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The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in Berlin is a gallery showing a collection of Neoclassical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork, part of the Berlin National Gallery, which in turn is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is the original building of the National Gallery, whose holdings are now housed in several additional buildings. It is situated on Museum Island, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.
Friedrich August Stüler began working on a design for the building in 1863, based on a sketch by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Two years and two failed plans later, his third proposal was finally accepted. Stüler died before planning was completed and Carl Busse handled the remaining details in 1865. In 1866, by order of the king and his cabinet, the Kommission für den Bau der Nationalgalerie (Commission for the construction of the national gallery) was created. Ground was broken in 1867 under the supervision of Heinrich Strack. In 1872 the structure was completed and interior work began. The opening took place on March 22, 1876 in the presence of the Kaiser.
Because of the building's modern construction using brick and iron, it was widely believed to be fireproof. The exterior and outer staircase were constructed of Triassic sandstone from Nebra. At the opening the collection was still relatively small. Next to Wagener's collection, originally, was a display of cartoons by Peter von Cornelius that had been bequeathed to the Prussian government. The initial objective of the gallery was to collect contemporary, primarily Prussian art, as Berlin did not then have any repository of modern art.
In 1874 Max Jordan became the first director of the National Gallery. In 1896 he was succeeded by Hugo von Tschudi, who acquired Impressionist works, risking conflict with the Kaiser because this ended the collection's focus on German art. The German National Gallery thus became the most important museum for modern French Art at the turn of the century.
Tune: The National - Fireproof
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Head: LeLutka Korina
Hair: tram I0710 hair
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Song: The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
Oh, when the sun beats down
And burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fireproof
Under the boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be
Written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick
Last night's apocalyptic sunset from my place. Lots of bushfires in Tasmania at the moment making a lot of smoke.
A look back in the archives for some cloud fun. It's going to a day waiting for the sun to peek out from between the clouds, and the adders to bask in the warm sun. I've been seeing up to six adders on most of my trips. Fireproof is by the National.
The 1886 Potter Building.The building was named after wealthy landowner Orlando Bronson Potter (and you thought it was Harry Potter).Check out the second link below for a photo of Mr Potter's other building on Astor Place which I also shot. At around 10pm on January 31,1882 two men from a newspaper company called The Observer were working in the Potter building.The building mainly had offices for newspaper companies and printing firms.While they were working,somewhere in there a fire broke out which was caused by flammable liquids.The two men,one an editor for the company and the other his son,managed to escape by using the stairs and exiting the building.Another man,the architect of the building who also had an office there,climbed out a window and inched past The Observer signboard on the fourth floor to an adjacent building and escaped.Two others,dropped from the signboard and were caught by firefighters below.When the fire was finally put out,12 people were found dead and there was $400,000 in damages.This prompted the millionaire Mr Potter to make an announcement two weeks later that he would rebuild and make NYC's "tallest building"and it would be "absolutely fireproof inside as well as outside",he said.The Potter Building would be the first steeled-framed building to be fireproofed with terra cotta daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/05/1886-potter-buildi...</a flic.kr/p/BFGz7c
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It's so hot here that the dahlias are catching fire 😉 Hope the bumblebee is fireproof 🐝🔥
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Originally operated by Balaban & Katz Corp., the Times Theatre is one of two remaining examples of Art Modeme movie theaters in Rockford. Designed by Edward Paul Lewin and A. Eastman, the Times was built in 1938. At its opening that year, the Times boasted of “up to the minute” acoustical treatments and temperature control, as well as 1,000 seats in the theater that were mothproof and fireproof.
The Times Theatre ceased operation as a movie theater around 1980 and operated as a nightclub and restaurant on and off for a few years. The property is currently vacant. The theater is listed as a contributing property in the West Downtown Rockford Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Located in northern Illinois, Rockford is the seat of Winnebago County and is the largest city in Illinois outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Rockford had an estimated population of 145,609 as of 2019, with the Rockford Metropolitan Area population standing at 344,623.
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Edificio Capitol
Madrid's Gran Vía. The building, with fourteen floors, was designed by the architects Luis Martínez-Feduchi Ruiz and Vicente Eced and Eced and built between 1931 and 1933. It is art deco style, uses materials such as marble and granite and the decoration and furniture were provided by of the firm Rolaco-Mac.
But the highlight in its time were the technological advances that it incorporated, such as the use of concrete beams of Vierendel type, the use of fireproof fabrics or the cooling system, the first centralized one in Madrid and which occupied an entire plant, which allowed to receive several awards of architecture and design.
The original project housed 64 apartments, a hotel (the Capitol, now Vincci group), a cafeteria, a bar, a restaurant, a selz water factory and offices and party halls. In its lower floors it has three cinemas for almost 1,300 spectators, the Capitol cinemas. In 2007, directed by the architect Rafael de la Hoz, a total rehabilitation was completed that removed all the advertisements from its facade, retaining only that of Schweppes and a more modern one of the Vodafone mobile phone company on the roof.
In April 2018, it was declared a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC) by the Government of the Community of Madrid, both for its architectural style and for its iconic character on the Gran Vía.
