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Towering over the city since 1858, Leeds Town Hall remains one of Britain’s most majestic civic buildings — even as scaffolding and signage hint at a bold new future.
Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick in a confident blend of classical and baroque, this was no modest town hall — it was a statement of ambition, wealth, and power. Its gilded lions, imperial columns, and soaring clock tower made Leeds the envy of Victorian Britain.
Now undergoing a major refurbishment, the hall is being revitalised for the 21st century — restoring its grandeur while upgrading access, acoustics, and public use. The past is in good hands… and the future is getting a very fine façade.
The Summer House, a.k.a. The Kiosk, was built in 1898 (last refurbished 2013). Of timber and tile construction, brass lettering on concrete floor says 'LANGLEY DUBLIN'. St Stephen's Green goes way back to the C13, but its present form is essentially Victorian. Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Grade II-listed building in the Italianate style, completed in 1863 and designed by Bellamy & Hardy and John Giles.
One detail that I had never previously noticed until I read the Wikipedia entry are the figures peering out above the top-floor windows. These are notable figures from GY’s history, including King Edward III, Archbishop John Whitgift, Gervase Holles, the 4th Earl of Yarborough, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
This is one of the relatively few buildings in Grimsby that excited Nikolaus Pevsner’s interest in his ‘Buildings of Britain’ architectural tomes.
The Distillery District is a national Historic Site with an incredibly rich history. The site was once The Gooderham and Worts Distillery, and represents the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America.
In its time, The Gooderham and Worts Distillery played an important role in the growth and wealth of both the city and nation. In addition to various involvements in real estate and banking, the company at one time contributed more to Federal coffers than any other enterprise in the country.
The Distillery Historic District opens in May 2003 and quickly becomes a vital part of the city and one of Canada’s top tourist attractions.
The Pioneer Building in downtown St. Paul, MN, was built in 1889.
When built, it was the tallest building in St. Paul as well as west of Chicago.
I saw this attractive and well maintained pair of Victorian houses from the Canal Streetcar in New Orleans, Louisiana.
They are located on the 4500 Block of Canal Street. I actually got off the streetcar to admire them. I then just waited a few minutes to catch the next streetcar.
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
№ 2881 to 2885 Bush Street, Zion District, San Francisco
▪ Built 1909
▪ eleven unit, 30 room apartment building
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The "new" Hall at Balliol College is built on land given by Benjamin Jowett, a Victorian master of the college. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse of 1877, and contains a Willis organ for concerts. The paintings feature eminent people who have attended Balliol, including Edward Heath.
Built in 1867 for use as a police station. Today it is used for storage, private events, and a police sub-station.
Glimpsed from within the Lightner Museum, this Victorian house of 1899 was saved from demolition. The upper floors are now the Wisteria House Inn, while the ground level is the Bantam Chef restaurant, apparently much famed for its fish sandwich.
Chicago’s present Union Station celebrates its centenary this year. ‘Passenger Train Journal’ has published a commemorative feature, which included this contemporary illustration of the previous Union Station of 1881. It was an impressive structure in the Second Empire style that was popular at the time.
Former Holborn Union Offices. Dated 1885 on the foundation stone and 1886 on the corner pediment. By Alfred Saxon Snell for the Board of Guardians. Blue brick to the base, the street elevations entirely of rubbed brick with cut and moulded dressings, roof of Welsh slate. In the Queen Anne style. There is a symmetrical front of three storeys and fourteen windows to Clerkenwell Road, with a slightly projecting centrepiece of two windows, and outer, slightly projecting bays of three windows; there are also a wing of two storeys and eleven windows in Britton Street, and a canted two-storey bay to the corner; the windows throughout the building are typically flat-arched with the lower part of the gauged brick head cut back in an ogee profile, and the glazing bars are original throughout, so far as visible. Three round-arched entrances in Clerkenwell Road, the central entrance broader; the outer entrances have pilasters, stilted arch and archivolt; the entrances are flanked by fluted Doric pilasters which overlap their mouldings in a way typical of the building; these carry an entablature with triglyph frieze, festoons and drops, and a pediment, that to the centre segmental. Each entrance has a doorcase with a wooden cornice and scrolled pedimented central panel to the fanlight. Two sets of three windows between the entrances, their architraves unmoulded apart from the ogee heads and overlapping the simple entablature which runs between the entrances. On the first floor the outer bays have three round-arched windows with a decorative transom running across at springing level; they are flanked by pilasters with capitals at the springing and a second shorter range of pilasters above, the spandrels filled with festoons and drops; pediments with raking cornice; the central bay has two flat-arched windows flanked by pilasters supporting the main cornice, and two oculi above, flanked by pilasters supporting a segmental pediment; two sets of three flat-arched windows to either side, overlapping and interrupting the frieze of festoons; cornice with dentil and egg-and-dart mouldings; pedimented dormers in mansard roof; stacks with triglyph frieze and deeply projecting cornice. The wing in Britton Street and the corner bay continue the detailing from Clerkenwell Road, with plain architraves overlapping the horizontal mouldings, though the two storeys are both taller than in Clerkenwell Road. A frieze of scrolling foliage runs across the ground floor, and the ground-floor windows are divided into lower and upper lights at that point; the upper floor has a frieze of swags and drops, plus aprons of ogee profile to the windows; the cornice and parapet continue, with an aedicule to the corner with scrolled consoles, fluted pilasters, segmental pediment and central cartouche inscribed 'HOLBORN UNION OFFICES 1886'; stacks with triglyph frieze and cornice; lantern, square in plan, with ogee lead roof and finial.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Brunskill RW: Brick Building in Britain: London: 1990-: CLR.PL.176).
