St Paul's Cathedral, London
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At this point in our day, I changed my lens from the 17mm to the 12mm. At 17mm this was very tight top and bottom.
Built in 1887 for barrel maker Michael Murray, this Queen Anne-style house was designed by notable architect Edward P. Bassford. The house was later modified and converted into apartments in the 20th Century. It has since been lovingly restored to its original appearance. The house is a contributing structure in the Irvine Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Built in 1889, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style building stands at the corner of Western Avenue and Selby Avenue in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood. The building was notably home to the W. A. Frost Pharmacy for much of its early history, being owned by Frost until his death in 1930, and remaining in business until 1950, whereupon the decline of the neighborhood and shifting demographics of the area led to its closure. In 1974, the building was purchased by the Rupp family and became home to the W. A. Frost Bar and Restaurant in 1975, which helped kickstart the revitalization and preservation of the surrounding Cathedral Hill neighborhood. The building is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The W. A. Frost Bar and Restaurant remains a popular local business today.
St Christopher Wren's masterpiece was built between 1675 and 1710 and replaced the earlier medieval cathedral which had been damaged in the Great Fire of London.
The huge dome has been a familiar landmark on the London skyline over the centuries. In World War Two many of the buildings surrounding the cathedral were completely destroyed during the Blitz, however St Paul's survived mostly intact and became a symbol of hope.
The Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place in the cathedral in 1981, as did the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in 2013.
Many important figures from British history are buried in the crypt including Horatio Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Christopher Wren, Florence Nightingale and JMW Turner.
These stations always offer good spots for perspective and leading lines. The yellow and "mind the gap" markings are good examples.
Built in 1889, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style set of rowhouses, clad in brick and rusticated brownstone, were designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. & William H. Willcox. One of the rowhouses, located towards the western end of the row, was inhabited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and his parents between 1918 and 1920. Most of the rowhouses feature stone facades with decorative trim details, arched windows, trapezoidal bay windows, oriel windows, gable parapets, and porches with arched openings. Other rowhouses demonstrate more Renaissance Revival-style features with broad overhanging eaves, shallow oriel windows, and rectilinear windows. The F. Scott Fitzgerald House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1971, with the row being listed as a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
original photograph from jensjunge at pixabay
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After watching a interesting programme last night on the architecture of this landmark i was inspired to photoshop it !
Built in 1890, this Queen Anne and Shingle-style house features a corner tower with a beehive-shaped roof, second-story balconies, attic oriel window, delicate tuscan columns, and a complex roofline with shingle-clad gable ends. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built in 1931, this small Art Deco-style limestone-clad building was designed by Magnus Jemne to house the St. Paul Women's City Club. Located on an irregularly-shaped site at the corner of St. Peter Street and Kellogg Boulevard, the building echoes this condition in its design, with rounded facades that peel away from the street in places, with a more orthogonal base below. The building was sold to the Minnesota Museum of Art in 1972, and now houses an architectural firm. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Built in 1891, this ostentatious Queen Anne-style mansion was built for William W. Bishop (W.W. Bishop), and was later known as Mrs. Porterfield’s Boarding House in 1919, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was revising a novel, and spent quite a bit of time on the porch with friends Donald Ogden Stewart and John D Briggs. The house features an ornate dormer with a decorative gable parapet, a semi-circular two-story bay window, an octagonal tower with gable ends on each side decorated with trim panels, a bracketed cornice, a large porch with classical details, and tall brick chimney stacks. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
St. Paul has an active Japanese society. Every year at the Como Park Conservatory, this celebration of culture is capped with the quiet remembrance of ancestors. Each lantern is provided by a family to honor family members who have passed on.
Built in 1915, this Tudor Revival-style limestone-clad mansion was designed by Thomas Holyoke for Watson and Sarah Davidson, whom made their fortune in real estate. The house was a private residence until 1961, when it became home to the College of Visual Arts, founded in 1948, which remained in the house until 2013, utilizing it as an administration building, classrooms, and art studios. Following the closure of the College of Visual Arts, the house languished until it was bought by Commonwealth Companies in 2019 and renovated into The Davidson, an upscale boutique hotel, with several areas of the building remaining vacant. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The CP/BN Transfer begins its climb up ex-MILW Short Line Hill in St. Paul with a rebuilt SD60 up front. Nice to see clean power on the CP, and some sunshine in Minnesota this October.
Built in 1883-1884, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style mansion was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. for Chauncey Wright Griggs, a former Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, and a wholesale lumber merchant and part owner of the firm of Griggs and Foster, and his wife, Martha Ann Gallup Griggs. The house was inhabited by Chauncey and Martha Griggs until they moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1887. In 1910, the house suffered a massive fire that gutted the interior, after which a massive reconstruction was undertaken. In 1939, the house was donated to the St. Paul Arts and Science Center by Roger B. Shepard, and the front dormer was replaced with a large and distinctive skylight shortly thereafter, to allow the conversion of the attic room behind it into a painting studio. The house has since been converted back into a private residence, and is widely rumored to be haunted. The house features a rusticated brownstone exterior with arched windows, stone cornices, gable parapets with decorative trim, shingled oriel windows and gable ends, and a circular tower with carved stone relief panels. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built in 1898, this Venetian Renaissance Revival-style house was designed by Cass Gilbert for Crawford Livingston, president of the St. Paul Gas Light Company. The house features a first-floor loggia-style porch, dormer with Gothic Revival detailing, and an interior that is one of the most notable residential designs by Gilbert. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built in 1898, this Medieval Rectilinear-style house with Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Tudor Revival elements was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. for William Elsinger, owner of the Golden Rule Department Store. The house features a red tile roof with exposed rafter ends, sandstone walls, a circular corner tower, a front dormer with decorative carved bargeboard, a front bay with a crenellated top, decorative stone trim, a side bay with shingle cladding, a front porch with gothic arches and decorative column capitals, and a semi-circular side bay window. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built between 1909 and 1915, this Beaux Arts-style cathedral, dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle, was designed by Emmanuel L. Masqueray and Whitney Warren, and stands prominently atop Cathedral Hill at the intersection of Selby Avenue, Summit Avenue, and Dayton Avenue. The cathedral, the fourth to be the seat of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, replacing an earlier cathedral location on St. Peter Street in Downtown Saint Paul, which had served as the seat of the archdiocese since 1858, and stands on the former site of the Second Empire-style Norman Kittson mansion, built in 1884. The cathedral, the third-largest Catholic church in the United States and the sixth-largest church in the United States, features a large copper dome, granite cladding on the exterior with classical details, and an interior with soaring ceilings and massive stained glass windows. The church is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 2009, the church was designated the National Shrine of the Apostle Paul by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Holy See.