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The site of St Gabriel's seen on Saturday 17th May 1980. There is nothing here now that invites the eye to linger.
13 March 14. In Reading to see Ma-in-law, we took her into town on the bus. Reading is booming, with the old buildings surrounded by new.
The east end of St Mary's, Studley Royal - the distant obelisk makes a stunted appearance. Designed by William Burges to be defined by sunshine and shadow.
It is said that a horse was specially bred on the estate as a model for this sculpture. It was by sired the Eaton Stud "teaser" out of a percheron mare and was four years old before the artist worked from it.
№ 1911 to 1925 Pierce Street
Western Addition / Lower Pacific Heights
San Francisco
built 1881
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Liberty's of London and the Aesthetic Movement, a multimedia presentation by Ian Cox, Director of the Victorian Society in America's London Summer School, the talk focused on the origins and development of one of London's best known high end department stores founded in the late 19th century by Arthur Liberty and famed at that time for its connections with the aesthetic movement and "artistic" product ranges. The talk will include an update on the store's recent history.
It concluded with a description of the summer study programs offered by The Victorian Society in America. #VicSocAmerica #VSASummerSchools #VSALondon
Photograph by James Russiello
Ian Cox is a decorative arts historian with special interests in historic interiors, furniture and ceramics. For many years he taught in the History of Art Department at Glasgow University and was Director of the Christie's Master's Programme in the History of the Decorative Arts. He is currently Director of the Victorian Society of America London Summer School, which this year is enjoying its 40th anniversary.
For more information on the Victorian Society in America’s summer schools in London, England, Newport, Rhode Island, and Chicago, Illinois, please email summerschools@Victoriansociety.org or our website www.VictorianSociety.org
About the Merchant's House: Built in 1832, the Merchant’s House was home to a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants for almost 100 years. Complete with the family’s original furnishings and personal possessions, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865. www.merchantshouse.org
The former home of the most important architect in the history of the cityscape of Cincinnati. It is located in Winton Place.
Scott Street or Pierce Street
Victorian architecture, San Francisco, California
October, 2017
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The overview from Platform 1 where a Swansea departure is waiting. The GWR's great railway terminus was Brunel's triumph - one of the great cathedrals of the Steam Age.
One of the finest Victorian Architects William Butterfield was reaching crescendo with his polychromatic brickwork in “holy zebra” style (as described by his critics) at his Keble Chapel (1875-76) in Oxford. Oxford Natural History Museum just across the road by Woodward & Deane (1854-60) in ‘Ruskin Gothic’ is showing most of the characteristics which were used again by Alfred Waterhouse in 1873-80 in Natural History Museum in London.
Some of the best architeture in Glasgow is up high on the roof tops. I'm always telling visitors If you only look at eye level you miss some real gems. Shame I didn't take my own advice!!! I have worked in this area for 12 years, literally 2 mins walk away from this and I only found out about its existence a few weeks ago! Glasgow's "Statue of Liberty" which was built during Victorian times.
I've been waiting for a decent day to get a photo of her - and finally managed it this morning. (It's a good job I didn't wait until the afternoon, as it was grey skies and rain. Again.)
The Choristers' House at Studley Royal, designed by William Burges in 1873. Grade II* listed, variously described as parsonage, organist's house and choir school. Handsome and substantial dwelling with two massive bays, presently in use as National Trust holiday accommodation.
Victoria Street, seen from the foot of Bristol Bridge, Sunday 10th July 1977. At one time all of Victoria Street was lined with Victorian commercial buildings. Many were lost in the war and many more wantonly destroyed in the years after. This was the last rank which survived intact and gave some hint of the street's original appearance. Most of the buildings were in poor condition and the council was eager to demolish them. The building on the corner, originally a hotel, had lost its top two storeys to incendiary bombs during the war. Its Victorian polychrome brick came to be regarded as ugly and unfashionable and disappeared beneath masonry paint. Like much of this block it had been acquired by Courage the brewers. The "numerals" on the clock had once spelled out "COURAGE BEERS".