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Conocido también como edificio Carrión, es uno de los edificios más conocidos de la Gran Vía madrileña. El edificio, de catorce plantas, fue proyectado por los arquitectos Luis Martínez-Feduchi Ruiz y Vicente Eced y Eced y construido entre 1931 y 1933. Es de estilo art déco, utiliza materiales como mármol y granito y la decoración y los muebles corrieron a cargo de la firma Rolaco-Mac.
Pero lo más destacado en su época fueron los adelantos tecnológicos que incorporaba, como el uso de vigas de hormigón tipo Vierendel, la utilización de telas ingnífugas o el sistema de refrigeración, el primero centralizado de Madrid y que ocupaba toda una planta, lo que le permitió recibir varios premios de arquitectura y diseño.
El proyecto original albergaba 64 apartamentos, un hotel (el Capitol, en la actualidad del grupo Vincci), una cafetería, un bar, un restaurante, una fábrica de agua de selz y oficinas y salas de fiesta. En sus plantas inferiores dispone de tres salas de cine para casi 1.300 espectadores, los cines Capitol. En 2007, dirigida por el arquitecto Rafael de la Hoz, se terminó una total rehabilitación que eliminó todos los anuncios publicitarios de su fachada, conservándose sólo el de Schweppes y uno más moderno de la compañía de telefonía móvil Vodafone en la azotea.
En abril de 2018 fue declarado Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC) por el Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid, tanto por su estilo arquitectónico como por su carácter icónico en la Gran Vía.
Quillion puts her enchanted armor to the test as the dragon noticed she's wearing one of it's kind on her shoulder. Of course, this is why enchanted dragon armor is a thing - not only is the dragon scale-mail armor nigh impenetrable it's also fireproof.
St. Louis is a city built with bricks. High quantities of locally-sourced rich red clay combined with a desire for sturdy, fireproof structures have made St. Louis "the brick city"; a place with urban fabric woven from kiln-fired red blocks laced with mortar that have supported the residences and industries across its region for the past two centuries. But just as bricks have represented structure and foundation in St. Louis's past, they now reflect how things have fallen in more recent times--particularly on the city's north side--as population and industry have abandoned the region for more optimistic futures someplace else. The historical brick-built building stock is quite literally crumbling as low demand and a lack of love and care make this iconic architectural style too weak to stand or too expensive to maintain. At the corner of Monroe and 2nd along the north riverfront, a pile of bricks that once stood as the eastern flank of a 1890-built warehouse lie scattered across a blank foundation, one of the latest victims as brick facades around the area meet a steady and frequent demise. A more vibrant shade of red, adorning that of the Terminal Railroad Association's hefty SD60I pair, flashes by the forlorn scene on the point of a 201 transfer job from the Terminal's Madison Yard moving cars to BNSF's Lindenwood Yard on the western edge of the city.
The Tampa Bay Hotel was built by railroad magnate Henry B. Plant in 1888. The construction cost over 3 million dollars.[5] It was considered the premier hotel of the eight that Mr. Plant built to anchor his rail line. The hotel itself covers 6 acres (24,000 m2) and is a quarter-mile long. It was equipped with the first elevator ever installed in Florida. The elevator is still working today, making it one of the oldest continually operational elevators in the nation. The 511 rooms and suites were the first in Florida to have electric lights and telephones. Most rooms also included private bathrooms, complete with a full-size tub. The price for a room ranged from $5.00 to $15.00 a night at a time when the average hotel in Tampa charged $1.25 to $2.00. The poured-concrete, steel-reinforced structure of the building was advertised as fireproof. 226
Hotel Europe is a 111 year old, six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property, located at 43 Powell Street in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
The building was commissioned by hotelier Angelo Calori and built by Parr and Fee Architects.
Contractors had to be brought in from Cincinnati, Ohio for the necessary expertise; the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company began this project six years after constructing the first tall concrete building in the world.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All information has been compiled from various online sources and in no way has been verified to be true or accurate.
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100 Years Old. Picturedrome, 286 Kensington, Liverpool 7. 2010 photo.
Opened 26 December 1910
This was built on the site of Lindley's Kensington Brewery which dated from at least the 1840s, and closed about 1905.
(The boundary wall on the right of the building must date from this period).
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In 1909 at the height of the Roller Skating craze, a rink was proposed to be built on the site, and in September it was stated that "The Old Brewery site being laid out as a Roller Rink. Work not yet complete. Application (for approval of plans) withdrawn." The withdrawing of the application tells us that the scheme had been abandoned, and the skating rink never opened. The craze had quickly come and gone.
Instead, on 11 August 1910 a plan was submitted of a "New Cinematograph Hall".
The argument surrounding Liverpool's first purpose-built cinema has to be raised again. It has been stated that the Bedford Hall in Walton opened on Boxing Day, 1908, exactly two years before the Kensington Picturedrome. This is definitely wrong, and I hope to prove that both cinemas opened in December 1910.
(it's since been discovered that J. F. Wood - the original owner - hoped to open it on Boxing Day, 1910.)
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Regarding the Bedford, the Wood family (who were the original owners), Frank Unwin, Derek Whale, and other local historians have all said that it opened in 1910, but the actual date remained hard to prove, although Derek Whale said it was on Boxing Day. (The Kensington certainly opened on Boxing Day [in 1910], and I believe that this is where the confusion over the opening date of the Bedford originates.)
