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On our train ride from Ghent to Amsterdam we had a train change in Antwerp. How nice was that. Antwerp's train station is gorgeous. This is the station waiting hall viewed from the train hall entrance.
The Antwerp Central Station is one of the world's most impressive railway stations. Dubbed the 'Railway Cathedral', it is one of the main landmarks in Antwerp.
Between 2000 and 2009 the monumental building was completely modernised and expanded to accommodate the high-speed rail line. More platforms were opened on two additional underground levels.
The unique metal platform roof had previously been restored. In the past Antwerp Central Station was a terminus where trains had to turn around. But since 2007, trains can continue their journey thanks to the railway tunnel between Antwerp Central Station and the north of the city.
The first station building was constructed between 1895 and 1905 as a replacement for the original terminus of the Brussels-Mechelen-Antwerp Railway. The stone clad terminus buildings, with a vast dome above the waiting room hall were designed by Louis Delacenserie.
In 2009 Newsweek judged Antwerpen-Centraal the world's fourth greatest train station. In 2014 the British-American magazine Mashable awarded Antwerpen-Centraal the first place for the most beautiful railway station in the world.
Train hall:
The originally iron and glass train hall (185 metres long and 43 metres high) was designed by Clément Van Bogaert. The height of the station was once necessary for the steam of locomotives. The roof of the train hall was originally made of steel.
World War II damage and restoration:
During World War II, severe damage was inflicted to the train hall by the impact of V-2 bombs, without destroying the structural stability of the building. However warping of the roof substructure due to V-2 bombing caused constructional stresses.
The impact of the bombs are still visible due to a lasting wave-distortion in the roofing of the hall.
In the mid-twentieth century, the building's condition had deteriorated so far that its demolition was being considered. The station was closed on 31 January 1986 for restoration work to the roof and façades.
The stress problems due to the impact of bombs during the war was reportedly solved by the use of polycarbonate sheets instead of glass, due to its elasticity and relative low weight (40% less than glass).
After replacing or repairing steel elements, the structure was painted the burgundy seen today.
The railway station was built between 1895 and 1905 and replaced a wooden train station built in 1854 by engineer Auguste Lambeau.
The rich interior is lavishly decorated with more than twenty different kinds of marble and stone. The main hall and the railway cafeteria can match the interiors of many palaces. Not a single square meter either inside or outside the building is not decorated.
The platforms are covered by a huge iron and glass vaulted ceiling, which was restored in the 1990s. Besides the platform, the vault also covers many of the small diamond and gold shops, which are part of the diamond district next to the Central Station.
The huge glass vault was designed by the architect J. Van Asperen. It is 185 meters long and 44 meters at its highest point. The original platform and tracks themselves are elevated, the two lower levels were added later to accommodate the high speed train connection to Amsterdam.
Flickr User Espressobuzz was kind enough to forward me some scans of rare trichrome separations by Seattle photographer George Morihiro after seeing my work restoring trichrome images from the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection.
This image, by far the most striking of the set, depicts a woman wearing a black kimono reclining in a studio.
The original black and white channel separations are included on the left for comparison.
I know a tiny bit about the Owens Farm, but I'm going to go try to find out MORE about it. Not positive when the house was built, but the barn behind it was built in 1870. Not too long ago a tree fell on it, and some repair has been done. The house was occupied by Tom Owens who was 82, again, not too long ago. His great grandfather was the original homesteader. The over 300 acre farmstead has remained in the Owens family for 4 generations. The Knotts family fits in there somewhere, but I don't know the connection. I did find a William Knotts, born in 1805, at a nearby historic cemetery (Locke Cemetery) along with his daughter Mary Jane Knotts. Her stone has her dying about 21 years before she was born. Pretty obviously that was a stone carver's error.
