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A foggy canal scene in Venice, Italy, with buildings lining the waterway and boats moored along the edges.
Medieval through 19thC elements - Grade I listed redundant Church of England property, now a bookstore and resource centre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael-at-Plea,_Norwich
www.nhct-norwich.org/our-churches/st-michael-plea/
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Another shot from Fort Ticonderoga. There's so much of this historical site off limits to the public. I'm sure there's a sound, bureaucratic semblance of reason behind these restrictions...
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835 the mill was one of over 65 such buildings in the Lake District, which provided wooden bobbins to the weaving and spinning industry primarily in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The building is today owned and run by English Heritage.
The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry is a British Army unit formed through the amalgamation of The Inns of Court Regiment (The Devil's Own) and The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) in 1961. Its lineage is maintained by 68 (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry) Signal Squadron and the Band of the Royal Yeomanry (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry).
Nickname: The Ice Cream and Chocolate Yeomanry
Queen Mary's Bower Chatsworth.
Tradition holds that Queen Mary’s Bower was constructed in the 1570s when Mary Queen of Scots was held at Chatsworth, in order to provide a raised exercise ground for the captive queen (her presence at Chatsworth is recorded throughout the 1570s). There is no hard evidence to support this tradition, and while it is perfectly possible that the structure was used by the exiled queen there seems little doubt that the Bower was originally built as a garden feature.
The Bower’s original form is uncertain. It was massively restored in the 1820s by Wyatville and the area around the Bower has been changed in many ways since the 16th century. In particular, major alterations in the mid-18th century by Brown and Millican included the removal of the ponds further to the east. This level and featureless area is a testament to the extent of levelling and earth-moving undertaken by Brown and Millican.
Inside an abandoned souvenier shop on old Route 66 in Arizona as a thunderstorm gathers overhead. A hot wind was blowing at the time ~ It was pretty awesome to see and experience.
A side of the Palais de l'abbé Jacques d'Amboise, in the town of Cluny (in the département of Saône-et-Loire, located in Bourgogne / Burgundy, in eastern France), on a mostly clear midday in mid-October 2016.
Originally built as an elegant dwelling for two abbots of the Abbaye de Cluny -- Jacques d'Amboise (1485-1510) and Geoffroy d'Amboise (1510-1518) -- it now functions as the hôtel de ville (town hall). It combines and retains late Gothic and Renaissance architectural and decorative features
The Palais Jacques d'Amboise is set in a small park, the Parc abbatial, on a hill overlooking part of the ruins and remaining structures of the medieval Benedictine abbey, including its third and largest phase, known as Cluny III (consecrated 1095). It also stands above l'Haras national de Cluny, the stud farm and institution for equitation.
(Information partly from Bourgogne / textes rédigés avec la collaboration de Julie Roux (Vic-en-Bigorre: MSM, ©2002; Regionis), page 267, and from the website of Cluny's Office de Tourisme, last consulted 29 November 2018.)
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Cathedral Church of Saint Peter at Exeter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Cathedral
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Description: Long exposure captures stunning star trails circling above a traditional stone hut in Extremadura,s countryside.
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A view looking towards the church of l’Abbaye royale de Fontevraud, or Fontevrault -- Abbaye Notre-Dame -- in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (in the département of Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire region, in west-central France), from the main cloister garden, on a mostly clear day in mid-October (2016).
Founded in 1101 by Robert d'Arbrissel (1047-1117), the abbey was initially intended for both women and men but became an abbey exclusively for women. As its name suggests, for centuries it was associated with royalty, including abbesses with royal connections and other royal or aristocratic residents. Among the most famous was Aliénor d'Aquitaine, known in English as Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122?-1204), who retired and was buried there. Like many French religious establishments, in 1792 Fontevrault was suppressed by Revolutionaries. Napoleon I then established a grim prison on the site in 1804, which did not close until 1963, when restoration began.
