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c.1855
Stood on (or very near) the site of Bedes School. Standing from around 1839 and demolished in 1898. Photo of a painting
I saw this striking 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.
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.
This was my second visit to San Francisco, four years after the first. On that original occasion, I discovered the ‘Painted Ladies’, old Victorian houses that were rescued from demolition and repainted in a palette of bright colours. This was the harbinger of urban revival projects across the United States, reaching my home city of St. Pete too. In San Francisco, having photographed a host of ‘Painted Ladies’ during my original visit, I was keen to pick up the thread from where I left off. I recall that this house was located in the Russian Hill district.
September 1994
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
At the turn of the last century, the farms that once comprised Shadyside had all but disappeared and taking their place were row after row of large Victorians. The designers and builders of these homes are mostly lost to history, but it is known that large sections of blocks were owned by a single person who built the homes as investments purely to sell. Old city maps confirm these holdings. And, surprisingly, some of these investors were women.
These two homes on Howe Street fascinate me. They are mirror images except for the different porches and the moldings on the turrets, over the front bay window and over the porch are identical. I don't know if the trim was always black, but it is attractive against the colors of the brick. Both seem to be rental properties.
On the right, former Midland Bank, Bedford Square (dated 1895), originally built as the Constitutional Club. Grade II listed building. On the left, former Lloyds Bank (dated 1892), elaborate corner building of Hurdwick stone coursed rubble with Bath stone dressings. Grade II listed building
Viscorian homes make up a part of San Francisco's history. Victorian architecture, known for its complex structure and massive embellishments, is based on the architectural style popular during the reign of Queen Victoria in England. In the United States Victorian houses were mostly built between 1850 and 1915.
San Francisco Victorian architecture was influenced by cultures from all over the world as people came to settle here. One can see medieval Carpenter Gothics, impressive French palaces, Turkish towers, or exuberant Italian architecture.
Pencil drawing by Keith LaCour
I decided to re upload this to my flickr page today.
I did this drawing back in 2009 but I recently made some minor modifications to the drawing to make it look better. This home is one of the nicest victorian homes in Aviston, that I have ever seen. I took at least 20 photos of the house when I passed by it.
There is a nice collection of Victorian row houses in the fan district of Richmond, Virginia.
The fan is just west of downtown Richmond.
Pevsner says (Buildings of England) "At the NE corner is the delightful small mortuary chapel erected for J.R.Pease in 1866. Ashlar with stone slated roof, rectangular of three bays. Blank pointed arcades to each side and Transitional-style arches of three orders open to E and W all with stiff-leaf capitals. Stone-vaulted interior."
The Buddleias growing in the stone-work add an effect reminiscent of Piranesi's "Vedute di Roma" engravings.
This is a Grade II Listed Building.
"Mortuary chapel. 1866 for J Robinson Pease. Ashlar, corbelled roof. English Transitional style. Rectangular plan of 3 bays. Blank pointed arcades to each side with moulded and dogtooth arches on shafts with water- leaf capitals. Within the arcades are sunk panels, some inscribed: one of them bears the dated inscription recording the construction of the chapel. Moulded impost bands and corner shafts below impost level. To either end are pointed arches of 3 orders on nook-shafts with waterleaf capitals.The arches and jambs bear a variety of mouldings and are enriched with dogtooth.
Wrought-iron gates of good style: 3 tiers of railings with foliate ends. Interior: pointed tunnel vault on 4 keel-roll-moulded ribs carried on attached shafts with water-leaf capitals rising from a low bench. Sunk
panels between the shafts, some inscribed. The Pease family were wealthy Hull merchants who owned many of the larger houses in the area."
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-164712-mortuary-chape...
The site now occupied by the Gardiner Haskins "retail centre", entered by the public from Broad Plain, is of complicated provenance. The tall brick building seen here, a prominent east Bristol landmark, was Thomas's soap-boiling works. The manufacture of soap began here in 1783. The present structure was an 1881 re-modelling, perhaps by W. B. Gingell, of a smaller building put up in the 1840s. A fire in 1902 resulted in drastic alterations; the turret-like chimneys were reduced and much decorative brickwork was lost.
