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Another view of the old "Hardware" building in Bread Street, taken in March 2007. I'm not sure what's happened since. Hardware (Bristol) Ltd was a customer of my first employer and, during the late 1960s, I used to deliver here every Thursday afternoon. The round's incumbent driver was called Harry and the round itself, which took in a wide swathe of inner east Bristol, numbered among its "drops" a large number of scrapyards, tanneries, car breakers, small engineering workshops and kindred businesses around Albert Road, Feeder Road and gasworks-overshadowed Sussex Street. Among our other drivers, occasionally required to stand in when Harry was on holiday, the round acquired a reputation for engendering lowness of spirits and became known as "Harry's Depresser". I rather enjoyed it. I sometimes wonder whether I have ever been happy, but to lounge on a bed of used laundry, in youth, on a pleasant day, in the greenhouse warmth of the interior of a BMC van, parked half on the road and half on the shattered paving stones of a back street in St Philips, eating two Witts's pasties (for I was still growing and had a formidable appetite) as the clank and jangle of shunting wafted over the rooftops from sidings close by, was to be little lower than the angels.
A stack of cookbooks on the fireplace mantle of the Palace Bar at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. www.hortongrand.com/history.php. Wyatt Earp lived in this hotel for the seven years he lived in San Diego, and rumor has it that the hotel is haunted.
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The Saint Paul Building in downtown St. Paul, MN, was built in 1888.
It is the last remaining Brownstone “skyscraper” remaining in the area.
Virulently red and with a roofline of octagonal towers and stepped gables. By James Strong, 1899. Grade II listed. Originally the Gordon Smith Institute for Seamen, containing library, reading room and assembly hall.
As a result of the many hardships connected with seafaring a number of charities were set up in 19th century Liverpool especially to help seafarers and their families in difficult circumstances. Spiritual guidance as well as more practical help was given to seafarers by the Gordon Smith Institute.
The Seamen’s Friend Society and Bethel Union this charity was set up on 12 September 1820. Its aim was to give spiritual as well as more practical help to seafarers. It became known as the Gordon Smith Institute at the turn of the 20th century. Then new headquarters were built in Paradise Street. This building was named after the dead son (Gordon) of a wealthy Liverpool merchant, Samuel Smith.
In 1900 the Right Honourable Samuel Smith, M.P., erected and furnished a building as a memorial to mark the death of his son, J. Gordon Smith. The Gordon Smith Institute, Paradise Street, became the headquarters for the Liverpool Seamen's Friend Society, accommodating up to two hundred seafarers a night.
As the Port of Liverpool reduced in international importance and thus visits of ships and their seamen too, the need for a centre such as the Gordon Smith Institute gradually diminished. Economic problems finally forced the Institute to close the building and it was put up for sale in 1977.
The building was acquired in 1979 by Poulsoms Chartered Accountants, who refurbished the building and converted it into offices opening on 14th September 1982 by David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool.
With modern office space now more widely available in the city, the building has been unoccupied for a number of years. The current owners have decided to redevelop the property to complement the new and impressive Liverpool One area it borders and to bring new life to this historically important building.
stick style Victorian architecture, building in use as an Episcopal church
Pierce Street @ Clay Street, Pacific Heights, San Francisco
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The Romanesque granite and sandstone church in Norfolk VA dates from 1894. The Epworth name pays homage to the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire birthplace of the founders of Methodism, John and Charles Wesley.
Quite a bit of architecture going on here in University Road, Clifton, Bristol, just around the corner from the Wills Memorial Building and the art gallery and museum. Down on the corner is the building which I'd always known as the University Refectory ...the West Country's greatest compliment to John Ruskin, according to Pevsner. This is not its main façade, of course. According to Mr Foyle's informative volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides (not to be confused with the Buildings of England series) it was constructed, 1867-72, as the Museum and Library and is the only known example of a collaboration between John Foster and Archibald Ponton. "A design of great ambition" (Mr Foyle again) "but much was never executed, including polychromatic masonry, sulphur inlay, balconies and carving". Much of what was executed was lost during the war. The museum collections were transferred to the art gallery and the interior was not reinstated in the rebuilding, by Ralph Bentnall, in 1949. What a "might have been"! The building now houses a restaurant.
But what of the range closer to the camera? I'd never known what it was. Once again Mr Foyle hurtles to our rescue. We are looking at the former museum lecture theatre, 1874, by Stuart Colman. The angled frontage expresses a polygonal plan, of which that lantern affair up on the roof must be the centrepiece. "Mannered lancets of excruciating thinness, and an ogee-traceried window after the Ca' d'Oro, Venice". Hmmm, yes, that's what I'd thought. I think he's referring to the windows in that skinny gabled bay in the middle of the view. The rubblestone structure at the left is part of Bristol Grammar School. That's another post.
The scene remains unchanged. It's a pity about that cement-faced little structure they've erected on the roof between the gabled bay and the corner block ...possibly a store room for the caretaker's supply of mops, buckets and Sanilav. At the time of the photograph, Sunday 19th June 1983, the parapet beneath it had just been renewed. The repair has now "blended in" nicely, as far as one can judge from Google Street View.
1502 Cherry Street, Abilene, Texas: E.N. Kirby moved to Abilene in 1892 and built this Victorian style house in 1895. The house is almost original except the roof and upper story were remodeled after a fire in 1949. Mr. Kirby was an attorney and the mayor from 1906 - 1919 and Kirby Lake was named in his honor. In the day looking east across the uninhabited South Treadaway Valley the Ham House could be seen.
