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The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, is an architecturally and historically significant building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Capitol is at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida.
The Historic Capitol, sometimes called "The Old Capitol," built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built. Having been restored to its 1902-version in 1982, the Historic Capitol is directly behind the new Capitol building. Its restored space includes the Governor's Suite, Supreme Court, House of Representatives and Senate chambers, rotunda, and halls. Its adapted space contains a museum exhibiting the state's political history, the Florida Historic Capitol Museum, which is managed by the Florida Legislature. On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed the Historic Capitol Building (Restoration) on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
The New Tower houses executive and legislative offices and the chambers of the Florida Legislature (consisting of the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives).
The buildings are universally, though informally, known as the Old Capitol and the New Capitol; the former is sometimes called the Historic Capitol, or also, confusingly, the Florida State Capitol. The latter was its official name prior to the construction of the New Capitol in 1977, and was so called by the National Park Service even after the New Capitol was operating. Its legal name today, however, is the Florida Historic Capitol Museum. The New Capitol, as a whole, does not have a legal name. When it was planned, the Capitol Complex (which is a legal name) was going to consist of the House and Senate chambers, and the twenty-two-story office building.
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The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, is an architecturally and historically significant building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Capitol is at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida.
The Historic Capitol, sometimes called "The Old Capitol," built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built. Having been restored to its 1902-version in 1982, the Historic Capitol is directly behind the new Capitol building. Its restored space includes the Governor's Suite, Supreme Court, House of Representatives and Senate chambers, rotunda, and halls. Its adapted space contains a museum exhibiting the state's political history, the Florida Historic Capitol Museum, which is managed by the Florida Legislature. On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed the Historic Capitol Building (Restoration) on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
The New Tower houses executive and legislative offices and the chambers of the Florida Legislature (consisting of the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives).
The buildings are universally, though informally, known as the Old Capitol and the New Capitol; the former is sometimes called the Historic Capitol, or also, confusingly, the Florida State Capitol. The latter was its official name prior to the construction of the New Capitol in 1977, and was so called by the National Park Service even after the New Capitol was operating. Its legal name today, however, is the Florida Historic Capitol Museum. The New Capitol, as a whole, does not have a legal name. When it was planned, the Capitol Complex (which is a legal name) was going to consist of the House and Senate chambers, and the twenty-two-story office building.
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Old Provincial Museum built in (1892-1893) now Employment Centre located on Ductworth Street in the City of St. John's on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
The Old Provincial Museum is a large Classical Revival brick and sandstone building located at 285 Duckworth Street in downtown St. John’s, NL. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
The Old Provincial Museum was designated a municipal heritage structure by the City of St. John’s because it has aesthetic, historic and cultural values.
The Old Provincial Museum has aesthetic value because it is architecturally unique in St. John’s. Built in classical revival style, the front façade of the building bears a strong resemblance to the Roman triumphal arch. Two large brick end towers flank the central sandstone arch and frieze, and each tower is topped with a copper roof dome. Each end tower has a series of stone banding, with two bands near the top, one at the middle and one at the bottom. The towers are punctuated by a single window in each and they are decorated with a stone sill and a single stone keystone above each. More remarkably, the sandstone frieze that graces the front of the building features important icons of Newfoundland’s identity and history. Manufactured in England in 1907 the stone components are 8.5m by 2.1m, and occupy pride of place over the lintel of the main doorway. Above the arch and frieze are three side by side windows and above them is a balustrade. The whole effect is a balanced and symmetrical appearance. The main door has been modernized with glass and metal, but it encompasses the entire stone arch opening with a large half circle window at the top. The archway has a keystone and it features stone supports that span the opening: one horizontal and two vertical.
