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The Union House Hotel is the oldest continuously operated hotel in the area. The hotel was begun just one year after a catastrophic fire destroyed almost all of the older commercial buildings on Broadway. The fire consumed three of the city's older hotels, creating a demand for lodging that led Nicholas Altmayer to construct this hotel beginning in 1883. Two years later, Altmayer doubled the size of the building and in 1903 his son, Fred Altmayer, added a third story.
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Union House Hotel is located in De Pere, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The hotel was originally run by brothers Nicholas and Fred Altmayer. In 1918, August Maternoski purchased the building. Additions have been made to the hotel in 1885, 1903, 1918 and 1922. It the oldest continuously operated hotel in the area.
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De Pere (pronounced locally as "dee-peer") is a city located in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 23,800 at the 2010 census. De Pere is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the arrival of the first European, Jean Nicolet, who visited the place in 1634–1635, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement of several thousand attracted by the fishing at the first rapids of the Fox River. In 1671 French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before it enters Lake Michigan. The site was known as Rapides Des Pères (rapids of the fathers) which became modern day De Pere. Originally De Pere consisted solely of the community on the east side of the river; however, in 1890 the City of West De Pere, on the west side of the river, consolidated with the city of De Pere to form a single community. St. Norbert College, which abuts the banks of the Fox River on the city's west side near the Claude Allouez Bridge, was founded by Norbertine Abbot Pennings in 1898.
Alfred J. Salisbury House, a Victorian restoration, in the University Park/West Adams district of Los Angeles, CA
(Explored beginning at position 187 on 12/30/17. Thank you all for the visits, faves, and comments!)
After serving the community as a Post Office since 1898, this building is now closed and up for sale. It certainly is an attractive building with a residence attached. But like most things in smaller communities now, essential services get "downsized" and eventually disappear altogether.
In a strange twist, one of the last events to take place in this building, as an official post office, was an armed robbery. On 19 February this year, a man entered the building, produced a weapon and demanded cash. The old days of 19th century bushrangers like Matthew Brady are not completely over.
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I think these indoor shots may have worked better on an overcast day, when I could have preserved the detail in the stained glass rather better. Oh, well, another time...
I had a work-related course on the edge of Wilton the other day, a mild and sunny February day that reminded us that winter won't last forever, so I nipped into the village centre afterwards to take some photos.
St Mary and St Nicholas, better known as the Italianate Church, which the Church of England parish church for what had once been the county town of Wiltshire, is an enormous edifice, with a separate bell-tower reaching a height of 33 metres. It also has an interesting backstory.
By the mid-19th century, the old medieval church of Wilton was in a dreadful state of disrepair. The Hon Sidney Sidney Herbert, son of the Russian Dowager Countess of Pembroke and local aristocrat, loved Italian architecture—he'd been on the Grand Tour, innit—so, in 1845 he convinced his formidable mother to help build a new church in the Italian style, an undertaking that would cost them £20,000, a staggering sum for the time.
They called in young TH Wyatt, then only 34, the diocesan architect for Salisbury, for what would be his first really major commission.
Wyatt and his partner Brandon created a stunning church, oriented on a southwest axis to front onto West Street. The chosen site had been home to the medieval church of St Nicholas, which was in ruins by the 15th century. There is a totally separate bell tower, or campanile, following Italian tradition. The church itself is on the Roman basilica plan.
The excellent www.britainexpress.com supplied some of the information for this description.
St Paul's Church, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor, on Belfast's Falls Road. It has a famous calvary which is usually beautifully overlooked with cherry trees on Good Friday. The church was built in 1887, originally as a chapel of ease for nearby St Peter's Cathedral, and then expanded due to growing congregations in the 1920s.
St Michael and All Angels' Church is a pure piece of Victoriana, built in 1877-8 by well-known Wiltshire church architect Charles Ponting, with the tower following in 1883. “An ambitious church in a prominent position by an
architect better known for restoration work”, says the official listing, quoting Pevsner.
This Grade II* listed building is in the village of West Overton, 3½ miles/6 km west of Marlborough in the Upper Kennet Valley. It had a 2021 census population of 636.
How many sunsets has this old Victorian landing jetty seen? Despite fire and the ravages of the sea, some of it still stands.
Please take a minute to press L and view in large!
Finally got to see the most famous Victorian houses in San Francisco today. Only in the city for a very short time, but I made a dash to the Painted Ladies on Steiner Street. Now all I can think of is the Full House theme song.
An elderly Italianate victorian house that still remains strikingly vibrant.
