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Built in the 1920s this old stone building with its Funtionalist Moderne windows and ornamental Mock Tudor gables used to be a restaurant.
Located in the Victorian country town of Korumburra, the former restaurant has long since closed and where once ladies sat taking tea at intimately grouped tables there now lies the burnt out remains of the interior, which is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Sadly, all the stylish Functionalist Moderne windows have had their panes smashed, but the frames, rusty and still held in their closed position as they were left, give an idea of how the restaurant must once have looked. The building features a typically picturesque high gabled roof line and ornamental fretwork on the boards beneath the eaves to give it that Tudorbethan style, so popular across Britain and her dominions. The whole building was once painted white and the struts on the fretwork picked out in black to give it the Olde English look that would have made this a delightful place to be.
In spite of its dereliction, there is still beauty to be found in this building. Not only is the stylish skeleton still standing proud, but in the light that fills the building's interior through the broken skeletal panes of the windows and clusters of brightly coloured nasturtiums (a remnant of the former cottage garden about the restaurant) that still spring up from amongst the grass.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.
Built in 1885-1887 and designed by the New York-based architecture firm of Carrère and Hastings, this ostentatious Spanish Colonial Revival-style luxury resort hotel was built by Henry Flagler to attract wealthy tourists to the warm winters of Florida, and was one of the first buildings in the world to have an electrical system throughout, utilizing DC generators provided by Thomas Edison. Built on the site of a salt marsh and orange grove owned by Andrew Anderson, Jr., owner of nearby Markland House, site work began in 1885, and the building was completed in 1887. The building’s ornate interior featured fittings by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with furnishings provided by Pottier & Stymus of New York City, murals by George W. Maynard, and the design of the guest rooms being carried out by Bernard Maybeck. With the success of the Ponce De Leon and Hotel Alcazar, Flagler was encouraged to continue his Florida East Coast Railway endeavor, constructing a line to West Palm Beach in 1894, extending it to Miami in 1896 and Key West in 1912. The construction of the railroad spurred the massive development of Florida’s east coast, with the success of the Ponce de Leon being the catalyst for its construction. The hotel featured a building at its rear that housed artist studios, which were utilized by many up-and-coming artists of the time, including Martin Johnson Heade, Felix F. de Crano, Reynolds Beal, Arthur Vidal Diehl, Albert Fuller Graves, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Harry L. Hoffman, and Heinrich Pfeiffer. Starting in the 1910s, the hotel began to experience a decline in demand, as resorts and vacation homes in areas with warmer winters further south, including Miami and Palm Beach, began to attract tourists away from St. Augustine. The hotel was closed during World War II, during which it was utilized by the United States Coast Guard as a training center. Despite these setbacks, it was the Hotel Alcazar and Cordova Hotel that closed during the depths of the Great Depression, in 1932, with the Ponce de Leon Hotel remaining open until 1967, when declining business led to its closure. In 1964, during one of its last years of operation as a hotel, a group of students from the nearby all-Black Richard J. Murray Middle School held a sit-in demonstration in the hotel’s dining room, the first sit-in demonstration during the St. Augustine movement. Following the hotel’s closure, in 1968, Flagler College opened in the former hotel, with a major restoration effort being undertaken on the building starting in 1976. Flagler College continues to occupy the building, with guided tours of the interior being offered to tourists starting in 1988. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Built on the crest of a hill in a prominent position overlooking St Kilda and the bay is the grand St Kilda Presbyterian Church. Opened in 1886, the St Kilda Presbyterian church was designed by the architects firm of Wilson and Beswicke, a business founded in 1881 by Ralph Wilson and John Beswicke (1847 - 1925) when they became partners for a short period. The church is constructed of bluestone with freestone dressings and designed in typical Victorian Gothic style. The foundation stone, which may be found on the Alma Road facade, was laid by the Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Barkly on 27 January. When it was built, the St Kilda Presbyterian Church was surrounded by large properties with grand mansions built upon them, so the congregation were largely very affluent and wished for a place of worship that reflected its stature not only in location atop a hill, but in size and grandeur.
The exterior facades of the church on Barkley Street and Alma Road are dominated by a magnificent tower topped by an imposing tower. The location of the church and the height of the tower made the spire a landmark for mariners sailing into Melbourne's port. The tower features corner pinnacles and round spaces for the insertion of a clock, which never took place. Common Victorian Gothic architectural features of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church include complex bar tracery over the windows, wall buttresses which identify structural bays, gabled roof vents, parapeted gables and excellent stone masonry across the entire structure.
The St Kilda Presbyterian Church's interior is cool, spacious and lofty, with high ceilings of tongue and groove boards laid diagonally, and a large apse whose ceiling was once painted with golden star stenciling. The bluestone walls are so thick that the sounds of the busy intersection of Barkley Street and Alma Road barely permeate the church's interior, and it is easy to forget that you are in such a noisy inner Melbourne suburb. The cedar pews of the church are divided by two grand aisles which feature tall cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals. At the rear of the building towards Alma Road there are twin porches and a narthex with a staircase that leads to the rear gallery where the choir sang from. It apparently once housed an organ by William Anderson, but the space today is used as an office and Bible study area. The current impressive Fincham and Hobday organ from 1892 sits in the north-east corner of the church. It cost £1030.00 to acquire and install. The church is flooded with light, even on an overcast day with a powerful thunder storm brewing (as the weather was on my visit). The reason for such light is because of the very large Gothic windows, many of which are filled with quarry glass by Ferguson and Urie featuring geometric tracery with coloured borders. The church also features stained glass windows designed by Ferguson and Urie, British stained glass artist Ernest Richard Suffling, Brooks, Robinson and Company Glass Merchants, Mathieson and Gibson of Melbourne and one by Australian stained glass artist Napier Waller.
