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The Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse (also known as the Municipal Building) is located in downtown Minneapolis.
The building was completed in 1902 and is an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
The Garreg Ddu Dam and Viaduct, and Foel Tower, are part of the early phase of works to secure Birmingham’s water supply in the Elan Valley near Rhayader in Powys, completed between 1893 and 1904 in a building style known as ‘Birmingham Baroque’.
The dam is entirely underwater, the pillars being there entirely to support the roadway crossing the dam. There is a commemorative stone at the south-western end dated 19 June 1900.
The Foel Tower is effectively a complex valve, regulating the outflow from the Garreg Ddu Reservoir and others further up the valley; it houses a system of valves and cylinders which can be raised and lowered hydraulically to draw water off from the reservoir at various depths as required.
21st July 1904 King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra opened the Elan dams and water started flowing along 118 km of pipeline to Birmingham. The whole of the Elan scheme cost £6 million at contemporary prices, equivalent to around three quarters of a billion in 2020 prices, and employed 50,000 men in total.
There are many beautifully restored shotgun houses in Key West, FL.
Many of the shotgun houses were built by cigar factory owners to house their Cuban cigar makers.
Most of these houses are now worth a million dollars!
I saw this attractive and well maintained Victorian home on the outskirts of downtown Montgomery, Alabama.
The wonderful Natural History Museum in London. It would take a few days or even weeks to look around the museum properly.
Beautiful Victorian houses in the Alamo Square neighborhood in San Francisco. Actually you could call them the 'little sisters' of the famous Painted Ladies which is a block from here :)
San Francisco's Postcard Row. It is probably the most photographed row of Victorian houses in the world.
The row is part of the Alamo Square Historic District. The photo was taken from Alamo Square.
In the distance is the San Francisco skyline.
It's almost a requirement that you get your picture taken in front of them. So, here's my picture!
Pedalos on Southport Marine Lake with Royal Clifton Hotel & Spa as a backdrop, and not a single soul in sight. (Very unusual for a warm, calm, sunny, springtime afternoon.)
I saw this attractive Victorian school building in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Sayre Street School was built in 1891 in the Romanesque style. It has been converted into offices.
An attractive row of Italianate or stick-style San Francisco Victorian houses.
The photo was taken in July 1981.
I saw this attractive Victorian building in the small town of Burkeville, Virginia.
It looks like it once may have been a bank.
A once grand terrace of housing sitting close to St. Mark's church in Snow Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, the side street is named St. Mark's Street.
This Victorian row dating back to the mid nineteenth century (probably around 1860) is made up of residencies with a unusual range of names, from left to right they read:
Victoria House
The Schonecc (possibly Schonegg)
The third house name has been erased.
The Eiger
Westbourne
Prospect House.
The development of the Snow Hill area of Hanley is tied up with the name John Ridgway, whose family were pottery manufacturers and prominent Methodists and around whose estate much of the area was developed.
From memory some of these houses were occupied by doctors and medical practitioners, I used to be taken to have earing tests at one when I was a child.
The Grand Opera House is in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
The four-story Second Empire style building was built in 1871 by the Delaware Grand Lodge of Masons to serve as a Masonic Temple and auditorium.
I saw this absolutely beautiful townhouse (fancy row house) in downtown Baltimore.
I'm sure it has now been divided up into condos or apartments.
Centre Theater,Norristown Pa-Built as Odd Fellows Lodge in 1851.35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400
The Strand Arcade is a Victorian-style shopping arcade in Sydney, New South Wales.
Designed by English architect John Spencer, The Strand was built in 1891 and opened in 1892, as the fifth and last of the arcades built in Sydney in the Victorian era. It is the only one remaining in its original form today.The Arcade was originally known as the 'City Arcade' and sometimes as 'Arcade Street'. In 1891 it was named after the famous London Street that links the City of London and the City of Westminster. The Strand was London's smartest theatre, hotel and shopping street in the early 1900s.
The arcade became run down as time went by. Restoration work was carried out in the 1970s, but a fire broke out on the morning of 25 May 1976. The arcade was partly destroyed. Restoration began again and the arcade, now back to its original grandeur, re-opened in 1977.
During demolition of the adjacent Coles store in King Street, where there had been a link into the Strand, building inspectors deemed the structure unsafe after the fire. Fortunately they found a shipwright who had somes Australian red cedar logs which were purchased. This enabled the shop fronts to be an exact replica of the original internal shopping facades (unlike the Queen Victoria Building, which had to resort to painted timber shop fronts due to a lack of cedar).
This Connecticut State Capitol is the third capitol building for the State of Connecticut since the American Revolution. The Architect, Richard M. Upjohn designed the building is in the Eastlake(Victorian) style, with French and Gothic Revival styled elements. Architect James G. Batterson designed some of the more elaborate details of the building including the central tower. Construction of the building began in 1871. The building imposing building was completed in 1878. The Connecticut Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
South façade of Knightshayes Court near Tiverton, designed by William Burges in 1873 for the Heathcoat Amory family.
