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Christ. Tomb of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III (1415 AD - 1493 AD), constructed 1468 AD - 1513 AD, by Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden. Red marble. Unfortunately, access to the tomb is prohibited, so you can't see very much of the famous carving! St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Last day of February, morning excursion.
I really can't imagine what the purpose of this place was. It stands across from the farmhouse, and the farm includes land on both sides of the road. I wasn't raised on a farm, so my knowledge is limited, but the placement of the bricks and the careful construction of the door, and the windows that open were all elements that captured my eye and imagination.
February 28, 2015.
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Messapian semi-chamber burials with limestone slab covers. West Necropolis of Egnazia. 4th Century BC - 2nd Century BC). Egnazia, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Coats of arms and fragment of the Virgin Mary with crucifiction. Tomb of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III (1415 AD - 1493 AD), constructed 1468 AD - 1513 AD, by Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden. Red marble. Unfortunately, access to the tomb is prohibited, so you can't see very much of the famous carving! St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Former Ellis Burrell axe factory building, constructed in 1879, at 54 Station Street in Belleville, Ontario.
Private atrium houses. Built of limestone. Smaller houses Messapian (4th Century BC - 2nd Century BC) with later rebuilding in Roman Augustan (1st Century BC) and Late Antique periods (4th Century AD). In the background the reconstructed wall of the Civil Basilica and the Byzantine fortress. Limestone, 6th Century AD (Theodosian). Built over and using the ruins of circuit wall and buildings of acropolis (actually a low promontroy in the Adriatic Sea). Messapian, 4th Century BC - 2nd Century BC. Egnazia, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
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April 22, 2022 - "The Lakenhalle, or Cloth Hall, is adjunct to the Belfry. Construction started in 1425 but it was still incomplete twenty years later. Only seven of the eleven bays had been completed. In 1903 four more bays were added.
The Cloth Hall was built to harbor the business of the cloth trade of Ghent. Woolens and textiles had made Ghent a boom town of the middle ages. Fortune changes. The textile trades fell off in time and other tenants, including a militia Guild and a fencing school, moved into the Cloth Hall." Previous text from the following website: www.gpsmycity.com/tours/ghents-historical-buildings-4832....
Het Belfort van Gent (Ghent Belfry) is the bell towery seen in this photo construction began in 1313 and it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Farm Buildings & Fences
Washtenaw County, Michigan
This shot from the archives is from my June 2011 visit to Michigan, when Steve Brown (sjb4photos) showed me around part of southern Michigan, including some venues for seeing old cars, as well as his home county. I like the stone milk house, as well as the good-looking barn and, of course, the fences.
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The Jaffa Clock Tower (Arabic: يافا برج الساعة, Hebrew: מגדל השעון יפו, Migdal haShaon Yafo) is one of seven clock towers built in what is now Israel and the Palestinian Authority, during the Ottoman period. The others are located in Safed, Acre, Nazareth, Haifa, Nablus (West Bank) and Jerusalem, the last being the only one that has not survived until today.
The Jaffa Clock Tower was built in what was then the middle of the market square near the Mahmudiye Mosque. Today that location is in the middle of Yefet Street at the northern entrance of what is left of Jaffa, the ancient city that is now a part of the greater Tel Aviv. Made of locally-sourced calcareous limestone, the tower incorporates two clocks and a bell and has a copper roof. I have been unable to find out why two clocks were required in one tower, but perhaps they operate a single clock face each.
The tower was built to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abd al-Hamid II. It was funded by local public conscription, with both Arab and Jewish residents of the city contributing, headed by Joseph Bey Moyal.
The first stone of the tower was laid in September 1900. Within a year two floors were built and the construction of a third floor had begun. In 1903 the clock tower had been erected. It is similar to the clock tower of Khan al-Umdan in Acre that is dedicated to the same purpose. More than 100 similar clock towers were built throughout the Ottoman Empire to celebrate the Silver Jubilee.
In 1965 the Jaffa Clock Tower was renovated, new clocks were installed and colourful mosaic windows designed by Arie Koren to describe the history of Jaffa were added. Inside it also has plaque commemorating the Jews killed in the battle for the town in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. It was refurbished again in 2002.