Remember the old school house I posted not too long ago that looked as if it were being restored. Well it wasn't, at least not then and there. It was being prepared for moving down the road about a mile to this Owens Farm. Because the height of the school house would not fit under power lines and such, the roof was removed, and hauled separately. It was recently placed back on the schoolhouse. Much restoration will be done on it, the barn and the old home. Sort of a living history and learning center is planned. A number of people, and companies or corporations, have contributed to all these improvement happening and all this history being honored. I believe there are Parks and Recreation and Historical Society and Preservationists involved too, but because I am not sure of which ones nor of the accurate names of those groups, I am not trying to list them. I'm not purposely excluding them; I just didn't want to get my information wrong. I only happened upon the old school and photographed it recently, unaware that it was being moved to the Owens farm. The Owens children attended that school, possibly some Knotts children too. I don't know which generation of them attended, probably 4th. The Tom Owens I mentioned earlier as 4th generation may have.
I am not a historian. I am a photographer/storyteller. I like to get the photo and give the gist of the story with my own slant and/or humor and interpretation of it. If you are looking for historical accuracy, I am probably not the best source, although I try to get most of it accurately. My stories have written and visual qualities and heart.
I do know that Samaritan Regional Medical Center (Hospital), which is where I go for medical care, bought 85 acres of this parcel planning for future expansion. I'm fairly certain there was some sort of mutually beneficial deal to help with preserving the history of the property and having it thrive as an open space and learning center. I do not know the details. There were at least 2 other large purchasers of land made. I don't recall, nor know the name of each one, but again I think they going to preserve the rich history. None of the land purchasers will be allowed, for example, to build homes, or restaurants or the likes on the property.
Pretty soon I will post the school house right after it was moved with the roof still off, and one or two of it with the roof back on but not restored yet. It is placed on a piece of the property that is not accessible to me, as is the home in this photo. I had to take the photo from quite a distance away, hand held, so it is a tiny bit blurry, but gives the idea.
The original school had a bell tower, and there are plans to restore that. I had thought it was just a front porch. Also, the bell itself is missing, and there are hopes that it will turn up and get donated by someone.
By the way, the old schoolhouse was no long being used as a school quite some time back, like maybe 1930 or so. It became just a normal residence for a family, or for a series of families over the years, and most people didn't know it used to be a school.
If you want the facts about this, look elsewhere. If you want the general feel and look of it, stay here. I will try to post the first pictures I took of the old farmstead, and the school before it was moved near to this home. Then the second series of photos with what looked like restoration going on, and then the third photo, which was taken when the school house moved, but not the roof placed back on it, and then with the roof place back on, but not restored yet. Restoration on all this could take a long time and a lot of money.
This home is run down and very old, and the last Owens resident to live there has moved out, but it is not in any sense of the word, abandoned. It is being looked after, and has a bright future ahead. I love all the porch trim, but have never been close to this home.
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My story and photo are both copyright by me, Dorothy Delina Porter - 2014
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*Somehow* I have 377 pictures from a road trip to Chicago & Wisconsin that I took with a friend in May 2013... that never got posted until now.
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History of the Polo Inn Motel - Located next door to the McDonald's Museum on Lee Street, the Polo Inn Motel, was known as Drury Northwestern Motel from 1951-2005, and was used as Northwestern Hospital 1931-1951. Originally built as a bank in 1929, (but never operated as a bank as a result of the stock market crash). Facade has since been entirely painted and made ugly. Still, restorable. The columns painted green here are supposed to be dark blue. This spray paint is a good argument for why there should be some restrictions over what you can do to a visible public building.
(Copied research from BWChicago) - "It was built for use as a bank with offices above in 1929, but never opened because of the stock market crash. It then served as Northwestern Hospital, the Northwest suburbs' sole hospital, for 20 years until Resurrection and Holy Family opened, and was then converted to the Drury Northwestern Motel, back when River and Rand were travel routes. It turned into the Polo Inn in about 2003. It's pretty unusual architecture for a bank - I guess you'd call it Egyptian-Moorish Art Deco? I've never been able to turn up information on its architect, nor what bank it was intended for.
Oddly, the building was built a few blocks out of downtown proper, and was the only substantial building around besides the subdivision in the blocks behind it built by the same developer, H. Roy Berry.
