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PASADENA CITY HALL SEISMIC UPGRADE AND REHABILITATION PROJECT
Pasadena City Hall was built in 1927 to inspire a city with beauty, boldness and vision. It is an important part of this community’s rich architectural heritage.
In 2003, the City Council approved a plan for the seismic retrofit, historic renovation and infrastructure improvements to ensure that Pasadena City Hall will continue to stand proud and serve the community for another 100 years.
Seismic retrofit of the building will include installation of structural base isolators that will allow the building to withstand future earthquake activity. Restoration activities will allow for the preservation of the many historic architectural elements of City Hall, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. New building infrastructure is necessary due to severe demands placed on the building over the past 77 years as a result of the piecemeal addition of heating, air conditioning, and technology systems. An interesting fact: all of the plumbing is original!
The building was closed in July 2004, and City Hall offices have been moved to interim locations.
Building construction started in March 2005 and is expected to be completed in Summer 2007.
The picture above was taken yesterday.
Fort Parker was founded by Elder John Parker and his three sons, Benjamin, Silas and James, and other families from the Predestinarian Baptist Church of Crawford County, Illinois. Traveling by ox-drawn wagons, they came to Texas in 1833, settled along the Navasota River, and built Fort Parker for protection against Indians. Completed in March of 1834, the stockade's walls were constructed of split cedar logs buried in the ground and extending up 12 feet with sharp points. Inside the walls were two-story blockhouses, rows of log cabins for living quarters, and a livestock corral. The Parker family, members of a group of pioneers settling the Brazos Trail Region in the early 1800s, arrived near the future site of Groesbeck in 1833. Determined to make a go of it despite the longstanding presence of Indians throughout the surrounding countryside, the Parkers proceeded to clear brush, plant crops, and build a stockade known as “Parker’s Fort.” The fort was constructed of split cedars, anchored in the ground and rising approximately twelve feet. Blockhouses were built in opposing corners, providing a view of the landscape (and as aides in defense). Within the stockade walls the family and fellow colonists built two rows of log cabins as living quarters, completing the project by March of 1834. Despite the stockade’s heavy construction and defensive features they were deceitfully attacked. Since there had been no Indian troubles, they felt so secure they left the fort's gates open so workers could come and go with ease. But on May 19, 1836, while the men worked in the fields and the children played inside the fort, more than 100 Indians -- Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo and Wichita -- appeared at the gates with a white flag of peace. Benjamin Parker left the fort to talk to the warriors, who told him they wanted a safe place to camp and some beef. As Parker returned with beef, the riders surrounded him and killed him with their lances. Before the gates could be closed, the raiders rushed inside the fort, and killed Elder John Parker and his son Silas. As the men in the fields rushed to the fort, the Indians escaped with two women and three children. Behind them, five settlers lay dead and others were wounded, some of whom died later.and, once it was over, all members of this small pioneering community were either dispersed, kidnapped, or dead. Nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker would be one of the kidnapped victims. Fort Parker, abandoned after the attack, disintegrated with age. In 1930 the first replica of the fort appeared on the site, followed by a rebuild in 1967. Today, Old Fort Parker provides a living history interpretation of early life in the region courtesy of the Fort Parker Historical Society and the city of Groesbeck. A full, year-round event schedule includes trail rides, festivals, and celebrations. - See more at: texasbrazostrail.com/plan-your-adventure/historic-sites-a...
This imposing, six-sided, wooden lighthouse looks thoroughly at home on Cemetery Point. But this is not its original site.
The lighthouse was first built on a rugged headland at the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, more than 80 metres above sea level. The site was chosen in 1875 and the lighthouse built in 1878-79, to a design that was developed by an engineer, John Blackett, for New Zealand conditions. There are several similar lighthouses elsewhere on the New Zealand coast, but the design is particular to New Zealand.
The materials were brought in by ship to a landing in Haylocks Bay, near the site, and hauled up a specially built road to the top of the headland. The light first shone on 1 January 1880. It was a “manned” lighthouse and keepers’ houses were built on the headland.