Easter Sunday walking in Central London
Douglass Street, the Castro
Details of a front porch at night
Pixlr edit
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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.
Usually, behind the houses, you can see the San Francisco skyline. With the fog, it is hard to see the buildings.
1949 15th Street
Italianate Victorian architecture, 15th Street, (at Landers Street) San Francisco
"1949 15th St. is located on a 22’ x 80’ corner lot on the south side of 15th Street, between Dolores and Landers Streets. Built ca. 1890, 1949 15th Street is a two-story-over-basement, wood-frame, two-unit building designed in the Italianate style. The rectangular-plan building, clad in drop siding, sits on a raised basement and on a reinforced-concrete, perimeter foundation, and is capped by a flat roof. The primary façade, which is two bays wide, faces north. The basement story has a chamfered bay window with multi-light windows. The first story features four, one-over-one, double-hung, wood windows in the left bay. The windows are separated by pipe colonnettes and capped by arched headers. The right bay contains a porch sheltered by a projecting hood supported by incised brackets and flanked by fluted pilasters. The porch contains two glazed multi-lite wood doors. Above the entrance is a two-over-two, double-hung, wood window capped by a bracketed hood. The primary facade terminates in a raised panel frieze and bracketed cornice. The building has a secondary façade on Landers Street. This elevation consists of a blank expanse of drop siding punctuated by a grid of one-over-one, double hung windows. The elevation is so plain compared to the façade because this property was not originally constructed as a corner building. Landers Street was cut through this part of the block between 1915 and 1950, and this property became the corner building at that time. At the rear of the building is an addition containing three garages and a roof deck. The building appears to be in good condition"
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Galveston's East End Historical District has a wonderful collection of Victorian Houses.
At 1702 Ball Street is the Frederick Beissner House built in 1887.
The Classical Victorian house is notable for its corner entrace and flower-themed woodworking.
The photo was taken in July 1980.
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Enjoyed a drive through the neighborhood located by Jastro Park. The area is filled with lovely and not so lovely Victorians. This one is very well loved and cared for. This was a drive-by shooting out of the drivers window....:)
Reached through a pretty cottage wire gate, this Victorian era red brick house is nearly entirely obscured from view by mature deciduous trees.
It once would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush in Wandiligong.
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.
Skagway, Alaska, is historically considered the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. The downtown Skagway Historical District is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park.
The Golden North Hotel is located at Third Avenue and Broadway in downtown Skagway.
Built in 1898, it is the oldest operating hotel in Alaska.
The third story and the golden dome were added to the hotel when it was moved to this site in 1908.
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.
Victoria Street (left) was laid down with complete disregard for the ancient street pattern of Redcliffe, slicing through mediaeval streets like Temple Street (right) and leaving several of these pointy "flat iron" junctions. The narrow triangular building, when photographed on Saturday 1st February 1975, was already boarded up ready for demolition, but didn't come down until December 1980. The framework for a long-gone advertisement hoarding (Iron Jelloids? Bristol Cigarettes?) remains on the prominent corner. At some stage of its life, as the reaction against Victorian taste set in, some owner, ashamed of the building's gorgeous polychrome brick, covered it with cement render. This was thought an improvement.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
The buildings on the right-hand side of Temple Street belonged to Mardon, Son & Hall, once a large local employer. I think the factory and chimney visible beyond the far end of the street were also part of "Mardon's". Crossing the middle distance left-right is the "temporary" prefabricated metal flyover connecting Temple Way, in one direction only, with Redcliffe Way. It was put up in 1967 and was finally dismantled a few years ago. An almost identical structure may be seen at the Hogarth Roundabout, Chiswick. The railway bridge beyond the flyover, a 1961 replacement of an earlier structure, disappeared at about the same time.
For the second time in the space of two months, an upload of Bridgewater House. Located in the St. James district of Central London, it overlooks Green Park. In the 24 years that elapsed between the two uploaded pix, the building was considerably spruced up. Under the ownership of the Earl of Bridgewater, the classic town house was remodelled by Sir Charles Barry in Italianate Palazzo style in the early 1840s.
October 2006
Rollei 35 camera.
art installation in brush park by tyree guyton meant to bring awareness to the city's homeless population. talked to a "street folk" myself when i was there. he was asking me how much i thought this house would sell for before the conversation turned a bit strange, something about russians... i didn't get the connection either. this is actually one of the nicer houses in brush park though the front is definitely its best side. some of the side and rear windows had plywood over them but it is still a beautiful house so i hope the restoration continues on this one.
1826 Sealy, Galveston, Texas as it appeared in July, 1979.
This is absolutely my favorite house in Galveston, an island which boasts many splendid examples of victorian architecture.
160 Central Avenue, 1894. QUEEN ANNE/CLASSIC REVIVAL. Built by Daniel Einstein for Margaret Williams
158 Central Avenue, 1899. QUEEN ANNE/CLASSIC REVIVAL. Built by Daniel Einstein for Ernest Freidlander (sic)
156 Central Avenue, 1899. QUEEN ANNE/CLASSIC REVIVAL. Built by Daniel Einstein for Annie nathan
142 to 160 Central were all one tract
Central Avenue
off Page Street, Haight Ashbury, San Francisco
colonial revival and two queen annes
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