The Cinematograph Act, which came into force on 1 January 1910, dictated, among other things, that the projection equipment should be in a fireproof room, outside the auditorium. This prompted the building of purpose-built cinemas. Nearly all cinemas before 1910 were conversions of existing buildings.
The first purpose-built cinema anywhere near Liverpool was the Southport Picturedrome, on Lord Street. It opened on 9 May 1910 (since demolished). The second didn't open until 17 December 1910, and that was the Widnes Picturedrome (the basic shell survives, but the front has been demolished). Campbell & Fairhurst, the Southport firm of architects designed the above two cinemas, as well as the Kensington, and at least another ten cinemas to be built on Merseyside before the First World War. The Kensington Picturedrome was built by L.Marr & Son.
The plan of the Kensington Picturedrome was submitted on 11 August 1910 and was plan number 29705. The plan of the Bedford was number 29676, and was submitted no earlier than late July 1910.
The Cinematograph Act of 1910 was also responsible for the introduction of Cinematograph Licenses, and premises wanting to show films could not do so without being issued with a license. The licence for the Kensington was granted on 23 December 1910, and the cinema opened, by invitation only, on Saturday, the 24th, and to the public on Monday, the 26th. (There was no Sunday opening for cinemas in those days, not that it would have opened on Christmas Day). Unfortunately the opening of the Bedford was neither advertised, nor reported on in the local press, but the licence was issued on December 24th. With Boxing Day being a favourite time of year for places of public amusement to be opened, it seems very likely that the Bedford did indeed open on that day, but in 1910, certainly not in 1908. If further proof is needed, Kelly's Directory of Liverpool for 1911, published at the end of 1910, states in its entry for Bedford Road: "site for new Picture Theatre", and the Bedford's first Cinematograph Licence wasn't issued until 24 December 1910.
The company formed to operate the Kensington Picturedrome was called The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd, and the Licensee was Rex Dooley. There were seats for 860, and they were all on one level. There were nine exits. The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd lasted until the cinema closed in 1958.
The arrival of the new cinema was the subject of the following article which appeared in the "Liverpool Daily Post & Mercury" dated Monday, 26 December 1910:
"The Picturedrome, Kensington."
"Kensington folks desiring a couple of hours enjoyment of a really first-class "moving-picture" show need not henceforth depart from their own neighbourhood, for the elegant Picturedrome, which has been erected in Kensington near the junction of that thoroughfare with Holt Road, bids fair to become one of the most popular halls devoted to this class of entertainment in Liverpool and district. Structurally the building leaves nothing to be desired, the architects Messrs. Campbell and Fairhurst, of Southport, having succeeded most admirably in designing a really comfortable hall. The appointments are luxurious, the ventilation perfect, and the scheme of decoration most pleasing. The management proposes to show the best class of pictures only, whilst the prices of admission to the three performances to be given at 3, 7 and 9 o'clock will be the moderate prices which obtain elsewhere. An entire change of pictures will be made twice each week - on Mondays and Thursdays. On Saturday last a large number of people attended the hall at the special invitation of the proprietors, and a capital programme was sustained. In addition to a number of excellent story films, several current events were pictured on the screen, these including scenes at the Hulton Colliery after the terrible explosion, and views of the funeral of the brave London police officers who were shot. Solos and duets were given by Miss Wilmot and Mr W.H. Atkinson. The hall will be opened to the public today."
Films were far from being a novelty in the area as the Sun Hall - almost opposite - had shown occasional films as far back as June 1905. On 22 October 1907 "Cinematograph Entertainments (were) sanctioned for 12 months" by the Licensing Committee. This permission was repeated on 20 October 1908 and again on 19 October 1909. (Note that even though Cinematograph Licenses didn't exist before 1910, premises showing films still needed official permission to operate, and a music license to cover the piano or orchestra. The fact that the Bedford doesn't feature in any of the Licensing Records before 1910 is yet further proof that it didn't then exist.) On 25 October 1910, the Sun Hall was due to make an application for a Cinematograph licence, but didn't do so, and as far as can be ascertained films were never again shown there.
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In 1918 a new waiting room was built for the Kensington Picturedrome. This was situated at the left side of the rear of the building, and was demolished in 1988.
In September 1921 the premises were enlarged by building an extension at the rear with a new stage area, (and consequently a new screen). The seating capacity was subsequently increased to 1,100, and the architects in charge of the alterations were the Liverpool firm of Gray & Evans.
Mr Dovenor was a director by March 1922.
By 1929 the Kensington was part of the North Western circuit of cinemas, and had dropped the old-fashioned sounding "Picturedrome" part of its name. It was then called the Kensington Cinema. It remained part of the North Western circuit for the rest of its days.
British Thomson-Houston talkie equipment was installed in April/May 1930 under the supervision of Gray & Evans.
In 1935 the seating capacity was 1,050.
The Kensington closed on 6 December 1958 with (local boy) Frankie Vaughan in "Wonderful Things" plus "Johnny Bravo".
