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Galveston's East End Historical District has a wonderful collection of Victorian Houses.
At 926 Winnie Street is the McKinney-McDonald House built in 1889.
The Classical and Gothic Victorian house is known for its undulating arches with mariner's wheels.
The photo was taken in July 1980.
These 19th century Victorian homes are located in Old Town Historical Park in San Diego, California. They were originally located in other parts of the city but were dismantled and brought to the park for preservation. I love the vivid colors and the wonderful angles one often sees in Victorian architecture. This photo was shot mid-day from an extreme, low angle, giving it some wonderful shadows.
The term "Bristol Byzantine" has now fallen into disfavour among architectural commentators, who now refer to the "Bristol commercial style". No doubt this is more archaeologically accurate, but I can't see it catching on somehow. There are few correspondences between Bristol Byzantine and the real thing, and I wonder who coined the term and when. It has a journalistic sound, as though some hack, casting around for something with a snappy alliterative ring, simply picked something beginning with B from the limited number of architectural styles he'd heard of.
But never mind all that. It was a genuine style ...and a vigorous one... which flourished for a few decades in the second half of the 19th-century and gave the commercial parts of Bristol a particular appearance not exactly found anywhere else. Needless to say most of it has been destroyed ...some during the war but much more afterwards, before it had come to be appreciated. Well, what Fray thinks today the world thinks tomorrow and I think I may claim to have been among the first who appreciated it. On Monday 12th July 1971 I was out photographing condemned examples in Victoria Street. At one time this thoroughfare, laid out in the early 1870s, must have consisted very largely of Bristol Byzantine buildings. Few would have been noteworthy and this is an unremarkable example. Nonetheless it was an exemplar of some of the style's characteristics ...the storeys expressed by arcades of diminishing size, the jazzy brickwork and some restrained "structural polychromy" in the form of stone banding.
For those trying to get their bearings, this would be slap bang in the middle of the present Novotel. Interestingly there is some kind of alley, called Temple Place, leading out of the right-hand side of the photo. I have no recollection of this and it is not marked in my contemporary Geographia Bristol Street by Street ...even at the front of the book where there is a large scale map of the central area. It would have separated these properties from Temple Colston School. Note that the parapet has been renewed in bricks that don't quite match. I would be surprised if the building wasn't originally topped by a more ornamental cornice. On the other side of the street, down towards Temple Meads, an especially fine Bristol Byzantine building, latterly a branch of Henley's Garage, was lost in the mid 60s. I dimly remember it. I think it was demolished to make room for the prefabricated temporary flyover which was finally removed a few years ago. But we are fortunate that the apotheosis of the the Bristol style, the Welsh Back granary, is still with us; and another of Victoria Street's examples, which lost its top two storeys in the war ...what remained disappeared under a coat of grey paint for the next fifty years... was splendidly restored during the 90s. It's a great shame the change of taste came too late for Henley's Garage and so much else. This group was demolished in November 1973.
703-709 Capp Street, 731-745 Capp Street: fifteen stick-style houses, all by architect T. J. Welsh, ten of which are intect. built 1889 - source- S + J Woodbridge, 1982 edition
"Between 1889 and 1894, Baroness Mary Ellen von Schroeder developed 27 houses on South Van Ness (then called Howard Street) between 22nd and 23rd Streets and the backing lots with houses facing Capp Street. Designed by architect Thomas J. Welsh (1845-1918), the Eastlake or American Stick style houses sold for around $5,000. Many of the existing houses have the original flash glass—small colored glass squares surrounding the main window pane. Welsh designed many houses in the city, but is best remembered for his work as the primary architect for the Archdiocese of San Francisco: the original buildings for Sts. Peter and Paul in North Beach, St. Dominic's and Sacred Heart Parish in the Western Addition, and St. Mary's Cathedral on Van Ness. Only the latter two survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, although fire destroyed St. Mary’s in 1962.
And what of the Baroness? Mary Ellen Donahue, called Mamie, was the daughter of Peter Donahue, who had arrived in San Francisco from Ireland in 1849 and with his brothers opened a small blacksmith shop at the corner of Mission and First Streets. This shop grew into Union Iron Works, the first foundry in San Francisco. Peter Donahue also manufactured the first printing press in the West and built the first city railway on the Pacific. And with his brother James, Peter founded the first gas works in San Francisco, the forerunner of Pacific Gas and Electric Company."
