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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.
Summer "cottage" of Cornelius Vanderbilt II by architect Richard Morris Hunt in the Italian Renaissance style. Built 1893.
I saw this large, lovely Queen Anne style Victorian house on the outskirts of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
I saw this large, lovely Queen Anne style Victorian house on the outskirts of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
Date: 1975
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Bristol Byzantine style, designed by Archibald Ponton and William Venn Gough. (1869) - this shot with apologies to archidave, since it is such a blatant ripoff of his style.
The centre of Tavistock in Devon is dominated by the large church and the municipal offices and market, opposite. This building dates from the 1860s, and behind it lies the pannier market and a surrounding lane with a large cafe, food shops and other retail outlets.
The delightful town of East Looe began to boom in the middle of the 19th century with the construction of a railway line linking it to Liskeard, and also the building of the main shipping quay. As part of the investment in the town a lifeboat station was constructed on the seafront in 1866. These days there is a modern lifeboat station nearby, housing an inshore lifeboat. The former lifeboat station is a shop selling holiday merchandise.
This attractive Grade II listed Chapel located off Lower Grove Road, Richmond, was built in 1873 to a design by Sir William Blomfield.
Richmond Cemetery
Gwydir Street, Cambridge [52.202490, 0.139342]
This street in Pertersfield Ward, off Mill Road, was largely developed in the 1870s and is quite typical of this area. The street takes its name from Lord Gwydir who owned much of the land herabouts and who is thought to be the Peter (Burrell) whom Peter's Field, at the top of Mill Road, was named after. Gwydir Forest, in Wales, was once part of the family estate.
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The ground floor of the former granary in Welsh Back, Bristol. The orifices in the spandrels between the arches were the outlets of grain chutes. As will be seen, the ground floor is now a seafood restaurant, one of many such establishments that have been attracted to this area during the "regeneration" of Bristol's waterfront. Older Bristolians will remember that during the 1960s the basement of the building was a jazz club owned by Mr Acker Bilk, the popular Pensford-born clarinettist. I deplore the painting of masonry or brickwork, but here the footings of the building have been painted to match the cream and grey bricks ...quite an attractive effect.
The Old Post Office Pavilion was built in 1899 in the Richardsonian Romanesque Style. It served as the main post office until 1914.
Through the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's, many times when we visited Washington, DC, we went to the observation tower of the Old Post Office. It was free and there never was a wait. The view of the city was fantastic.
Now with the Washington Monument closed until Spring 2019, I expect long lines for the view. But the wait is worth it.
Granddaughter, Rayven, standing in front of the Tower.
On a recent trip I took a self-guided tour of the painted ladies of san francisco...love the architecture.
Finally properly scanned and coloured in (this one with samples of some reference photos I took used to generate the texture of the old stone, since it's such a lovely colour, that weathered Cornish granite.)
This is the upper engine house at United Hills, called John's - there is a whole complex of mining buildings and ruins and quarries and shafts and things on the top of the hill just to the South of Porthtowan, well worth getting in a fight with a furze bush to see it in its autumn glory, with the heather all in bloom.
Although Balliol can claim to be Oxford's oldest college, dating from the 1260s, its present buildings are from much later periods, ranging from the 15th century to the 1960s. The main Waterhouse building on Broad Street dates from 1867-1869.
Ouray is a historic mining town in a deep, narrow valley of the San Juan Mountains. Because of the local scenery and terrain, Ouray calls itself "the Switzerland of America." The Elks lodge is an example of the historic architecture of Ouray.
Pinney House, 1886
Joseph Cather Newsom
225 lima Street, West end of Laurel Avenue
Originally, This Buildig was a large but rather plain hotel on the order of the other Newsom hotel still standing in San Dimas. Then in the [nineteen] thirties a movie company added the outsized spindle work on the porch and the equally mannerist swans neck pediment, both from a house being demolished on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The result is overwhelming.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winter
Sierra Madre, No. 12