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Itmad-ud-Daulah's Tomb is a Mughal mausoleum stands across the River Yamuna from the Taj Mahal. Often described as 'jewel box', sometimes called the 'Baby Taj', the tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah is often regarded as a draft of the Taj Mahal. The mausoleum, in the middle of a charbagh garden, was built of white marble raised on a red sandstone base platform.
The tomb is not a very large structure as Taj Mahal with a height of only 21 m and a dome-roofed octagonal minaret of 12 m each at each corner. It is the inlay work or pietra dura on the walls of mausoleum that makes it extremely attractive. Because of the perfect symmetry of the mausoleum, the back side view is as amazing as the front.
Kay (mathteacher) and I sure had a lot of fun exploring downtown Houston yesterday, a bit of a departure from the rural areas we usually roam!
Spencer Block (1872) — this is the side of the building called Virginia Hall. Part of the French Portage Road Historic District.
oles County Courthouse Charleston IL. Built in1900 in the Romanesque style, Cornelius W. Rapp architect. Replaced the 1835 courthouse.
9 exposures bracketing, merged and tonemapped.
I intentionally left ghosts of people walking around.
Cluster of houses with steeply pitched roofs in this block, between Carl and Parnassus Streets. Houses with the steep roofs were apparently built in 1905 according to real estate website.
This is one of few eighteenth-century Loyalist residences remaining in Ontario. William and Abigail Fairfield were among the first Loyalists to settle this area after the American Revolution. They arrived in 1784 and probably completed this farmhouse by 1793. Its symmetrical style and timber-frame construction evoke the architecture of the family's native New England. Except for its verandahs and french windows, added by 1860, Fairfield House survives much as it was built. It offers rare evidence of building techniques and interior detailing from the Loyalist era. By 1959, when it was donated for public preservation, Fairfield House had been in the family for six generations.
Township of Loyalist (Amherstview), Ontario.
Corfu, Greece.
This 18th century church is not elaborate and was apparently built by a priest for his compatriots who fled Ottoman oppression in mainland Greece and setlled in Corfu. Its English name is Church of Virgin Mary of Foreigners.
Château de Fougères (Kastell Felger), Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne.
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Disneyland Paris daytrip for the 2013 Halloween season.
Sunday, October 2013.
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