The congeries of buildings grouped around Broad Plain, with their massive rubblestone arches ...familiar to any Gardiners customer... were added or re-modelled piecemeal, also possibly by Gingell. There is also a block of 1957-8 by the local Modernist A. E. Powell. The Thomas business eventually passed to Lever Bros, whose in-house architect made additions in 1912. The brick block left of the main building was by Gingell, 1883, and the pennant stone building whose exterior walls are now propped up by scaffolding was by Foster & Wood, 1865-7.
What will this view look like in 20 years I wonder. New office building is due to encroach almost up to the walls. Can Gardiners continue to occupy this large plot of ground so close to the city centre? The vast, costly building is not part of the retail floor space. Presumably it is used for storage. If so, it is eminently unsuited to modern warehousing methods. As we see, some of the buildings are derelict and much of the site is unused. Off right more empty ground brings in a little revenue from customers' car parking.
It's only a matter of time. A few more years of competition from B&Q, maintenance costs, cripplingly expensive alterations to comply with Euro Health & Safety directives ...and then an approach from a deep-pocketed property development consortium and an irresistable offer for the whole site. Gutted internally and refenestrated, the building will be converted to apartments ..."Sudsy Lofts" or something, with glittering new offices all around. Why is efficiency and economics always inimical to beauty and the harmless pleasures of the senses?
....you might have sat, rocking on the veranda with a good cup of tea and a good story about the mining activity of the time in Colorado.
I loved the dancing light patterns and variety of shapes in this 1892 Victorian landmark in Lake City, Colorado.
Seondary exit door showing Asian influenced door hardware. In center of doorknob is a Chinese dragon motif.
This mansion on “Millionaires Row” is the former home of Jeffery and Mary Keating. It now houses the Capitol Hill Mansion Bed and Breakfast.
Brightly colored and ornate houses of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras in San Francisco are known as "Painted Ladies." We saw this one on Pine Street in the City's Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Taken and originally posted in 2008.
Hull’s impressive Renaissance-style Town Hall opened in 1862 but lasted little more than 40 years before demolition to make way for the even grander Guild Hall of 1908. The competition to design Hull’s Town Hall was won in 1860 by native architect Cuthbert Brodrick. He had already designed Leeds Town Hall, a masterpiece that survives today. Brodrick’s portfolio also includes the Corn Exchange in Leeds and Scarborough’s impressive Grand Hotel. Some time after completing Hull’s Town Hall, Brodrick withdrew from practising architecture, moving to France to devote the rest of his life painting watercolours.
One fragment of Brodrick’s Town Hall survives in Hull: the cupola was saved and was re-erected in Pearson Park.
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.
The photo was taken in July 1984.
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There is a nice collection of Victorian row houses in the fan district of Richmond, Virginia.
The fan is just west of downtown Richmond.
On a sunny 15th May 2012, I spent the whole day walking around Crawley and the environs of Gatwick Airport. My route was as follows: Three Bridges > Northgate > Manor Royal > Lowfield Heath > Charlwood (all the way round the edge of Gatwick Airport!) > Povey Cross > Horley. According to Google Maps, this is about 10 miles!
This late 19th-century chapel is now on its third denomination. Built as the Worth Mission Hall to serve Anglican worshippers in the growing railway village of Three Bridges, which was then within Worth's enormous parish, it later became the first home of the local Free Church (Evangelical) congregation. In the 1960s, they moved to the newly built Three Bridges Free Church building just round the corner. A Spiritualist group moved in soon afterwards, though, and the pink-painted building is still used for their worship. New Street is very narrow, but luckily the chapel is immediately opposite Mill Road; I got this picture by standing in the middle of that road.
The practice of painting these enormous murals on the fronts of buildings has always struck me, as they used to say in Monty Python, as "a bit silly". The designs are invariably meretricious and their execution of a low standard. Once applied they can never be properly removed. When they are applied to the work of probably the most distinguished Victorian architect to work in Bristol, the practice is to be deplored. Does one have to apply for planning permission to do this? If so, who granted it and when will he be sacked? I think we should be told.
Alright, it's not a great building, but E. W. Godwin, himself a Bristolian, was one of the leading figures of the Aesthetic movement and any work of his deserves to be treated with consideration. Compared with the frontage on the right which, though inoffensive, is really just a brick screen with window mouldings lifted from a pattern-book, the two buildings by Godwin have clearly been designed. It's a pity too, that the buildings have been disfigured by modern shop fronts and the one on the left by a new roof of inappropriate materials.
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.