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The building called The Folly built in 1871 by Robert Preston a lawyer in Settle. In 1871 21 people lived in the building.
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Happiness is ... a room with a view. A favourite view from a favourite bed-and-breakfast room. Dore Abbey sandstone church and churchyard, in the village of Abbey Dore (in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), seen from our B&B room window, on an evening of very mixed weather at the end of April 2010.
The original Cistercian abbey was founded in 1147, and much of its building work was undertaken during the 12th and 13th centuries. Much of the abbey fell into ruin after the Dissolution of English and Welsh monasteries of 1536. The surviving part visible here now serves as the parish church; in addition, some arches and foundations of other structures remain.
In the foreground, a field with grazing horses, at Tan House Farm.
(The village name is also sometimes spelled as one word, Abbeydore.)
(A picture in my Rooms with a View album / set.)
[Abbey Dore evening view of Dore Abbey 2010 30 apr o; P4300230]
A beautiful stone barn in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the grounds of Fairstead Stables. As per one of the owners of Fairstead Stables, Terry Olmstead, he wrote me today that this stone barn likely dates back to around 1830, when the house on his property was built. It may have been used to house pigs or maybe chickens, and he did a tremendous amount of work to try to save it. Kudos to him, for preserving a part of the region's rich history!
Frankfort Iron Works in Elberta, Michigan
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In 1867, the Frankfort Iron Works was established and a large blast furnace was constructed. During its existence, Frankfort Iron Works gave the Village of Elberta the notoriety of having the largest and most extensive manufacturing works in Benzie County. The original building contained a blast furnace where the iron was smelted; a boiler arid engine, stone and ore crusher and platform. The casting house, constructed of brick, is where die first iron was produced July 1, 1870.
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The first railroad was constructed in 1870 and was laid from the Frankfort Iron Works, along the east side of Frankfort Avenue, and was used to transport wood to die blast furnace. The original rails were made from wood strips later replaced with iron.
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Next to the Frankfort Iron Works building, two residences were built on a bluff approximately 20 feet higher than the general level and fronted Lake Betsie. These residences were used by officials of the company during its operation. The Frankfort Iron Works ceased operations in 1883.
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The Frankfort Iron Works property passed to the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan Railway, later renamed Ann Arbor Railroad Company in 1892. The furnace buildings were converted to a roundhouse arid machine shop located west of the subject site, parts of which are still standing. The grounds were used for the tracks and switches, and a depot. On the bluff, near the houses used by the officials, a large wooden water tower was constructed and used for filling the boilers of the steam engines.
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Also in 1892, the Ann Arbor Railroad Company built warehouses which held several hundred rail car loads of flour during transit. The company also built a grain elevator alongside die west slip. The elevators were 80 to 100 feet tall and were used until 1916, when they were demolished.
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Coal was stored on the grounds between the railroad tracks and Lake Betsie when the ferryboats burned coal for fuel. In 1925, the company built a 400-ton reinforced concrete, automatic, electric locomotive coaling plant on the east end of the subject site. In the late 1950’s, the ferryboat engines were converted to diesel and the coal dock was closed.
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In 1982, MDOT, (Michigan Department of Transportation) the owners and operators of the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and car ferry service, terminated all operations in the Village of Elberta.
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From the “History of Elberta” by Allen B. Blacklock
Located in the heart of Historic Downtown New Bedford is the Joseph Taber building, built in 1836. The earliest steam engine used in New Bedford was installed here by Joseph Taber in 1838 and used by him for many years for the manufacture of pumps and blocks for whaling boats.
The building currently houses Cork Wine and Tapas Bar downstairs and an Airbnb upstairs.
Outdoor table for two, in painted ironwork, and resting peacock in the courtyard of Powis Castle (Montgomeryshire, Powys, Mid Wales), on an afternoon of mixed sun and cloud in early May 2012. The National Trust restaurant entrance is on the courtyard, so in warm weather, this table is an ideal place to have afternoon tea.
(A picture in my Tea, tea shops, tea rooms album / set.)
[Powis Castle Garden table peacock spring 2012 may 8 p; P1000398]
Great Western/ Pleasant Valley Winery building now housing the Finger Lakes Boating Museum. Hammondsport, NY.
Kitschy baroque altar in fromt of windows collecting surviving Renaissance stained glass. Altar. 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 impressive 13th century palace has a facade overlooking Piazza IV Novembre with a majestic outside staircase leading up to a marble pulpit from which the priors harangued the people.
Relief of the day 12 Tecpatl (Obsidian knife for human sacrifices). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco , Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Mexico. Copyright 2015, James A. Glazier Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted.