The Provincial Museum is historically valuable because of its age, having been constructed in 1907 – the same year that the colony of Newfoundland was conferred dominion status. The front facade features a frieze depicting icons of Newfoundland. The central section features the Royal Coat of Arms, sculpted figures and mottos taken from the Grand Seal of Newfoundland. The scene depicts Mercury, God of Trade and Merchandise, presenting to Britannia (representing Britain) a kneeling fisherman offering a catch of newly harvested fish. Britannia also carries a shield embossed with an image of the British flag and a trident. Mercury, in keeping with his role as messenger of the gods and protector of trade and merchants, carries a caduceus, a wand entwined with serpents, capped with wings. This symbolizes commerce, travel and communication. The mottos are highly significant, “Haec tibi dona fero” (I bring you these gifts), symbolizes the wealth of the fishery resource Newfoundland provided for the British Empire at that time. “Terrae Novae” (for or of Newfoundland) indicates the museum’s role of keeping important items of Newfoundland heritage for the benefit of Newfoundlanders. Scenes showing other aspects of Newfoundland’s resource wealth are featured on either side of the central section. To the left is a section devoted to the importance to the lumber industry, while on the right is shown a mining scene.
It is also historically valuable because it was once the provincial museum. The museum opened in 1911, under the directorship of James Howley – Newfoundland’s second director of the Geological Survey. Howley died on January 1, 1918, and the museum went without a director for some time. The Museum appears to have closed in the late 1920s, as a reopening was announced for May 1928. The Museum was closed to the public in October 1930 due to significant leaks in the roof. The Commission of Government years were the darkest in the Museum’s long history, as it was totally shut down for many years and its collections dispersed. In 1946, responsibility for the Museum was transferred to the Department of Home Affairs. The Public Libraries Board moved to the lower floors of the Museum building and the top floor served as exhibit space. In 1955, “An Act respecting the Preservation of Historic Objects” assured the Museum’s provincial status and it reopened in 1957. In 1971, the entire building was made available for exhibits. In 1976 the Museum closed for major reconstruction – reopening in 1979. In 2005, the provincial museum was moved to The Rooms.
Source: Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Built in 1928-1929, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was designed by Shreve and Lamb to serve as the headquarters of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and was the tallest building in North Carolina when it was completed. The building served as a precedent for the firm's most famous structure, the Empire State Building, which was completed in New York City two years later. The 21-story building stands 314 feet (96 meters) tall, and features ten-story podiums to the north and east, a limestone-clad exterior with dark-painted metal spandrel panels, three-over-three double-hung metal-frame windows, setbacks at the top of the tower, decorative pilasters and carved sculptural reliefs on the spandrels, retail shopfronts at the base with Art Deco metal trim surrounds, and a recessed two-story entrance bay with brass doors and a transom featuring a decorative metal Art Deco screen. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. In 2014-2016, the building was rehabilitated for adaptive reuse as the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel, along with an apartment complex in the upper floors known as The Residences @ the R.J. Reynolds Building.
This is one of a row of buildings in the Lower Town in Vieux Quebec. It is hardly the oldest building in the vicinity, some of which were built in the 17th Century.
Built by EMD in April of 1980 as GP40-2 Western Pacific #3552, UP #9987 continues making money for it's current owner.
....at Swindon Works she entered service in 1928 allocated to Tyseley in Birmingham. By the end of the Second World War she had moved to the westcountry where she would remain until withdrawn in October 1960 and dispatched to Woodman's scrapyard in Barry. She was sold to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway twenty six years later and after a protracted restoration she returned to steam in 2003.
Location:- Colesloggett Halt, Bodmin
Date:- Monday 29th December 2025
Built in 1861-2 to a design by G.F. Bodley, the interior is quite plain, giving the stained-glass windows greater impact. The first full commission for the William Morris & Co brotherhood, there are contributions from Morris himself, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb. At the east end is a rounded apse.
Built for the ABS builder challenge Season 2 Finale. with the Flat Silver Goblet as the seed part. It's shaping up to be quite a show, go check it out!
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Built by William Lockyer, its style influenced by Second Empire design, the Parish Hall is a two-storey hip-roofed building with attached tower. Constructed between 1898 and 1905, it is one of the best preserved examples of a rural parish hall utilizing ornate design elements. The building's most remarkable feature is the tower on the front facade. It stands two full storeys and is topped by a decorative cupola. The hipped roof and symmetrical lines on the exterior facade give a sense of orderliness to the structure.