Today, the abbey site, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is open to visitors for daily visits, as well as hosting many cultural events. Of the main convent of Grand-Moûtier, the Romanesque abbey church, the chapter house, the refectory, and this cloister -- Cloître Ste-Marie -- survive. The south side of the cloister dates from the early 16th century and is Gothic-inspired; the other sides, including the ones in this view, were built in the mid-16th century, in a Renaissance style. The site also features elements including a hotel (in the former Prieuré St-Lazare / St-Lazare Priory); the gatehouse (ca. 1785); a converted 18th-century stables; the former homes of abbots and abbesses; a large medieval kitchen with "pepper pot" towers; three eating places (at least as of 2016); and gardens.
This location was historically in the Saumurois area of Anjou, near its borders with the Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. Today, it is within the Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine (Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Natural Park) as well as the Vallée de la Loire UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(Information from: the DuMont Guide -- Hansmann, Wilfried. Loire Valley, translated [from German] by Russell Stockman (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986; DuMont Guide); the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing); and the French- and English-language Wikipédia / Wikipedia, both last consulted 2 October 2020. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s dates are based on US Library of Congress "authority record" n81007375.)
[Fontevraud l'Abbaye abbey cloister towers vertical garden 2016 oct 11 f; DSCF0402]
Almost everything is white on an dull, overcast morning after a late November snowfall. The stone structure with the dark roof is the Mabee House, one of the oldest houses in upstate New York and the oldest in the Mohawk Valley, having been built c.1705 as part of the Mabee Farm. It was handed down through the Mabee family for almost 300 years before being donated to the Schenectady County Historical Society, which has opened the house to the public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elora,_Ontario
The Historic Village of Elora is a community in the township of Centre Wellington (Wellington County) in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It is well known for its 19th-century limestone architecture and its geographically, historically, and culturally significant limestone gorge.
Elora is no longer an incorporated municipality in its own right, although it is the seat of the municipal government which succeeded it. The Township of Centre Wellington was formed in 1999 when, on the advice of the Province, the County amalgamated the Town of Fergus; the Village of Elora; and the surrounding townships of Nichol, Pilkington, and West Garafraxa (along with the northwestern part of Eramosa.)[2] The decision — along with the Ontario government’s role therein — remains highly controversial among Elora’s inhabitants.
In 2011, the Village was estimated to have had a population of approximately 7,756.[1]
History
Roman Catholic missionaries first visited the area in the early to mid 1600s attempting to Christianize the indigenous people, particularly the Neutral Nation on the Attiwandaronk Lands. The first European settlers arrived in 1817, and Roswell Matthews built a home here the next year.[3][4]
Captain William Gilkison (1777–1833) was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated to North America in 1796. He served with the British forces in the War of 1812 as an assistant quartermaster-general, and in 1832 purchased some 14,000 acres of land in Nichol Township. He selected this area near the falls of the Grand River as a town site for his proposed settlement and named it Elora. It was laid out by Lewis Burwell, deputy provincial land surveyor, late in 1832, and the following year Gilkison established a sawmill and a general store. The founder of Elora died in April, 1833, before the full results of his foresight and enterprise were achieved.
One of the old stone buildings that is a part of the Salt Sulphur Springs Resort complex opened in 1820, Monroe County, WV.
This stone structure is all that is left of what was once the largest dual stack charcoal iron furnace in the world.
The structure of massive blocks of sandstone stands 81 feet (24.6m) long, 40 feet (12m) wide, and 60 feet (18.3) high and consists of two furnaces in a single structure. It was designed by Fred Fitch and built by Sam Worthley, a stonemason from Scotland, and operated by Red River Iron Works. Additional buildings were connected to the front and rear of the stone core visible here but have long ago disappeared.
Charcoal furnaces, first used by the Romans, began to disappear from Europe in the 17th century when forests became depleted of fuel. The same sequence doomed the Fitchburg Furnace to its brief life in Appalachian Kentucky.
The first blast at Fitchburg was celebrated in 1870. At full production, the Fitchburg Furnace employed more than 1,000 men and produced 10,000 tons of pig iron annually at its peak. By 1874, however, the local hills were denuded of stands of forest and iron ore was running out. Thus, after only about four years, activity at the Fitchburg Furnace came to an end.
The Fitchburg Furnace, listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Daniel Boone National Forest near Ravenna, in Estill County, Kentucky.