In 2004 the clock tower appeared on an Israeli stamp worth 1.3 Sheqels. It featured in the Ottoman Clock Towers in Israel series, along with the clock towers in Safed, Acre, Haifa and Jerusalem.
Seen in mid-afternoon sunshine during a 1994 visit to Israel. Scanned from a negative.
View of the Colonial Restaurant located at 145 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. Photograph by Garry Sherman.
Donated by Garry Sherman in 2008 (2008-31).
April 21, 2022 - Het Steen is a medieval fortress and is the oldest surviving building in Antwerp. It was constructed between 1200 - 1225 and is located along the Scheldt River.
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Worcester Cathedral. England. UK. Europe.
A walk around Worcester Cathedral. Not my cup of tea, but the wife loved it.
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The last of the evenings sunlight still clings onto the top half of the tower. The village of Hatcliffe in rural north east Lincolnshire is home to St Mary's church, a small place of worship in this small village.
Undergrounds rectangular tunnel network with light wells and plastered walls. Part of a lost temple complex. Roman Augustan 27 BC - 14 AD. Egnazia, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
The main church in the village of Middle Rasen in Lincolnshire. This is St Peter & St Paul, a lovely grand church on the edge of the village built high on a grassy mound.
detail - rear facade of the stone house and workshop
blogged here: djenglandphotography.blogspot.com/2021/12/photo-of-week-2...
Built in 1904 this building originally provided the offices of an Insurance company. It now houses the "Ludwig" coffee bar and a fitness centre, complete with sauna, sunbeds and boxing ring.
The thing about converging verticals is that if you can't avoid them then make them so obvious that they could not be accidental.
I backed up as far as I could but even with a 16mm lens I had to tilt the camera to get the whole building in and had no room to modify the converging verticals in post-processing. But that was on an APS-H camera, which makes it a 21mm equivalent. This really needs to be revisited with the same focal length on a "Full Frame" camera or, if that does not do the job, with a Tilt-Shift lens.
View of the grey stone Birnam Hotel in the town of Birnam (Perthshire, in central Scotland), as seen through a silver birch tree in the Beatrix Potter Garden, on a partly clear afternoon in early September.
Many of the buildings in Birnam date from the second half of the 19th century, when, from 1856, the Highland Railway brought Victorian tourists up to Birnam. Among these visitors was the family of young Beatrix Potter, who later became a famous author of children's books as well as a conservationist. This hotel is an example of the "Baronian Style" of architecture.
The landscape around Birnam, transitioning to the southern Scottish Highlands, is hilly and forested, a reminder of Shakespeare's reference in Macbeth to Birnam Wood.
Today, Birnam is located in the Perth and Kinross council area.
[Birnam Beatrix Potter Garden hotel view 2007 sep o; P9050496]
A quiet scene of an old stone building bathed in the soft light of sunrise. The warm glow highlights the textures of the stone and creates a peaceful, calm atmosphere.
The Cotswold Cottage is the oldest house in Greenfield Village, a "museum" of historic buildings in Dearborn, Michigan.
Curry's Cottage, a bakery and tea room in the town of Westport (County Mayo, in western Ireland), on a mostly cloudy and sometimes wet afternoon in mid-September. We stopped there for a welcome pot of tea and slices of cake.
Westport is located on the Carrowbeg River near its outlet into Clew Bay. The Georgian town centre was designed in 1780 by James Wyatt, who was commissioned by Lord Sligo, who lived in nearby Westport House. The Irish name of Westport is Cathair na Mart, which was originally actually an Irish village in a slightly different location, before the English planned town was established at the present location.
The sign's upper lettering is in Gaelic type, also called Irish type; it was derived from the early medieval manuscript lettering style known as Insular script (which in turn is related to uncial script). The term "insular," from the Latin for "island," refers to the style's origin in Ireland and spread from there to Britain.
(A picture in my Tea, tea shops, tea rooms album / set.)
