward in 1912 to Murrayville and finally to Pinnaroo in 1915. Like the other towns along the railway line Walpeup and Underbool were settled in 1910 with the last town to be established in 1912 at Murrayville. The first of several general stores opened in Walpeup in 1909 and Matchetts built a red brick store with a curved parapet in 1911. The first school in Walpeup opened in 1911 in a house before moving to a local hall. The state school was built in 1914 with a second weatherboard room added in 1927. A Post Office started operating in 1912 and the Bank of Victoria opened for business in 1918 and the town also had a Commercial Banking of Sydney too. The still used red brick Walpeup Memorial Hall opened in 1923. It is the finest hall in the Ouyen Murrayville districts with a classical façade. It cost over £2,200. A tapestry on the history of the hall was produced in 1989 and the committee found a lost Welcome Home banner made to honour the soldiers who served in World War One. The red brick Catholic Church nearby was constructed in 1921 and it is the oldest solid construction church in the Ouyen to Murrayville area. It is noted for its castellated entry porch and diagonal leadlight windows. The wooden framed Presbyterian Church was put up in 1935 and the wooden framed Methodist Church was erected in 1937 but services had been held in the hall from 1923. The timber framed Methodist Church is now an Anglican – Uniting Church. This amalgamation of churches between the Uniting and Anglican Churches in the Wimmera began in 1994. There is also a quaint wooden framed Lutheran Church in Walpeup which was moved from near Swan Hill to Walpeup in 1973. That Lutheran church was built in 1925 at Sea Lake near Swan Hill. Near Walpeup is the Mallee Agricultural Research Station which was established on around 2,000 acres by the Victorian government in 1932 to address issues of silting, erosion, and crop experimentation for dryland farming. Over the years this centre bred some new varieties of wheat for Australia but the Station closed in 2009.
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.
Contax G1
Contax Biogon 28mm f2.8
Fujicolor Pro 800Z (Expired)
Developed, Processed & Scanned by The Darkroom
Edited in Photoshop CC
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.
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 made this photo of a brick chimney during Melody's and my daily walk in mid March 2023. One sees lots of things when walking a neighborhood; like looking up at a chimney. Not someone would do when in a car. Lots of homes in our neighborhood have fireplaces and chimneys but few, if any, are every used anymore. I believe all the homes that have been recently remodeled have eliminated fireplaces altogether. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50.
Basedow is a picturesque village in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Hightlights are the well preserved castle, the old church and the remains of an industrial and agricultural complex.
The former Pilotage Building at the entrance to Canning Dock by the Mersey at Liverpool. It was built in 1883.
For Monday's Challenge and THURSDAY RETREADS.
In this new one, I tried to emphasize the red bricks by keeping them in color, and adding more texture, and distortion to bricks. Many of you will remember the origin of the title.
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.
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).
British School in Severn Street, Birmingham.
The (Royal) Lancasterian (Free) School, Severn Street, sometimes called Birmingham British School, opened in 1809, with accommodation for boys. Until the Birmingham Infant Central School opened in 1826, this was the only unsectarian school in Birmingham. The school was rebuilt in 1851 to accommodate 500 boys, girls and infants. The school closed in 1933.
In recent years, the buildings have been saved from demolition by conversion into apartments and are now known as Scholar’s Gate. More info here.
Taken with Panasonic GF1 camera and Panasonic G 14mm F2.5 wide-angle pancake lens, during our trip to Birmingham, early May 2015.
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.
Alfred Waterhouse's famous Red Brick University building in Liverpool, 120 years old on the 13th December 2012
Aerial summer morning view of St. Anne's and St. Francis of Assisi (Bernardine) Roman Catholic Church in Vilnius, Lithuania
Cootamundra.
The Cootamundra run of around 50,000 acres was licensed in 1847. A few years later in 1860 a town was surveyed on the banks of Muttama Creek within the Cootamundra run. Town lots were sold in 1862 and were taken up quickly as gold mining had started on the Muttama Reef. But there was no rush to Muttama until a much bigger find of gold was made in 1882. By 1864 the town had the Albion Hotel, a Post Office, a general store and a few residents. The police station and a second hotel opened by 1866 and the first stone Catholic Church was built in 1870 followed by a slab hut Anglican Church in 1874 and the first government school in 1875. The current state school was built in 1877 which was also the year in which the first train reached the town. With access to markets in Sydney the town started to grow and many substantial buildings were erected in the next 20 years. Early in the 20th century two significant events occurred; firstly the birth of Donald Bradman, later Sir Donald, in a cottage hospital in Adams Street; secondly in 1911 the establishment of the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. It operated until 1968. Girls removed from their families by the state government were sent here to be trained as domestic servants. Whilst there is some acknowledged abuse at the home there was certainly more abuse of the girls once they turned 14 years when they were sent to be servants. The home was run in the former hospital (1887) called Bimbadeen which was handed over to the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship in the 1970s. To promote the Bradman connection (his family moved to Bowral in 1911) there is a statue of all 42 of the Australian cricket team captains, including the Aboriginal captain who led the 1868 his team against England. The busts are in Jubilee Park.
Historic buildings in Cootamundra include: the Gothic style railway station built in 1884 to 1888 with a tower; the Catholic Church in Morris St.(1916) and the convent (about 1880) and behind it the first Catholic Church 1870; along Thompson St is the state school (1877); in Wallendoon St the old Council Chamber (1936); the NAB bank formerly CBC bank (1887)- exceptionally fine cast iron veranda columns; the Post Office and its four storey tower designed by architect Walter Vernon (1881); the Globe Hotel ( rebuilt after a fire in 1903); behind the Globe is the Courthouse(1901) with symmetry, side pavilions, Greek columns; old corner bank now Custom Accounting (about 1900); the Albion Hotel (rebuilt 1920);the Bank of NSW now Westpac (1895) with classical colonnade and Victoria gable; the ANZ Bank (about 1920); quaint building next to ANZ (about 1900) still with slate roof; turn right at end main street at Cootamundra Hotel (1875 but remodelled 1930s) and then right again – Presbyterian Church now Uniting(1936) – the first Presbyterian church built 1882. In the park west of the Main Street is the Captains’’ Walk a series of busts of all Australian cricket team captains.
"This funky hostel in a redbrick building is 2-minutes’ walk from Hallgrímskirkja, a towering cathedral built in 1986, 7-minutes' walk from the popular shopping street Skolavordustigur and 2 km from Perlan, a revolving restaurant with a glass dome.
Bright rooms, and mixed-sex dorms with bunk beds sleeping 14 people, offer free Wi-Fi and shared bathroom facilities."
Note: Christmas decoration stay up throughout the dark months (photo shot mid Jan)
Ok - I did a little photoshop to make the color pop. Not too much though. Inspired by one of my contacts. Check him out.