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A black and white treatment of the Haas Lillienthanl house in San Francisco, CA.

Statue of Charles Darwin, overlooking The Natural History Museum.

The clocktower in Hay-on-Wye was built by J C Haddon of Hereford in 1881, at a cost of £600.

 

Hay-on-Wye is a small market town (population 1,500) in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) in Wales, currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as "the town of books", and is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Literary Festival.

Angelino Heights is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, CA. Carroll Avenue, a block south of this house located on the corner of Kellam Ave. and Douglas Street, has the largest collection of vintage restored Victorian homes on one street in the city, and the whole neighborhood is a protected historical site.

  

After visiting San Francisco's Asian Art Museum we headed for dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Tenderloin. I noticed a typical San Francisco scene with matching colors.

 

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Over Kellet is a pretty little village in the north of Lancashire. There are over 30 listed buildings in the village, and I thought this very attractive Victorian house dating from 1854 might be one of them. I like the way it reflects the slightly earlier Georgian style. But it isn't listed, and that rather surprises me.

Built in 1854 to house Cotton Mill workers. Pleasley Vale, Nottinghamshire, UK

When I first saw this beautiful building my first reaction was that it was the village school. But in fact it is the village hall. However, I wasn't far out. The Grade II-listed building, which is located in the heart of the old village adjacent to the church, was established in 1864 as the original Sywell village school. The former Master's house is on the right. A tablet on the wall records, "This school house was erected under the care, and at the expense of the good Lady Overstone by whom also the village of Sywell was rebuilt AD 1860-64".

 

After the school had relocated, and following a refurbishment programme, the building became used by the community as a village hall in the 1980s. Apparently it has served the village well.

This great cliff of a building or from the south as here like a stately ocean liner, is as Pevsner states “wonderous.. a High Victorian gesture of assertion and confidence... none more telling can be found in the land" and, less importantly, the largest hotel in Europe when built. Growing up in Scarborough and dining here as a small child the Grand entered my imagination. Broderick's details like the four towers are idiosyncratic unique designs, but all works together to create the impression of convincing no-nonsense magnificence.

The open gates to this house in High Street, Evandale reveal a beautifully manicured garden. The house itself is a lovely piece of Victorian architecture. Wood with wrought iron finishings and four wonderfully symmetrical brick chimneys. The monogram on the gate shows a clear "V". Perhaps it might stand for "Van Diemen's Land".

From the visitpewseyvale.co.uk website:

 

“This “Victorian gem” of a church serves a scattered community in Savernake Forest.

 

“It was built in 1861 by the Marchioness of Ailesbury in memory of her mother, to serve the family estate and their household in Tottenham House.

 

“The church was severely damaged in an accidental explosion at the end of the Second World War, and was restored to use in 1952 by sealing in the arches of the north aisle, which is now a pleasant meeting room.”

 

The church is in a beautifully quiet location, almost 3 km from the nearest settlement, Great Bedwyn. It has a parish primary school next door and a faithful congregation, with services being held every Sunday.

Belfast’s Custom House is a symmetrical two-storey building, with basement and attic, designed in an Italianate Palazzo style by Sir Charles Lanyon. The building was designed by Lanyon in 1847 and built by D and J Fulton 1854-7. There were significant repair and refurbishment projects in 1983 and 1996.

 

Above it towers the 85m high Obel Tower, Ireland's tallest storeyed building, completed in 2011.

Bünsowska huset. Strandvägen 29-33 Built 1886–88. Architecture inspired by the Loire valley castles

the mortlock chamber, state library of south australia

North Marine Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK

One of my favorite Victorian homes on Carroll Ave. in Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA.

 

From the L.A. Conservancy website: This remarkable home was designed by architect Joseph Cather Newsom. Built in 1889, it features complex textures and shapes, as well as a pair of carved bearded dogs guarding the front steps.

Victorian houses on Millionaires' Row

Roxbury, New York.

There's a little crossing island in the middle of the road on the Tower Bridge where I thought it would be cool to catch some light trails.

 

This shot didn't disappoint.

The local riot armoury.

 

The Built Environment.

 

LR4175

Built: 1892

Currently: Vernon Public Schools Central Administration

Architectural Style: Richardson Romanesque

30 Park Street, Rockville, Connecticut

 

A vintage late 1800s home in the West Adams Historical district of University Park in Los Angeles, CA.

Fulton and Steiner Streets in San Francisco, alongside Alamo Square, photographed on 09-29-2015.

we owe it to the original design by great Victorioan architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the adaption of his design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, that we may enjoy the wonderful walks over the frighteningly deep Avon Gorge in such a stylish manner.

Shot from the ferry from Belfast as it was about to dock at Birkenhead, Liverpool Cathedral towers above the buildings of the Royal Albert Dock on the River Mersey. The distance to the Cathedral is about 2.5 kilometres.

 

Liverpool Cathedral is the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James’s Mount. This totemic example of 20th Century church architecture is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain, and the eighth largest church in the world.

