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This is Moses Cone and his wife Bertha's home in Blowing Rock, NC. Moses Cone was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and conservationist who manufactured textiles at his facility in Greensboro.
Flat Top Manor was built at the turn of the century in the Victorian Neo-Classical Style. Building materials including the gaslights, telephone and central heating system had to be hauled 20 miles from Lenoir, NC by horse drawn wagons. The house cost $25,000 to build at a time when $200 was the median for a habitable structure. The country estate comprises 23 rooms and 13,000 square feet with leaded glasses windows and dormers and a single lane bowling alley.
Moses Cone did not get to enjoy his country retreat very long. In 1908 he died, 7 years after the home was completed. His wife outlived him by 39 years and upon her death in 1947 the estate was bequeathed to the Moses Cone Hospital who then later turned it over to the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is now a national heritage site and the most visited along the expanse of scenic roadway.
There are 25 miles of carriage roads throughout the grounds, plus hiking trails, 2 man-made lakes and apple orchards. It sits at milepost 294 along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
My co-worker helping me with my tire. He is the one that saw it was flat. This is after he took it off and took me over to the tire store at lunchtime to get it fixed. I am thankful it happened here at work, with people to help me, I know the guys at the tire store because they come in to the gas station I work at, and the tire store is a block away.
I've been out a lot more this year in skinny jeans and ballet flats. An excellent combination, IMHO.
Another re-edit of another bike! this has ended up becoming a bit of a mini set on abandoned bikes!.. Last one for a little while though!
They don't make saddles as comfy as that anymore!!!! ;-)
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Impressive stand of poplars in Autumn beside the old highway at Meadow Flat between Lithgow and Bathurst in the Central Tablelands of NSW.
Interpretation of the flat iron building, NYC, if the Japanese wood block print artist, Hokusai, had ever been able to see it.