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OK, fellow Flickrers, just in time for Halloween, hop on the bus and follow me on a tour of the (thankfully former) New York State Insane Asylum. 'Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home'... This is considered one of Buffalo's most beautiful (?) buildings and is listed in the National Historic Register. Opened in 1880 and closed in 1974, most of the 10 major structures are abandoned, but the main building has been revamped as a hotel, though closed during Covid and yet to reopen. (Might make a fine location for a sequel to 'The Shining' if you ask me.)
A different view of the 100 block of S. Randolph St. in the Macomb Courthouse Square Historic District. The Macomb Post Office shown in my previous post is over my right shoulder, and the beautiful Taylor Block, also shown previously, can be spotted in the middle of the block in this view looking north from the intersection of S. Randolph and E. Washington St.
The building on corner was constructed in 1898 and was the first four-story block building in Macomb. According to author George E. Hallwas' volume titled McDonough County Historic Sites in the Images of America Series, a local grocer built the building with most of the structure devoted to office space. Gamage notes that from 1903 to 1905, the Central Preparatory School and Commercial College was located there, and from 1908 to 1919 the Macomb Conservatory of Music was housed there as well. In 1933, the building was purchased by the Masons, who met on the fourth floor, and since then it has been known as the Masonic Temple Building.
Although this building has an interesting history, a remodeling in the 1950s (first floor storefront and canopy) has resulted in it being listed as a non-contributing building in the Macomb Courthouse Square Historic District. The district covers six full and four partial city blocks and includes 65 contributing buildings. Brick commercial blocks, often with Italianate or Queen Anne details, dominate the district's architectural landscape. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Located in western Illinois, Macomb is the seat of McDonough County and the home of Western Illinois University. The population of Macomb at the 2020 census was 15,051. The city is named after General Alexander Macomb, a general in the War of 1812.
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Wilbur signed the summit register on Putrid Pete's Peak, nicknamed P3. We scrambled up 3,020 feet on the steep trail on the ridge seen below on the center right. P3 is named after Pete Schoening, 1927 - 2004, who lived nearby. Pete was a legendary mountaineer who saved six men on K2, the world's second highest mountain by holding their weight on belay.
In January 2015, the City of Broken Hill was included on the National Heritage Register. This register lists 106 other iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kakadu National Park, and the Australian Alps. Broken Hill is the first city to be listed. Extensive research and consultation with the Broken Hill community was a key part of the listing.
The National Heritage List is Australia’s pre-eminent heritage list recognising and protecting the nation’s most valued natural, indigenous, and historic heritage sites. Listing is the highest heritage honour in Australia and listed placed receive national attention and benefits from increased domestic and international tourism. Broken Hil has been assessed against the nine National Heritage Criteria, which include historic, aesthetic, and social values, creative and technical achievements, associations with significant peoples, and others.
The following is the Statement of Significance for the City of Broken Hill which was prepared as part of the listing process:
“The City of Broken Hill has outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, for its long, enduring and continuing mining operations, and the community’s deep and shared connection with Broken Hill as the isolated city in the desert, its outback landscape, the planned design and landscaping of the town, the regeneration areas and particularly the physical reminders of its mining origins such as the Line of Lode, the barren mullock heaps, tailings, skimps and slagheap escarpment and relict structures. It exhibits historic qualities in its ongoing mining operations since 1883, the current and relict mining infrastructure and its landscape setting. It is significant for its industrial past ….. together with its role as a pioneer in setting occupational health and safety standards.”
“It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a mining town in a remote location with extensive transport infrastructure and administrative connections to three state capitals and as a rare example of a place subject to Australia’s complex Federal system where differing administrative, social and economic influences are expressed in both tangible and intangible forms. It has social significance for its residents as a place of community pride, endurance, and as a remote mining community resilient to major social and economic change, Broken Hill has strong social significance for all Australians as a place where great wealth was created, as well as strong group associations with the Barrier Industrial Council. It exhibits outstanding aesthetic characteristics as a city in an arid desert setting, as the subject of interest for Australian artists, poets, film makers, TV producers and photographers.”
“It has significance as a place where outstanding technical achievement has occurred in refining ore for its minerals including the froth flotation process and the computer controlled on-stream analysis of slurries. Broken Hill is also important as a place of research potential to reveal further information on mineral deposits with its range of complex minerals. It is associated with person of great importance to Australia’s history, including Albert Morris (arid land regeneration), Charls Rasp (discoverer), Herbert Hoover (mining engineer), WL Baillieu, WA Robinson and MAE Mawby (industrialists), GD Delprat (metallurgist), Percy Brookfield and Eugene O’Neill (unionists). Broken Hill’s association with the Barrier Industrial Council as a group is also important.”
“The Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver ore deposit is one of the world’s largest ore bodies and contains an extraordinary array of minerals. It is geologically complex and has national scientific significance. The Broken Hill operation is significant for its immense size and unrecorded mineral species continue to be found. It contributes to an understanding of the formation of the Australian continent and more than 2, 300 million years of the earth’s history.”