The rich colours of damp brickwork and a family of refuse sacks patiently awaiting a day out on the dustcart.
One I forgot to post ages ago.
LR3507
Well not quite ;-)
The light was pretty dramatic that day - dark clouds on this side and blue skies on the other side. In the end, the good weather won that day...
The sand in front is the Kyle of Durness, a coastal inlet around 9km long, which almost completely empties during low tide.
This beautiful church was incorporated in 1923. Work was started the same year toward a new edifice and was completed in 1924. The rectory was moved north to parallel the construction, facing the lake.
L. Phillips Clarke, of Harvey and Clarke, was the architect for the new church, as he was later for the new parish hall in 1929 and for the new rectory and Sunday School rooms built later. Wilcox Bros. Inc., the contractor, built the church and also did repair work after it suffered hurricane damage in 1928.
The marble and mosaic work was done by craftsmen from Italy, who brought much of the material with them. Louis S. Clarke (whose father, C. J. Clarke, had donated the community building in which the original church group met, and whose son was the architect for the present building) made the chandeliers for the church by hand, together with the chains by which they hang, all of which he forged himself. The marble altar and the original Skinner organ were made possible by generous donations.
On February 24, 1924, the first service was held in the new church. The old church building was then used as a parish hall until it was destroyed in the hurricane of September 1928.
Some features that identify it as the original church building are the arch detail over the entrance, the screen doors, and one of the small front windows.
In May 1929 work was started on the first two units of a new parish hall. The cornerstone was laid on July 14th and work was completed in September. A choir room, kitchen quarters, and a new rectory were added in 1939. Funding for and work on the Sunday school rooms which frame the current courtyard commenced in 1948.
The collapse of the land boom in 1926, the killer hurricane in 1928, and the stock market crash of 1929 brought development to a halt in the region. Holy Trinity, holding a large debt for the new building, endured a very difficult struggle and at one point foreclosure was threatened. However, in 1938 as the depression waned, the debt was restructured and disaster was averted.
The formal consecration of the church was held on April 29, 1945, after the mortgage was retired. The event was hailed in the press as "the high point in the history of the Episcopal congregation in West Palm Beach." The consecration services were conducted by Bishop John D. Wing of the Diocese of South Florida, before a congregation that packed the building. The Rev. William S. Turner was rector at that time.
Memorials and gifts throughout the years, too numerous to detail in this limited space, have enhanced the beauty of the church. A large Skinner organ was added to the original organ in 1939, and other additions were subsequently made. The stained glass windows were installed over a period spanning sixty years, with the first window, the large rose window over the altar, being installed in 1924. The most ambitious window addition program occurred in the 1950s with the Rev. James Stirling as Rector. The most recently installed windows, in the south wall of the Baptistry, were installed in 1984.
Having originally been started with the help of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Holy Trinity has in turn through the years helped start five other Episcopal churches in the area: St. Andrews Church, Lake Worth, St. Georges, Riviera Beach, St. Marks, Palm Beach Gardens, The Church of the Holy Spirit, West Palm Beach, and Grace Episcopal Church, West Palm Beach.
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I spent the better part of a day in Saguaro National Park's Tucson Mountain District visiting as many sites constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps as I could. While the idea was to photograph architectural rather than landscape forms, inevitably the two sometimes met.
Here's one of those instances. In the lower-center is the original restroom building in the Ez-Kim-In-Zim picnic area. The CCC built it in the 1930s, decades before the area became part of Saguaro National Monument (it was in the recently-created Tucson Mountain Park at the time) and it's probably older than most (if not all) of the saguaros seen here. These restrooms are now closed (they'd be hard to reach if you were in immediate need) but nearby picnic tables and shelters are still in use.
Built in 1799, Hawa Mahal (also known as the Palace of Winds) is essentially a high screen wall built so the women of the royal household could observe street festivals without being seen from the outside. Constructed of red and pink sandstone, it was designed in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. Its unique five-storey exterior is similar to the honeycomb of a beehive with 953 small windows called jharokhas decorated with intricate latticework. The lattice also allows cool air from the Venturi effect through the intricate pattern, air conditioning the whole area during the high temperatures of summer. This shot was pretty challenging to pull off as I had to work very low in order to get the angle I wanted, and even though I got there early, I had to wait a while for the soft morning light to illuminate the entire façade.
