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Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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F225 universal agricultural tractor as of 1962. Includes two cylinder engine, two speed transmission, drive shafts, working steering, lifting arrangement. Can be configured as tipper, front loader with digger or fork. There was also a sowing machine and a mower for it.
It's not pretty looking, but this center-cab switcher that serves the Omni Source Corporation facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is functional. It is a side of railroading that gets little attention.
You delightful little patchwork bird- look how colourful you are. Please stay and play now that I have brought you to life..........I always talk to my creations, don't you?
Listed but still working on pics
Projecting sculptural elements such as these are becoming much more common in modern buildings. They are not random but form part of the solar shading strategy to conserve a building's energy and improve comfort for occupants. Computer programmes which predict the height and path of the sun are used to calculate their optimum shape, size and position. In this way the architectural identity of the building arises out of a legitimate function of its components, which is admirable.
No.4 St Paul's Square, Liverpool
architects : RHWL
completed 2010
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Now in the care of the Minnesota Transportation Museum, Burlington Northern #6008 is an EMD SD7 road switcher locomotive. It was new to the Great Northern Railway in 1952. After BN retired in 1983, 6008 had a second career with Cargill Inc., serving the Litchfield MN elevator for many years before being donated to the Museum in 2017.
The shape of these old Tin Mine buildings is so pleasing. I guess if they were built today they would be a steel frame with some panelling bolted on to the outside and would have a prefabricated metal chimney. These techniques weren't available then, but even so I get the feeling that some effort was put into making them look pleasing. Why doesn't this happen these days? It seems all too often that when we put up a building now the drive for efficiency and cost control far outweigh any consideration for making the thing pleasing to the eye and making it enhance its' surroundings.
I'm sure these mines were pretty horrible to work in but at least these purely industrial buildings enhanced the landscape.
The electric token machine has stood the test of time on Britain's railways, a typically simple but effective Victorian method of safely signalling trains over single lines.
The stroke bell at the side is for the transmission of the relevant bell signals and the token is released by the signaller at one end holding the bell plunger in on the machine in sufficiently long enough for the token to be released at the other end. This is indicated on the dial above.
This is the machine at Midge Hall signal box that controls the section to Rufford. Strange to think that these aluminium ingots will have been the same ones I handled as an 18 year old signalman when I worked my first box at Rufford in 1983.
Tutorial on Instructables: www.instructables.com/id/Functional-LEGO-Nutcrackers/
With a simple pull of the lever, these decorative figures can open and close their jaws like authentic nutcrackers!
Both of these models were built in the recent weeks leading up to Christmas. The design was pretty straightforward, but two major issues were making the faces look good, and finally getting the hats right. In fact, the green nutcracker's crown took the longest to figure out, and was finally made with hinge plates.
As mentioned in the tutorial, although these can in fact function as real nutcrackers, they're somewhat rickety and best suited for holiday decorations.
This old public toilet by the harbor appears to be used mainly by the fisherman who launch their boats nearby, but apparently someone was afraid a foreigner might wander by and not recognize the Japanese character for male, and decided a more universal symbol was also needed, just in case.
canon ae-1 program +
canon fd 50mm f1.8 s.c. +
fujifilm superia 200 (expired - 1 year)
no post processing or cropping, just as scanned.
taken at program(auto) mode.
makinenin fonksiyonlarını test etmek amacıyla hızlıca çektiğim fotoğraflardan biri.
herhangi bir oynama veya kırpma yok, tarayıcıdan ne çıktıysa o.
program(otomatik) modunda çekildi.
As the TIE-Striker is the only ship from the TIE-series with articulated solar panels so far, it was very important to me, to include that function into my MOC.
The access to change the wings position from upward to horizontal position is hidden underneath the pilot cockpit hatch.
By rotating a technic axle, the wings go up and down and will stay in any position you stop the movement.
Off course the wing still can move in its set positino when turning the TIE-Striker around. That function works best when the TIE-Striker rests on its stand, as the wings are quit heavy for the little mechanism to get moved (but it´s still possible without the stand).
All of the technic is hidden inside the tiny space between the pilot and bombardier cockpit.
The technic beam to lift the wings up and down is located right under the wings to maintain the cylindrical design of the cockpit pod.
It was a real hard chanllange to get the wings move to in the right angles and more than that to include all of the technic nearly invisible inside the pod.
I hope you like it!
Pages from a vintage dictation book - machine quilted with fabric / ripped paper bag and twine wrapped over glazed acrylic canvas.
(7" x 9")
These chairs weren't part of an exhibit; they were scattered all over the courtyard and are actual seating. Every chair has a designer behind it, though. Even when everyone's too distracted by the gigantic steel Serra sculpture in front of them to notice.
Since they're just, y'know, seating, these weren't labelled or any such thing, but I believe that they are Bertoia side chairs, by Harry Bertoia, designed in 1952. The chairs are made of welded steel rods and have a powder-coat finish.
If they are not Bertoias, they are very good imitations of them. However, since this is MoMA, I'm inclined to believe that they're the real deal.
170636 passes the bland Portakabin style Stonea signal box on 3rd October 2024 with 1N53 1200 Cambridge to Birmingham New Street.
The original 1883 box was behind where the train is, and was demolished in 1984 - replaced by the monstrosity on the left.
Pole shot.
This is from mid summer (I finished the car 2 days before I left for college). It gives you an idea of what can be done in 1.5 months when you're really committed to something.
Tutorial on Instructables: www.instructables.com/id/Functional-LEGO-Nutcrackers/
With a simple pull of the lever, these decorative figures can open and close their jaws like authentic nutcrackers!
Both of these models were built in the recent weeks leading up to Christmas. The design was pretty straightforward, but two major issues were making the faces look good, and finally getting the hats right. In fact, the green nutcracker's crown took the longest to figure out, and was finally made with hinge plates.
As mentioned in the tutorial, although these can in fact function as real nutcrackers, they're somewhat rickety and best suited for holiday decorations.
New York's subway system is vast, complex, functional and efficient. It can also be bewildering, fascinating, and scary to some.
Tutorial on Instructables: www.instructables.com/id/Functional-LEGO-Nutcrackers/
With a simple pull of the lever, these decorative figures can open and close their jaws like authentic nutcrackers!
Both of these models were built in the recent weeks leading up to Christmas. The design was pretty straightforward, but two major issues were making the faces look good, and finally getting the hats right. In fact, the green nutcracker's crown took the longest to figure out, and was finally made with hinge plates.
As mentioned in the tutorial, although these can in fact function as real nutcrackers, they're somewhat rickety and best suited for holiday decorations.