I am very grateful to the Reverend Paul Lee for allowing me the opportunity to photograph the interior of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church so extensively.
The architects Wilson and Beswicke were also responsible for the Brighton, Dandenong, Essendon, Hawthorn and Malvern Town Halls and the Brisbane Wesleyan Church on the corner of Albert and Ann Streets. They also designed shops in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Auburn and Fitzroy. They also designed several individual houses, including "Tudor House" in Williamstown, "Tudor Lodge" in Hawthorn and "Rotha" in Hawthorn, the latter of which is where John Beswicke lived.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
Location is the outside of the ‘Chapel of Christ the Light of the World’ on the south west corner of Southwell Minster Notts on a late winters afternoon. The sun is very strong and gives some great contrast.
The plan was to was to capture the massive solidity of the stonework balanced by the deep shadows on the grass and the north transept.
Built in February 1983 as 8881, it was refurbished in March 2002 and renumbered 2381.
TTC 2381 at on route 196A York University on Thursday, October 7th, 2010.
In 1455, the Poznań burgher Maciej Czarny (Matthew Black), with the support of Bishop Andrzej Bniński, handed over the land to the Bernardines. The monks arrived in the city on Christmas Day 1456 and soon built a wooden church. Already in 1470, the construction of a brick church began. The church in the late Gothic style was consecrated in 1473. The temple received the call of the Holy Cross, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew, Franciszek and Bernardine of Siena, and its founder was Bishop Andrzej Bniński. In 1487, the Custody was established here, which involved the extension of the guardian's authority, which henceforth wore the title of custodian for the surrounding monasteries of the congregation.
In 1609 a Renaissance chapel of Our Lady of Loreta was added to the church.
During the Swedish Deluge, in 1657, the church was set on fire by Brandenburg. The most valuable items from the sacristy and many manuscripts and prints from the rich monastery library were plundered. To this day, they are found in the royal libraries in Stockholm and Uppsala.
Reconstruction began already in 1658 under the leadership of Krzysztof Bonadura the Elder, and then Jerzy Catenazzi. The construction was completed in 1668, and then the bishop suffragan, Maciej Kurski, who was also a St. Bernard, again consecrated the church, giving him the call of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The temple was severely damaged during a hurricane in 1725. Renovation took place in 1730-1736. At that time, the present elevation and the characteristic two towers with two-sided helmets designed by Jan Adam Stier from Leszno and a group of figures of Franciscan saints in the façade of Franciszek Domsburger from Wschowa were created. In 1742, the chapel of Our Lady of Loreta was added from the south, replacing the Loreto house erected there in 1663, and the renovation was completed by the addition of new organs in 1750.
The end of the existence of the Bernardine monastery was its dissolution made by the Prussian authorities in 1835, in 1839 the church and monastery were taken over by the parish of Saint. Marcin (the last monk, father Julian Fujarski, he died in 1841), and then in 1843 the Middle School of Saint. Mary Magdalene. From that time on, the team acted as a school church.
During World War II, the Germans changed the temple into opera painting workshops. Then all the equipment was destroyed. The buildings themselves were destroyed in 1945, during the liberation of Poznań, when the Germans placed an anti-tank gun in it, making it a point of resistance.
In 1947 the ruins of the band were taken over by the Minorites from the Bernardine Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, beginning in 1948 with long-lasting reconstruction. It is true that in 1951 the church was so renovated that it was consecrated, giving today's call, however, the reconstruction was completed only in 1972, and the last work dragged on until 1983, when the reconstruction of helmets and the roof was completed. Later, works on the reconstruction of the interior and the monastery premises were also underway. In 1988, the new wing of the monastery was completed, which took the place of the destroyed during the war, and the chapel from St. Anne. In 1974 a parish was established near the church, where the Church of the Transfiguration in Poznań is also located.
In the meantime, in 1965, the Provincial Chapter decided to put in the monastery a central library of old prints and manuscripts. It was for her that the southern wing of the monastery was added. Since 1991, the monastery and the temple are the seat of the Franciscan province - Saint. Francis of Assisi.
It is a massive, three-nave hall structure on a rectangular plan, with an elongated, lower presbytery which closes a straight wall. From the south adjoins the preserved chapel of Our Lady of Loreta from the eighteenth century in which there is a Renaissance Loretan house originally located in the nave, and from the north of the monastery buildings. From the outside, attention is drawn to the rich, baroque facade with two towers, which are crowned with magnificent helmets, 29 m tall, designed by Jan Adam Stiera.