Television was claimed to be the major cause of closures of cinemas in the late 1950s, and, as if to rub salt in the wound, workmen moved into the former cinema in January 1959 to convert it into offices and stores for Stuart & Dorfman, a television rental firm! The foyer was then used for Offices and Rentals, and Hire Purchase accounts. The auditorium was partitioned off to form Maintenance Workshops and a store. 30 Males and 15 Females were to be employed, and the building was renamed (shades of the past) Teledrome. Stuart & Dorfman seem to have left the premises in 1970.
The building remained unused until Seldons took it over about 1977 and converted it into an Amusement Arcade and Bingo Hall. While the work was going on the original prices from 1910 (3d, 6d & 1/-) could be seen - carved in stone - over the entrance.
During the summer of 1980, the building had a £100,000 facelift. It was then called Seldon's Arcadia. A sign reading "The World in Motion" was uncovered above the main arched entrance. This slogan can be seen on an early photograph of the Southport Picturedrome, as well as some other early cinemas, and may well indicate a circuit of early cinemas (it's since been discovered that this was the Weisker Circuit). It is hoped that the sign was left where it was. The area in question was covered over again.
By 1988 a Snooker Club was operating in the building as well as Seldons and that phase lasted until 1995, at least.
About 1997 the cladding which for years (since 1980?) had covered the upper part of the facade was removed, revealing once again the first floor windows. The building was then renamed the Kensington Palace.
Wetherspoons have since converted the building into one of their pubs. *
The facade is one of only about four from the first year of purpose-built cinemas to survive in its original condition in the UK. Two others being the Picture House in Birmingham (now the entrance to the Piccadilly Arcade), and the Duke of Yorks in Brighton, and possibly the Electric Theatre in Portobello Road, London (although it's been said that that's been altered at some stage).
Unfortunately, nothing remains of the interior of the Kensington Picturedrome's auditorium.
Original research by Philip G Mayer.
* Edit: 2021.
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Wetherspoons has left the building.
I still don't believe that over 66,000 pepole have viewd this photo.
Edit: January 2024.
80,000+ 'Views', but more 'faves'.
History
The Saint Paul Hotel in the heart of St. Paul, Minnesota, began whimsically as a passion project of a man named John Summers who let travelers from all over the world stay in his home. His house, eventually known as the Greenman House, became a 60 room hotel built in 1871 but was tragically destroyed by fire in 1878.
Summers wasted no time in enlisting John Baugh, an Eastern hotelier, to construct a more modern, fireproof building called The Windsor Hotel, which became known as one of the finest in St. Paul. Eventually, both men, for various reasons, withdrew their stake and ownership of the hotel and a man by the name of Charles J. Monfort took over as President and Manager until his death in 1904
"St. Paul’s Million-Dollar Hotel" opened with much enthusiasm and ceremony on April 18, 1910. The downtown landmark featured a grand ballroom, fine dining room, roof garden, and guestrooms with scenic views. 194
A first floor window in the Vermont State House. The third State House was built in 1859 with many fireproof materials. The floor has white marble tiles from Danby, Vermont, and black marble from Isle La Motte in Lake Champlain. The black marble is from Chazy Reef the oldest known reef in the world. Visitors search the black tiles for ammonite fossils, dating back 480 million years.
With the California Gold Rush, settlements sprung up rapidly where none existed before. French Corral was one of these. In these hastily constructed camps though, fires were an ongoing problem, often razing settlements to the ground, many more than once.
Banks ended up needing to engage stonemasons to build fireproof buildings to gain the confidence of their customers. This Wells Fargo Express is an excellent example of these fireproof constructions, not just the switch from wood to brick, but also the iron doors and shutters they used. Wells Fargo pretty much had a presence in every mining community in California, with not just banking, but before railroads reached California, freight and express services too.
In many cases, their building remains the only real evidence that a gold rush town even existed. This one would have sat beside hotels, saloons, a hardware store, and a post office, all made from wood or canvas. Now, it stands largely alone, like a farm building rather than part of a town. Appropriately, I took this picture during fire season and the entire sky is a haze from grass fires close by.
Wells Fargo was founded in 1852, and this building was constructed the very next year.
The Varsity Theater opened in 1906 as the first nickelodeon - a movie theater with an admission fee of one nickel - in the Champaign/Urbana area. The building itself dates to about 1880.
The theater went through several metamorphosis' over the 116 years. In the late 1920s, The Varsity made the industry-wide transition to sound films. In 1943, the Varsity Theater was extensively remodeled (and renamed the Rex Theater), as a 330-seat Art Moderne style theater. It featured new projection equipment, new leather seating, air-conditioning and a cream and blue color scheme in the auditorium. The Rex Theater was advertised as “completely fireproof” when it reopened with the Sonia Henie film “Iceland”.
In 1948, the theater received another new name, the Illini Theater. A decade later, the Illini Theater was, along with the Park Theater (now the recently shuttered New Art), acquired by the Art Theatre Guild, which began a policy of art and foreign fare at both theaters.
For a brief period (1963-66), the Illini Theater became the Encore Theater, operating as a revival house. In 1966, the theater returned to its former name, the Illini Theater, and two years later, began screening adult features, along with the New Art Theater (at the time called simply the Art Theater).