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Inscription on the nearby historical marker for this bridge:
This bridge over Doe River was built early in 1882 at a cost to the county of $3000 for the bridge and $300 for the approaches. The site was chosen by J.J. McCorkle, Wiley Christian and H.M. Rentfro. The committee were Thomas E. Matson, Engineer, W.M. Folsom, J.C. Folson, J.C. Smith, Dr. James M. Cameron and J.M. Simmerly. Dr. E.E. Hunter was contractor and George Lindamood supervisor.
And, information included in the paperwork submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for inclusion of the Elizabethton Historic District stated:
At the intersection of S Riverside Drive and Hattie Avenue, runs into the Covered Bridge, a white clapboard structure built in 1882 and spanning 134 feet across the Doe River. The bridge, which has recently been restored, is wide enough to accommodate one car and a walkway. The river bank immediately surrounding the Covered Bridge is grassland with some picnic areas.
Image was taken during my trek to photograph all 95 county courthouses across my home state of Tennessee...now revisiting in order that the courthouses were photographed!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Built between 1856 and 1865, this opulent Italianate-style house with Greek Revival elements was constructed by prominent local Irish-born contractor Patrick O'Donnell (1806-1882). Starting in 1907, the house was the home of Josephine Pinckney (1895-1957), whom lived here until 1937. The house was bought by the Preservation Society of Charleston in 1987, with the intention of converting it into a museum and their offices, a plan which was ultimately dropped due to opposition from neighbors. The house has since undergone a thorough, period-correct restoration.
built everything, well photographically at least. Great place with excellent cafe and visitors centre. This place is another reserved world of natural wonders nestled in amongst our modern pressures of life and living that often overlooks wildlife and the chance to be calmer and closer to land and water and to those that never left the cycle of seasonal lifestyle.
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RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve
Built in 1641, the oldest remaining profane building except for the defense tower Kärnan. The building is named after the merchant and councilor Jacob Hansen who had it built. The upper floor protrudes, as this creates a stronger floor. One of the listed buildings (Swedish: byggnadsnminne) in Helsingborg city.
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Hansens_hus (website in Swedish)
Originally built for Canadian passenger service as CN 6512 in January 1955, the F9 now known as KCS 1 became VIA 6512 when Via Rail was spun off from CN in 1977. KCS purchased the F Unit in 1995 (along with its sisters that became KCS 2 & KCS 3) and had it rebuilt at Mid-America Car in Kansas City for business train service. Originally painted in a black paint scheme (matching the passenger cars), KCS repainted the F Units into their striking, current scheme in 2007 after the introduction of the Retrobelle paint scheme on freight locomotives.
KCS 1 was originally named "Meridian", though it was renamed "Shreveport" in 2001 (KCS 2 had been "Shreveport", but they swapped names). KCS 1 was given its new name, "Michael R Haverty", in 2019 to honor the former KCS CEO who helped shape the railroad into the multinational company that defined its last 20 years of operation (and KCS 2 was renamed back to "Shreveport"). Haverty was a big part of KCS's acquisition of the Mexican railroad concession that led to KCSM, the acquisition of the Gateway Western for access to St Louis, and in the partnership that led to the Meridian Speedway. He also brought back the Southern Belle paint scheme for KCS's locomotive fleet in 2007.
Here KCS 1 sits with the 2024 Holiday Express in Port Arthur, the Gulf Coast Port that Arthur Stillwell founded as the end of his original dream for what became Kansas City Southern. Although some of the KCS passenger cars have been repainted into CP Tuscan Red, many railcars and the F Units have maintained their KCS paint. It seems for the time being that they'll keep their sharp paint scheme as they continue to operate business trains on the former KCS system.