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Capp Street between 22nd and 23rd
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I spent 4 days getting a photo of the baths as they were being filled after renovation. Taking a photo every 15 minutes. My favourite bit is the moonlight coming moving through on the first night.
The original plan was for a viewing at the reopening of the baths, but Southwark Council bureaucracy put paid to those plans.
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The Pavilion Gardens is an excellent historic venue which superbly shows off the Victorian splendor of Buxton. Situated in the heart of the spa town it is a beautiful example of the heritage that runs throughout the town. With the arrival of the railway in 1863, a boom period was beginning for Buxton and its guest houses and hotels. As a result it was suggested by the Seventh Duke of Devonshire that private citizens should put money into a 'company' to improve amenities in Buxton.
The gardens were designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and his pupil Edward Milner both of whom worked and built many of the greenhouses at Chatsworth House under William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and Edward Milner were both outstanding architects and worked to complete some of the most cherished landmarks we have today. This includes Tatton Park, Crystal Palace and Mentmore Towers.
The Pavilion Gardens was first opened in August 1871 and fortunately, at this time there were many people in the town who were willing to put their own money into paying for improvements. The then Duke responded by giving nine acres of “excellent garden ground” (eventually extended to the present 23 acres by later Ducal gifts), to be held in perpetuity on condition they were used exclusively for the purposes of recreation. The prospectus and Form of Application for shares of the Buxton Improvement Company (December 1869) make the objectives of the company clear: "to add to the attractions and increase the prosperity of Buxton".
The Concert Hall, (now known as the Octagon) designed by Buxton Architect, Robert Rippon Duke, was added later and opened in 1875. The Entertainment Stage, soon to be known as the Pavilion Theatre and later as the Hippodrome (cinema), the Playhouse (from 1935) and the Paxton Suite (from 1979) was added in 1889. Owing to the success of the theatre, the company, known since 1889 as the Buxton Gardens Company, decided that the Pavilion Theatre should be extended which led to the building of the Opera House which was opened at Whitsuntide in 1903. The Opera House itself was designed by the prolific theatre designer Frank Matcham and is one of only 17 out of 150 still standing. He also designed the London Palladium, Blackpool Opera House, Tower Theatre and Tower Ballroom, and the London Coliseum.
In 1927, the Buxton Corporation acquired the buildings, gardens and pleasure grounds and the council have managed the site ever since.
A disastrous fire in 1983 destroyed the former Lounge area and the restoration work was completed two years later.
In recent history the Pavilion Gardens have undertaken an extensive restoration project spanning seven years from the completion of the parklands to their natural Victorian splendor in 2004 right through to the refurbishment of the main inner building and the new ultra modern theatre and studio space (The Pavilion Arts Centre) being re-opened in 2010.
Galveston's East End Historic District has a wonderful collection of Victorian Houses.
The house at 1817 Broadway Street.
The photo was taken in July 1980.
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.
Galveston's East End Historical District has a wonderful collection of Victorian Houses.
At 1702 Ball Street is the Frederick Beissner House built in 1887.
The Classical Victorian house is notable for its corner entrace and flower-themed woodworking.
The photo was taken in July 1980.
I love everything about this house except that it has only an extremely small patch of grass in the back corner.
The Church of St Michael & All Angels in Leafield, Oxfordshire is by the eminent Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. The building dates from 1858 though the tower was not completed until 1874. The building is Grade II*-listed.
two of three SF Victorian styles
Italiante (typically 1870s)
Queen Anne style (typically 1890s)
2900 (last) block of Bush Street, Zion District, San Francisco
№ 2909 Bush, built 1878
№ 2911 Bush, built 1885 "Various patterns of boarding on wall areas; cantilevered bay has independent shed roof."
№ 2913 Bush, built 1883; "Incised panels above segmental arched heads on openings."
№ 2945 Bush, built 1885: "Compare w/ 2911 bush st., of which this is a 2 story version."
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Bargeboards hang from the projecting end of a roof and are often elaborately carved and ornamented. Homes in the Carpenter Gothic style have highly ornamented bargeboards.
(The neighbourhood of Cabbagetown contains the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian era housing in North America.)
Pencil drawing by Keith LaCour drawn 9/27/14 - 11/8/14
This historic building is one of 4 different drawings that I finished over the last 5 weeks.... I even added the mural that's on the side of the building which was very difficult to draw because it was so small in scale.
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.