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.
Il_Gzira to Valletta by ferry, walking down to catch the water taxi boat to Birgu - a new discovery of a lovely peaceful area (other than the work around the square), fabulous architecture, an original Norman House (Casa Normanna), before making our way back into Valletta.
The weather was very mixed and it did rain quite heavily at times.
In the evening we walked through to Ballutta Bay for a few drinks.
The Carolingian mosaic (early 9th century) in the apse of the oratory church in Germigny-des-Prés (in the département of Loiret, in the northern part of the Centre Region of central France) in the middle Loire Valley in central France.
(Not perfect focus, but I hope that the picture gives an idea of this work of art.)
This church in the Loire Valley was built by Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, abbot of Fleury in nearby Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, during the reign of Charlemagne. It was consecrated in 806. One of the oldest surviving churches in France, it displays distinctive Carolingian architectural features, whose origins have been debated by scholars (it was originally designed in a form similar to a Greek cross). The nave and tower are newer; the nave was extended during the 15th-16th centuries. This church underwent a 19th-century reconstruction.
It is most famous for the Carolingian-period mosaic on the ceiling of its central apse. The surviving mosaic (partly restored since 1841), which portrays the Ark of the Covenant, may be in the Byzantine style. An alternative explanation is that "the unusual floral motifs have parallels in [Arab] Umayyad and [Islamic Spanish] Mozarabic ornamentation, and some scholars have attributed this to Theodulf’s north Spanish (Visigothic) origins." Either way, the mosaic reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the Carolingian domain as well as of the 9th-century western Church.
(Information about the church from the article "Germigny-des-Prés," by Kathryn Morrison and Matthias Exner, in Grove Art Online -- part of Oxford Art Online -- and Wikipedia, viewed 29 January 2015.)
[Germigny-des-Prés oratory church apse Carolingian mosaic 2009 may 27 c; IMG_2694]
The Holy Cross village church in Scopwick, a small village a few miles south of Lincoln in the UK. This is another church that has views obscured by trees from nearly all angles.....
The oldest building in Greenfield Village was imported from England's Cotswold Hills to represent the area from which Henry Ford's ancestors immigrated. Built from limestone, it is surrounded by a limestone wall.
Facade of the Zeller's store located at 238 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. "Retailers to Thrifty Canadians"
Donated by Allen E. Montgomery in 2009 (2009-01).
Relief of the day 5 Tecpatl (Obsidian knife for human sacrifices). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco , Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Mexico. Copyright 2015, James A. Glazier Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted.
Two surviving Doric columns of Archaic temple, overlaid with 18th Century AD buildings. Greek, Limestone, 6th Century BC. Taranto, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
My latest Hermitage Collection piece is this windmill inspire by the historic windmill in Quebec province on the Isle aux Coudres.
The other buildings pictured are from my Medieval Stone Village set. I plan to make the accompanying watermill as well. :)
About the windmill:
The Isle-aux-Coudres is located in the St. Lawrence River three kilometers from it's north shore.
In 1815, famine struck because there were no efficient grain mills on the island. The inhabitants often had to go to Baie-Saint-Paul or Les Éboulements, in spite of the dangerous canoe crossings.
In 1825, the Séminaire de Québec, Who had lordly rights over the island, agreed to the building of a water mill. Over the years, however, the water mill proved to be inefficient, so a windmill was built on the same site in 1836. In 1850, the Séminaire de Québec sold both mills to private concerns.
Several owners subsequently operated them, including Marie-Anne Desmeules who took over after the death of her first husband.
Until the early 1900s, both mills were in operation, and complemented each other. The arrival of large flour mills marked the new century and caused a progressive change in the types of crops. Land and sea transportation greatly improved and traditional flour mills gradually became obsolete.
Because it was no longer profitable, the water mill was transformed into a sawmill around 1920. It was in operation until 1948. The water mill and the windmill were respectively designated as historic monuments by the Québec ministère des Affaires culturelles (now ministère de la Culture et des Communications) in 1962 and 1963.
In the 1980s, the mills were restored, keeping in mind their original characteristics. Both are once again operational. Over 500 000 people have visited the site since it opened to the public in 1982!
I like the fact this image sort of emphasises the French colours. Photographed in Normandy near the Mont St Michel.
A great way to view my photostream on Flickr
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Tiny Ruso, ND is allllmost a ghost town! But thankfully other people have found this place interesting enough that I have some info about it to draw from! From several sources! Yay! Let’s get going and jump into this tiny town on the verge of becoming a certifiable ghost town.
