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Photo taken in West Dallas, October 22, 2012. Bonnie Parker lived in Cement City, an industrial suburb of Dallas (wikipedia). Shown above is the schoolhouse she attended. The sign over the entrance says "Eagle Ford District 49". Built in the early 1900s (possibly 1916), it is located on Chalk Hill Road. There were several gentlemen working on and around the building when I visited. They said I could walk around the exterior and take photos. One of them pointed out that there is a boys entrance from the schoolyard on the north side of the school and another entrance for girls on the south side. I mentioned I had read that one of Bonnie Parker's report cards had been found in the basement. The gentleman I was talking to said it had, but the report card was later lost. He said the walls are extremely thick and made out of cement. To illustrate how thick the walls are, he held his hands nearly a foot and a half apart. It's a very cool looking building. Shown above, the entrance on the east side of the building.
Architect: Martin Richardson.
This alley leads to a delightful play area, offering views of the City Church.
A cocktail bar on Church St. Since renamed 125 Church Street (or One Two Five Church Street), and itself since closed.
Address: 125 Stoke Newington Church Street.
Former Name(s): The Baby Bathhouse.
Links:
London Pubology (One Two Five Church Street)
Palais Preysing - West- und Südansicht
München - Residenzstraße 27
Architekt Joseph Effner
errichtet von 1723 - 1728 - Rokokofassade
Wiederaufbau mit der Originalfassade 1961 durch Architekt Erwin Schleich
für Dr. H. Hartlaub
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Preysing
- nördlich davon ... direkt angeschlossen ... die Feldherrnhalle -
www.youtube.com/user/ernststolz#p/u/46/3eIfmEHjRlE
Heute zur Erinnerung zum 100. Geburtstag an den Architekten und Denkmalpfleger Erwin Schleich, der maßgeblich beim Wiederaufbau Münchens zahlreiche Bauten im Original wieder errichtet und somit wesentlich für die Erhaltung des historischen Stadtbildes von München beigetragen hat, wie zum Beispiel mit dem Wiederaufbau des Alten Peter (zusammen mit Rudolf Esterer), der Heilig-Geist-Kirche, dem Alten Rathausturm und vielen anderen historischen Gebäuden.
Die Pfarrkirche Sankt Peter, deren Turm im Volksmund Alter Peter genannt wird und zu Münchens Wahrzeichen zählt, ist die älteste erwähnte Pfarrkirche Münchens und vermutlich der Ursprung Münchens überhaupt.
Palais Preysing - Westansicht
München - Residenzstraße 27
Architekt Joseph Effner
errichtet von 1723 - 1728 - Rokokofassade
Wiederaufbau mit der Originalfassade 1961 durch Architekt Erwin Schleich
für Dr. H. Hartlaub
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Preysing
- nördlich davon ... direkt angeschlossen ... die Feldherrnhalle -
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schleich
Erwin Schleich wurde 1986 vom Deutschen Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz der Deutschen Preis für Denkmalschutz - die Silberne Halbkugel - verliehen.
Der Entwurf der Silbernen Halbkugel stammt vom Künstler Fritz Koenig.
In die Schlagzeilen kam Fritz Koenig nach dem 11. September 2001 durch die von ihm geschaffene große Kugelkaryatide. Die goldene Kugel mit dem Werknamen "The Sphere" überstand schwer beschädigt den Einsturz der Türme des World Trade Centers. Im Inneren der aufgerissenen Kugel wurden unter anderem Wrackteile der in die Türme gestürzten Flugzeuge gefunden. Am 11. März 2002 wurde die Skulptur als temporäres Mahnmal im New Yorker Battery Park aufgestellt.
St. Leonard's Street, West Malling, Kent, 21 Sep 2010. The Startled Saint used to be the local pub for the airmen stationed at nearby RAF West Malling. Sadly both the pub and the airfield have closed and been converted.
Rachel and I were colleagues at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited between 2004 and 2014. We were both Directors in Global HR (later Global Talent) and shared many adventures over the years. On Sunday, May 29, 2016 my son and I went to meet with her, her husband Chris and their son Max in Oxford, UK, where they were visiting with Rachel's sister. It was great to catch up with them...just a pity that time was so tight, and that they live in the USA. These are photos from our brief walk around Oxford. A fine day!
The Cathedral in Brussels is the only one I entered where the organ was playing a continual drone note. It would shift up and down a couple notes, and wasn't obtrusive, but I still thought it was a bit strange.
Completed in its current form by the 15th Century, Brussels Cathedral may lack the prestige of other European Cathedrals but it is still worth a visit.
In 1804 Jackson and his wife Rachel moved into an existing two-story log blockhouse on the Hermitage Plantation. After Jackson built the main house in 1819, it was disassembled and rebuilt as two one-story buildings used as slave quarters.
The Theatre of Marcellus (Latin: Theatrum Marcelli, Italian: Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song. Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites. It was named after Marcus Marcellus, Emperor Augustus's nephew, who died five years before its completion. Space for the theatre was cleared by Julius Caesar, who was murdered before it could be begun; the theatre was so far advanced by 17 BC that part of the celebration of the ludi saeculares took place within the theatre; it was completed in 13 BC and formally inaugurated in 12 BC by Augustus.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter; it could originally hold 11,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theatre was built mainly of tuff, and concrete faced with stones in the pattern known as opus reticulatum, completely sheathed in white travertine. The network of arches, corridors, tunnels and ramps that gave access to the interiors of such Roman theaters were normally ornamented with a screen of engaged columns in Greek orders: Doric at the base, Ionic in the middle. It is believed that Corinthian columns were used for the upper level but this is uncertain as the theater was reconstructed in the Middle Ages, removing the top tier of seating and the columns.