Between the pilasters and cornices there are niches with figures of Franciscan saints from around 1730, sculpted by Franciszek Domsburger. They present:
in the lower part: Saint. Jan Kapistrana (in the middle) and Saint. Bernardine from Siena, Saint. Franciszek Solano, Saint. James of Marches and Saint. Peter of Alcantara.
in the middle part: Saint. Bonaventure and Saint. Ludwika from Toulouse
in the upper floor of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and on her sides St. Francis of Assisi and Saint. Antoni Padewski.
Inside, enter the porch, covered with a vaulted ceiling, from where you enter the nave on the rather high stairs up to the nave, and down to the chapel of the Holy Cross and the crypt. The unusual, high position of the floor results from the desire to avoid flooding during Warta's frequent floods. In the porch there is a window, which is a remnant of the original Baroque portal from the 17th century, transformed into a window after 1823. There is a stained glass window from the early twentieth century depicting Saint. Piotr from Alkantra was moved here in 1948 from the church in Panewniki (today Katowice). In the porch, there is also a plaque commemorating Fr. Leona Skórnicki (1891-1965), rector of the church and prefect of the gymnasium of Maria Magdalena.
The interior of the church is covered with a barrel vault with lunettes, and between arcaded pillars there are arcaded passages. The main altar was built after 1950. In its center, there is a copy of Rubens' God's Wrath authored by Józef Pade from 1950. On its sides, sculptures from 1778-1779 by Augustine Schöps, depicting Saint. John the Evangelist and Saint. Józef with Baby Jesus. In the finial of the altar, God the Father.
In front of the altar, also by Schöps, sculptures depicting Saint. Bonaventure, Saint. Bernardine from Siena, Saint. Augustine and Saint. Ambrose.
In the presbytery there are also stalls from 1950-1960, reconstructed according to archival photographs. A passion group from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries on the rainbow beam. At the first, counting from the presbytery, the pillars on the left are the pulpit crowned with the figure of Christ and on the left a sarcophagus of Mary and above it the scene of the Assumption. Both neo-Baroque equipment elements were created in 1954. Next to the pulpit there is a stylized rococo font.
Side altars were made in 1988-1989 according to the design of Henryk Marcinkowski. In the left in the central part there is a painting of Saint. Józef with Child, and in the finial image of Saint. Anna, Lose with little Maria. On the sides of the sculpture of Saint. Franciszka and Saint. Paschal. In the right altar, the middle is taken by Saint. Antoni Padewski, another painting in the finial presents Saint. John Duns. In the side parts, the sculptures show St. John of Dukla and Bl. Władysława from Gielniowa. All paintings in the side altars were painted by Danuta Waberska, and sculptures were made by Andrzej Biernacki. On the pillars there are 12 figures of apostles standing on the consoles from the side of the nave. Only Saint survived the war. Piotr and Saint. Paweł (the remaining 10 figures of the apostles are reconstructions).
The chapel of the Divine Mother of Loreto closes the early-baroque trellis from 1650. Inside, a contemporary figure of Our Lady of Loretto made by Franciszek Masorz from Rybnik.
The nave from the west closes the empora. with the pillars supporting it, Saint. John Kapistrana and Saint. Francis of Assisi. In the Empire, the organ prospectus from the 19th century was maintained in the neo-baroque style, which came here from one of the post-evangelic churches.
In the chapel of St. The cross, under the floor, is a late-baroque crucifix from the mid-18th century, which was moved here from the Reformed monastery in Wieleń.
In front of the monastery, a small statue of St. Francis of Assisi and the cracked bell of Saint. Franciszka and Saint. Jan Kapistran was cast in 1730 by Poznań Ludwisarzy, hung on one of the towers in 1733 and dropped in 1945.
Future beneficiaries of the Songinohairkhan district hospital being built under the Fourth Health Sector Development Project.
The Fourth and Fifth Health Sector Development Project will upgrade hospital services in Ulaanbaatar, improve human resource development, and strengthen the country's drug safety regime.
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Built by Alexander Stephens and Sons, Glasgow, in 1928, the SS 'Viceroy of India’ was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). The ship operated as a British Royal Mail Ship on the Tilbury–Bombay route. The accommodation on board was regarded as luxurious by the standards of the time. The liner was perfect for the leisure cruise market, particularly with the unusual addition of an indoor swimming pool. In 1940 the Ministry of War Transport requisitioned SS 'Viceroy of India’ as a troop ship. The ship sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1942 by German submarine ‘U-407’.
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Looking along Rupert Street, Bristol, Sunday 25th August 1974. The Crown & Dove public house, built as a hotel, had closed the previous Tuesday and was now being bricked up. The first three properties from the corner survive, but the rest was demolished ...I have no exact date, but certainly by April 1981. The corner property has had a number of uses since. As a bus driver based at the neighbouring bus station I was an occassional customer of the fruiterer who set up shop here in the late 70s. Next door down Wicks' was one of those slightly shady "surgical" shops ...a "back street" enterprise persisting from the days before Rupert Street became a major thoroughfare. Blake's in St Nicholas Street was another, on the periphery of the prewar shopping centre and lingering on into modern times.