The ruined keep of Hopton Castle, just outside the small village of Hopton Castle (South Shropshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), on a mostly sunny morning at the beginning of June 2015.
The castle originated as an Anglo-Norman site, located by an earlier settlement -- there had been a late Anglo-Saxon manor there. The keep, all that remains, has Anglo-Norman features of the 11th or 12th century, but it may have been built during the 1260s (1264 being the date of the earliest surviving written record of it) in a deliberately "archaic" style. During the "English" Civil War (which actually involved Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as well as England), it was held by Parliamentarians until it was taken by Royalists during a fierce siege in 1644. The part of the structure that survived the siege subsequently fell into disrepair and ruin. A restoration project begun in 2006 shored up walls, conserved plaster, added railings for safety, and provided explanatory panels; the restored site opened to the public in December 2011.
Hopton Castle is located in a quiet valley off a side road not far from the border between southwestern Shropshire and northwestern Herefordshire.
(Information about the castle from the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 30 July 2019.)
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The medieval buildings and the clock tower of the old post office are illuminated in the Graslei area of Ghent Belgium. The Graslei (Grass Quay) on the right bank of the Leie River was once the center of the city's medieval port.
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Flotation Mill II
Monitor Belmont Mining Company
Belmont Ghost Town
Nevada
July 2021
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The former Saltaire woollen mill, now given over to art galleries, shops, exhibitions, cafes and an antiques market.
Salts Mill (or Salt's Mill - both forms appear on official documents) is a former woollen mill in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The mill and the surrounding housing was built at the behest of Sir Titus Salt, who wanted to provide both better working conditions for the mill employees and more salubrious surroundings, including improved housing. Textile production ended here in 1986 and the following year the site was bought by local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver, who regrettably died of cancer in 1997. It was his work and vision that more than anything else led to Salts Mill and surrounds becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Pride of place in the renovated building is a gallery devoted to the internationally renowned artist David Hockney, born in Bradford in 1937. Other areas are used for exhibitions, concerts, theatre and performances, whilst there are also cafes and restaurants, shops and antique stalls. A great place to visit for so many reasons.
The railway on the right is the line from Leeds up the Aire Valley to Skipton, then on to Hellifield and Settle Junction, where it spilts for Carnforth and for Carlisle.
The Oak Bluffs Waterworks Building. It continues to serve as the pumping station for the public water supply. However, the smokestack has been claimed by ospreys.
"Built in 1890, the Oak Bluffs Waterworks is an architectural gem off Barnes Road, registered with the Massachusetts Historical Commission as the oldest operating pumping station for ground water in the commonwealth, designed in the neo-Romanesque style. It looks more like a manse built for a nineteenth-century robber baron than a pump station built to provide the town’s water." (From Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 2006.)
It is brick on the inside, beach stone on the outer walls -- a great effort to haul and build, requiring twice as much stone as actually needed in order to pick and choose what would work. It is not a "stones' throw" from the beach -- though I do not not know the technical meaning of that distance. It is located inland from the beach where access to sweet ground water would be guaranteed.
Borders and walls in Coleton Fishacre Garden (South Devon, in the West Country region of southwestern England), beside and below the house, on a mostly sunny midday in early October (2008).
Coleton Fishacre was originally a home of the theatrical D'Oyle Carte family, with the house built in the Arts and Crafts style 1925-1926. It was designed so that all of the family and guest rooms faced the coast and had views of the English Channel. (Servants' rooms, unfortunately, tended to face the back of the property, inland.)
Coleton Fishacre is now a National Trust site, lying on the South Devon coast, near Brixham and Kingswear. With its relatively mild climate, the garden did not yet feature too much autumn colour, although there were hints here and there.
(From the "archive" -- 2008.)
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We spent an enjoyable day at Beamish, the living history museum in Durham, the North East of England.
This was our 2nd visit and we still haven't seen it all!
If you're interested in social history, I'd highly recommend you visit here; it's quite pricey but definitely worth it!
A stone building in Dousland plantation. Lots of people have passed this in their car traveling between Plymouth and Princetown
A narrow canal in Venice at night, with buildings lining both sides. The water reflects the lights from the buildings, creating a beautiful scene.