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a NIKKOR-H 1:3.5 f=5cm lens and Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Fuji 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Here's some interesting info on Tricia Romance and her gallery: www.romancecollection.com/
This photo has been chosen for the Schmap Niagara Falls Third Edition.
The 'Geology Gallery' of 1862 at Biddluph Grange Gardens is a recently restored curiosity and the only one of its kind in the world. It was an attempt to rationalise Victorian scientific discoveries with the biblical creation story in an educational and informative display. It features rocks and fossils arranged by their supposed biblical day of creation.
It was restored by the National Trust and is open to the public as another fascinating part of Biddulph Grange Gardens, Staffordshire, UK.
St Margaret’s Street in Bradford-on-Avon; the grand house right of shot is Westbury House, built in the early 18th Century. Richard Bethall, who became Lord Westbury and Lord Chancellor under Palmerston’s Liberal government in the 1860s, was born in this house in 1800. “What chiefly distinguished Lord Westbury”, says Wikipedia, “was the possession of a certain sarcastic humour; and numerous are the stories, authentic and apocryphal, of its exercise.”
The terrace to its left is 18th Century, although the house known as St Margaret’s, with its very tall chimney, may be late 17th Century.
Poking through these houses in the distance is Abbey Mill. Originally part of a miscellaneous collection of workshops which developed piecemeal into larger factories in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, Abbey Mill was built into its current form in 1874-5. Originally a woollen cloth factory, it is now retirement housing.
Bradford-on-Avon is an almost impossibly pretty little town in Wiltshire with a population of just over 10,000. Located just 8 miles or 13 km on a direct train line east of Bath, it resembles it closely: a mini-Bath without the crowds.
The Gilkey House, a Victorian from 1879 built for Frank Gilkey, located in the historic town of Belfast, Maine, a place I absolutely fell in love with when on my tour of New England in October 2019, and a place I'm investigating for retirement.
Historic Victorians come up for sale all the time. Some even have placards and are National Historic monuments.
The Collegiate is a striking, Grade II listed building, with a facade of pink Woolton sandstone, designed in Tudor Gothic style by the architect of the city's St. George's Hall, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the Liverpool Collegiate Institution was opened by William Gladstone on 6 January 1843, originally as a fee-paying school for boys of middle-class parents and administered as three distinct organisations under a single headmaster. The Upper School became Liverpool College and relocated to Lodge Lane in 1884, whilst the Middle and Lower (or Commercial) Schools occupied the original site and would combine to form the Liverpool Collegiate School in 1908.
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After a year without any vacations, because of Covid, I'm in the midst of planning my Spring "Birthdaycation" for 2021!
I've booked a two night stay in Carmel on April 28th and 29th, and three nights in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood from the 30th through May 3rd.
In the meantime, I've been looking through my folders of photos from my 2015 trip and processing some "new" ones, like this one.
Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. The design closely follows the architect's earlier work of 1887, the former New Scotland Yard building in London.
In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony.
Redesigned by the Victorians in 1881.
Leadenhall Market dates back to the 14th century and is situated in what was the centre of Roman London. Originally a meat, poultry and game market, it is now home to a number of boutique retailers, restaurants, cafes, wine bars and an award-winning pub.
Starting as the site of a manor, Leadenhall has survived changes in use, rebuilding, and even the Great Fire to become a popular destination for city residents, visitors and workers.
Happy holidays to all!! Best wishes for the coming New Year!
The painted ceiling of the presbytery of St Davids Cathedral, in the city of St Davids (Pembrokeshire, in southwesternmost Wales), visited on a morning in late October 2024.
The cathedral, known in Welsh as Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, is located on the site of a monastic community established during the 6th century by Dewi Sant – the Welsh name of St David – who became the patron saint of Wales. Bishop Peter de Leia began the construction of the current building in 1181, during the reign of Henry II. By then, the place had official papal privilege as an important pilgrimage destination. Repairs, redesign, and expansion continued through 1540, but pillaging and destruction resulted from periods of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the (so-called “English”) Civil War.
Noted church architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) restored most of the building, including a redesigned tower; the painted ceiling seen today is thus a Victorian element. St Davids continues to be active as an Anglican cathedral as well as a historic site welcoming visitors.
The cathedral city of St Davids (also spelled St David’s, based on the Welsh Tyddewi, or House of David) has the official status of a city, the UK’s smallest city by population and urban area, even though its size corresponds to that of many a large village.
(Historical information from panels in the cathedral church as well as the official website of St Davids Cathedral and Wikipedia, both last consulted 24 December 2024).
