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The top floors of the Helmsley Building, I went for a steep angle to keep the massive MetLife building from dominating the frame.
This century old building now serves as a very fine restaurant (buffet style dining) and event facility. There are lovely gardens on the premises, as well as a gift shop in a separate building. Reservations are a very good idea. This place gets quite busy.
Donna and I dined here on May 7th and thoroughly enjoyed the food, service, architecture and gardens. The building was at one time the residence of author/comedian Lewis Grizzard.
Commentary.
Belfast now has many new and established places of interest to visit.
Conference Hall, entertainments and moored ships along the River Lagan, near to the Queen’s Bridge.
The famous Harland and Wolff shipyard and the adjacent
Titanic Museum.
City Centre and District Open-Top Tourist bus rides and, of course Belfast City Hall.
It still seems to be the very heart of the city.
And a fine building it is.
The dome is impressive both inside and out.
The building being neo-Classical style seems permanent, proud and dignified.
It stands in Chichester Street and opposite Donegall Place,
two key shopping thoroughfares.
As one looks west along Chichester Place, the view of Divis Hill reminds us that rural Northern Ireland, with places like Lough Neagh and “The Giants Causeway,” are but a few miles away, awaiting exploration.
Mahoning County Courthouse in Youngstown, Ohio. Front facade facing Market Street in Youngstown, Ohio. Constructed 1908-1910, this classical revival building was designed by Charles F. Owsley, C.H. Owsley and Paul Boucherle.
Milwaukee Road station, 1881-now Brodhead Historical Museum w/nicely restored Fairbanks-Morse switcher & caboose.
Founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, establish King's College, making it Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.
Mont Saint-Michel (English: Mount Saint Michael) is a rocky tidal island in Normandy, roughly one kilometre from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches.
The inhabitants of Mont-Saint-Michel are called the Montois.
Formation ~
In prehistoric times the bay was land, as sea levels rose erosion shaped the coastal landscape over millions of years. Several blocks of granite or granulite emerged in the bay, having resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than the surrounding rocks. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine and Mont Tombe, later called Mont Saint-Michel.
Mont Saint-Michel was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time and being attached to land the other: a tidal island.
However, the insular character of the mount has been compromised by several developments. Over the centuries, the coastal flats have been polderised to create pasture. The south coast of Mont-Saint-Michel has thus become farther to the shore and the mount. The Couesnon River has been canalised, reducing the flow of water and thereby encouraging a silting-up of the bay. In 1879, the land bridge was fortified into a true causeway. This prevented the tide from scouring the silt round the mount. There are currently plans to remove the causeway and replace it with a bridge and a shuttle.
On 16 June 2006, the Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, announced a €150 million project (Projet Mont Saint-Michel) to build a hydraulic dam that will help remove the accumulated silt and make Mont Saint-Michel an island again. It is expected to be completed by 2012.