The Illini Theater was shuttered in 1983, after nearly fifteen years as an adult theater. Four years later, the Illini Theater was purchased by a church, and it continued to serve in this capacity until 1997, when the church moved out. Since then the building has been renovated and remodeled and for several years operated as a bar, known as the Highdive Club, featuring live music. The Highdive Club closed its doors in 2015, the same year I took this photograph. Today the old theater is part of The Venue CU, an upscale urban wedding and event space that occupies both the former theater and Vriner's next door - which has its own interesting history.
The Vriner's building was constructed in 1890 as a clothing store, but was repurposed as Veiner's Confectionery in 1898. Of the five or six candy shops operating in Champaign at the turn of the century, Vriner's was the longest-lived. The shop's location next to The Varsity theater and near Champaign's railroad station, made it popular with patrons of both. The store also led to an influx of Greek immigrants to Champaign, as Vriner's promised jobs to many of the new immigrants.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Although the Vriner family still makes candy, the confectionery store closed in 1997 and the brand no longer has a permanent storefront. At the time this photo was taken, a country bar occupied the building.
The former Varsity Theater is a contributing property within the Champaign Downtown Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, while the former Vriner's Confectionery is separately listed in the National Register of Historic Places. As previously mentioned, both buildings are now part of The Venue CU.
Located in Champaign County in east central Illinois, the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana are the home of the University of Illinois. The population of the City of Champaign at the 2020 census was 88,302, while Champaign County had a population of 205,865.
Sources:
Cinema Treasures, Illini Theater, Champaign, Illinois; National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, Vriner's Confectionery, Champaign, Illinois and National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Champaign Downtown Commercial District
Over the years I have heard so many times that the Mona Lisa is much smaller than you think, that I had come to assume the painting was not much larger than a large postcard, so the actual size was a pleasant surprise. Our visit was slightly marred by loud klaxons sounding and a recorded voice telling everyone to evacuate the Louvre immediately. However, I reckoned that the room containing this famous picture must be one of the safest, most fireproof places anywhere, so stayed in the crush of people, none of whom paid any attention to the warnings either. Also, the Gallery attendants made no attempt to leave or encourage anyone else to do so, and after a few minutes the noise stopped. Once we’d got this duty call out of the way, we were able to enjoy some of the many other fabulous artworks on display, including several others by da Vinci, every bit as wonderful , but just not as well known as Mona Lisa.
Hotel Europe is a 111 year old, six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property, located at 43 Powell Street in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
The building was commissioned by hotelier Angelo Calori and built by Parr and Fee Architects.
Contractors had to be brought in from Cincinnati, Ohio for the necessary expertise; the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company began this project six years after constructing the first tall concrete building in the world.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All information has been compiled from various online sources and in no way has been verified to be true or accurate.
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Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.
Thank-you for visiting
~Christie by the River
Designed by Wheeling architect Edward Bates Franzheim, the Rogers Hotel opened August 18, 1915. It was promoted as a first-class "fireproof" hotel, boasted 75 rooms. ref: www.ohiocountylibrary.org/wheeling-history/5532
REF: National Register of Historic Places Ohio County WV 2019:
25.44 14th Street
OH-0001-1182
Rogers Hotel
1915
Six-story, five-bay hotel building with dark brick facade with decorative brickwork and stone stringcourses. Wire cornice framing present beneath parapet wall. Bay and multi-pane casement windows at second level. Rubble stone sheathing applied to first-level facade; EIFS-sheathed entry portico with Doric columns centered on street level
This is the Llano county courthouse in Llano, Texas..;) Where else
So, I went to a garage sale over the weekend and found a round oak table with claw feet for 20 bucks. Thinking how hard is it going to be to find chairs.;) I check craigslist for Austin and find this girl who is has a table and 4 chairs for 60 bucks. While I'm talking to her I find out she's a student and moving in with her boy friend..I wish her the best of luck. It was the least I could do. Anyway, I'm thinking they probably need the money so I say"I really only want the chair, I'll pay what you're asking and maybe you can sell the table and make more money. She say, "Who would buy a table"..lol..I said, "Hey, I'm that guy". Can you believe she wouldn't sell it to me because I really didn't want the table?? Here's some facts about the courthouse. Seems like they've had a lot of fires. Must have been a thing in the early days of electricity.
The four courthouses of Llano County[edit]
The present courthouse is Llano County's fourth, one of which was only for temporary purposes.
1859–1880 courthouse[edit]
The original 1859 box-like structure courthouse burned down in 1880, destroying all the county records.[5]
1880–1885 temporary courthouse[edit]
Architect C.S. Jones and builder J. K. Finely erected the $1550 a temporary courthouse in 1880, pending the construction of a permanent structure. Its two rooms contained a fireproof vault, with one room being for county administrative personnel, and the second room for the legal and law enforcement personnel.