[Westport tea room sign 2013 sep 19 p; P1040358]
Chipping Campden is a small market town in Gloucestershire. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English cēping, "a market, a market-place".) A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, today it is a popular Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
Vermont House Gallery
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, Vermont
Shelburne Museum, established in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb, has 39 buildings on 45 acres, including 25 historic structures. Most of the historic structures have been relocated to Shelburne from other locations, including the house seen here. This house is different from other historic buildings at the museum, however, because its appearance was changed. Built at Shelburne in 1790 as a log building, by the time of its move to the museum site in 1950 the exterior walls were so deteriorated that new exterior walls were fashioned of stone from a Shelburne Falls grist mill. American furniture and decorative arts from 1700 to 1820 are displayed here.
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Decided to stop downtown Mason City to take some shots of the historic down town including the Park Inn and City National Bank. Enjoy the main street of Mason City Iowa.
This will be torn down in a few months to make way for more buildlings in an idustrial area. This place looks haunted.
St. Katherine's chapel with baptistmal font with hanging tracery canopy with saints and saint's lives. The canopy was originally hung over the pulpit in the nave of the church. Red marble, 1481 AD. St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
The Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts is one of Several Hospitals designed in the Kirkbride style
According to KirkbrideBuildings.com:
"The nineteenth century saw considerable growth in state-sponsored treatment of the mentally ill in the United States, and consequently the rise of asylum building. Growing populations and stress levels of American society created an intensifying frequency of mental illness. Activists for humane treatment, new therapeutic methods in Europe, and important changes in public perception created a progressive environment which fostered the establishment of many public "lunatic asylums" throughout the country. These asylums replaced cruder methods of coping with the mentally ill, such as confining them to prisons or poorhouses where they were often abused and their special needs were rarely met.
Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride was an influential advocate of an asylum system based on the tenets of Moral Treatment. In his annual reports as the superintendent of the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane and in his published treatise on asylum design and function, Dr. Kirkbride promoted a set of detailed principles that influenced the construction and operation of many American asylums built during this period. Seen by Kirkbride as active participants in therapy, the asylum buildings and their surroundings were a central component of his concept of treatment known as the Kirkbride Plan.
An asylum was intended as a place of structured improving activity, seclusion from suspected causes of illness, and a certain amount of medical therapy. All of these were intended to cure mental disorders, thus improving patients' lives and the quality of society in general.
Dr. Kirkbride envisioned an asylum with a central administration building flanked by two wings comprised of tiered wards. This "linear plan" facilitated a hierarchical segregation of residents according to sex and symptoms of illness. Male patients were housed in one wing, female patients in the other. Each wing was sub-divided by ward with the more "excited" patients placed on the lower floors, farthest from the central administrative structure, and the better-behaved, more rational patients situated in the upper floors and closer to the administrative center. Ideally, this arrangement would make patients' asylum experience more comfortable and productive by isolating them from other patients with illnesses antagonistic to their own while still allowing fresh air, natural light, and views of the asylum grounds from all sides of each ward.
It was believed crucial to place patients in a more natural environment away from the pollutants and hectic energy of urban centers. Abundant fresh air and natural light not only contributed to a healthy environment, but also served to promote a more cheerful atmosphere. Extensive grounds with cultivated parks and farmland were also beneficial to the success of an asylum. Landscaped parks served to both stimulate and calm patients' minds with natural beauty (enhanced by rational order) while improving the overall aspect of the asylum. Farmland served to make the asylum more self-sufficient by providing readily available food and other farm products at a minimal cost to the state.
Patients were encouraged to help work the farms and keep the grounds, as well as participate in other chores. Such structured occupation was meant to provide a sense of purpose and responsibility which, it was believed, would help regulate the mind as well as improve physical fitness. Patients were also encouraged to take part in recreations, games, and entertainments which would also engage their minds, make their stay more pleasant, and perhaps help foster and maintain social skills.
Dr. Kirkbride's ambition, dedication, and influence ensured the Kirkbride Plan's good reputation throughout much of his lifetime. Toward the end of the nineteenth century however, it lost prominence in the system that it played such a major role in developing. A lack of concrete evidence indicating substantial numbers of permanently cured patients, and no reduction in the incidence of mental illness caused the mental healthcare establishment to seek different forms of treatment.