In 1977, the old lighthouse was replaced by an automatic light. The following year a Lighthouse Preservation Society was formed in Akaroa and by the year’s end the tower had been cut into three pieces and manoeuvred over steep and narrow Lighthouse Road down to Akaroa, where it was re-assembled on Cemetery Point. Its historic equipment, which had been salvaged before the tower was moved, was then re-installed.
Our peaceful, Grade 1 registered garden is unlike any other with its romantic design and architecture, combining formality with nature and magnificent rural views across an unspoilt valley, whilst beautifully framed architectural gems and antiquities punctuate your visit throughout. Set on the last hill of the Cotswolds, within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, we hope that all who visit leave here feeling relaxed and inspired.
From its origins in the wool industry, through Georgian gentrification, then Harold Peto’s Edwardian structures, and right up to the present period, the passion of Iford’s inhabitants and its history are inextricably bound up in the beautiful garden’s unique design.
Today, Iford’s story continues to be written in this secluded corner of ‘Olde England’ with a new generation of owners, William and Marianne Cartwright-Hignett, who are taking the garden forward. Their appointment of Troy Scott Smith as Head Gardener (previously Head Gardener at Sissinghurst, Bodnant and The Courts) ensures there is much of horticultural interest throughout the season, as well as architectural and design. The gardens will be expanded yet further over the coming years, whilst refreshing the planting and preserving the heritage within the main garden itself. There will therefore be something new to discover on every visit.
The structural design seen today was largely created by Harold Peto, who lived at Iford from 1899-1933. A man of exquisite taste, with a talent for placing objects sympathetically to their surroundings, he designed gardens for royalty and aristocracy around the world. Trained as an architect, working in partnership with Sir Ernest George, Harold Peto ‘discovered’ a real passion for plants when undertaking work at Gravetye Manor, then home to ‘the father of gardening’ William Robinson.
Learning much about gardening directly from Robinson, Peto subsequently travelled the world, including Japan, Canada, America, Egypt and across Europe, learning about garden design and bringing back plants from all over the world. His skill for garden design, planting and architecture meant that he was in demand, especially on the Cap Ferrat in France where many of the world’s most expensive houses are today. Peto was the architect for several of those villas and gardens, to the extent that the Cap Ferrat was nicknamed ‘Peto Point’ in Edwardian times. Working for royalty, aristocracy and tycoons, his main patrons were the then Countess of Warwick and Isabella Stewart-Gardner.
Influenced mainly by his love of Roman, Italian and Japanese design, he was a promoter of the renaissance period and had a strong influence on the Arts and Crafts period. Striking the balance between formal and informal gardening, between soft planting and hard structure, Harold Peto’s work was appreciated in writings by Gertrude Jeykll and William Robinson.
During the past 55 years, today’s owners, the Cartwright-Hignett family, have lovingly restored the garden (once thought 'lost' after WW2) and continued to develop it, saving the buildings therein, finishing the Oriental Garden area designed by John Hignett and redesigning areas of the garden as they age, 100 years after Peto’s original plantings
The Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first two attempts to obtain an act failed after being opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. The promoters, to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and in 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and its construction. Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974.
The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park. They worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal.
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Pride of the GB Railfreight Class 92 fleet, 92020 "Billy Stirling" restores order to the Caledonian Sleeper Down Highlander (1S25) after the previous night's significant challenges - heading through Hartford bang on time.
3223 Perkiomen Ave.
Open since 1952. Restored/remodeled when it was bought by Effie Clauser in 2007.
www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=66902
Originally Published: 11/5/2007
Exeter Township: Makeover retains Charcoal Chef’s flavor
The former owner of a city restaurant gives an Exeter Township landmark a $275,000 renovation.
By David A. Kostival
Reading Eagle correspondent
Charcoal Chef has been a landmark in Exeter Township for years and new owner Efstratia “Effie” Clauser wanted to preserve that nostalgic tradition.