I can't imagine it will remain a flophouse too much longer. I hope it can be turned into a McDonald's museum, or else have the facade reused in the actual downtown, maybe as an annex to the Des Plaines Theatre. Paint is removable, especially from terra cotta.
A few years ago, the Des Plaines Historical Society was floating the idea of a "history campus", since they need more room for offices, exhibits, archives, and events. The proposal calls for tearing down this historic building, putting up a new, larger building, and moving the 1906 Queen Anne Kinder House to this location next to the flashing lights of McDonald's and the roar of traffic, in a place where no houses existed in 1906. I don't think they'll ever have the money to pull off such an ambitious and ill-considered plan, although I hope they can find a suitable home in a historic building.
Further research indicates that it was designed by architects Rowe, Dillard, & Rowe in late 1927, with terra cotta by Midland Terra Cotta. Rowe usually designed in tudor style, but this is clearly more Egyptian. It looks like it was originally meant as two stores with apartments above, the bank concept must have come somewhat later.
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March 14 2013 -
Man Dies after Stabbing at Des Plaines Motel
Des Plaines Police Wednesday night surrounded the Polo Inn near the “5 Corners” area of Rand and Rivers roads responding to a report of a stabbing. They cordoned off the small two-story motel with yellow police tape.
Police were tight-lipped about details of the incident yesterday (Thursday) morning citing an ongoing investigation.
Deputy Police Chief Nick Treantafeles said there was a stabbing connected to a domestic dispute that occurred at the Polo Inn at 374 Lee St. at around 5:30 p.m.
"Police say a woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend at a Des Plaines motel won’t be charged in the killing, adding the act may have been self-defense.
Des Plaines police responded to the Polo Inn, 374 S. Lee St., at 5:28 p.m. on March 6 to find Charles McGinnis, 51, with a single stab wound to the heart area, police said." -- Chicago Tribune, 3/12/1013
June 13, 2013 - 6 Tossed From ‘Unfit’ Polo Inn.
Six people were tossed out from allegedly squatting inside Polo Inn. & When police removed six inhabitants from the structurally unsound Polo Inn last month they left eight elusive residents behind. But three weeks later, police have caught at least seven of the eight cats that were still roaming the aging building. City officials declared the building unfit for occupancy. There was extensive flood damage, fire safety concerns and other issues with the aging building that made it dangerous to live. The ordeal dates back to the April flood when the area near River and Rand roads was underwater for several days. Ever since the epic April flood, the Polo Inn in Des Plaines has been unlivable & suffered damage during that flood and was deemed unfit for occupancy by city inspectors. However, at least six people continued to live in the second floor of the building, until police raided the structure in the early morning hours of June 13, removing those residents from the property.
However, one woman, Darcy Brisco, was tending to eight cats in her unit that she had to leave behind when police came. Brisco told The Journal she worked out an arrangement with city building inspectors to enter the building once a day and feed the cats.
July 5 2013 -
7 Felines Rounded Up At Polo Inn.
March 27 2014 -
City Seeks Demolition Of Polo Inn
April 7 2015 -
Des Plaines Looks To Demolish old Polo Inn
February 3 2016 -
End Seems Near For ‘Five Corners’ Inn. Located near Five Corners and River and Rand roads, the Polo Inn was at one time a hospital.The days of a worn out two-story building in the “Five Corners” area of Rand and River roads appear to be numbered as the city of Des Plaines is preparing to file in Skokie court this week a complaint to force the demolition of the former Polo Inn motel. Ever since the 2013 devastating flood that hit Five Corners and neighborhoods along the Des Plaines River, the city has had its eye on having the building demolished.
October 28 2016 -
Wrecking equipment stands ready to spring into action next to the long shuttered Polo Inn building on Lee Street near River and Rand roads in Des Plaines Friday. After lengthy condemnation court proceedings, the once former motel and hospital will be demolished today (Friday). It has been damaged many times by water when the River-Rand intersection has flooded.