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In 1853 the first pillar box in the United Kingdom was installed at Botchergate, Carlisle. In 1856, Richard Redgrave of the Department of Science and Art designed an ornate pillar box for use in London and other large cities. In 1859 the design was improved, and this became the first National Standard pillar box. Green was adopted as the standard colour for the early Victorian post boxes. Between 1866 and 1879 the hexagonal Penfold post box became the standard design for pillar boxes and it was during this period that red was first adopted as the standard colour. The first boxes to be painted red were in London in July 1874, although it would be nearly 10 years before all the boxes had been repainted.
Cosin's Hall, home to the University Institute of Advanced Studies, dates from the early 18th century, and was originally an Archdeacon’s Inn. It was converted into University accommodation in the 1830s, at which point it was named Cosin’s Hall. Named in his honour John Cosin was a 17th century Bishop of Durham.
Both the building and the post box are within the Durham Castle an Cathedral UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I saw this striking Victorian home in the Concord, North Carolina.
The home is located in the North Union Street Historic District. The district contains fine examples of Late Victorian homes.
Built in 1874 during the Gold Rush era that saw Wandiligong's population swell to its largest number, the Manchester Unity hall would have been a focal point for some of the townsfolk. Built of red brick with stone detailing, the hall's parapet featuring the date plaque features some elegant scroll work. The hall is remarkably intact and still has its original supper room below the stage at the rear of the building on the lower level. The hall represents the activities of Friendly Societies in country towns during the Victorian era.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. Once one of the UK's most productive coal mines, Bestwood Colliery closed in 1967. It is open every Saturday morning as a visitor attraction.
Wishing you all the very best, hoping you and your families are staying safe and well!
This is a photo from a few years ago, during the blue hour, and the MacCallum House was all dressed up and welcoming! This year most establishments in this historic little village are pretty much closed due to the pandemic so the MacCallum House did not decorate. Town is very quiet: the ocean's gentle nurturing roar in the distance and Jupiter and Saturn's proximity are the sound and visuals for 2020 Christmas.
The MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant is one of the most beautiful Victorian homes in this historic village. It was built in 1882 as a wedding gift offered to Daisy Kelley and her husband Alex MacCallum, by her parents. The town was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in the early 70's.
The George Ladve Home in Brush Park, Detroit, an Eastlake Victorian built in 1882, was home to wealthy families for several decades. But by the 1940s it was a boarding house and then it was abandoned in the 1960s. It was supposedly renovated in 2008, but in 2019 when I first photographed it, it was again in pretty rough shape, with the front door boarded over, a missing window in the middle of the second floor, dead vines crisscrossing the house, and additional signs of disrepair. Between March and August, 2024 when this photo was taken), it was clear that some renovations had taken place, with a new door, the windows fixed, the yard cleaned up, flowers in planters on the porch, etc. But also in that short span of five months, the house can be seen again sliding into neglect, with vines covering some of the front, including the new entrance, the porch littered with papers, and a jumble of building materials in the yard. Two steps forward and one back, I suppose, but I hope to see it fully restored at some point.
An annexe to the Engine Room at Papplewick Pumping Station.(1881), Nottinghamshire, UK; an ornate Victorian steam powered water pumping station.
Nick-named the Cathedral of Steam, it is now run by a volunteer trust as a museum and visitor attraction.
Built in 1897. Home to John Steinbeck from his birth until he attended Stanford University. On the National Register of Historic Places.
The Grand Hotel is a large hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, overlooking the town's South Bay. It is a Grade II* listed building and owned by Britannia Hotels. At the time of its grand opening in 1867, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe.
Un des luminaires de style égyptien ornant la façade du Meridien Shelbourne Hotel au 27 St Stephen's Green,Dublin, Irlande.
Cet édifice historique victorien datant de 1824 a été magnifiquement restauré. C'est le dernier survivant des grands hôtels dublinois du 19e siècle. La constitution irlandaise y fut rédigée en 1922.
Dublin (en irlandais : Baile Átha Cliath) est la plus grande ville de l'île d'Irlande et de l'État d'Irlande, dont elle est la capitale (Belfast étant la capitale de l'Irlande du Nord). La ville est située sur la côte orientale de l'île et au centre du comté de Dublin. Depuis le haut Moyen Âge, Dublin est le centre historique, politique, artistique, culturel, économique et industriel de l’Irlande.
Le nom de « Dublin » est généralement considéré comme provenant du gaélique originel Dubh Linn (« l'étang noir ») qui signifie maintenant « baie de la fumée », le nom d'un bassin d'un affluent de la Liffey, près duquel s'est érigée la première place forte des Vikings irlandais. Le nom gaélique contemporain Baile Átha Cliath (« La ville du gué des haies de roseaux ») fait référence au hameau qui se trouvait près du site de fondation de Dublin.