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Completed in 1962, the building is one of a very few state-sponsored buildings designed by Wright. Government buildings always seem to demand your attention to their skyward thrust; Wright's design here eschews that for the long, low and horizontal curve that embraces the ground and melds with the hills to the east.
Market Street is an important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as Junipero Serra Boulevard.
Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the cardinal directions.
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and BART. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate to the side of the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.
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Market Street cuts across the city for three miles (5 km) from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks. It was laid out originally by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year old trained civil engineer who emigrated to Yerba Buena, as the town was then known. The town was renamed San Francisco in 1847 after it was captured by Americans during the Mexican-American War. O'Farrell first repaired the original layout of the settlement around Portsmouth Square and then established Market Street as the widest street in town, 120 feet between property lines. (Van Ness now beats it with 125 feet.) It was described at the time as an arrow aimed straight at "Los Pechos de la Chola" (the Breasts of the Maiden), now called Twin Peaks. Writing in Forgotten Pioneers.
Exploring Historic Downtown La Grande Oregon
A few random pics from our time exploring downtown La Grande in 2022.
La Grande’s award-winning downtown is home to a burgeoning arts scene, a variety of local restaurants, and locally owned retail shops and numerous community and holiday festivals and events.
Thanks to the dedicated revitalization efforts of the La Grande Main Street Program and strong support from the City’s Economic Development and Urban Renewal programs, downtown is continuing to revitalize and ongoing restoration projects like the Liberty Theater continue to help transform and enhance downtown as a vibrant cultural and civic Main Street district.
For more information visit www.lagrandeed.com
Information from Cinema Treasures website ( go there to see a picture of this beauty while it was still open cinematreasures.org/theaters/2650 )
Opened in 1941, the Civic Detroit Theater was an Art Moderne style first-run house, which could seat around 1,455, all on a single floor. It was also known at various times as the Detroit Civic Theatre.
In 1980, it was acquired by Eric and Ervin Steiner, who triplexed the auditorium in 1981.
It closed in 1984, and was subsequently used as a furniture warehouse, though it retains some of its original decoration.
🇫🇷 La conception du bâtiment civique a été élaborée dans l'atelier de l'architecte Crescentino Caselli . Le bâtiment occupe une zone délimitée par la via Roma,*¹)Largo Carlo Felice, via Crispi et via Angioi. Le style artistique et architectural du bâtiment, édifié en Pietra forte,*²) est donné par la refonte de modèles appartenant au style gothique catalan, avec l'ajout de décorations Art Nouveau.
*¹) [ où s'ouvre l'entrée principale,(on y entre sous un porche non visible ici)]
*²)Pietra Forte, (un calcaire léger),
🇬🇧 The civic building was designed by architect Crescentino Caselli. It is in the area bounded by via Roma, Largo Carlo Felice, via Crispi and via Angioi. It is built in Pietra forte and is a reworking of Catalan Gothic style with Art Nouveau decorations.
*¹ ) [Where the main entrance is (you enter through a porch)].
*²Pietra forte is a light limestone.
🇮🇹 L'edificio civico è stato progettato nello studio dell'architetto Crescentino Caselli. L'edificio occupa un'area delimitata da via Roma,*¹)Largo Carlo Felice, via Crispi e via Angioi. Lo stile artistico e architettonico dell'edificio, costruito in pietra forte,*²) è una rielaborazione di modelli appartenenti allo stile gotico catalano, con l'aggiunta di decorazioni in stile liberty.
*¹) [ dove si apre l'ingresso principale (si entra da un portico qui non visibile)].
*²)Pietra Forte, (una pietra calcarea chiara),
🇩🇪 Der Entwurf des bürgerlichen Gebäudes wurde im Atelier des Architekten Crescentino Caselli erarbeitet . Das Gebäude nimmt einen Bereich ein, der von der Via Roma,*¹)Largo Carlo Felice, der Via Crispi und der Via Angioi begrenzt wird. Der künstlerische und architektonische Stil des Gebäudes, das aus Pietra forte,*²) errichtet wurde, ist durch die Neugestaltung von Modellen, die zum katalanischen gotischen Stil gehören, mit der Hinzufügung von Jugendstildekorationen gegeben.
*¹) [ wo sich der Haupteingang öffnet,(man betritt ihn durch einen Vorbau, der hier nicht zu sehen ist)]
*²)Pietra Forte, (ein leichter Kalkstein),
🇪🇸. El edificio cívico fue diseñado en el estudio del arquitecto Crescentino Caselli . El edificio ocupa un área delimitada por via Roma,*¹)Largo Carlo Felice, via Crispi y via Angioi. El estilo artístico y arquitectónico del edificio, construido en Pietra forte,*²) es una reelaboración de modelos pertenecientes al estilo gótico catalán, con la adición de decoraciones Art Nouveau.