“Every day that I am here, I hear stories from customers about how they had their first date or got engaged here,” Clauser said. “And this was always the place to be after school dances.”
When Clauser, 45, purchased the business in April, she decided to bring the aging restaurant back to its glory days in the 1950s.
After $275,000 in renovations, Clauser reopened the restaurant Oct. 15 as Effie’s Charcoal Chef. She had closed the restaurant for about four weeks.
The renovations include new equipment, granite counters, tables and exterior walls, neon signs, parking lot improvements and electrical and plumbing upgrades.
“The granite gives the place a natural upscale look something that says this place has been and will be here forever,” she said.
And along with the numerous upgrades, longtime patrons can still enjoy their favorite menu items.
“I wanted to keep the tradition of Charcoal Chef going by continuing menu favorites such as the Charcoal Chef salad, cream of crab soup, chocolate cake with peanut butter icing and dream burgers,” Clauser said. “I really wanted to keep this going as the old Charcoal Chef, but just with a fresh new look.”
Clauser said she was happy to be able to purchase Charcoal Chef because she feels as if she is able to preserve a piece of history.
“It almost seems as if history follows me, because my pizza and sandwich shop also had a long-standing history in the community.
Prior to purchasing Charcoal Chef, Clauser had owned and operated Effie’s Pizza Villa, 555 N. 10th St., for 18 years.
The history of Pizza Villa is marred by tragedy. In 1997, George W. Clauser Jr., Effie’s husband, was murdered during a botched robbery attempt the night before Christmas Eve. Convicted murderer Melvin Ortiz is serving a life sentence.
Effie said God gave her the strength to continue running the business.
“I had to go on because I had a family to support,” said Clauser, who is the mother of Maria Anna, 12, and Panayiotis (Pete), 10. “I had family to give me support and God gave me the strength to go on.”
But after 18 years, Clauser said it was time to move on. She sold Pizza Villa in January.
“It was hard to let go after all that time, but I would do it again in a heartbeat it was the right move for me,” she said.
Clauser said she also can find comfort in knowing that her husband would have been proud of her new business venture.
“I really wanted to bring the old Charcoal Chef to sparkle as it did when it was everyone’s favorite hangout,” she said. “I’m a people person. I love what I do.”
I dug up this photo from my trip to Cincinnati this past April and selectively restored color to the flag in celebration of Independence Day. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday filled with reflection, family and FIREWORKS*!
*unless you live somewhere that prohibits fireworks, in which case put your liberty aside and obey local ordinances :)
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second trial
thanks to Vanessa Thomz's texture www.flickr.com/photos/vanka/
look at it on large and black : View On Black
Caysasay Shrine
Back then these silver ornaments were painted to deceive thefts its brass and now its back in its glorious shine
I had a hard time getting back to the Terxture Chapter after sharing the work of fire hosted by my dear Notre Dame from three weeks ago.
There had to be a natural transition, in any kind of way possible.
That's where not living at home for the past two weeks helps.
My Appartment's empty while some construction workers / electricians / plumbers are supposed to be working in it.
So I'm camping all around the city, going from one friend's home to another, like some other kind of transition before camping in western USA for another four weeks before I head back to Paris, receptionning a looking new appartment as I do so.
That brings us to today, being the recepient of Johann's hospitality.
Johann is living on top of a fifteen stories high cliff overlooking the entire city.
Can't blame you if you don't know such place existed.
Welcome to Paris.
Welcome to Johann's.
Me and my hubby bought this chair in an antique store and reformed it.
I wanted a shade of pink fabric, but I not found. Anyway, I think this one also combined with the atelier.
I really enjoyed this experience because the chair became as I wanted and much cheaper. :)
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Did a restore from an encrypted iTunes backup instead of a restore from iCloud and it was so great. The cloud may be "magic" but a USB cable is "fast".