August 30 2020 - Google street view of 374 Lee St
374 Lee St. Des Plaines, IL. 052813.
Photograph by Les Perrin. A digitally restored image from an original negative in my collection.
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Fantasy of Flight P51C - Oh what a gorgeous airplane!
In 1939, the British Purchasing Agency came to America to buy aircraft for the war that had just started in Europe. Having experience with Curtiss P-40s (of Flying Tiger fame), they purchased all that Curtiss could build them. When they approached North American Aviation to build more P-40s, the company was not too excited about building a competitor’s aircraft but offered to build a new fighter using the same American-built Allison engine. The British agreed, but on the condition the first aircraft had to be flying in no more than 120 days. 117 days later, the first P-51 flew!
Named the Mustang by the British, the P-51A was a great low altitude airplane but could not compete at altitude with the Spitfires powered by the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. With a more sophisticated supercharger, the Merlin could maintain its rated power to a much higher altitude than the Allison. Merlin-powered Mustangs were tested, and a great fighter was born.
The first Merlin-powered Mustangs were designated P-51 Bs and Cs, the only difference being the Bs were built in Long Beach, California, and the Cs in Dallas, Texas.
This aircraft was accepted by the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944 at Lakeland, Florida, only 20 miles away!
Year Built — 1944
Wingspan — 37'
Cruise Speed — 300 mph
Top Speed — 434 mph
Gross Weight — 11,000 lbs
Engine — Packard build Rolls Royce Merlin 1650 (1,500 hp)
Armament —Four .50 caliber Browning machine guns Two 500 lb. bombs on under-wing racks
- See more at: www.fantasyofflight.com/aircraft/wwii/north-american-p-51...
Text from the Fantasy of Flight website
Inside this beautifully restored school house.
Chana School is a Registered Historic Place in Ogle County, Illinois, in the county seat of Oregon, Illinois. One of six Oregon sites listed on the Register, the school is an oddly shaped, two-room schoolhouse which has been moved from its original location.[2] Chana School joined the Register in 2005 as an education museum.
The schoolhouse was built in 1883, in the village of Chana, Illinois. Due to the elimination of the Chana School District, the school was abandoned by the 1960s. A restoration effort was undertaken in the late 1990s, ending with a move and refurbishment in 2002 and 2003. The building now stands in a public park along the Rock River in Oregon, Illinois. Its interior also features architectural elements which set it apart from the typical 19th-century schoolhouse. From a distance, the building is dominated by its bell tower.
For more interesting info & history see this link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chana_School
A restored Coca-Cola ghost sign in downtown Atlantic, Iowa. There were several of these old restored Coke ads around town.
After a second power outage in two weeks that began on Saturday night, power was restored here in Aptos Monday afternoon. The preemptive power outages in California are undoubtedly foremost a climate change story. PG&E turned off power because the company feared unprecedented winds might push transmission lines into contact with trees that could easily catch fire. It’s a likely scenario given that much of California’s forest land has all but turned into firewood thanks to high temperatures and a persistent drought earlier this decade. But the conversation around PG&E also reflects the larger populist conversation about corporate accountability that Democrats have been having on the national level.
Entitled: Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo (On The Journey To The Monastery Of The Celestial Boy Near Ningpo), Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann [RESTORED]
Ernst Boerschmann was a German architect detailed by the Kaiser's government to closely study Chinese architecture. In this endeavor he spent three years in China from 1906 - 1909, and returned with drawings and photographs, many of which were displayed in Berlin in the summer of 1912. In 1923, a compilation of this work was published in the form of a photographic book, entitled "Picturesque China - Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces." A copy of this rare book is held by the Toyo Bunko Archive in Japan, and digital copies of its pages can be accessed at the link here:
dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/creator/ernst_boerschmann.html.en
This photograph was found in Toyo Bunko's scan of the book, page 264.