CPKC Holiday Express
KCS FP9A #1 "Michael R Haverty"
KCS F9B #3 "Pittsburg"
KCS FP9A #2 "Shreveport"
Port Arthur, TX
December 12th, 2024
The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, Autograph Collection is an historic Mediterranean Revival-style hotel opened in 1925 as the Vinoy Park Hotel. It is located in St. Petersburg, Florida at 501 Fifth Avenue Northeast, on the bayfront area of downtown, overlooking the Vinoy Yacht Basin. The hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Vinoy Park Hotel was built in 1925 by oil tycoon Aymer Vinoy Laughner. Construction began on February 5 and took 10 months to complete, with a grand opening on December 31. It was a seasonal hotel, open from around December to March. Rates were $20.00 a night, the highest in the area at that time. Celebrities ranging from Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge and James Stewart are known to have stayed there.
With the onset of World War II, the hotel closed on July 3, 1942, and was taken over by the U.S. Army for use as a training school. The hotel reopened in December 1944. It was then sold in 1945 to Charles Alberding for $700,000. It continued to prosper for the next couple of decades but fell out of favor and into decline and disrepair by the end of the 1960s. In 1974, the Vinoy Park closed and most of its contents were sold at auction. On September 11, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The hotel sat vacant until 1990, when it was bought by the Vinoy Development Corporation, which renovated it at a cost of $93 million. The hotel reopened in 1992 as the Stouffer Vinoy Resort. Stouffer Hotels was bought by Renaissance Hotels the following year, and the hotel became the Renaissance Stouffer Vinoy Resort, and then in 1996 the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.
In 2005, the Vinoy earned AAA Four-Diamond status.
On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed it on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
In August 2018, the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club was sold by RLJ Lodging Trust to SCG Hospitality, owned by Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ owner Bryan Glazer. The sale included a golf club and 74-slip marina as well as the 362-room hotel. The amount of the sale was reported to be $188.5 million. The hotel left the Renaissance brand of Marriott and joined the Autograph Collection brand as The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, Autograph Collection in April 2023, at the conclusion of major renovations.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinoy_Park_Hotel
www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/tpapk-the-vinoy-resort-and-...
www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/St-Pete-s-Vinoy...
www.hospitalitynet.org/announcement/41009389.html
stpeterising.com/home/2023/1/9/with-renovations-underway-...
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Built for vaudeville in 1926, North Hollywood's El Portal is now home to three live-performance theaters.
The Pritchard House is a historic house in Titusville, Florida, United States. It is located at 424 South Washington Avenue. On January 12, 1990, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The house is owned by the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners and operated by the North Brevard Heritage Foundation.
James Pritchard was born in New York City in 1839. He served in the Confederacy and met his wife Mary Haley Boye in December 1866. After inheriting land from Mary's grandfather, the couple moved to an area near what "became Indian River City but was then known as Pritchard's Landing". After initially growing sugarcane and citrus, Captain Pritchard became involved in the real estate business. In 1888, Pritchard organized the Indian River State bank and served as its president. In 1891, contractor Pleasant J. Hall began building the Pritchard's new home located on Washington Avenue. Captain Pritchard, his wife Mary, his mother-in-law Frances Delespine Boye, and his children Boud and Kate were the original occupants. Captain Pritchard died in 1926 and is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in Titusville, Florida. Boud and his wife, Lola Pauline Smith, known as "Miss Lovie" lived in the house until their deaths. Boud and Miss Lovie's daughter Mary lived in house until 2005, when the house was purchased by Brevard County Board of County Commissioners.
The Pritchard House is a two-story wood-framed Queen Anne style residence located near downtown Titusville. It is surrounded by a white picket fence and is situated between two major thoroughfares. According to the original paperwork submitted to the National Park Service for the inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places:
The main block of the house is gable front with a slope front gable wing on the south elevation. Exterior walls imbricated with wood fishscale shingles. Outstanding features on the main block include decorative ogee shaped bargeboard with incised scrollwork and drop pendants. The side gable contains round arched bargeboard of similar design. A conical tower at the southeast corner complements a canted, two story porch. The porch wraps the east and west elevations and is supported by small Tuscan columns with scroll brackets. The front gabled bay is canted. Three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps and hoods are located on the north and south lateral slopes of the roof and the west ridge. The house rests on a brick pier foundation. A rear porch addition does not significantly affect the integrity of the structure. In the late nineteenth century, prominent citizens built Queen Anne-style homes along the South Washington Avenue and North Indian River Avenue corridors. The Pritchard House is the last remaining Queen Anne residence on South Washington Avenue.