So, according to Wikipedia Ruso was founded in 1906 and incorporated in 1909. It was either named for the first two letters in the words “SOth RUssia” which was where many of the settlers came from, or after a Russian word meaning “South of us.” At the 2010 census only 4 people lived in town - and that was 9 years ago. That makes Ruso the least populated incorporated place in North Dakota.
Let’s check out this cool stone barn that caught my eye right away! Turns out, according to this source, that it’s the old jail and later blacksmith shop!
This article:
www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2018/01/tiniest-town/
shed a lot of light on Ruso. To summarize - two people lived here in winter and four in summer (as of early 2018). They had a mayor. He was mayor for 30+ years. He used to be a rural mail carrier and moved to Ruso in 1956 - before my own dad was even born. He spent the winter in a bigger small town but as soon as summer came he always went back to Ruso. He loved it. And in the article he said “If I ever leave I’m sure that will be the end.” And he was almost right.
That article also said that there were grocery stores and meat market in Ruso way back in the day. Like, the 20s. And, just after incorporating, the town had over 100 people and a doctor and a newspaper! Lots of towns didn’t have those things back then. Also a repair shop, a grain elevator (or 5, according to another source), a park, a place to leave horses, and later a place where someone built 14 foot fishing boats! And according to another source this town was on a railroad line so there was a depot and everything too, and a cream station, and a gas station and mechanic shop. This town had everything!
And the park? Now it’s a slough, apparently - although on maps it’s still the official city park. But back in the 30s, according to a woman interviewed in the article, they used to play down there because it was so dry. When the rains came back and the slough filled back in it would freeze in winter and they’d use it as a skating rink!
The little bit of taxes people pay go to two street lights, sewage, and garbage pickup. They can’t afford snow removal. Ouch! No wonder two people live there in winter.
Sadly, a follow up article soon appeared announcing the death of the mayor who kept the town going for so long. He was still mayor at the time - all 3 residents voted for him. 100% turnout. Now that the mayor is gone, there aren’t enough people to fill the city council (3 people are needed - the town now only has 2 full time residents). That means the city probably won’t be a city for long.
Happily, another follow up article came out last summer with good news for Ruso! It said that the town was supposed to get a 100% population increase! From 2 to 4. And they’re appointing a new mayor! Yay! So there is hope for Ruso after all.
More here: outhereontheprairie.tumblr.com/post/187146551577/ruso-nor...
The Watermans Arms pub at Bow Bridge (in the South Hams district of South Devon, southwestern England), on a clear evening in early May. A sign at the pub entrance advertises its Devon cream teas, a well-known Devon treat, while another, taking advantage of a rare warm May day, features pink lemonade!
(A picture in my Tea, tea shops, tea rooms album / set.)
[Bow Creek pub signs tea 2010 may 7 c; IMG_1297]
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
Currently still serving as a Community Building, this stone structure was originally built as a WPA Project in 1939 as a multipurpose building. It served as a school Monday through Friday, a Community Center on Saturday, and an interdenominational church on Sunday. It was formally School District No 30 of Barry County, also known as Horney Buck (really!) School.
Little remains of the Hot Springs Historic District... Just three buildings, including this one, and the foundation of the old bathouse... but they serve as a reminder that this was an unlikely "resort" destination in the not-so-distant past.
This building was the post office/store and given its size, probably served other purposes as well. Big Bend National Park, Texas... just steps from the Rio Grande.
In Trogir, two travelers lean over the edge and let the harbor do what it does best: slow everything down.
Stone pulpit by Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden in late Gothic Style. 15th Century 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. S
Related Work: depicts Pillsbury A Mill, designed by Leroy Sunderland Buffington (American architect, 1848-1931), built 1881
Work_Description: No. 23; published by K-Win & Co., Chicago
Culture: American
Date: 1907-1914
Measurement: 89 mm (height) x 139 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: 11100801
WorkID: 16774 [depicts work 16619]
Rose window with idol of christ. Gothic (1469 AD-1495 AD) rebuilding on top of Romaneqsque foundations (1229 AD by Frederick II of Swabia) of the Duomo. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
"Clouds" sculpture by Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis. Wool, 21st Century AD. Traditional trulli stacked-stone houses. Alberobello, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. A UNESCO Word Heritage Site. Enjoyable spot, but someone must have been owed a favor.
Idol of Wiener Neustädter Altar, ordered in 1447 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III for the Cistercian Viktring Abbey. Gothic gilded wood polychrome relief altar of the life of the Virgin Mary. Nativity of Christi. Tempera on panel with gilding. 14th Century 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.