The City of Broken Hill is delighted that the special heritage values of the city are recognised and celebrated nationally and internationally by this listing.
Wilyakali Country:
Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.
The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.
Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.
Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”
Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.
Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.
The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines, Mobile Language Team, & Aboriginal Housing Office.
Excerpt from heritageburlington.ca:
The Graham House at 1421 Lakeshore Road was built in 1894 as a two-storey front-gable frame structure with front verandah and gingerbread bargeboard.
Charles F. Berg Building
615 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places reference No.: 83002170
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* Wikipedia: Charles F. Berg Building
Excerpt from www.legolanddiscoverycentre.com/hong-kong/en/:
The LEGO Discovery Center Hong Kong is an amazing playground that offers visitors an interactive LEGO experience. This cneter has a large collection of LEGO toys, including giant building models and various buildings, animals and characters. Not only that, visitors can also participate in various fun activities, such as building their own LEGO models and participating in competitions, Overall, this is a fantastic place and well worth a visit.
Located in K11 Musea, Tsim Sha Tsui, the location is convenient, just outside the shopping mall at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station. The interior is built with thousands of Lego blocks. It is an indoor playground mainly for parents and children, which is very fun. There are 10 different Lego-themed parks, including 4D theaters, 2 mobile games, and 1 workshop. The 3-hour inspiring play experience allows you and your children to spend unforgettable parent-child time in the playground.
1944 AEC Matador Timber Truck Re-Registered in 1967 HNM 435F T.C Fenson & Son
Photo taken at Old Warden Airshow Held at Shuttleworth Museum Old Warden Aerodrome Biggleswade Bedfordshire UK 4th Sept 2022
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DLE280 SK68LTF seen at Harrow, Bus Station waiting to work on circular route H19 via Headstone Lane.
Leave no trace of where you've gone
I ain't the one to point you out
'Cause together in concrete we stand
In this broken land
Gold why do you aspire to gold?
Why not something higher?
“A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.”
Native American Proverb
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Explore #49 on January 26, 2023.
The Macoupin County Courthouse was designed by the prolific architect Elijah E. Myers (1832-1909) whose work includes three state capitols (Michigan, Texas, and Colorado), along with courthouses and other public buildings in the United States and internationally. The McDonough County Courthouse, featured last fall in my series on Macomb, Illinois, was also designed by Myers.
After serving in the military during the Civil War, Myers settled briefly in Springfield, Illinois, and it was there that he obtained the Macoupin County courthouse commission. Myers must have put every ounce of his architectural knowledge into the Macoupin County design, whose grand size and elaborate ornamentation seems more suited to a state house than a rural courthouse. The Beaux-Arts building was under construction from 1867-70.
Beyond the beauty of this courthouse is an interesting backstory about how this building came to be known as the "Million Dollar Courthouse." The following description is borrowed from the Macoupin County website (macoupincountyil.gov/)
Macoupin County’s “Million Dollar Courthouse” received its nickname because when construction was halted in 1870 – that was halted, not completed – it cost $1.3 million. That would be $23.5 million dollars in today’s money. At the time, it was the biggest instance of overspending in Illinois history.
There were accusations by county residents regarding misappropriations of funds during the construction of the courthouse. One of the commissioners, Judge Loomis was accused of using stone from the courthouse to build a grand hotel, the Loomis House, on the square. Judge Loomis stated he purchased the stone but never produced a bill of sales. Another commissioner, County Clerk George Holliday, was seen leaving town by train in the middle of the night carrying a carpet bag. Public opinion was that the bag was filled with some of the money raised for construction of the courthouse. Holliday was never seen again and it is still a mystery as to where he went.
When the courthouse was opened in 1870, it was the largest courthouse in the country with the possible exception of one in New York City. The doors, staircases, windows sills and sashes are all made of cast iron, making the courthouse the first fireproof building in the country.
It took the citizens of Macoupin County 40 years to pay off the debt. Many lost their homes and farms because of the taxes. There was a two day jubilee to celebrate the burning of the last bond in 1910.
The “Million Dollar Courthouse” is one of few courthouses of its age that is not a museum, white elephant, or has been demolished. It is still a working courthouse which is open for business 5 days a week.
It stands as an awe inspiring example of what men did with their hands and simple tools a century and a half ago. Over the years, the “Million Dollar Courthouse” has become a showplace that attracts tourists, architects and artist from around the world.
The Macoupin County Courthouse is the focal point of the Carlinville Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. At the 2020 census, the population of Carlinville was 5,710. efault
Event: Morris Register National Rally
Location: Thoresby Hall, Budby, Nottinghamshire
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens(s): Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
Film: Adox HR-50
Shot ISO: 50
Light Meter: Camera
Exposure: Mostly f/2.8
Lighting: Overcast & some drizzle
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 7m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)