A lot of the buildings in Montevideo were built a century or so ago--some, while protected, are in serious disrepair while others, like this classic Chevy, have been restored.
Ashton Windmill, Chapel Allerton, Somerset. A stunningly situated windmill for getting an open vista and beautifully restored and is maintained by volunteers. Thank you to them !
I restored this Schuster & Co. Zither that was made in Germany that was made in the late 19th to early 20th century.
This one was strung with 40 strings, Ivory tuner heads and engraved Silver plate on the peg head.
Listen to a Zither being played:
In the late 1980s, when he first took an interest in the buses he was travelling on, Kenny Barclay wouldn’t have imagined in his wildest dreams that he would ever own one. Now he has four. Purchasing a Leyland Leopard from 1980 in May 2007, three more buses of varying shapes and sizes followed over the next two years and he has lovingly restored each of them.
Here, Kenny Barclay gives a fascinating insight into this restoration process. A history of each bus, including technical specifications, is included alongside a selection of images of each vehicle in its heyday. This is followed by a fully illustrated account of each of the restoration projects, as well as photographs of the buses once restored to their former glory.
Packed with fascinating photography, Restoring a Bus is perfect both for those looking to enter the preservation scene and those who simply admire vintage vehicles.
Cylindrical towers constructed from fieldstones belong to the original series of burial towers at the archaeological site of Sillustani. These older towers were originally coated with plaster, as restored here.
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Looking along the moat from the entrance at the gate and bridge on the eastside of the castle.
Due to repeated attacks, like the fights between the bishop and the town of Utrecht in 1482, and in 1672 during the French occupation of the Republic, the castle had to be restored several times.
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Castle De Haar is located near Haarzuilens, in the province of Utrecht. The current buildings, all built upon the original castle, date from 1892.
Entitled: Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904] John C. White [RESTORED] The image was nearly perfect to begin with. I smoothed out the clouds, got rid of some minor spot and scratch problems, evened the tones and added a bit more contrast. (I had previously wrongly attributed this image to John Baptist Noel, one of White's contemporaries in the region and another historical photography figure in his own right; my humble apologies to all viewers for the glaring error.)
"British amateur photographer, who served in the Indian Public Works Department from 1876 and as political agent for Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibetan affairs 1905–8. White accompanied the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1903–4 and during the campaign made a series of mainly landscape photographs, including a number of impressive panoramas. A selection of these was later issued in two photogravure volumes by the Calcutta photographers Johnston & Hoffmann as Tibet and Lhasa (1906). Owing to political sensitivities regarding the accompanying text, they were subsequently withdrawn, and are now extremely rare. A memoir, Sikhim and Bhutan: Experiences of Twenty Years on the North‐Eastern Frontier of India, appeared in 1909, and many of White's photographs accompany the articles on Sikkim and Bhutan which he later wrote for the National Geographic Magazine."
Quoted from: John Claude White Biography - (1853–1918), Tibet and Lhasa arts.jrank.org/pages/11649/John-Claude-White.html#ixzz0rW...
Kampa Dzong (trad. Khamber Jong; also Khampa Dzong), also referred to as the Tibetan hamlet of Gamba, sits just north of the point where Nepal, India (Sikkim) and Bhutan currently abuts the Chinese border.
Tibet sat on the crossroads of history in the early 1900's, with a British force seeking to secure the northern border of its subcontinent possessions against incursion. Britain was alarmed that China was reportedly allowing unopposed Russian access to Tibet, thus putting another colonial power immediately north of India. As a prelude to that conflict, the British regional authorities attempted to negotiate with both Tibet and China and seek agreements with both governments. The meeting place was supposed to be at Kampa Dzong, see below:
"The causes of the war are obscure, and it seems to have been primarily provoked by rumours circulating amongst the Calcutta-based British administration (Delhi was made imperial capital of India in 1911) that the Chinese government, (who nominally controlled Tibet), were planning to turn it over to the Russians, thus providing Russia with a direct route to British India and breaking the chain of semi-independent, mountainous buffer-states which separated India from the Russian Empire to the north. These rumours were seemingly supported by the facts of Russian exploration of Tibet. Russian explorer Gombojab Tsybikov was the first photographer of Lhasa, residing in it in 1900—1901 with the aid of the thirteenth Dalai Lama's Russian courtier Agvan Dorjiyev.
