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This is a nice partial block of Victorian row houses near downtown Richmond, Virginia.
Unfortunately, most of the houses on the block have been torn down for a parking lot.
The Nelson Monument is a monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson, in Exchange Flags, Liverpool, England. It was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott. It stands to the north of the Town Hall and was unveiled in 1813.
In 1805, Liverpool City Council resolved to commemorate Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar by erecting a monument and voted to pay £1,000 towards its design and construction. A public subscription fund was launched and within two months a total of £8,930 (£610,000 as of 2014)[1] had been reached; this included £750 from the underwriters at Lloyd's and £500 from the West India Association. It was agreed that the monument should be located in a prominent site near the Exchange. A competition for its design was arranged, and this was won by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, son of James Wyatt, the contract being signed in 1809. Matthew Wyatt was relatively inexperienced, and was assisted by Richard Westmacott.[a] The first stone was laid on 15 July 1812, and the monument was unveiled on 21 October 1813, the eighth anniversary of Nelson's death. In 1866 the monument was moved to its present site in Exchange Flags to allow for an extension to the Exchange Buildings, and the Westmorland stone base was replaced by one in granite
The monument consists of a bronze statue on a stone base. Its overall height is 29 feet (8.8 m), and the circumference of the base is 95 feet 4 inches (29.1 m). The base consists of a drum-shaped pedestal in Westmorland marble 8 feet 10 inches (2.7 m) high, standing on a granite basement 6 feet (1.8 m) high.[b] Seated around the pedestal are four statues depicting manacled prisoners sitting in poses of sadness; they represent Nelson's major victories, the battles of Cape St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. Set into the drum between the statues are four bronze bas-reliefs depicting other naval actions in which Nelson was involved. Encircling the pedestal above the statues are swags of laurel hanging from behind lions' heads. Attached to rings in the lions' mouths are chains that descend to manacle the prisoners. At the top of the pedestal is a cornice with an inscription in metal letters reading ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY (sic).[2]
On top of the pedestal is a bronze group of figures 14 feet 2 inches (4.3 m) high, each figure being 7 feet (2.1 m) in height, and forming a roughly pyramidal structure. There are five figures surrounded by the drapes and poles of captured flags, with an anchor and a rope on the ground. An idealised nude representation of Nelson stands with one foot on a cannon and the other on an enemy's corpse, holding upright a sword on which Victory is placing the last of four crowns.[c] To the right of Nelson is the figure of Death reaching out to touch him. On the left of Nelson is a British seaman striding forward. Behind Nelson is the figure of Britannia holding a laurel wreath and Nelson's decorations.
The monument was the first item of public sculpture to be erected in Liverpool, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. Grade II* is the middle of the three grades of designation for listed buildings and is applied to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest".
The Langdon Building is a 300 First Avenue North in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District.
It was built in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque Style with elaborate terra cotta ornamentation and finely detailed brickwork.
A decorative letter "L" in a foliated circle can be seen on the facade.
The Painted Ladies, Victorian architecture, maintained and beautiful.
San Francisco, California.
March 14, 2019.
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The Tennessee Williams Welcome Center is the first home of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams made history with well-known plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie.
Tennessee Williams, the man said to be the most important American playwright, was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. He spent his beginning years in an old Victorian home that was the rectory for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where his grandfather, Reverend Walker Dakin, served.
In 1993, that home was in danger of being torn down to make room for a church expansion. In an effort to preserve this historic literary landmark, the home was loaded onto flatbed trailers and taken to Main Street. Once there, the home was restored and just three months after opening, Tennessee Williams was honored with a U.S. postage stamp and a public ceremony was held there. The home was also recently honored with the designation of a National Literary Landmark and it now serves as the official Welcome Center for Columbus.
Thomas Hockley House built in 1875,Frank Furness Architect.Center City Philadelphia.35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
I saw this attractive Victorian double-shotgun house during a walkabout in New Orleans.
It has been beautifully restored.
I saw the house on Frenchmen Street.
The floodlit building with ornate tower is the former Liverpool Municipal Buildings complex, completed in 1868 in a Second Empire style. Deemed surplus to requirements by the city council in 2016, it has been converted into a 5-star hotel as part of the Accor group.
Photographed during a light snowfall. Built in 1895 as an armory in Amsterdam, New York and later used as a residence and bed & breakfast.
Always enjoy seeing this statue of this remarkable poet and lover of architecture, he did so much to save not just this stunning station, but Victorian architecture across the country. He helped save many buildings and more importantly inspired us to appreciate and love them too. This was taken on the weekend after an anniversary - he was holding a card and a bunch of flowers - he was born on 28th August 1906.