1885–1892 courthouse[edit]
A new courthouse was erected in 1885, designed by architect Alfred Giles, who also designed the Brooks County Courthouse, Fredericksburg Memorial Library, Kendall County Courthouse, Live Oak County Courthouse, Presidio County Courthouse, Wilson County Courthouse, as well as courthouses in the counties of Goliad and Kerr The structure mirrored exactly the 1882 Gillespie County courthouse, and was temporarily rented for church services. This structure burned down January 22, 1892.[6] County records were saved. Remains of the building were sold.[7]
1893–present courthouse[edit]
The current two-story courthouse was designed in a Romanesque Revival style by A.O. Watson and Jacob Larmour. Watson also designed the DeWitt County courthouse. The firm of J. A. and G. H. Wilson of Sulphur Springs, Texas, was awarded the contract for a brick building trimmed with granite, at a cost of $47,000.[8]
Construction of the present-day courthouse was completed on August 1, 1893. A foundation of granite supports the marble and granite columns, with a brick and stone exterior. F. Heierman and Bros. of Austin manufactured the interior iron stairway treads. Ornamental newels and balusters are of wood. The tower with colonnades and cupola was placed in the southwest corner, accessible only on the south and west. The roof of each corner pavilion section is pyramidal, with the main section truncated pyramid. A clock was added to the tower at a later date.
H1212 hair by tram
keiona jacket & kris skirt by dernier
bodyembers by Clover
green lipstick by dotty's secret
deja vu pose by loel
All bricks at this time (1837) were fired in a kiln, and frequently the clay had mineral deposits in it. Iron was very commonly found in the clay dug around the NYC area, which at the time came from the NY/NJ corridor around Staten Island, near Woodbridge, NJ. Brick was not yet commonly used in building construction, as most buildings were still wooden. It was not until the great Manhattan fire of 1848 that fire codes were adapted and brick became the standard in fireproof construction.
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Hotel Europe is a 111 year old, six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property, located at 43 Powell Street in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
The building was commissioned by hotelier Angelo Calori and built by Parr and Fee Architects.
Contractors had to be brought in from Cincinnati, Ohio for the necessary expertise; the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company began this project six years after constructing the first tall concrete building in the world.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All information has been compiled from various online sources and in no way has been verified to be true or accurate.
I invite you to view my Night and Twilight album:
www.flickr.com/photos/120552517@N03/albums/72157649684655761
Thank-you for visiting
Happy Clicks,
~Christie by the River
*Best experienced in full screen
The Tower is at the Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership which is right across from the Ford's Theatre.
This 34-foot tower of books about Abraham Lincoln symbolizes that the last word on this great man will never be written.
The books in the tower are made from fireproof bent aluminum; the exhibit designers printed the cover art directly onto the metal book “jackets.” The tower features 205 real titles, most of which are currently in print. The titles repeat throughout the tower, and the tower totals approximately 6,800 books. At three stories high, the tower represents just a fraction of the 15,000 titles written about Lincoln.
In the Pacific Northwest waterfalls are not the only thing that is abundant. There seems to also be a high concentration of abandoned military batteries tucked into the coastlines. We love to explore these, and I find they are perfect places form spinning steel wool. They were designed to be essentially fireproof. They are always poured concrete, with loads of great hallways. They are dark, usually a bit damp, and always aged in a way that works very well with the industrial look of steel wool. This battery is the Battery Fort Stevens on the northwest tip of Oregon. I usually try to do something more interesting with the actual sparks. Here we tried to have them light up the staircase in the back, but its basically just a simply spark circle. In this spin we lost a wad of the wool as it shot forward, creating that brighter trail approaching the camera. This time I was with a lot of my family, introducing them to what its like to spin steel wool. They had a great time seeing how slow the sparks are in person, but how it ends up looking in the image.
Let me know when you are ready to go spinning in Oregon, happy to join you!
Bergen, Norway
One of the main reasons I wanted to visit Bergen was to photograph these houses – Bryggen, a harbour district of Bergen. They are not the easiest of buildings to capture especially from the roadside due to all the table and chairs and bus stops right in front of them, so in my opinion, the other side of the harbour probably produces the better overall image. This one was taken on the only sunny day we had.
The history of the area is very interesting so I make no apologies for lifting the text from the UNESCO World Heritage Convention website… It’s better than anything I could have written!
Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town’s importance as part of the Hanseatic League’s trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the characteristic wooden houses of Bryggen. Its rebuilding has traditionally followed old patterns and methods, thus leaving its main structure preserved, which is a relic of an ancient wooden urban structure once common in Northern Europe. Today, some 62 buildings remain of this former townscape.
Outstanding Universal Value – a brief synthesis
Bryggen is a historic harbour district in Bergen, one of North Europe’s oldest port cities on the west coast of Norway which was established as a centre for trade by the 12th century. In 1350 the Hanseatic League established a “Hanseatic Office” in Bergen. They gradually acquired ownership of Bryggen and controlled the trade in stockfish from Northern Norway through privileges granted by the Crown. The Hanseatic League established a total of four overseas Hanseatic Offices, Bryggen being the only one preserved today.