*¹) [ donde se abre la entrada principal (se entra por un porche no visible aquí)].
*²)Pietra Forte, (una piedra caliza clara),
Oakland City Hall
Oakland, CA
05-05-22
Too much architecture. Too little time.
I only shot two photos in downtown Oakland on my way to Alameda Island. I'd actually taken a wrong turn and vowed to make an attempt to get back later in the afternoon. Sadly, I couldn't make the time.
So there's lots more opportunity in the Bay area for my camera and me next time out!
Back in downtown Launceston again. This time we're on the corner of St John and Cimitiere Street. We can see the spire of St Andrews Church at the top of the hill, and in front of that is the Town Hall. To the right of the Victorian building (in which the City Council Offices are located) here on the corner is the main city police station. The lines and light and shade made this a very interesting shot to compose.
Had done 86k miles at its last MoT, a healthy 12,000 up on the previous year. Inevitably it's had some failures on corrosion, but its owner seems keen to keep it going.
Built in 1936, this Art Deco-style structure was designed by William C. E. Becker to serve as a botanical conservatory, known variously as the Jewel Box, the St. Louis Floral Conservatory, and the City of St. Louis Floral Display House. The building features a stair-stepped roof with nine sections, glass exterior walls, a stone base, arched trusses inside, a stone vestibule with fluted pilasters and medallions, and a one-story rear stone service wing. Inside, the building houses various plants that do not naturally grow in the St. Louis region, with a fountain in the center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Walthamstow Town Hall was built between 1938-42 in an Art Deco style, to a design by architect Philip Dalton Hepworth. It is now the head office of Waltham Forest Borough Council.
A southbound Metrorail Orange Line train led by Hitachi Metro Rail car no. 351 is seen between Santa Clara and Civic Center stations in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami.
Explore #49 on January 26, 2023.
The Macoupin County Courthouse was designed by the prolific architect Elijah E. Myers (1832-1909) whose work includes three state capitols (Michigan, Texas, and Colorado), along with courthouses and other public buildings in the United States and internationally. The McDonough County Courthouse, featured last fall in my series on Macomb, Illinois, was also designed by Myers.
After serving in the military during the Civil War, Myers settled briefly in Springfield, Illinois, and it was there that he obtained the Macoupin County courthouse commission. Myers must have put every ounce of his architectural knowledge into the Macoupin County design, whose grand size and elaborate ornamentation seems more suited to a state house than a rural courthouse. The Beaux-Arts building was under construction from 1867-70.
Beyond the beauty of this courthouse is an interesting backstory about how this building came to be known as the "Million Dollar Courthouse." The following description is borrowed from the Macoupin County website (macoupincountyil.gov/)
Macoupin County’s “Million Dollar Courthouse” received its nickname because when construction was halted in 1870 – that was halted, not completed – it cost $1.3 million. That would be $23.5 million dollars in today’s money. At the time, it was the biggest instance of overspending in Illinois history.
There were accusations by county residents regarding misappropriations of funds during the construction of the courthouse. One of the commissioners, Judge Loomis was accused of using stone from the courthouse to build a grand hotel, the Loomis House, on the square. Judge Loomis stated he purchased the stone but never produced a bill of sales. Another commissioner, County Clerk George Holliday, was seen leaving town by train in the middle of the night carrying a carpet bag. Public opinion was that the bag was filled with some of the money raised for construction of the courthouse. Holliday was never seen again and it is still a mystery as to where he went.
When the courthouse was opened in 1870, it was the largest courthouse in the country with the possible exception of one in New York City. The doors, staircases, windows sills and sashes are all made of cast iron, making the courthouse the first fireproof building in the country.
It took the citizens of Macoupin County 40 years to pay off the debt. Many lost their homes and farms because of the taxes. There was a two day jubilee to celebrate the burning of the last bond in 1910.
The “Million Dollar Courthouse” is one of few courthouses of its age that is not a museum, white elephant, or has been demolished. It is still a working courthouse which is open for business 5 days a week.
It stands as an awe inspiring example of what men did with their hands and simple tools a century and a half ago. Over the years, the “Million Dollar Courthouse” has become a showplace that attracts tourists, architects and artist from around the world.
The Macoupin County Courthouse is the focal point of the Carlinville Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. At the 2020 census, the population of Carlinville was 5,710. efault