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Title
John Hancock Building, from Copley Square, Trinity Church at Middle Distance
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: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 52.20
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_001056
DSpace_Handle
Castro District, San Francisco
city database says built 1904 - very questionable, this style was most popular in the 1880s
2014-Dec-E 075
The Smithsonian Institution Building also called the Smithsonian Castle or simply The Castle, is located along the National Mall in Washington, DC.
It was completed in 1855 as the first Smithsonian museum. The building is in the Gothic Revival style with Romanesque motifs.
It now houses the institution's administrative offices.
This is a view of The Castle from across the Mall.
The Strand in Galveston was once known as the "Wall Street of the Southwest".
The 70+block Strand Historical District is recognized for its outstanding collection of 19th century architecture.
The building to the right, the Kauffman & Runge Building, was built in 1882.
The center building, for the H. M. Trueheart & Co (also known as the Trueheart-Adriance Building), was built in 1882.
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"This is truly demonic, an Edgar Allan Poe of a building. It is the scream that you wake on at the end of a nightmare" - that was Ian Nairn's description of the building in the foreground in his mid-60s book "Nairn's London", at a time when it was threatened with demolition. But it survived.
Dating from 1868 this madly Gothic building was designed as the London depot of Hill & Evans, vinegars makers of Worcester, and considered the masterpiece of architect R.L. Roumeiu. (Pevsner, 1997, "Buildings of Englan, London 1: The City of London")
I wonder how much they'd all scream at its new 37 storey neighbour, 20 Fenchurch St, better known as the Walkie-Talkie building. Note the black louvres still being added to the façade over a year since the sun's rays reflected from the curved glazed facade started burning up cars on the street below - roughly where I'm standing to take this shot.
For a recent review of this building's impact on the City see:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/04/20-fenchurch...
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is quite simply my favourite musuem. Founded in 1816, it houses the art and antiquities collection of the University of Cambridge. Having initially been based elsewhere in the city, the “Founder’s Building” was designed by George Basevi, completed by C. R. Cockerell and opened in 1848. The splendid entrance hall is by Edward Middleton Barry and was completed in 1875. The picture features one of the recently refurbished art galleries.
The fireplaces were "antiqued" in the '70s. The Anaheim Library is trying to raise the funds to have the paint stripped and have the fireplaces properly restored.
Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul, MN, was originally the Federal Courts Building.
The building was completed in 1892 in the Victorian Richardsonian Romanesque style.
In 1972, the City of St. Paul purchased the building for $1.00. In 1978 it opened as Landmark Center.
This building in Stokes Croft, Bristol, originally Perry's Carriage Works, was built in 1862. Its architect was E. W. Godwin. It was a very influential building and is usually regarded as the first example of the commercial style once known as "Bristol Byzantine" ...a term avoided by modern architectural writers. The ground floor has an arcade of five bays, originally open to the street. On the two floors above there are ten bays. I wonder how many people have noticed ...certainly I had not... that the outer arches of the first and second floors, being a little narrower than the others but of the same height, are slightly pointed, rather than rounded.
As Professor Gomme points out, the building's street frontage is not really a wall. It is all arches and piers, with a little stonework in the spandrels between. The strong stringcourses, which also serve as sills, give the building a horizontal emphasis and make it into a piece of street architecture. The materials are pennant rubble and an oolitic limestone, either Dundry or Bath, for the dressings. The influence of Godwin's design can (or could) be seen in many Bristol buildings which came later. It is there in Foster & Wood's Colston Hall and in the same partnership's building for Gardiners' which stood in All Saints Street until it was demolished in the mid-1960s. There were many others.
The building has been empty and derelict for some years and the site seems to have been assimilated into another property next door. That brick structure on the roof looks all of a piece with the next building up the street. Both this and a much larger structure behind the two frontages are being demolished. They won't be able to get away with destroying this fine building ...it is a significant and influential design by a top Victorian architect (and Bristolian) and, what's more, it stands in a conservation area. Are we in for yet another "façading"?
This is the house that railroad magnate James J. Hill (1838-1916) - the so-called Empire Builder - had built for himself. Located at 245 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, it was completed in 1891. Designed in a Richardson Romanesque style and built from red sandstone, the Boston-based architectural practice of Peabody & Stearns undertook the commission.
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.
Built in 1887. See www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/listed_resources/default.asp?num=N2373 for more information.
Ornate old public house, closed in 1991. It was built in the 1870s and is Grade II listed. The turret makes quite an impact when coming up from Constitution Hill.
No plans to bring it to life again in the near future, as far as I'm aware.
flat front Victorian
312 Vicksburg Street â—Ź Noe Valley â—Ź San Francisco
built 1888 (H.T.)
July 31, 2020
20200731_182756
At the same time the working cranes of Thames were still there and you can just about see another GLC residential tower block behind these.
The Shakespeare Memorial Fountain, also known as the American Fountain, stands in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon. Built in 1887 as a gift from American philanthropist George William Childs to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, the fountain honours William Shakespeare. Made from Yorkshire stone, it features intricate carvings, Tudor roses, and historic animal troughs. Today it’s a striking landmark in the town centre, offering a glimpse into Victorian architecture and Stratford’s rich history.
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]
Eventually, even beautiful architectural trends... like Victorian... run a muck and become downright spooky!
Detail by the door to Mortimer House.
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]
I took this picture of San Francisco Victorian houses in July 1981.
Notice the old cars - two VW Beetles (bugs).
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.
Built in 1887 as a dream house for John Bennett, this magnificent mansion is the best example of Queen Anne architecture in Nyack, NY. The belvedere must have a stunning view of the Hudson River.
To the west of the Castle Carr estate, these two shafts marked on the Ordnance Survey map allowed ventilation / access to a pipe that took water from the Walshaw Dean reservoirs to Halifax. I found interesting the mounds surrounding each shaft, clearly the spoil from their construction. Using the volume of the spoil mound it would be possible to calculate the depth of the shafts.
Across the street from the larger and more famous Carson Mansion, this one was built by William Carson for his son & daughter-in-law as a wedding gift.
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.
A great 2015 Holiday Tour of Grey Towers, Milford, PA, "The house was
beautiful, and the Christmas Carol presentation was very good!" Photo credit: Gloria Schofner
Saturday, December 5, 2015
8:45 a.m. departure, 6:00 p.m. return
Welcome the Holiday Season with a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the Great Hall at Grey Towers in Milford, PA. Built in 1886 by the father of Gifford Pichott, who became the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Grey Towers was designed by noted architect Richard Morris Hunt, with later additions by Henry Edwards-Ficken. Our visit will begin with a private tour of the mansion, decorated for the season by the Milford Garden Club. We will congregate in the Great Hall at noon for the reading. After-wards we will enjoy lunch at a restaurant in an 1888 working water-powered mill. The director of the Pike County Historical Society will join our group to lead a bus tour of Milford's Victorian architecture. Our final stop will be The Columns, a historic house museum and home of the Pike County Historical Society.