In 2003, the owner of the home, Mary Pritchard Schuster sent a letter of intent to District 1 County Commissioner Truman Scarborough offering to sell the home to Brevard County. The house was to be restored in its original location and used as a Living History House Museum. No portion of the land could be sold, a member of the Pritchard family must be included in the organization that operates the museum and if the house ever ceases to operate as a house museum, ownership will revert to the Pritchard family. The county purchased the home and property for $250,000. After Brevard County took ownership of the Pritchard House in 2005, restoration began immediately.
Brevard County spent approximately $50,000 fixing the home before leasing it to the North Brevard Heritage Foundation. The North Brevard Heritage Foundation continued to renovate the home and planned to operate it as a museum. The house needed several repairs when Brevard County took possession of it. The foundation needed to be stabilized with concrete footings and hurricane-resistant straps. The porch required a return to historical accuracy. The home's interior needed to be restored as well, including furniture restoration, wallpapering, painting, and flooring.
An archeological dig began in 2005 by the Indian River Anthropological Society. Some treasures that were found included an ink bottle, perfume bottle, square nails, ceramic pieces, and children's marbles.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritchard_House
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Built progressively between the late 1100's and the 1300's, the church's architecture incorporates both Romanesque and Gothic elements.
It's a nationally designated Historic Monument.
Built in East Germany in 1988 just before the fall of the Berlin wall. One of the last of the more 3.5 millions produced from 1957 to 1990.
Bergen 19 May 2023
Built in 2006 by Aker Yards Langsten A/S, Tomrefjord (yard no. 199) on a hull supplied by Aker Tulcea SA as POLAR PEVEK for Polar Pevek Ltd. (Polarus OOO of Russia, managers). Renamed POLAR CIRCLE in 2022 and transferred to Cyprus registry when management transferred to V Ships Offshore Ltd.
Built because of subsidence of the surface.
If natural gas is extracted from a natural gas field the initial pressure in the field will drop over the years. The gas pressure also supports the soil layers above the field. If the pressure drops, the soil pressure increases and this leads to subsidence at the ground level.
Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the Earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea-level.
(Wikipedia)
Wish you a warm weekend (it's freezing here at the moment).
Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, its interior was renovated in the 16th century and features a beautiful coffered ceiling.
Pulpit, XVI.
Kastav is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, built on a 365 m high hill overlooking the Kvarner Gulf in the northern part of the Adriatic coast. It is in close vicinity of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia, and the Opatija Riviera, one of the popular tourist destinations in Croatia.
The history of Kastav dates back to prehistoric times, which is borne out by numerous archaeological finds. A valuable archaeological site is the Illyrian necropolis found in the Mišinci karst valley at the foot of the town. It is where the Iapodes, one of the Illyrian tribes, buried their deceased. Pieces of jewellery, buttons and needle pins were also found.
It is not known for sure how Kastav gained its name. Some claim the name is derived from the Celtic word kast (rock) while others say it is derived from the Latin word castellum (fort, castle).
Valuable monuments preserved to this day witness the medieval liveliness of the Kastav area. Among them are the town's Kaštel, the Municipal Loggia, the Volta (arched doorway), The Parish Church of Saint Jelena Križarica, Lokvina square, the remains of the Crekvina and the Church of the Holy Trinity and a number of ornaments embedded in the nucleus of the town.
Writings in various books witness the town's rich history. Kastav is mentioned in all the important editions that deal with the history of Croatia as well as in those that deal with the history of this part of Europe.
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Built in 1913 for the Pennsylvania Railroad now part of the Allegheny River Trail.
This is a great example of the low light capability of the EOS R.
I walked 100' inside the tunnel to get past the influence and glare of the ambient light and shot this at F/11 for 6 seconds at ISO 400. The image is straight from the Raw file and only with normal LR tweaks.
Built in 1396, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.