*** Sidebar *** Historically, old photographs that appeared in print were sometimes retouched before publication. This was necessary as less than visually optimal image areas (under or over exposed, or blurred) often needed pencil or brushed dyes and toner to "fill in" for missing details. This usually encompassed the adding of darker lines or lighter highlights in order to emphasis an outline; or to create faux details. Hence, depending on the skill of the retouch artist, some resulting images were either very good or shockingly poor. Unfortunately, several images from the book held by Toyo Bunko are afflicted with this sort of enhancement work, some more obvious than others.
Victoria Street on a walk around the city to catch up on what was happening. September 23, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
The Christchurch City Council has spent $892,000 restoring the Victoria St tower after Canterbury's earthquakes.
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/city-centre/10404049/Final...
I got her in a terrible state, yellowed with rough sanding all over, nail varnish on her lips and lashes.
Her faceplate was restored by Freefall Creations and she did an amazing job.
Yous wouldn't believe this is the same doll!
Restored LB&SC A1 Class 'Terrier' 0-6-0T 54 ''Waddon'' at Eastleigh works in August 1963.
A few 'classic cars' parked in the background..
The loco was donated by British Railways to the Canadian Railway Museum - 'Exporail' - near Montreal, and left the UK soon after this photo was taken..
Ten members of the class have been preserved...
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Gracias a Inés por confiarme la restauración de su basaak. Ella me pidió un maquillaje suave y que solo arreglara nariz y labios.
Espero que Maria Carla te haga muy feliz!
1955 Chevrolet Red White All American Beauty classic street rod restored to perfection decked out on this day in red white and blue. Found in North Carolina.
A friend of mine gave me a box of old model railroad stuff, and these were all busted up in the bottom of the box. Thought they deserved better, so I restored them and added a couple things.
This is an attempt to restore an old postcard that I have of the Burg Frankenstein (castle Frankenstein) from 1913. I scanned the original postcard (lower image) and then processed the scan in Photoshop (upper image). What do you think - I'm open for any comments.
Please view in full size for the best effect.
This restored gas station in O'Dell, IL is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular filling station also contains Route 66 memorabilia and antique tools of the trade in the garage.
GRX 310D displayed ay the London Classic Car Show 2023.
Information on the internet says that this vehicle competed in at least 11 events.
Waverley Line 050119. The view from the front of Railbus RB004 as it leaves Whitrope Siding platform for the short trip to the northern end of the restored section of line at the entrance to Whitrope Tunnel. Class 26 no.26040 is a fairly recent arrival, but is not in a workable condition. Three carriages of different types, plus a couple of wagons and a engineers' vehicle are visible.
In the days before closure of the Waverley Line in January 1969 there was a siding here but there was never a station in this remote location, with a terrace of railway cottages as the only nearby habitation. The 1006ft summit of the route is about where the small yellow vehicle can be seen.
All restored and put back together. Still working on getting the seat adjusted to the right place,
New Brooks B66S saddle, cork handle bar grips, vintage pedals, brass bell (superawesome) and Nantucket Basket
Nice combination of old and newer equipment on the Scot. Note the cut-down crossed flags head badge and Campagnolo Mk.II Super Record rear derailleur.
She looks way better then yesterday. I have tons of these purple dresses, but none of them have the sparkly skirt thing, or the head band. So naturally being me, who thinks she needs them(lol) made her temporary ones until I find some:) which will be hard because they aren't the easiest things to come across. But these will do for now:) this jasmine doll is really doing it for me:) she's very pretty, and she stands out from the rest. It's her eyes I'm sure. I think she's a first release, but not completely sure. But all the evidence is pointing to that:) and if she is, she's my first 1st release jasmine doll!lol
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Inside the East Room of the Morgan Library and Museum, now restored to its original 1906 appearance.
This Duple-bodied AEC Regal III was new in December 1947 to JH Woolliscroft of Darley Dale, near Matlock in Derbyshire, trading as Silver Service. It passed into preservation after a credible service life of just under 23 years and has spent the last 50 years in various hands, being rallied for a time in a red livery with at least two different fleetnames. Its current status is unclear but hopefully it will one day be restored to its original silver and blue livery (30-May-21).
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