LÉ Róisín (P51) built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon, entered service with the Irish Naval Service in September 1999 and is based at the Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour Headquarters and Dockyard.
The ship was designed by STX Canada Marine (formerly Kvaerner Masa Marine) and has an all-steel hull based on the Mauritian Vigilant patrol vessel launched in 1995, but without the helicopter deck and hangar facilities. The high level of automation incorporated into the ship's systems allows the ship to be operated with just 47 crew including eight officers. The crew is provided with comfortable accommodation. The vessel is designed for winter North Atlantic operations.
The ship is armed with an OTO Melara 76 mm gun dual purpose gun installed on the bow gun deck. The gun fires 6 kg shells and is capable of firing up to 85 rounds per minute to a range of over 15 km. There are also two 12.7 mm machine guns and two 20mm Rheinmetall Rh202 cannon for anti-aircraft defence.
The main gun is controlled by an Ultra Electronics Command and Control Systems, Radamec 1500 optronic director with a daylight TV camera, thermal imaging camera and eyesafe laser rangefinder. System 1500 functions in automatic or manual mode. The system provides fire control for surface engagement with spotting corrections in both line and range and has an effective secondary self-defence anti-air capability. System 1500 can detect a small patrol boat at ranges in excess of 12 km, night or day. The ship's Kelvin Hughes surface search radar, operating at E, F and I bands, is installed high on the main mast over the bridge. The Kelvin Hughes navigation radar operates at I-band.
Built in 1902 the Police Station has changed hands several times over the years between the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Parks Police. At the moment it is with the Metropolitan Police. It used to house a section house which meant Police Constables lived there but not in rooms, they lived in cubicles. Apparently there was no place like it during the summer, everybody who lived there wanted to be there. Unfortunately one day a senior officer visited and was appalled that officers were living in essentially Victorian conditions and promptly closed the section house down much to the occupants displeasure. They were moved to section houses where there were actually rooms.
We visited the new Cermak-McCormick Place station being built by the Chicago Department of Transportation on Monday, December 8, 2014 to take a look at the progress. Much of the canopy superstructure is built, platform concrete laid, and the station buildings are coming together, as you'll see in this sneak preview! The station will have elevators at each end of the platform, as well as stairs that lead to stationhouses that provide access from both sides of Cermak Road and from 23rd.
Located at Cermak/Wabash, the station will be served by CTA Green Line trains, which will provide easy access between McCormick Place and the surrounding neighborhood and Chicago's Loop, the West Loop, South Side, West Side and, at the west end of the line, Chicago's neighboring communities of Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park.
Learn more about this project at transitchicago.com/cermakmccormickplace
Built: 1869
Architect: Alfred B. Mullett
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The oldest federal building in the Pacific Northwest
The Warehouse Cafe anchors the end of the strip in a hulking cement warehouse built in 1886. The Port Costa Post Office looks as if it belongs in 1886 and shares the main street-facing portion of the building.
The Warehouse Cafe holds a cabinet of curiosities, ready to be explored, mason jar of beer in hand. A massive stuffed polar bear towers over drinkers from his plexiglass case, a stuffed headless seal at his feet. Giant crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, draped in red and white striped circus fabric. A wood and glass theater box office sits in the middle of the space. The restaurant offers burgers and hot dogs from a counter that looks like it was once held a smorgasbord.
Founded in 1879 Port Costa is a tiny town on the shores of the Carquinez Strait that was home to the world's largest train-transporting ferry during California's wheat hey-dey in the 1880s. It has a colorful past and was known for attracting stevedores, railroad workers, fishermen and farmers to the rowdy saloons, restaurants and hotels that once lined the waterfront. In 1930, the Benicia Bridge opened and the town's famous train ferry was instantly rendered obsolete. Around that same time, fire and an invasive worm destroyed the waterfront buildings, and finally the railroad closed down its Port Costa hub in 1959.
Thanks to a fairy godmother in the form of Coors beer truck driver Bill Rich who bought the town for $20,000, a steady resurgence began, spurred on by the town's resilient spirit. The latest wave of revitalization is being carried out by Earl Flewellen, Samuel Spurrier and some local residents and shopkeepers who have spruced up the town's famous hotel and restaurant and brought this quirky, rural haven of 190 people back into the limelight.
The Burlington Hotel is the oldest continuously running hotel in the Delta region, and business is booming again after her most recent facelift. Built in 1883, The Burlington is still the crown jewel of Port Costa with 19 "rustic, eclectic and elegant" rooms, all lovingly restored by Earl, Samuel and inspired local residents. Velvet wallpaper, creaky stairs, train whistles zooming past, and period magazines on the night stands all offer visitors a glimpse into the life of old California. Each room is named after a lady - Ethyl, Milly, Hazel - which sparked the great was-it-or wasn't-it-a-bordello debate.
Port Costa’s history is traced back to 1879, when the town was founded. It was a major grain port for merchant sailing ships, with warehouses, saloons and hotels on waterfront wharves reaching halfway to Crockett. From this deep water port, two of the largest train ferries in the world, the Solano and Contra Costa, steamed to Benicia and back. At the peak of the grain season, the town was home to 3000 inhabitants, most of them sailors, stevedores and railroaders.