In view of the rumors, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon in 1903 sent a request to the governments of China and Tibet for negotiations to be held at Khampa Dzong (Khamber Jong), a tiny Tibetan village north of Sikkim to establish trade agreements. The Chinese were willing, and ordered the thirteenth Dalai Lama to attend. However, the Dalai Lama refused, and also refused to provide transportation to enable the amban (the Chinese official based in Lhasa), You Tai, to attend. Curzon concluded that China had no power or authority to compel the Tibetan government, and gained approval from London to send a military expedition, led by Colonel Francis Younghusband, to Khampa Dzong. When no Tibetan or Chinese officials met them there, Younghusband advanced, with some 1,150 soldiers, 10,000 porters and laborers, and thousands of pack animals, to Tuna, fifty miles beyond the border. After waiting more months there, hoping in vain to be met by negotiators, the expedition received orders (in 1904) to continue toward Lhasa.
Tibet's government, guided by the Dalai Lama was understandably unhappy about the presence of a large acquisitive foreign power dispatching a military mission to its capital, and began marshalling its armed forces. The government was fully aware that no help could be expected from the Chinese government, and so intended to use their arduous terrain and mountain-trained army to block the British path. The British authorities had also thought of the trials mountain fighting would pose, and so dispatched a force heavy with Gurkha and Pathan troops, who came from mountainous regions of British India. The entire British force numbered just over 3,000 fighting men and was accompanied by 7,000 sherpas, porters and camp followers. Permission for the operation was received from London, but it is not clear that the Balfour government was fully aware of the scale of the operation, or of the Tibetan intention to resist it."
Source: www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/British_expedition_to_Tibet
As things began to gather momentum at Reliance Bus Works we stepped out of our comfort zone of small scale repairs, servicing and valeting and took the plunge into restorations. Few since have equalled the level of work required on ex PMT Weymann bodied AEC Reliance 805 EVT.
Initially this little DP saloon had been acquired from a morris dancing troup in Manchester by a local bus preservation group. It had had a nomadic life being moved several times as one storage facility after another called time on it. Those enthusiatic about restoring it left the society and several years later in the mid 1990s it was offered to me foc as I was both an AEC enthusiast and an operator. Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to accept it and it remained where it was at the back of PMT's Newcastle garage. In order to try to drum up some support, it was towed (foc) by PMT to a local rally held at the Foxfield railway, but on leaving the site down an incline to the road, the combination jacknifed and that caved in the entrance step. Thereafter it was moved for storage to a farm where (after a couple of years) the farm's children believed it to have been abandoned. They amused themselves by passing a rope through the drivers cab sliding window and out through the entrance doors, hooking both ends up to a tractor, pulling the bus until it started, then had a great time driving it around the fields!
Eventually, it was sold to Stephen Morris of Rexquote / Quantock Heritage who bank-rolled the restoration seen above.
I was grateful to Steve for allowing me to borrow it in 2006 as a completed (PSV tested) bus again for its first laden outing taking local enthusiasts on an evening tour. Its seen here outside The Plough pub in Etruria (Hanley, Stoke on Trent) when loading up for that outing.
Carthage, Missouri - May 5, 2021: The Boots Court Motel, a restored deco style historic U.S. Route 66 motorcourt hotel - close up of the neon sign
1938 K2 Class #1201 on Route 649 which ceased in July 1961 and was replaced by Route 149. From stock in July 1961 it was acquired by Welton Auto Services of Holland Park in August 1961, Later entering preservation it was restored by Mr Brian Maquire and now resides at Carlton Colville. (B.Maguire Collection)