 

The cathedral is based on a design by Giles Gilbert Scott and was constructed between 1904 and 1978, and was eventually completed to a much simpler design for the west front than in Scott’s original plans. The total external length of the building, including the Lady Chapel is 189 metres, making it the longest cathedral in the world; its internal length is 150 metres. In terms of overall volume, Liverpool Cathedral ranks as the fifth-largest cathedral in the world and contests with the incomplete Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for the title of largest Anglican church building. With a height of 101 metres it is also one of the world’s tallest non-spired church buildings and the third-tallest structure in the city of Liverpool. The cathedral is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, as one might expect. Public worship takes place in the cathedral every day.

 

The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world. The Dock was already struggling with declining traffic as early as 1870, however, and after decades of financial struggles and serious bomb damage during World War Two, in 1972 the dock was finally closed. Having lain derelict for nearly ten years, the redevelopment of the dock began in 1981, when the Merseyside Development Corporation was set up, with the Albert Dock being officially re-opened in 1984 as a shopping and later also entertainment complex. Today the Royal Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside London.

 

This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.

A victorian house clings to a crumbly sandstone cliff edge, Nottingham, UK

The former headquarters of the Northern Counties Investment Trust at 32 Manor Row, Bradford.

 

This Grade II listed town house was built around 1820 of dressed sandstone "brick". The built out shop front with its renaissance decorative details was added during or around the 1880s.

This is the other side of the screen I showed you in my first upload today. The light is more subdued because the direct sunlight which we saw in my previous photograph was almost completely shaded from this beautiful wall. Now this is a place to lift your spirits!

 

I mentioned today that I believe the influence of Muslim architecture is present here. The screen in particular is quite a move away from the typical Gothic revival arches of the Victoria era. This is no Alhambra, but you get a similar sense of sacredness of space. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra

 

I wish we could recapture the vision that once existed in Andalusia, when under Moorish rule, Muslims, Jews and Christians created a beautiful expression of a tolerant world. It began in 750 and ended in 1492. While Christopher Columbus was claiming the Americas for the Spanish crown, Jews and the Moors were being driven out of Spain by the Catholics from the north.

 

This beautiful and tragic story is magnificently told by historian Maria Rosa Menocal in her book aptly named, "The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain" (Back Bay Books, 2002).

 

This exciting book has now been made into a superb film. theornamentoftheworld.com/

 

Here is a short preview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaodAP-i-sg

What was once the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard’s headquarters and drawing office now hosts the Titanic Hotel. The entire White Star Line fleet was designed in this collection of buildings and constructed on the slipways outside, including the legendary liners Olympic, Titanic and Oceanic and naval warship HMS Belfast. The drawing offices, with their three-storey high barrel-vaulted ceilings, are the only surviving example of this type of shipyard architecture in the world, and were built between 1886 and 1917.

 

The buildings were empty after 1989, although occasionally used as a shooting location for television programmes. The Titanic Hotel opened on the site in 2017, and was initially a great success, although like much else its future must be threatened by the coronavirus crisis.

Golden Gate House

Santa Cruz, CA

05-04-2018

(composited sky and background)

I added a bit more than the sky to this composite piece. The original image is quite nice, with a really pleasing solid California Blue Sky but I wanted a bit more drama for this view, a 10mm wide angle shot from in front of the turret.

Westcott House, a theological college training men and women as priests in the Church of England, is a smorgasbord of Grade II listed buildings built between 1899-1929 with work by Hartwell Simpson, Grayson and Ould, Temple Moore. The scene is overlooked by GF Bodley's 1860s All Saints Church, which is no longer an active place of worship but looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.

297 Pine Street

Built for Emma Kirkland, widow of Dr. Archibald Sinclair Kirkland, this home was one of many constructed during a local building boom.Later owner included Clare Trott, an undertaker and member of Collingwood’s venerable furniture manufacturing family. The house is one of several “Trott houses”.

Born in Scotland in 1845 to Samuel Kirkland and Isabella McLachlan. Archibald Sinclair /St Clair/ Kirkland married Emma Louisa Watson and had 6 children. He passed away in 1905 in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.

I found out that Archibald is somehow related to my ex-husband, through a line that goes back to the Czech Republic to Hungary to Austria and forward to Ireland to Australia to the USA to Canada.

 

The other two houses: Stoutenburg Houses 1904

291/293 Pine Street

Local sawmill owner Peter Stoutenburg built this multi-unit dwelling to provide a home for two of his many daughters.

Peter Stoutenburg is my very very distant relative, through a line that goes back from Brazil, to Madeira Island (Portugal) to Brugges (Belgium) and forward to France to England to Canada.

 

I wasn't looking for our relationships, I was only looking for information on the guys. But GENI kindly gave me them. Isn't it amazing that a site does that for you without been asked?

Steam locomotive 43106, the Flying Pig, on Victoria Bridge with a Severn Valley Railway Footplate Experience train on the morning of Friday 26th August 2016. The river had risen quite a bit after overnight rain. The train was heading northwards from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth at about 10.10 a.m.

Fall is here at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.

The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come."

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