Visiting Port Costa today is to be in touch with its past. Windjammers no longer anchor off the shore, the roundhouse and wharves are gone, but vintage buildings in the small commercial district remain, and homes of an earlier time line the main street. The town’s population now is about 250, with two restaurants, one hotel, several shops and a post office. The historic Port Costa School was closed in 1968, but it is being restored and revitalized as a community center by a volunteer group, the Port Costa Conservation Society. One of the regular fund raisers supporting the community center project is the Port Costa Talent Show, a highly popular entertainment attraction.
Port Costa is surrounded by park land . The East Bay Regional Park District currently maintains 1,305 acres of rolling hills, bluffs and shoreline along the Carquinez Strait from Crockett to Martinez. About a mile west of Port Costa, at Eckley, the Park District has installed a fishing pier and group campground. Hiking trails wind through oak and eucalyptus, with spectacular panoramic views of the water and East Bay hills.
Localisation: Maison Timmins, 55 et 65 Belvedere Place, Westmount. «Quand une maison n'est-elle qu'une maison?
habiter le contemporain_not built for that constitue la seconde phase d’une série de rencontres réunissant, sur une base continue depuis plus d’une année, Devora Neumark, Pierre Corriveau et Louise Lachapelle. Ces rencontres donnent lieu à une conversation créative et à un travail d’atelier explorant les spaces of mindfulness, la dimension relationnelle d’un milieu et notre « responsivité » à celui-ci, ainsi que le caractère « réactif » des lieux aujourd’hui. D’entrée de jeu, les mots cohabiter, collaborer et contemporain dessinent d'intéressantes et troublantes relations dans cette démarche expérientielle cherchant à reconnaître et à comprendre les tensions et les potentialités du vivant dans un milieu.
Dans la continuité de cette démarche performative, habiter le contemporain_not built for that donne lieu à une série de huit interventions in situ de durées variables. Au cours du mois d’avril, l’Atelier de recherche et de création de Corriveau, Neumark et Lachapelle se déplace donc vers un ensemble de lieux singuliers propres au milieu urbain et à l’environnement de Montréal.
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Morrison Culvert
The Morrison Culvert in Warren County, Warren, PA was started in 1859 and completed in Mar. of 1860.
It was built by Struthers, Curtis, and Co. out of Warren, PA for the Sunbury & Erie Railroad.
The engraving on the keystone reads, J.E. Bering P.A. Engineer, Struthers & Co. Contractors, T.J. Hoskinson
Engineer in Charge, John McLaughlin Master Mason, 1860.
The culvert goes over a dirt road and Morrison Run itself. I suspect the reasoning for the elaborate culvert was
that there was a dam and mill at Morrison Run from that time period. I can't imagine them blocking off traffic to
such a vital resource at that time. Evidence of the dam can still be seen approx. 200 yards South West up Morrison
Run.
The Sunbury & Erie Railroad was chartered in 1837 which made it the oldest chartered Railroad in the United
States. It was surveyed the 1st time in 1838, 8 years before the Pennsylvania Railroad, then again in 1839. After
these two surveys it lay dormant till 1852 when a 3rd survey was completed in that year. A couple of reasons that
contributed to its dormancy was due to in part to the Panic of 1837 which lasted intermittently till 1843 and the
untimely death of one of its main financial contributors Nicholas Biddle in 1844.
Its main supporter from the beginning even prior to 1837 was Thomas Struthers an enterprising lawyer in Warren,
PA, which he revived interest in the railroad in 1851. In 1852 new president, secretary, etc were voted in and a
pamphlet circulated. In the fall of that year it was reported that a surveyor was to be in Warren County,
Sheffield, PA for surveying and by 1853 a complete resurvey was completed of the railroad.
Construction began in 1853 of Sunbury & Erie Railroad on the 1st link of 28 miles from Milton to Williamsport, PA
and was in use by Dec.14th, 1854. In Oct. 27, 1855 the construction started for the link between Erie & Warren, PA,
by Struthers, Curtis, and Co., to which incidentally Thomas Struthers was the owner of. The Panic of 1857 brought
construction to standstill except for between Erie & Warren, PA, (Western Division). in Feb. 1858 it was reported
that there was approx. 300 Laborers and 100 Horses & carts scattered over a distance of 30 miles working on the
Western Division end, (Erie to Warren). Also by 1858 Thomas Struthers was a member of the House Of Representatives.
In the spring of 1859 it was reported that 110 miles from Sinnemahoning to Warren and 52 miles from Erie to Warren
were graded and ready for iron and rails. By 12/15/1859 it was reported that the North bound trains were running
for at least for 2 weeks, even though there was Western Division sections of the grade that were partially
ballasted, some with no ballast, and some with no chairs to which the rails were fastened to the ties. By Mar. of
1860 the sections were ballasted. Incidentally it was reported in 1860 that Sunbury & Erie Railroad had transported
some 22,119 barrels of oil, large in part due to the oil strike of Aug 27, 1859 by Col. Edwin L. Drake.