Bryggen has been damaged by a number of fires through the centuries and has been rebuilt after every fire, closely following the previous property structure and plan as well as building techniques. Bryggen’s appearance today stems from the time after the fire in 1702. The buildings are made of wood in keeping with vernacular building traditions. The original compact medieval urban structure is preserved with its long narrow rows of buildings facing the harbour, separated by narrow wooden passages. Today, some 62 buildings remain of this former townscape and these contain sufficient elements to demonstrate how this colony of bachelor German merchants lived and worked, and illustrate the use of space in the district. It is characterized by the construction of buildings along the narrow passages running parallel to the docks. The urban units are rows of two- to three-storey buildings signified by the medieval name “gård”. They have gabled facades towards the harbour and lie on either one or both sides of the narrow passages that have the functions of a private courtyard. The houses are built in a combination of traditional timber log construction, and galleries with column and beam construction with horizontal wooden panel cladding. The roofs have original brick tiling or sheets, a result of fast repairs after an explosion during World War II. Towards the back of the gård, there are small fireproof warehouses or storerooms (kjellere) built of stone, for protection of special goods and valuables against fire. This repetitive structure was adapted to the living conditions of the Hanseatic trading post. The German merchants took up winter residence in the small individual wooden houses and the storerooms were used as individual or collective warehouses. A true colony, Bryggen enjoyed quasi-extraterritoriality which continued beyond the departure of the Hanseatic merchants until the creation of a Norwegian trading post in 1754, on the impetus of fishermen and ship owners of German origin. Today, Bryggen is a significant part of the historic wooden city of Bergen.
Criterion (iii): Bryggen bears the traces of social organization and illustrates the use of space in a quarter of Hanseatic merchants that dates back to the 14th century. It is a type of northern “fondaco”, unequalled in the world, where the structures have remained within the cityscape and perpetuate the memory of one of the oldest large trading ports of Northern Europe.
Integrity
Only around a quarter of the original buildings that existed in Bryggen remained after demolitions at the turn of the 19th century and several fires in the 1950s; the property is comprised of these remaining buildings. Notwithstanding, the medieval urban structure is maintained and the buildings include all elements necessary to demonstrate how Bryggen functioned: offices and dwellings at the front, warehouses in the midsection and assembly rooms (“Schøtstuer”), kitchen facilities and fireproof stone cellars at the back.
Bryggen can be experienced as an entity within a larger harmonious urban landscape. It is connected more closely to the areas of small wooden dwellings beyond Bryggen and in the medieval city centre than to the larger 20th century buildings in its close proximity. The risk of fire, excessive numbers of visitors as well as global climate changes with more extreme weather and possibly higher sea levels are some of the potential risks Bryggen faces today.
Authenticity
The Hanseatic period at Bryggen ended long ago, but the Hanseatic heritage is documented through buildings, archives and artefacts which are well preserved for posterity. There are also series of architectural surveys of the buildings from 1900 onwards.
The preservation of the buildings commenced on a larger scale in the 1960s and had made major progress by 1979, the year of inscription on the World Heritage List. Some buildings at the back were moved in 1965 to create an open area for fire emergencies, but no further changes have been made to the urban structure since. The solutions and methods chosen have been well documented, and limiting the replacement of original materials has been an objective. Bryggen is built of wood, which is subject to rot, insect attack and ageing. Since 2000, there has been an increased focus on maintaining original methods and building materials in the restoration, with careful consideration given to the choice of material, paint, plugs, nails, etc. and the use of original tools as far as possible.
As the activity at Bryggen decreased after 1900, the buildings became derelict. However, from the 1960s the former trading in stockfish and commodities was gradually replaced by small arts and crafts businesses. An increase in the number of visitors has led to the establishment of restaurants and tourist businesses. This has resulted in inevitable changes in the spirit of the place, particularly along the front facades, whereas the atmosphere of the Hanseatic period can still be sensed in the more secluded area further back.
Protection and management requirements
Bryggen, including its cultural deposits, is listed pursuant to the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Act and is also protected through the Norwegian Planning and Building Act. The adopted protection plan includes an extensive area that functions as a buffer zone. Bryggen is privately owned and the majority of the buildings are owned by the Bryggen Foundation, which was established in 1962 with the objective of preserving Bryggen. The remaining owners have established a separate association to secure their interests. The stakeholders at Bryggen collaborate in different constellations of owners and authorities.
"The Bryggen Project" was established formally in 2000. This is an extensive and long-term project for monitoring, safeguarding and restoring Bryggen, including both archaeological deposits and standing buildings.
Bryggen is managed according to a management plan that is revised regularly. A fire protection system with detection and suppression has been installed and is continually being improved. Climate conditions are a key issue and measures have been taken to prepare for future changes. Possible impacts resulting from tourism are monitored.
The St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel forms the frontispiece of St Pancras railway station in St Pancras, London. The station is one of the main rail termini in London and the final stop for international trains departing to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and other destinations in mainland Europe. It re-opened in 2011, and occupies much of the former Midland Grand Hotel designed by George Gilbert Scott which opened in 1873 and closed in 1935. The hotel is managed by Marriott International.
St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel
The building as a whole including the apartments is known as St Pancras Chambers and between 1935 and the 1980s was used as railway offices.. The upper levels of the original building were redeveloped between 2005 and 2011 as apartments by the Manhattan Loft Corporation. Its clock tower stands at 76 m (249 ft) tall, with more than half its height usable.
