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A city landmark in Government Plaza, the building also functions as the Hennepin County Courthouse. Designed by Long and Kees in a Richardson Romanesque style, it was completed in 1888.
Grim’s Dyke at Harrow Weald, built 1870 to a design by R Norman Shaw for the artist, Frederick Goodall. In 1890 sold to W S Gilbert who drowned in the ornamental lake in 1911. Elizabethan flavoured with Gothic Revival, listed Grade II* by English Heritage.
Its Bath stonework freshly cleaned and sparkling in the evening sun, this is the one-time headquarters of the Bristol & Exeter Railway, situated close to the entrance to Bristol Temple Meads station, whose overall roof can be seen in the background. The architect of this Tudor-style masterpiece of 1854 was Samuel Fripp. Even more so than the Great Western Railway, the B&ER was wedded to Brunel's broad gauge of 7' 01/4". The B&ER was eventually amalgamated into the GWR in 1876 and its lines were among the last to be converted to standard gauge in 1892.
Victorian era homes abound in the Old North St. Louis, Mo, neighborhood.. After decades of poor economic conditions many North Side neighborhoods are being revitalized.
House Moving 21st Century Style: While building moving is no new thing in Chicago, the moving today of Henry Ives Cobb's Rees House one block north on Prairie Ave (to a site two blocks south of Glessner House) has been called, at 762 tons, the heaviest house move in US history. It's a dubious honor. The Rees House was in the way of a stadium to be built adjacent to the ever expanding McCormick Place Convention Center. A preservation easement on the exterior and City Landmarking of both the exterior and interior (which has survived amazingly well) couldn't prevent the power of eminent domain from taking over the site, but they did put pressure on to move the house itself.
Nov 12th - A few more in progress pics from today. I got there around 9AM and they had started to turn the corner into the lot. By11:30 they had made some progress, but didn't move much by noon when I had to head out.
Find out more at the Victorian Society in America’s first ever Chicago Summer School, June 2015! #VicSocAmerica #VSASummerSchool #VSAChicago
Photographed November 12, 2014; Photograph by John H. Waters, A.I.A.
Lady Bute’s bedroom – the profusion of patterned surfaces and exotic painted furniture reaches a new intensity here with elements drawn from Japanese, Islamic and Arts and Crafts traditions and stirred into the fantasy medievalism.
This is at the other end of the row from the Statue of Liberty.
In Victorian times it was very common to have animals or such like, included in the stone work. Well the story goes that four councillors of the day really slowed down the progress of these tenement flats, and so the architects got their own back by putting these wee models of them above the doorway as they had ''held up the building'. I love that! The councillors have long since gone, but they will never be forgotten for what they did!
Councillors beware!
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From a visitor’s handbook of 1863, the Zetland Hotel was described as:
"... in the Italian Style... of firebricks... The front and sides have spacious terraces, with perforated balustrades of terra-cotta, surmounted with vases of flowers: and a neat balcony runs along the whole front of the middle storey. A semi-circular tower rises in the centre of the front, which is used as a telescope room, and is provided with another balcony; and both from the top of this tower and the balcony the view is gorgeous. The hotel contains about 90 rooms, comprising about 50 bedrooms, a large dining and coffee room, a ladies' coffee and drawing room, reading room, smoking room, billiard room etc."
The Zetland Hotel closed in 1983 and was converted into apartments in 1989.
The Italian Garden was designed surprisingly by Edwin Lutyens in 1896, not as one would suppose by WA Nesfeild.
We were driving up towards Otley when we came across this fine building. We couldn't resist a few photographs of it! I never knew it even existed until today. It kind of looks like an administration building of a mental asylum but I am assured it is not!
Nowadays it is used as a conference centre for high profile business meetings!
Spectacular location!
When this imposing Grade I listed Town Hall was built in 1875 it was half in Yorkshire and half in Lancashire - after 1888 it was entirely in Yorkshire. The carved figures on the pediment represent the two counties. Lancashire on the left (the cotton industry) and Yorshire on the right (engineering and agriculture).
Summer "cottage" of Cornelius Vanderbilt II by architect Richard Morris Hunt in the Italian Renaissance style. Built 1893.
Mallory Neely House
Folk history claims that Barton and Daisy purchased this bedroom suite on their honeymoon. It is also claimed that the bedroom suite was made by Prudent Mallard.
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.
After seeing some of the awesome urbex images on Flickr, uploaded by some really talented artists I thought I'd revisit the HDR technique and give it a go. I'm a bit of a novice at this technique so comments good or constructive are most welcome..........
This is one of the locked doors leading out onto the playground from the room featured in my last 2 images.
Built 1898
The first firehouse in the Inner Sunset District was designed by Charles R. Wilson for Chemical Company No. 2 and Engine Company No. 22.
In 1910, Chemical Company No. 2 relocated to the quarters of Truck Company No. 5, 1819 Post Street.
In 1962, Engine Company No. 22 was relocated to modern quarters on 16th Avenue, and in 1969, the City & County of San Francisco sold the firehouse at public auction.
Victorian architecture, San Francisco
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"Vernacular Classical Revival expansion of a two-story house by architect Charles J. Rousseau for the widow Rousseau." www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/nat1983001230.aspx
we also call it "Colonial Revival" and even "Georgian Revival"... narrow siding, a few columns here and there.......
Liberty and Guerrero Streets
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stick style Victorian row houses, Sanchez Street, Noe Valley, San Francisco
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Queen Anne house built c. 1885 and remodeled in 1896 The house was moved from the corner to make way for a larger house in about 1898.
Monteith Historic District, Albany, Oregon. You can read more about our town's historic homes at albanyvisitors.com/historic-albany/tours/seems-like-old-t...
Texte original en français (English version is further down)
Le TCAF avait lieu dans le "Old Vic" dont deux des façades étaient en rénovation. Les échafaudages cachaient parfaitement l'arc néo-gothique de l'entrée ainsi que la devise du Collège "The truth shall make you free", prouvant que les BD et la liberté sont incompatibles. Ou bien, ça prouve que les BD c'est pas scientifique du tout.
Il y avait deux inscriptions sur les murs à gauche et à droite juste avant de rentrer. Celle de droite portait le nom des étudiants morts pendant la guerre de 14 - 18 et celle de gauche avait les noms de 39 - 45.
English version of the original French text (L'original en Français est en haut)
The TCAF was held in the Old Vic building at the U of T in Toronto. They were repairing several of the facades. The scaffoldings did a marvellous job of hiding the lovely neo-gothic arch of the main entrance. They also hid the Old College motto "The truth shall make you free", thus proving that freedom and comics are not compatible, or that there is no Truth in Comics , or something like that.
There were two memorials on the walls, left and right, just before going in. The one on the right had the names of the students who died in the first world war and the one on the left had the WW II dead.
I was at a meeting advocating for a cycling issue. It was an overflow crowd. When I looked back over the balcony, I saw these great Vics.
Harmony Mills, More mansards at the mammoth Harmony Mills, 1872.
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
The underside of the canopy at the end of Platform 8 - this used to span between Platform 8 and 9 but for some reason there's now a brick wall running down the middle and the majority of the area is wired off to make a store room for Ritazza coffee (YUM!) and other such culinary delights as served up on National Express trains...
... I still can't mention that without thinking "How can we possibly be in a position where a coach company owns a railway company" - thinks 'canals and railways'.
Looking forward to seeing this restored in the same style as St Pancras....?