Architectural Description:
This is a 2-story, 4-bay domestic building in the Eastlake/Queen Anne style with Late Victorian influences built in 1895. The structural system is balloon frame. Exterior walls are original wood siding. The building has a multi-plane cross gable roof clad in replacement asphalt shingles with box cornice. Windows are replacement vinyl, 1/1 double-hung sashes. There is a single-story, two-bay open porch characterized by a shed roof clad in asphalt shingles with turned wood posts.
The Evergreens, Montclair, NJ.
Built in 1896 for Charles S. Schultz who was the president of the Hoboken Bank for Savings. Designed by New York architect Michel Moracin Le Brun (famous for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in Manhattan). LeBrun combined a mixture of Elizabethan, Tudor, Shingle, and Queen Anne styles for the exterior, while the interior features beautiful woodwork, and spacious rooms.
The house is now owned by the Montclair Historical Society.
Not a tremendous photograph, taken from Bristol Bridge on Saturday 19th January 1974. I had got my first SLR camera the previous month and was now all ga-ga with a 135mm lens I'd bought for it. The mighty edifice of Moorish-Venetian "Bristol Byzantine" polychrome brick is, of course, the 1869 Granary, by Ponton & Gough, since considerably spruced up. The quayside in the foreground has been much altered by the process of subtopianisation. Actually you can no longer see it from the bridge as it is screened by trees. The gabled buildings with the green doors were put up after the war where a bomb had destroyed half of the Llandoger Trow public house, leaving the reduced structure we know today. They were an ugly, cement-faced, asbestos-roofed, austerity-era makeshift job and there were many calls for their removal, finally answered a few years ago. But what have we got in their place? As far as I can see on Google Street View, a Premier Inn and, on the "sensitive" corner plot, a kind of film set version of a Victorian pub ...divested of such budget-consuming refinements as window-heads and moulded glazing-bars. At pavement level are the usual retro-fitted setts, repro bollards and reconstituted stone paving. Everything visible is some kind of fake. Welsh Back itself was always surfaced with setts and those that remain are presumably original. I was going to say that the modern building on the right has been given a makeover, but I suppose 1970s isn't really modern any more; in fact it looks decidedly old-fashioned. Here it was in "as built" condition. The ugly shoebox structure on the quay has gone. Note that the building next door to the Granary, which survives, was then under construction.
Later in the day I bought Tubular Bells at the HMV shop opposite the Odeon.
Kew Gardens at night.
I visited specifically to shoot the Palm House, and yet I've come away feeling this was the best shot from the night/visit. There's a romance about this image lacking in the others and it 'feels' like something from the Victorian era. If this becomes an annual Christmas event I'll be sure to visit it again and I highly recommend it.
I saw this large, lovely Queen Anne style Victorian house on the outskirts of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
480 - 498 Castro Street at 18th Street
San Francisco
built 1880 per 'Here Today'
nine units upstairs
Home of "Star Pharmacy", Posters warning of the gay cancer were hung here in the early days of AIDS, 1981.
Home of "Toad Hall", (482 Castro Street). First gay bar to jettison juke boxes in favor of mix tapes. It is credited for setting the standard for what makes a good gay bar. There were serious police raids here, one especially noteworthy on Labor Day, 1974.
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I saw this large, lovely Second Empire-style Victorian house on the outskirts of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
Once a family home, it now contains 10 condos.
I saw these lovely Victorian homes decorated for Christmas 2016.
They were located in Boadsburg, PA.
I saw these beautiful Victorian row houses in Savannah, Georgia. The city has many streets lined with row houses.
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The Masonic Temple is located in downtown Minneapolis, MN.
Built in 1888, it is an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque. The massive eight-story building was designed by Long and Kees, a noted local firm.
The firm was also responsible for some of Minneapolis’ finest historic buildings: City Hall, the Lumber Exchange, and the Flour Exchange. All (including the Masonic Temple) are on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is now the home of the Hennepin Center for the Arts.
The Carter House, an exact replica of a San Francisco Victorian that was destroyed in the 1906 quake. Built from plans for the original house that were found in a Eureka antique shop. See www.carterhouse.com/History.html
I saw this home in Savannah, Georgia's Victorian Historic District in July 1985.
This is an Eastlake / Stick Style home.
Also located behind the Woodruff-Fontain house, this delightful playhouse was built in the 1890s by J. V. Handwerker for his children. This quaint little building has been used as a playhouse, an office and even as a beauty parlor.
A 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.
I drove Colorado's 'million dollar highway' from Durango to Silverson and Ouary in August 1981.
Being a flat-lander, the highway was very scary. A couple of times I wanted to turn around and go back. Fortunately, I didn't.
It was worth the drive up!
Silverton, Colorado in August 1981.
In 2017, the town had a population of 650.
Leadenhall Market is a covered market in London, located on Gracechurch Street but with vehicular access also available via Whittington Avenue to the north and Lime Street to the south and east, and additional pedestrian access via a number of narrow passageways.
The market dates from the 14th century. It is typically open weekdays from 10 am until 6 pm, and primarily sells fresh food; among the vendors there are cheesemongers, butchersand florists. Originally a meat, game andpoultry market, it stands on what was the centre of Roman London
The conservatory in My Hotels Chelsea.
You can read more about this shoot here: myhotel Chelsea - day 2.
Stylist: Marie McMillen.
1st Assistant: James Ram.
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This house is located N. Washington and E. Oliver streets. The first floor porch of this impressive house features corinthian columns while the smaller porches on the second floor have ionic columns. Several corinthian column capitals appear to be undergoing restoration.
I saw this attractive Victorian townhouse with a corner tower near downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
It's interesting the way the corner tower is supported by a column.
I bet you get a great view up both streets from the tower windows.