In 1861 the Sunbury & Erie Railroad were in financial difficulties and went to the State of Pennsylvania and the
Pennsylvania Railroad. The name was changed on Mar. 7, 1861 to the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, by the state of
Pennsylvania and on Jan. 6, 1862 the Pennsylvania Railroad executed a lease with Philadelphia Railroad for 999
Years. By Oct. 4 of 1864 the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad was completely opened to traffic. Eventually on May 1st,
1907 the Pennsylvania Railroad had completely acquired and absorbed the P&E RR into it's system becoming eventually
the Penn Central. Currently the grade is used in Warren, PA by Allegheny & Eastern Railroad Company.
Built in: 2003
Manufacturer: Bluebird
Model: Ultra LF 35'
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Seen on layover at the Madison East shopping center transfer point boarding passengers for a route 6 run to downtown Mankato.
Built from the late ’30s into the early ’60s, the Porsche Junior was a diesel-powered light-duty tractor one cylinder 14 HP.
Dr. Porsche that designed the Volkswagen Beetle designed the Porsche diesel Junior concepts were well ahead of their time:
The Porsche diesel engine design with its unique air-cooled feature was just not quite ready for production at that time [1934]. Through numerous tests this design let to a fully developed air-cooled diesel engine with a power range from 14 hp to 55 hp. By the early 1950s Prof. Dr. F. Porsche had designed 4 basic models, 1 cyl., 2 cyl., 3 cyl., and 4 cyl. versions, all have individual and interchangeable cylinders and heads.
Prof. Dr. F. Porsche also had a 4-wheel drive tractor on the drawing board as early as 1946.
"Royal Navy 'County' Class Destroyer "HMS KENT" in the Portsmouth Navy Yards in July 1989.
Name: HMS Kent Ordered: 6 February 1957 Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast Laid down: 1 March 1960 Launched: 27 September 1961 Commissioned: 15 August 1963 Decommissioned: 1980 Struck: 1993 Identification: Pennant number: D12 Fate: Sold for scrap in 1998 Class & type: County-class destroyer Beam: 53 ft (16 m) Propulsion: COSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts Aircraft carried: 1 × Lynx or Wessex helicopter
Camera: Olympus AZ-4 Zoom 35mm SLR
These are pics of the new Raspberry Pi case design I'm releasing. It's released under a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license, so feel free to download the designs and make your own!
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Quite a large number of nests already built. A few renovations and they are ready for new families
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Greenethorpe. The village was built in 1908 to house share farmers contracted to work 640 acre blocks on Iandra castle estate. Two style of houses are clear- those for share farmers and those for labourers. The Anglican Church and the first Methodist churches were built in 1910 with the current Methodist in 1928 and the Catholic in 1933. The original railway siding of 1887 called Iandra was changed to Greenethorpe in 1908. The Greenethorpe School was established in 1903 and the Post Office started in 1908. The town survives with 120 residents and the Shamrock Hotel, the local hall, a state school (23 students), Post Office and general store/café in the old 1935 bank building. From 1991 the rail service to Grenfell terminated at Greenethorpe but it has closed. The town alive it began house rental scheme with weekly rental was set at $1 for disused houses
Iandra Castle. George and Elizabeth Greene were settlers with a difference when they purchased their 32,000 acre property in 1878. They built their first homestead named Mount Oriel House in 1880. Greene was a NSW politician and a man with ideas. By the time he died in 1911 his Mount Oriel estate had over 20,000 acres sown in crop. His obituary said he came to a landscape of bush and transformed it into a granary. His estate used 700 horses and employed over 600 people plus various chaffcutters, thrashers etc and the woolshed sheared 30,000 sheep. He came to NSW in 1847 with his parents and spent most of his life on pastoral properties before he purchased Iandra. He dreamed of a medieval feudal system to grow vast areas of crop with little labour. He was regarded as the most important wheat farmer in Australia along with William Farrer who developed his rust resistant wheat type. Greene claims to have introduced the concept of share farming to Australia. He provided the land and took half of the value of the crop but the share farmer bought the seed, fertiliser and provided the labour to sow and reap the crop. But did he? Share cropping was common in the American south after the Civil War and Elizabeth Onlsow (nee MacArthur of Camden Park NSW) introduced share farming on their dairy property in 1887. Greene established his village with houses for the fifty sharefarmers contracted to work his lands. He started with one share farmer in 1891 and gradually expanded the system. His estate manager, named Leonard l’Anson came from Waterloo in South Australia and members of the Freebairn family from Alma in SA also moved to Iandra to be share farmers. George Greene wanted a medieval castle like a medieval lord. Iandra castle was built in 1908 with 57 rooms, castellations and towers but the construction was decidedly modern with reinforced concrete walls. The style was slightly Gothic but the interior was very Edwardian with wood panelling and Art Nouveau stained glass panels etc. The external concrete was rendered to appear like stone. It cost around £63,000 to build. The property included stables, a manager’s residence, outbuildings, blacksmith shop, sheds etc. Near the house was a chapel built in 1886 and a cemetery. When George Greene died in 1911 he was buried there. The estate was partially broken up in 1914 and most share farmers were able to buy their 640 acre blocks. I’Anson continued as manager for Elizabeth Greene until her death in 1927. He was then able to buy 2,500 acres and the castle. Later Iandra castle was used as the Methodist Boys Home from 1954 to 1974. The Methodist Boys Farm School was for 15 to 18 year old first time offenders. They were taught farming skills. The Methodist Church sold the centre in 1974.