A new generation of asylum superintendents began advocating different forms of asylum design based on different ideas of care. And as psychoanalysis, drug-therapy, and other emerging treatments began to be favored, the idea of the asylum as a staging for the Kirkbride Plan became obsolete. Asylum buildings were no longer built in the Kirkbride mold, though many existing Kirkbride buildings continued as important parts of state hospitals well into the twentieth century. Their separate histories have often been stigmatized by methods of treatment not intended by Dr. Kirkbride and his contemporaries, and by the seemingly inevitable problems caused by a combination of overcrowding and a lack of necessary financial support. But each of these buildings owes its genesis to a remarkable humanitarian movement to improve the quality and effectiveness of mental healthcare in America. A movement that Dr. Kirkbride was instrumental in driving forward.
Many Kirkbride buildings today are rapidly deteriorating due to years of neglect. With the decline of the state hospital system — due mostly to new forms of treatment, the development of patients' rights, and public outcry over scandals of abuse and unsanitary conditions — these remarkable buildings have fallen into disuse and decay. Sadly, many have been demolished as they were deemed too expensive to renovate, or as commercially useless occupants of valuable land. Many that still exist are threatened with destruction and are rapidly vanishing symbols of an important period in the progress of American mental healthcare."
The fellow semi-posing for me was actually living in this building at the time I took this photo. His name is Earnest Ward; he's an "art journalist" (a professional artist and studio arts educator) from Fort Worth who was in the park preparing a program to be presented about ten days later.
He told me a little bit about the building which, according to Wikipedia, is the oldest remaining structure in Zion National Park. It's located in the Grotto, which is a picnic area across the road from the Virgin River (about .2 mile distant; all flat ground) and the Angels Landing trailhead. It was built in 1924 as the park's original museum; what we today call the "visitor center" (that term wasn't used until Mission 66). It was also used as a residence, but was slated for demolition sometime after the park headquarters were moved to the Utah Route 9 area. Here's one instance where not having enough money in the budget paid off, and the building was just too darned well-built to easily dismantle anyway. It's now, of course, somewhat protected based on its age and historical significance (it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987).
I mentioned the "flat ground" for a reason. Zion and southern Utah suffered through some terrible weather this summer. Seven hikers drowned in a flash flood in the Narrows in September, and over an inch of rain (more than a normal month's worth at this time of year) fell just five days before my arrival. Earnest mentioned he was concerned about the building getting flooded by the nearby Virgin, and that he had already spent one or two sleepless nights listening for approaching water, and that he had planned his escape through the rear of the building. Luckily, that was never necessary.
Entrance to l'Hôtel de l'Estelou, in the old town of Sommières (Gard, in Languedoc, southern France), on an evening in early June 2009.
The building is a renovated and converted train station. As represented at the doorway, "Estelou" is is a Provençal word for "star."
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Hypogeum Lagrasta I. Dromos tomb of 9 rooms with Ionic pilasters, red and white plaster and "house" relief carving. Hellenistic-Daunian, belonging to the Dasimii family. Built primarily in the 3rd Century BC, used 3rd Century BC - 2nd Century AD. Carved into the tuf groundrock. Excavated 1843 AD - 1853 AD. Canosa di Puglia, Barletta, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. I would have liked to visit more of these tombs, but Jim was impatient.
Copy of a postcard of John Street Presbyterian Church, Belleville, Ontario.
Donated by David Bentley in 2009 (2009-11)
Related Work: depicts Pillsbury A Mill, designed by Leroy Sunderland Buffington (American architect, 1848-1931), built 1881 and the Stone Arch Bridge, designed by Charles C. Smith (American engineer, ), built 1882-1883.
Work_Description: Published by the Co-Mo Company, Minneapolis. [111052]
Culture: American
Date: 1919-1928
Measurement Display: 89 mm (height) x 141 mm (width)
Classification: Graphic Design and Illustration
Work type: postcards
Location Notes: Collection of Philip Larson and Ursula A. Larson, Minneapolis
Rights: Work in the public domain
Image_Filename: 11112630
WorkID: 17441 [depicts works 16619 and 16611]