An unfamiliar view of the church, opened up by the demolition of the Church of England school next door. We weren't able to enjoy it for long however. The photograph was taken on Sunday 1st June 1975. The council was eager to demolish the church and replace it by more of the kind of thing we see in the background. In September it trumped up some kind of spurious pretext for sending in the bulldozers.
The church was a fine design by J. C. Neale, few of whose buildings survive. He was killed by a train at Exeter.
703-709 Capp Street, 731-765 Capp Street: fifteen stick-style houses, all by architect T. J. Welsh, ten of which are intact. built 1889 - source- S + J Woodbridge, 1982 edition
"Between 1889 and 1894, Baroness Mary Ellen von Schroeder developed 27 houses on South Van Ness (then called Howard Street) between 22nd and 23rd Streets and the backing lots with houses facing Capp Street. Designed by architect Thomas J. Welsh (1845-1918), the Eastlake or American Stick style houses sold for around $5,000. Many of the existing houses have the original flash glass—small colored glass squares surrounding the main window pane. Welsh designed many houses in the city, but is best remembered for his work as the primary architect for the Archdiocese of San Francisco: the original buildings for Sts. Peter and Paul in North Beach, St. Dominic's and Sacred Heart Parish in the Western Addition, and St. Mary's Cathedral on Van Ness. Only the latter two survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, although fire destroyed St. Mary’s in 1962.
And what of the Baroness? Mary Ellen Donahue, called Mamie, was the daughter of Peter Donahue, who had arrived in San Francisco from Ireland in 1849 and with his brothers opened a small blacksmith shop at the corner of Mission and First Streets. This shop grew into Union Iron Works, the first foundry in San Francisco. Peter Donahue also manufactured the first printing press in the West and built the first city railway on the Pacific. And with his brother James, Peter founded the first gas works in San Francisco, the forerunner of Pacific Gas and Electric Company."
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Capp Street between 22nd and 23rd
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The old Carson Mansion, now the Ingomar Club. According to Eureka tourist info, this is one of the most photographed housed in Californa.
This was the home of lumber baron William Carson. The house was a project to keep mill workers working during slow times.
I'll dig up the exact dates later. For right now, know that this is from the 1880s.
Great that some of these are still operating. This one beside the Grand Hotel is a splendid example especially the entrance foyer and pay booth at the top.
Another second empire pile, this one a little foreboding. West Hall, formerly Old Troy Hospital, 1869.
The Architectural Treasure Trove of Troy Tour, Saturday, November 1, 2014 --- Once one of the most prosperous cities in America, Troy, New York, retains numerous architectural treasures from the Victorian era. Architectural historian Suzanne Spellen will lead us in an exploration that will include the Washington Square area (built around the only private city park in the country besides Gramercy Park), the campus of Russell Sage College, Monument Square and downtown business and residential blocks. Participants will visit one of the oldest synagogues in New York State as well as civic buildings and a rare surviving gas house. Also on the tour will be St. Paul's Episcopal Church, an interior decorated entirely by Louis Comfort Tiffany-walls, ceilings and windows. Lunch will be at one of Troy's newest dining establishments located in a Victorian era building. Advance paid reservations required by October 28, 2014.
Photograph by Frampton Tolbert
Built by stonemasons William and Thomas Keegan and completed in 1838. It is now owned by the Westmeath County Council.
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The "Hardware" building in Bread Street, Bristol, photographed on Sunday 29th November 1981. The last time I passed this way, in March 2007, the building had been gutted but the street frontage left standing ...probably the precursor to a programme of "façading. All this area was undergoing the horrors of "regeneration" and even the 1970s glass block in the distance was empty and "facing an uncertain future".
These and the conterminous buildings belonging to Gardiner Haskins are of complex provenance. If I have understood the books correctly the Hardware building was by Foster & Wood, 1865-7. Perhaps it might be regarded as the progenitor of the same practice's Colston Hall, which went up a few years later and to which it bears a distinct family resemblance. The arches of the ground floor arcade, made for the egress of horse-drawn wagons, have naturally suffered adaptation to other uses. Two have been knocked out to make a wide vehicular entrance, another has been filled with an unlovely roller-shutter door and one has been bricked up.
The three-storey brick building beyond, of 1883, is by by our old friend W. B. Gingell, who had the tact to continue the street-level arcade of the earlier structure. Here, at least, the filling-in of the arches has been accomplished with greater refinement. I suppose the difference is that it was done earlier.