Various styles of Castrol GTX Motor Oil 5 Quart jugs over the years.
The present bottle for 2019 (right) came out around late 2016 or early 2017. Many of the other oil brands bottles took on the similar shape and handle location. Carrying two full bottles through the store puts a real strain on the arms, fingers and your wrist as the bottle tends to lean forward as you carry it. Half way through the store I had to commandeer an abandoned shopping cart to continue to the checkout lanes. Carrying the older bottles by the side handle never caused this kind of strain. They hung straight when carried..
The new bottles height does not clear the upper shelf in my metal storage cabinet, where the older jugs fit just fine. The shelves are tack weld in place. The redesigned cap is difficult to break loose as the small teeth to grasp on the cap are farther apart and there are less of them for the fingers to grip on. The single handle makes it difficult to pour. You have to hold the bottom of the jug with your other hand. This is a poorly executed jug in my opinion. I pray the next bottle design is much better.
The 2005 (center) era jug's top was redesigned to have a small air passage (see note on picture) from the cap into the top handle region to allow more air flow into the bottle as you poured the oil out. The air passage eliminated oil choke and that glug-glug sound. The upward angle of the upper handle design gave you more thumb control when holding the bottle while pouring.
The 1999 (left) era jug I liked the best. I like the label design on this bottle, as well. This 5 Quart bottle design came out in the early 90's, replacing the 4 Quart (1 gallon) bottle. The 1 gallon bottle was discontinued when the 5 Quart debuted. It was the first bottle designed to incorporate a double handle that allowed for easy controlled pouring. Easy to remove cap and a see thru oil level window on the side edge of the bottle. The design lasted well over 10 years.
I still have about three of these 1990's era bottles in the basement and I transfer oil from the current bottle design into the older bottles. The waste oil is put into the new jug for recycling.
My son and I built this exclusively from my favorite classic space growing up. (6950 Mobile Rocket Transport)
Built in the 17th century and suppported by the Safavid rulers, Vank is the centre for the Armenian Church in Esfahan
The John Muir National Historic Site is located in Martinez, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It preserves the Italianate Victorian mansion where the naturalist and writer John Muir lived, as well as a nearby 325 acres (132 ha) tract of native oak woodlands and grasslands historically owned by the Muir family. The main site is on the edge of town, in the shadow of State Route 4, also known as the "John Muir Parkway".
John Muir’s home was among the grandest of its time, and costing $20,000 to build, an extravagant amount in its day. An article in the Martinez Gazette, written while the house was being constructed, said “with but one or two exceptions, it will be the finest and most complete private residence in the county.”
The house, completed in 1882, was built for Dr. John and Louisiana Strentzel, Muir’s parents-in-law. The Strentzels gave their original house to John and his bride Louie as a wedding gift. When Dr. Strentzel died in 1890, the Muirs moved into this house.
The seventeen-room home is in the Italianate style of late Victorian architecture, and is constructed mostly of redwood. The architects were Wolfe and Son of San Francisco. The home incorporates key features of the Italianate style, including: a rectangular, symmetrical shape, wide eaves with brackets and cornices, a porch with balustrades, a square cupola and high, double-paned windows with hood moldings.
The interior of the 10,000 square-foot house with 12-foot-high ceilings has retained many of its original features, including the Douglas fir floor and black walnut staircase banister. Note the crack in the transom over the front door, which occurred during the Port Chicago explosion of World War II. Phone service was installed in 1884 by Dr. Strentzel, and the house was one of the first in the area to have it (the phone in the downstairs hallway is not original).
The house suffered some damage during the 1906 earthquake, including two of the Italian marble fireplaces. Muir replaced the east parlor’s damaged fireplace with a large, Mission style brick one. He described it in a letter to a friend, “In particular I've built a big fireplace, almost suitable for mountaineers, into which I roll a jolly pair of logs two feet in diameter and pile a half dozen smaller ones between and back of them making fires that flame and roar and radiate sunny heat like those we built on the frosty Coyote Meadows above the canyon of the Kern.” (January 7, 1907)
Furnishings in the home are from the period, but did not belong to the Muirs or Strentzels. An exception is John Muir’s original desk in his “scribble den,” where he penned most of his published works, including his books—writings that paved the way to preserving our nation’s most beautiful natural lands, or “wild places.”
Upstairs, the small balcony at the end of the hall is where Muir slept on many clear nights, seeming to prefer having the stars over his head to a roof.
When John Muir died in 1914 (nine years after his wife), his grown daughters Wanda and Helen sold the house. It remained in the hands of private owners until local citizens (including those who established the John Muir Association) worked for the historic structure’s establishment as a public treasure. The National Park Service bought the house in 1964, along with nine acres of the Muir’s fruit ranch. In 1993, NPS bought an additional 326 acres, known as Mt. Wanda.
Next to Alhambra Creek, about a mile from the house, Muir was buried next to his wife on what was once part of the original 2,600-acre ranch.