Hotels history
In 1865 the Midland Railway Company held a competition for the design of a 150-bed hotel to be constructed next to its railway station, St Pancras, which was still under construction at the time. Eleven designs were submitted, including one by George Gilbert Scott, which, at 300 rooms, was much bigger and more expensive than the original specifications. Despite this, the company liked his plans and construction began.[3] Scott's design was for a hotel with five floors below roof level but in the event it was built with four (which remains the case today) to save on construction costs – although the Midland Railway frequently reproduced Scott's original impression, showing the hotel with its non-existent top floor, in its publicity material. The east wing opened on 5 May 1873,[9] with the Midland Railway appointing Herr Etzensberger (formerly of the Victoria Hotel, Venice) as general manager. The hotel was completed in spring 1876.[10]
Design of the Midland Grand Hotel St Pancras, showing the fifth floor which was not built, c. 1876
The hotel was expensive, with costly fixtures including a grand staircase, rooms with gold leaf walls and a fireplace in every room. It had many innovative features such as hydraulic lifts, concrete floors, revolving doors and fireproof floor constructions, though none of the rooms had bathrooms, as was the convention of the time.
The hotel was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1922 before closing in 1935, by which time its utilities were outdated and too costly to maintain, such as the armies of servants needed to carry chamber pots, tubs, bowls and spittoons.
After closing as a hotel, the building was renamed St Pancras Chambers and used as railway offices, eventually for British Rail.
British Rail had hoped to demolish it, but was thwarted in a high-profile campaign by Jane Hughes Fawcett and her colleagues at the Victorian Society, a historic preservationist organisation founded in part to preserve the Victorian railways and other buildings. Officials dubbed Jane Fawcett the "furious Mrs Fawcett" for her unceasing efforts, and in 1967, the Hotel and the St Pancras station received Grade I listed status.
The building continued its use as rail offices, until the 1980s when it failed fire safety regulations and was shut down. The exterior was restored and made structurally sound at a cost of around £10 million in the 1990s.[
When the second State House burned in 1857 a new building was designed with fireproof materials. The stairs and balustrades are cast iron.
Several weeks ago I took my crystal ball to the park and palace at Ludwigsburg to explore the possibilities of my new toy. It turned out to be quite difficult to use the crystal ball in the park as you always need an even (and preferably fireproof) place for it. This was easier to find on the grounds of the palace itself. In this case I placed the crystal ball on the balustrade of a fountain which is located in the middle of the inner courtyard.
Lima, Ohio
The camera info follies is back on Flickr. I've never owned the camera the EXIF claims > > > > > > > >.
In 1900 six-floor, eight-story fireproof building was completed - Binghamton's first skyscraper.
Besides producing Swamp-Root, the new building was the birthplace of what would eventually become the Press and Sun Bulletin. By all reports, Willis Sharpe Kilmer was not particularly pleased with local press coverage of his affairs. So, in 1903 he started publishing his own newspaper in the Kilmer Building, and the following year constructed the Press Building on Chenango Street to house the operation.
The Lumber Exchange Building was the first skyscraper built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, dating to 1885. It was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Franklin B. Long and Frederick Kees and was billed as one of the first fireproof buildings in the country. It is the oldest high-rise building standing in Minneapolis, and is the oldest building outside of New York City with 12 or more floors.
It's now just an interesting alley in the theater district with some wonderful details and lines.
But Chicago has had its fair share of horrific disasters and this innocent looking alley is the site of one of them.
Back in 1903 the Iroquois Theatre fire claimed 602 lives and is still the nations worst theater fire disaster. And kind of like the Titanic was promoted as unsinkable, the Iroquois was touted as fireproof.
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The Victoria Tower is the tallest tower in the Palace of Westminster. Named after Queen Victoria, it was for many years the tallest and largest stone square tower in the world, with a height of 98.5 metres (325 feet). It is slightly taller than the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as the Clock Tower and popularly known as 'Big Ben') at the north end of the Palace (96.3 metres (316 ft)).
It was designed by Charles Barry in the Perpendicular Gothic style and was completed in 1860. It houses the Parliamentary Archives in archive conditions meeting the BS 5454 standard, on 12 floors.
The Victoria Tower was purpose-built as a "fireproof repository for books and documents", as required by the competition to rebuild the Palace of Westminster after the fire of 16 October 1834, which had destroyed the building and almost all of the records of the House of Commons. The records of the House of Lords survived the conflagration because they were, at the time, stored in the Jewel Tower, which was at a distance from the main building and still stands across the road from the Victoria Tower.
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Shasta courthouse, 1855. When gold was discovered nearby in 1848, the town of Shasta sprang up and became the busy social and commercial center for northern California. Early on it was destroyed by fire twice and rebuilt with brick walls and fireproof shutters. Eventually the gold gave out and by 1888 Shasta was mostly abandoned. A preservation effort began in the 1920s and now it's a State Historic Park. Since July 23 Shasta been surrounded by the huge Carr Fire which has destroyed more than 1,500 structures and burned 167,113 acres, but I believe the park survived. As of today, Aug. 8, the fire is only about half contained and is expected to burn through the rest of the month. Shasta State Historic Park, California, US