Provides access from residential area to grounds of Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity (Ely Cathedral) - building is occupied by local private school
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101167340-ely-porta-ely
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This slave cabin was part of the historic Clover Hill Farm located in Manassas, Virginia. The cabin, along with 8 acres that included the family cemetery, was donated to Grace United Methodist Church in 1987 by the Johnson family who owned the farm.
I was visiting the castle of Loarre, when the sky changed rapidly from a uniform blue to menacing waves of darkening clouds; the vivid fields of wheat became more apparent with the contrasting sky, still receiving some light from the sun.
The Castle of Loarre is a Romanesque Castle and Abbey located near the town of the same name, in Huesca, Aragón, Spain. The castle was built largely during the 11th and 13th centuries, when its position on the frontier between Christian and Muslim lands gave it strategic importance. The castle's location on a rocky outcrop affected the layout; it was not possible to have one unified structure, and like many castles, Loarre was a collection of buildings bounded by curtain walls. Originally the internal plan included two towers and a chapel behind several curtain walls. Towards the end of the 11th century, an additional chapel was built in Romanesque style just outside the castle walls.
What we can see over the landscape is the Torre de la Reina, particularly noteworthy for three sets of twin-arched windows, with columns of exaggerated entasis and trapezoidal capitals that have been related to both Lombard Romanesque and Mozarabic architectural forms. [derived from Wikipedia]
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A Rua Longa é uma das artérias principais do centro histórico de Padrón, municÃpio da provÃncia da Corunha, na comunidade autónoma da Galiza, noroeste de Espanha. Esta via pedonal, pavimentada com lajes de granito, reflete a arquitetura tradicional galega, caracterizada por edifÃcios em cantaria de pedra com varandas de ferro forjado. À esquerda, observa-se um candeeiro de estilo clássico e a bandeira espanhola hasteada numa fachada, possivelmente de um edifÃcio institucional. O espaço público inclui bancos de ferro fundido e vasos com flores, elementos que evidenciam a requalificação urbanÃstica da zona antiga. Padrón é historicamente relevante como ponto final da translação marÃtima dos restos do apóstolo Santiago, sendo também uma vila intimamente ligada à vida da escritora RosalÃa de Castro, figura central do Rexurdimento literário galego. A rua conduz ao coração da vila, onde a gastronomia local — nomeadamente os célebres pementos de Padrón — atrai visitantes ao longo de todo o ano.
Rua Longa is one of the main thoroughfares in the historic center of Padrón, a municipality in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. This pedestrian street, paved with granite slabs, reflects traditional Galician architecture, characterized by stone-built buildings with wrought-iron balconies. On the left, a classic-style streetlamp can be seen, along with the Spanish flag flying from a facade, possibly that of an institutional building. The public space features cast-iron benches and flower pots, elements that highlight the urban renewal of the old town. Padrón is historically significant as the final destination of the maritime journey of the remains of the Apostle James, and is also a town closely linked to the life of the writer RosalÃa de Castro, a central figure of the Galician literary revival. The street leads to the heart of the town, where the local cuisine—notably the famous Padrón peppers—attracts visitors throughout the year.
South wall shortly after scaffolding was removed.
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Shop and restaurant-tearoom (salon-de-thé), both with small gardens in front, in the village of Giverny (the département of Eure, in the Normandie / Normandy region of northern France), on a clear day in early October 2016.
Giverny is in the valley of the River Epte, just across the river from the ÃŽle-de-France region and a little upriver from the confluence of the Epte with the Seine. It is most famous as the site of the country house and gardens of Claude Monet (1840-1926). The Impressionist painter moved there in 1883, subsequently developing the gardens and painting many pictures of gardens and house. They have been open to the public since 1980.
This spot was seen along the walk from the car park to that museum. Nearby is a newer art museum, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny (Giverny Museum of Impressionisms), which features exhibits of impressionist art from different countries and has a garden of its own.
During our second visit to Giverny, we immediately noticed that the village and tourist activity there had grown considerably between 1991 and 2016, even outside of the main tourist season; nevertheless, it was a pleasant, garden-rich place to spend an early autumn day.
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