During the 1960s, Courage, with appalling effrontery, demanded that Bath Street, the turning on the left, be closed to the public and absorbed into its site. They threatened to leave Bristol if they were not allowed to do this. So Bath Street, a public thoroughfare of at least mediaeval date, being one of the streets that converged on the south side of the river crossing to Bristol, was closed. Houses on the north side of the street, part of a scheme by William Paty, were demolished to make it easier for Courage's lorries to manoeuvre.
We saw this lovely Victorian home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Called 'Rosalie', it was built in 1883.
I love all the gingerbread trim!
This beautiful neo-Gothic Victorian house is being allowed to fall into ruin by Viersen council as they wish to knock it down in order to construct an unnecessary road through this spot.
Old carriage house at Martindale Hall, Mintaro, South Australia. A beautiful carriage can be glimpsed through the dusty windows.
The east end of Norwich's little known Roman Catholic cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St John Baptist. I reach for Pevsner.
Begun in 1884 for Henry Fitzalan Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk; completed in 1910 and became the RC cathedral only in 1976. The architect was originally George Gilbert Scott Jun. but, following his death in 1897, the work was continued by his brother John Oldrid Scott. The elder brother designed the nave, not visible here. The chancel was the work of both. The Duke of Norfolk is, of course, the leading Catholic layman of England; His Grace is said to have influenced the design of the north transept, seen in the photograph. It was he who selected the Early English style, to make good a lack of the style in the county. Beer stone for the nave, Ancaster and Clipsham elsewhere.
"The church is of course, an end, not a beginning", wrote Pevsner or, more likely, his reviser, "Bill" Wilson. He meant stylistically. The style is historical and takes no advantage of the freedoms available in the new Arts & Crafts style. I thought for a moment he meant doctrinally. As to that ...well, those who live longest will see most. Taken from a footbridge athwart the ring road.
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Built in 1890, the Tennessee Club was designed by Ohio architect Edward Terrell. The Tennessee Club was chartered in 1875. The club was to operate a library, an art gallery, and a social club. No guess as to which function was most popular.
Memphis, Tennessee
Ceiling details from the bedroom of the 3rd. Marquess of Bute. The painted and gilded ceiling is inlaid with precious stones and bevelled mirrors to reflect the inscribed Greek lettering when seen from the bed. The letters spell out the name John and refer to John the Baptist (whose sculpture is elsewhere in the room) and the 3rd. Marquess himself. This infinite repetition was designed as an affirmation of faith. Visitors’ heads and our guide’s tie can be seen in the reflections.
Italianate Leopold Buildings in Columbia Road, Bethnal Green, built in 1872 by The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, a philanthropic Model dwellings company founded by Sir Sydney Waterlow on land leased by Angela Burdett-Coutts - then the richest woman in Britain, nicknamed 'The Queen of the Poor'. The buildings were Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1994 and refurbished in 1997.
114 12th Street; Augusta, Georgia; Founded in 1787, it is believed to be the oldest continuously meeting black church.
The Springfield Baptist Church is significant in terms of the architectural, religious, and social/humanitarian history of Augusta and Georgia. Built in 1801 (although subsequently remodeled and moved), it is the oldest extant church building in Augusta and one of the oldest in the State of Georgia. Originally built to house Augusta's first Methodist Society, since 1844, it has been the home of the Springfield Baptist Church. The 1897 building is architecturally significant as a good example of a late-19th century Late Victorian Gothic brick church structure.
One of the church members published "The Colored American", one of the South's first black newspapers. Springfield was the birthplace of the Georgia Republican Party and Morehouse College, an all-male black college in Atlanta that graduated leaders such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
More information at: www.historicspringfieldbaptistchurch.org/
Mallory Neely House
Annie Bess' bedroom. Annie Bess was Miss Daisy's maid.
Constructed in 1852 and expanded in the 1890s. Original owner was Isaac Kirtland. James Columbus Neely purchased the home in 1883 from Benjamln Babb. His daughter Frances "Daisy" Neely married Barton Lee Mallory and lived in the house until her death in 1969.