They certainly need saving, the Cemetery Chapels in Longton Cemetery off Spring Garden Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
This timber framed structure was built in 1868 on land purchased by the local council for the use as a cemetery from J. Edwards-Heathcote, one of the major land owners in the area.
The building contains two chapels, one Anglican and the other non conformist, which are accessed beneath the central archway.
Unfortunately, this grade II listed structure is in urgent need of repair, the evidence for which can easily be seen on the exterior wood panelling, it looks worse on closer inspection.
I do think that this is a rather beautiful building even in this state, what must have it been like in its prime?
In the background can be seen the cemetery registrars office.
The Donnan–Asher Iron-Front Building is a historic commercial building located on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia.
It was built in 1866, and is a four-story, 12 bay, Italianate style brick building with a cast iron front.
The Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse (also known as the Municipal Building) is located in downtown Minneapolis.
The building was completed in 1902 and is an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
These men were totally absorbed in taking photos of the Great Hall as I was sitting on a chair at the entrance, and their stances made a small drama of the occasion. I was here with DizDiz and her two sons, who all had cameras. They're in this photo too. We'd spent several hours in the main Art Gallery, including the extensive Ford Madox Brown exhibition, which finished the next day. [It will be on show in Ghent, Belgium, soon] As the Town Hall is only across the road from the Gallery, we were well-placed to view FMB's murals here in the Great Hall. They depict a dozen scenes from the history of Manchester. The artist was painting them within a few months of his death.
Detail from the celebrated jelly-mould ceiling decoration in the Drawing Room at Knightshayes Court.
The University of Tampa is just across the Hillsborough River from downtown Tampa, Florida.
Plant Hall is in an absolutely fabulous building - the former Tampa Bay Hotel.
The hotel was built in 1891 by Henry B. Plant near the terminus of his rail line.
I saw this attractive Victorian building with corner clock tower during a walkabout in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 2018.
Rolling bascule lift bridge on Regent Road, Stanley Dock, Liverpool. "Bascule" is the French word for "seesaw," and this drawbridge works exactly like a seesaw. Image Taken 2008
The Royal Buildings on Southport's handsome Lord Street. Grade II listed. Build in 1883 and still more-or-less used for its original retail purpose. A fine piece of Victoriana.
Woodmere Art Museum.Sculpture is entitled "Sankofa Kore" by Christopher Smith.Model is Kelicia Pitt.Chestnut Hill Philadelphia Pa.-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
RD26121vs. This is Farnborough Main Station, opened in 1838. It is on the London & South Western Railway’s main line from London Waterloo to the west and south west although the majority of long distance trains pass through on the fast lines without stopping.
At one time, there were four platforms, but there are now only two on the up and down slow lines.
Wednesday, 13th September, 2023. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2023.
The Legarda Elementary School is a public elementary school located in J. Fajardo,Sampaloc in the City of Manila. Built in 1922, the school is notable for its main school building that has managed to retain its pre-war architecture, making its building the oldest surviving school building in Manila
The school was built on the land that was donated by the heirs of Benito Legarda, an eminent legislator and cabinet member of the First Philippine Republic who later became the first Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the American colonial period. It was in his honor that the school that the school was named after
Andres Luna de San Pedro, the architect son of painter Juan Luna, designed the school's main building. It became a prominent landmark in the area with its unique Victorian style of architecture which evokes a sense of grandeur.
The school's first principal was Andrea Vitan Arce, a renowned educator and writer. The school also received an early distinction for being a model school in 1924.
During the Japanese Occupation in World War II, the Japanese forces used the school as barracks. Having survived the war, it was subsequently liberated by the Americans during the Battle of Manila, after which it became the headquarters of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division as well as being the 29th Evacuation Hospital for wounded American soldiers. The Philippine Army also made the school its headquarters for a brief time.
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Designed by R.A. Bryden and completed in 1877, this striking Normandy Gothic kirk was built to replace the original Free Church on the same site. Its scale reflects the 19th-century popularity of Dunoon as a seaside escape for Glaswegian families. Set dramatically on a sloping site, the church’s tall tower and spire dominate the town skyline.
Inside, the layout evokes a concert hall, with a horseshoe-shaped gallery for the congregation and a raked choir gallery behind the central pulpit. Notable stained glass includes work by Stephen Adam and Gordon Webster.
🇫🇷 Église St John, Dunoon
Conçue par R.A. Bryden et achevée en 1877, cette église imposante de style gothique normand remplace l’ancienne Free Church située au même endroit. Sa taille reflète la popularité de Dunoon à l’époque victorienne, destination prisée des familles de Glasgow en villégiature “doon the water”.
Elle s’élève sur un terrain en pente, accentuant l’effet dramatique de sa flèche. À l’intérieur, l’agencement rappelle une salle de concert : galerie en fer à cheval pour les fidèles, galerie inclinée pour les choristes. Parmi les vitraux remarquables, on trouve des œuvres de Stephen Adam et Gordon Webster.