Like other Roman theaters in suitable locations, it had openings through which the natural setting could be seen, in this case the Tiber Island to the southwest. The permanent setting, the scaena, also rose to the top of the cavea as in other Roman theaters.
The former Baptist Church on the corner of Victoria and Otway Streets, South Ballarat, first opened its doors in 1904. Built of red brick with stone detailing, it is a picturesque country church which serviced the southern outskirts of the Ballarat township, rather than the grander Baptist church built on Dawson Street in the centre of Ballarat’s church precinct in 1866. With no pretentions of grandeur it is simple and unassuming in its design, in spite of sitting on such a prominent thoroughfare as Victoria Street. The former Baptist Church is a classic example of an Arts and Crafts style of building, and beyond the wall treatment has other common qualities of the movement including; its original hipped corrugated iron roof, a stone base, and red brick banding around the doors and Romanesque style windows. Only the front elevation is made of stone. The remainder of the church is a weatherboard construction with large, plain windows.
In the year 2000, Paula Heenan of the Ballarat Centre for Music & the Arts recognised the potential of her local disused Baptist Church in Victoria Street. It seemed ideally suited for refurbishment as a school for music, dance and drama. Today it continues to provide a stunningly spacious and ambient environment for the education of our young, along with an embracing community feel.
The Amelia Island Light is the oldest existing lighthouse in the state of Florida in the United States. It is located near the northern end of Amelia Island in the northeastern part of the state. Its light marks St. Marys Entrance, the inlet leading to St. Marys River, the Cumberland Sound and the harbor of Fernandina Beach, Florida along the Amelia River. The white light flashes every ten seconds which turns red from 344° to 360° when covering the shoal water in the vicinity of Nassau Sound.
From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Island_Light
This beautiful home was built around 1907 by William Paterson for his son. On the corner of Fourth Street and Clifford Street (now Wallenburg), this home is curently for sale. This would make quite a residence!!
920 O Street
Completed in 1879 as a U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at a cost of $200,000 in Gothic Revival and French Second Empire style.
In 1906 a new U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was completed and the federal government sold the city of Lincoln the building for $50,000. It served as City Hall until 1969.
Placed on NRHP Oct. 15, 1969---No. 69000132.
Détail d'une fenêtre du pignon Est avec patine d'usure.
Vestige de l'époque rurale d'un secteur du boul. Gouin Ouest.
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This magnificent building built in 1925 was the residence of a couple with a particular history. An injured World War I soldier was hospitalized in England and reportedly met his future wife, the widow of a wealthy governor. After marrying in Brussels, they built this castle in a Belgian village, with architecture inspired by many trips made by the aristocratic wife. The building has many rich architectural characteristics, with oriental, Art Deco and chinese inspirations. Some receptions were organized for the village inhabitants, and the owner was a time elected alderman of the community.
Both died in 1940, and the castle was bought in 1988 by a wealthy entrepreneur and his wife. As the building was too big for the two of them, they saw the opportunity to turn the space into a luxury hotel, then into a bed and breakfast, before being abandoned, presumably after the couple's death.
Today, this superb place is abandoned and at the mercy of squatters and vandals of the region. One part of the building was recently the target of a fire, in March 2017. Today, the site could be transformed into a nursing home and/or apartment buildings. These photos were taken before the fire.
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Cette magnifique bâtisse construite en 1925 était la résidence d’un couple à l’histoire particulière. Un combattant blessé de la Première Guerre Mondiale fut hospitalisé en Angleterre et y aurait rencontré sa future épouse, veuve d’un riche gouverneur. Après s’être mariés à Bruxelles, ils firent construire ce château dans un village de Belgique, avec une architecture inspirée de nombreux voyages effectués par l’épouse aristocrate. Le bâtiment présente en effet de nombreuses et riches caractéristiques architecturales, orientales, Art Déco, ou encore chinoises. Le lieu servit notamment de réception pour des fêtes de village, de même que son propriétaire fut un temps élu échevin de la communauté.
FR
Décédés tous deux en 1940, le château fut racheté en 1988 par un riche entrepreneur et son épouse. Le bâtiment étant trop grand pour eux deux, ils y virent l’opportunité de transformer l’espace libre en hôtel de luxe, puis en Bed & Breakfast, avant d’être laissé à l’abandon, vraisemblablement après le décès du couple.
Aujourd’hui, ce superbe lieu est délaissé et à la merci de squatteurs et vandales de la région. Une partie a récemment été la cible d’un incendie, en mars 2017. On parle actuellement de transformer le site en maison de repos et/ou cité d’appartements. Les présentes photos datent d’avant l’incendie.
We were fortunte to fly the Delta Shuttle from Chicago to the Marine Air Terminal and back.
The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport is the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States. Originally built to handle seaplanes, the Art Deco building was designed in 1939 by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich.
Since 1985, the terminal has been used primarily for shuttle services between New York and Boston and Washington D.C. In 1985, Pan American World Airways began the Pan Am Shuttle service between New York and Boston from the terminal while its competitor, the Eastern Shuttle, operated from the major terminal. Delta Air Lines acquired the service from Pan Am in 1991 and continues to use the terminal for operating the Delta Shuttle. It has added a Chicago shuttle (formerly to Midway, now O’Hare) and discontinued the Boston route.
"Flight," a mural measuring 12 feet in height and 237 feet in length, is the largest mural created as part of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). Completed by James Brooks in 1940, it depicts the history of man's involvement with flight.