Located in Charlestown's Thompson Square, the Charlestown Savings Bank Building is the community's most architecturally elaborate commercial building. Built 1875-1876 to the design of the Boston architectural firm of Moffette and Tolman. The building is a fine and early example of High Victorian Gothic architecture in Boston. It received landmark status in 1981 by the Boston Landmarks Commission.
Like listening to a favorite old tune, I never tire of ornate victorian homes of San Francisco.
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 Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Queen Anne Victorians â–ª Hartford Street â–ª Castro District â–ª San Francisco â–ª July 24, 2020
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I saw this attractive Victorian double-shotgun house during a walkabout in New Orleans.
It has been beautifully restored.
I saw the house on Frenchmen Street.
Built 1887 .... Builder - William Hooker .... The gabled Victorian row houses on Wellesley Cottage Lane are labourers’ cottages built in 1887 by William Hooker from the plans that won the architectural award in 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London ....
Built in the Nineteenth Century, this little weatherboard cottage may be found in the small alpine town of Wandiligong.
Although gentrified over the years with an elegant verandah at the front, what is now a farmhouse, would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush. It features a corrugated iron roof and a verandah to help keep the cottage cool and shady during the warmer summer months. You might notice that it has two gables, and this is because the original cottage would only have been a couple of rooms making up the front building. However, in ensuing years the owners of the cottage became more prosperous, and were thus able to extend the cottage twice its original size. It is not unusual to see little miner's cottages with two or three extensions added onto the back of the original cottage.
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.
The Langdon Building is a 300 First Avenue North in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District.
It was built in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque Style with elaborate terra cotta ornamentation and finely detailed brickwork.
A decorative letter "L" in a foliated circle can be seen on the facade.
Built in the Nineteenth Century, this little red brick and weatherboard cottage may be found in the small alpine town of Wandiligong.
Proudly it sits behind its white picket fence with wooden posts, simple and elegant. It features a corrugated iron roof and a verandah to help keep the cottage cool and shady during the warmer summer months. It also has two rather sturdy red brick chimneys with elegant capping. It once would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush.
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.
Tower Bridge in London on a beautiful July day. Photos taken with my Canon camera from Butlers Wharf looking back into central London. London remains heavily effected by lack of tourists due to Covid-19
During a walkabout in downtown Ormond Beach, FL, I noticed the gorgeously restored Victorian building occupied by the Rose Villa Southern Table and Bar.
It appears to have originally been built as a home.
Sutton Coldfield railway station on the Cross-City Line which runs between Redditch to Lichfield via Birmingham New Street. Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
It was opened in 1862 as the terminus of the train line from Birmingham New Street. In 1884 a tunnel was built north of the station so the line could be extended to Lichfield. The station was the location of a train crash on 23 January 1955, in which 17 people died.
The station is of Victorian architecture with red brick and elaborate ceilings and pillars. One platform is sheltered while the other is open air. The main building itself is built on a hill with a tunnel running underneath it. It is accessed via Station Street and Railway Road.
During our visit to New Orleans in June 1985, I saw this Victorian in the French Quarter with its balconies with fancy wrought iron railings.
I saw the 1895 Victorian Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society Building during a walkabout in downtown, Bridgetown, Barbados.
I thought the wraparound cast-iron balconies were very attractive.
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.
You can see & feel the change of seasons in the air.
Southport's Hesketh Park at the start of October 2019.
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!
Fellow Flickrite and my fine photographer friend, Ray Wood, seen here exploring one of Liverpool's loveliest hidden gems, where Sweeting Street (previously named Elbow Lane) and Queen Avenue meet.
Shot from Dale Street via a half hidden, arched & gated entrance. Incidentally, this is officially Liverpool's most perfectly preserved Victorian enclave but remains unknown to so many people, including lots of lifelong Liverpudlians.
The Virginia Retirement System (VRs) is in this attractive Richardsonian Romanesque building in downtown Richmond.
Kolkata Town Hall in Roman-Doric style, was built by the architect Col. John Garstin in 1813 with a fund of Rupees seven lakhs raised from lottery to provide the Europeans with a place for social gatherings. At first, the hall was placed under a committee, which allowed the public to use the hall under such terms and conditions as were fixed by the Government. The public could visit the ground floor hall to see statues and large size portrait paintings but they were not allowed indiscriminate access to the upper storey. Applications for the use of the upper storey were to be made to the committee. In 1867 Town Hall came under the custody of the Calcutta Municipality (later on Kolkata Municipal Corporation). In the year of 1897 the Town Hall had been partly renovated. After political independence in 1947, Indiscriminate interference with the structure inevitably took its toll. That, at last, has been prevented in 1998 by timely intervention.