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c.1910
Graystone House on Compton Place Road/Meads Road, Eastbourne, as photographed by Reverend Budgen
I'm surprised there is no shake on this pic - too many pigeons in the access tower to the Gallery at the very photogenic Masonic Monolith of Saint Edmunds. Check out the Saint Edmund's set for more or read the recently completed article :-)
A row of Victorian homes stand out for their bright colours in Notting Hill, London.
Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens. It is a cosmopolitan district known as the location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival and for being home to the Portobello Road Market.
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.
I believe this house is still around and in restored shape. Original photo is on www.lapl.org digital online collection. I used some suggestions from flickr member Udri/Photoshop Support Group discussion.
Grade II listed building at 1 Exeter St. Dated 1881 with two period shopfronts in original condition. Attractive mouldings over the windows, in excellent external condition.
I saw this home in Savannah, Georgia's Victorian Historic District in July 1985.
This is in the Italianate Sytle
I took this photo inside the Still Room before I found out that photography was not allowed anywhere in Cragside House. Ooops! Not sure if I prefer this version or the color version.
Eastlake/Victorian. Built for Thomas Robinson, Florence and Cripple Creek, Colorado, railroad founder.
During the High Victorian age a distinct style of commercial architecture developed in Bristol. It made extensive use of jazzy polychrome brick and became known as "Bristol Byzantine". "Byzantine" is, of course, a misnomer and pedantic architectural writers now refer to "the Bristol commercial style". For me, nonetheless, it will remain "Bristol Byzantine".
Large numbers of these buildings were lost to wartime bombing and still more were wantonly destroyed during the campaign of terror against all things Victorian which lasted into the mid 1970s. We are extremely fortunate therefore, that this building, the apotheosis of the style, has survived.
Just look at it! It's so absolutely outrageous that you have to love it. It was built in 1869 as the granary of Messrs Wait & James. The architects were Archibald Ponton and William Venn Gough. It's a building that has to be "read". No two floors are alike. Note the way the second and third floors are treated as a unit within a single arcade; note also how the arcades of the top two stories are a little recessed. How massive and heavy the building looks, but how strong those mighty piers of Cattybrook brick. The unglazed piercing of the brickwork was to allow ventilation, and flues within the walls delivered heat from basement furnaces to dry the grain.
Stuffy old Pevsner, in the local volume of his "Buildings of England" guides, describes this great structure as "indeterminately Gothic" and dismisses it in a sentence. By 1979, Andor Gomme, in Bristol, an Architectural History, avers that it is "the most piquant and striking monument of the High Victorian age in Bristol ...as potent a symbol of the city as the cathedral or St Mary Redcliffe".
How fashions change. My own policy has been to ignore them and trust my own powers of discrimination.
I was for a great many years an admirer of the 19th century city halls that grace many a British industrial city. My long roll-call of favourites include Leeds, Manchester, Belfast, Bolton, Rochdale, Hull, Nottingham and Glasgow, every one a powerful statement of local civic pride. To my joy, the old cotton mill city of Lowell MA has a city hall that matches the best of them. Built in 1893 and surmounted by a 180-ft clock tower, it was designed by local architects Merrill and Cutler in what has been described as a Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Mortimer House was built in 1886–8 for Edward Howley Palmer, a merchant with Dent, Palmer and Company of Gresham House, Old Broad Street, City, and a director and former governor of the Bank of England.
Largely secluded behind a high brick wall, Mortimer House exudes an air of mystery and surprise amid the surrounding terraces of South Kensington. Perhaps most surprisingly of all, it is still in private occupation. Its style is an amalgam of Tudor and Jacobean in red brickwork diapered with blue, with stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, a multiplicity of gables of various shapes, some of them stepped, crested with statuary of griffins or bears supporting shields, and clusters of tall, decorated brick chimneystacks. Inside there is a predictable eclecticism of style, ranging from Jacobean in the long hallway containing an oak open-well staircase with twisted balusters and wide handrail to Adamesque in the double drawing-room at the front. The fittings include fine marble chimneypieces in a late-eighteenth-century manner. A room on the first floor may originally have been used as a chapel. Several changes have been made to the decorative schemes since the house was built, some of them quite recently, and a long conservatory-cum-swimming-pool has been added to the west side of the house, where the detached stables (now converted into garages) with stepped gables and a turret with a conical roof are also situated.
[British History Online]
Still sorting through photos at the moment and finding all sorts that I never did anything with and are suited to a little playing in photoshop which I never normally do.
I seem to be slightly obsessed with the blue tint though.
amazing Italianate rowhouses
№ 2430 + № 2428 Pine Street (built 1878)
Western Addition / Lower Pacific Heights
San Francisco
2014-Dec-B 056
Ceylon Place from Seaside, c.1890.
For more information or to obtain a print please contact East Sussex Libraries: library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov.uk
Designed by City Architect George Clough in a German Renaissance style, also called a transitional style between French Second Empire and Classical Revival, Houses the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Pemberton Square, Boston.
Title
Symbols - Daytime, Donut - Honey Donut Shop, Neon Signs, Storefronts, Man in Pinstripe Suit, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: between 1954-1959
Location
Creation location: Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 72.95
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001860
DSpace_Handle
"...though one may not wish to live in or near Manilla Road", wrote Andor Gomme in his deliciously catty way, "it is one of those things to see because it is there". Whilst conceding that the perpetrator, Henry Williams, was a superb architectural draughtsman, Professor Gomme goes on, "...he was completely without stylistic principles or tact. On occasion his irrepressible delight in combining the uncombinable could end in a design whose naïve pertness is quite winning, but as often the effect is very much the reverse". My fellow Flickrite Andrew Foyle, author of the updated Pevsner guide to Bristol, is of the same mind ..."outrageously ugly", he growls.
Well I don't know. This sort of thing is all part of the fun and fascination of architecture and we'd be a little poorer without the likes of Williams. For one thing I always like architecture that has a "maniacal" look about it ...one of the reasons I have always liked the great Victorian architect-madman William Burges. In the same year he designed these houses, 1888, Williams also designed a superbly crackpot Greek-Gothic-Loire-Jacobean branch of Lloyd's Bank in Temple Gate. I dimly remember it ...all ogee windows and pepperpot turrets, smothered in terracotta ornament. "Good fun" ...Andor Gomme again... "but except as a joke, architecturally frightful". Unfortunately it was demolished in 1970, at a time when I was more interested in photographing other things.
Williams was prolific but much of his work has been lost. His new doorway and internal remodelling of Christ Church, Broad Street, are unanimously condemned. I am not competent to judge, but I do enjoy his delightful Stock Exchange building in St Nicholas Street.
The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory is in Como Park in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The conservatory opened in 1915. it is a well-maintained example of a Victorian greenhouse.
It is a wonderful place to spend a couple of hours. And best of all - it's free!
The palm dome rises over 60 feet and contains over 150 tropical palm and cycad species.
c.1855
Stood on (or very near) the site of Bedes School. Standing from around 1839 and demolished in 1898. Photo of a painting
The Knotty - North Staffordshire Railway - might have been only a minor player in terms of its aggregate mileage, but it prospered in its Potteries heartland, and Stoke-on-Trent station was its showpiece, incorporating the NSR headquarters and matching the former North Stafford Hotel opposite (which is now a Best Western hotel). Both buildings are in the Jacobean style. The station was the wonder of its age when it opened in 1848, built by John Jay to the design of H.A. Hunt. It is deservedly a Grade II* Listed Building.