The grounds of the 9 acre main site contain grapevines and an orchard with many types of fruit trees as well as many mature exotic trees from around the world that were growing at the time Muir lived. Also to be found are exhibits and machinery of ranch life in the late 1800's.
A 'must see' on the same property is the preserved Vincente Martinez Adobe home built in 1849.
While living here, Muir realized many of his greatest accomplishments, co-founding and serving as the first president of the Sierra Club, in the wake of his battle to prevent Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley from being dammed, playing a prominent role in the creation of several national parks, writing hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and several books expounding on the virtues of conservation and the natural world, and laying the foundations for the creation of the National Park Service in 1916.
The park's museum collection includes historic documents and artifacts that relate to the writing, travels, political activities and daily life of John Muir and his family in Martinez. Significant portions of the collections include over 1,000 plant specimens collected by Muir during his many travels, photographs of his travel, correspondence to and from Muir, books from his personal library, and first editions of his published works. Many of Muir's original items were graciously donated by Muir family members.
The collection also includes Victorian era furnishings, clothing, household goods, farm implements, books and textiles that are not unique to Muir or his home; however, these pieces allow us to interpret the day-to-day life on the Martinez fruit ranch. The collections are displayed in the home, carriage house and through exhibitions in the Visitor Center.
The Muir house was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1960.
It became a National Historic Site in 1964, is California Historical Landmark no. 312, and National Historic Landmark, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1988 nearby Mount Wanda Nature Preserve was added to the Historic Site.
Built by me and DarthNick. He and Si-MOCs did an awesome job on the set up. I particularly love the TTC bus.
Built in 1706, this Baroque building was used as a trade office, stock exchange and library in the 18th and as a court and police building in the 19th century. Until 2003, it was a registry office, and a hotel today - a classy option for €75 a night...
Das stilvolle Hotel Börse am Untermarkt in Görlitz hat nur 15 Zimmer, aber kann auf eine wechselvolle Geschichte verweisen. Seit dem 18. Jahrhundert wurde der Barockbau mit dem prunkvollen Quartal schon als Markthaus, Börse, Bibliothek, Gerichtssaal, Polizeistation und Standesamt genutzt.
This is more or less a scratch-built figure, a one-of-a-kind. It is in fact a throrough conversion of a (original!) SEGA 1:6 Rei Ayanami in a swimsuit - a readily painted resin statue.
Since I saw this character in the manga to the Oh, my goddess move, I knew I had to build this figure - she's s strong character, and whoever dares to end the times just because of a rejected love, deserves some kind of (small) monument.
The Rei figure was the perfect base in posture and proportions for what I wanted to achieve - and it has become a great piece!
Lots of putty and sanding work "hides" the swimsuit. The complete new hair and details on the body and feet are made from putty, too (Tamiya 2C putty). The figure's body was painted with two very light and cold blue shades from the rattle can, only little sahding with a brush was added. The black "trim" was all painted by hand.
The dragonfly wings are made of transparent polystyrol, bent in hot water. Finally, they were painted with semi-translucent, night-glow paint.
We are currently emptying out one of the bedrooms in our house, which was built in 1911. Here you can see the built-in wardrobe on the left, the interesting Art-Nouveau-style heat vent in the middle, and the door. The only thing not intact is the original doorknob in the door, and of course, there are several layers of paint. Also, the bottom of the door was shaved off at some point so it could be closed over the wall-to-wall carpet (since removed).
Built in 1974 for Townsend Thoresen used mainly out of Portsmouth to Le Havre / Cherbourg rebuilt after this shot in 1986 with enlarged upper decks, in 1987 all Townsend services were taken over by P&O European Ferries after the Zeebrugge incident, she was renamed Pride of Hampshire, later sold in 2002 to Egypt , scrapped 2010 in India.
Poolbeg Lighthouse in Dublin Bay was built in 1768 and initially operated on candlepower (reputedly the first in the world to do so) but changed to oil in 1786. It was re-designed and re-built into its present form in 1820.
The lighthouse when originally constructed, presented an entirely different appearance from what it does at the present time. It was not so high as the existing structure, it sloped much more rapidly towards the top, and was surmounted by an octagonal lantern with eight heavy glass windows. A stone staircase with an iron balustrade led to the second storey, where an iron gallery surrounded the whole building.
The alteration to the present form was made in the early part of the nineteenth century.
The lighthouse, one of a formation of three, is located on the Great South Wall (South Bull Wall), at the Port of Dublin, which extends from Ringsend nearly four miles out into Dublin Bay. The wall was the world's longest at the time of its building, and remains one of the longest sea-walls in Europe. One of the other two lighthouses is located on the Bull Wall opposite, and the other on a wooden platform mid-channel.
The Poolbeg Lighthouse is painted red. The green lighthouse in Dublin bay is the North Bull lighthouse, a couple of yards off the end of the North Bull Wall, and another lighthouse sits out in the bay itself. Green is for starboard (right) and red is for port (left) - presumably its right and left as you enter Dublin port (travelling from east to west) so the north would be on your right/starboard and is therefore green and the south would be on your left/port and is therefore red.
The lighthouse, automated for many years, is managed by Dublin Port Company, whereas most lighthouses in Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic Of Ireland) are managed by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.