Loreto College Ballarat, a Catholic school for girls was established in 1875 by Mother Gonzaga Barry (1834 – 1915) a member of the order of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary whose members are commonly known as the Sisters of Loreto; a courageous woman with a truly visionary approach that saw her create educational opportunities for girls never before considered in the society of that day. The Loreto Sisters arrived in Australia in response to a request by the Bishop of Ballarat, Bishop O'Connell. The group of ten sisters from Ireland, led by Mother Gonzaga Barry, set up a convent in Ballarat, Victoria and their first girls school, known as Mary's Mount, which today is known as Loreto College.

The Loreto Chapel, or Children’s Chapel as it is known, was built between 1898 and 1902. The architect was William Tappin and the builder George Lorimer. It is built in an English Gothic style with French influences. The stone from which it is constructed is Barrabool Hills sandstone taken from a quarry near Geelong. It also features white stone detailing from Oamaru in New Zealand. Building was interrupted through lack of funds, but the project was finally completed with a large bequest from the German Countess Elizabeth Wolff-Metternich, who had arrived at Ballarat unannounced in 1898, was captivated by the post Gold Rush city and decided to teach German to the Loreto students. A direct descendent of St Elizabeth of Hungary, Countess Elizabeth later found that she loved the peace and simplicity of the Mary's Mount cloister, and informed Mother Gonzaga that she wished to be accepted as a novice. The Mother Superior urged the young woman to return to Germany to discuss her future with her family prior to making a decision. Sadly, Countess Elizabeth was never to return to Ballarat: tragedy struck the RMS India, in the Straits of Messina en route Europe, when Countess Elizabeth died suddenly in April 1899, possibly from cholera, as she was nursing sick passengers on board the ship during its journey. When her will was read, it was found that Countess Elizabeth had left a generous 16,000 pounds to the astonished Mother Gonzaga to `be used as she thought fit'. Funds were once again available to finish the Children's Chapel, but there was to be another, seemingly impenetrable, obstacle: Germany had instituted a law forbidding money to be sent out of the country, so the funds remained frozen in Germany indefinitely. However, Countess Elizabeth's relatives contacted their distant relative, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany (eldest grandson of England's Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) to petition that the funds be released for the Australian convent. It was only through the direct intervention of the Kaiser that the law was waived in this particular case. The Children’s Chapel was officially opened in December 1902.

The inside of the Children’s Chapel is decorated in soft pastel colours with artwork and statuary donated to the Sisters of Loreto by families in Ballarat and back in Ireland. The Rose Window over the Organ Gallery depicts Saint Cecilia the patron saint of music, surrounded by symbols of the four Evangelists, Matthew Mark Luke and John. The windows over the alter depict the instruments of the Passion of Christ. The marble alter features the Nativity scene as was requested by the girls attending Loreto at the time.

Located on Ballarat’s Doveton Street, the former Lutheran Church was built in 1876 to the grand designs of local Ballarat architect C. D. Figgis and was constructed by Taylor & Ellis.

The church building is architecturally quite striking with a formal composition with elements of a Ruskinian Italian Gothic style. It features with banded brick arches, Lombardic motifs and an attenuated version of a stepped arcaded corbel table leading to the central tower. The tall blind arcading of the tower is similar to the Campanile at Venice. The tower has an arcaded corbel table with trefoil arches, above which is a parapet with quatrefoil openings surmounted by a slate clad pyramidal roof. The lower part of the building consists of more conventional elements. There are two occuli in the gable ends flanking the tower and the banded Gothic openings have nail head brick label moulds. At the base of the tower there are two entrance doors under a Gothic banded arch surrounded by cream brick nail head moulding, and an outer Scotia label mould; these continue down to a low impost height and return horizontally as a string course across the facade. Banded Gothic openings and a patterned string course at low impost height lightens the heaviness of the red brickwork. The side elevation has the same nail head and Scotia string course at impost level rising up as stilted segmental arches over the double lancet windows in each of the five bays. The combination of unusual elements in patterned relief brickwork, and the imposing superimposed Venetian Campanile combine to make this a unique church composition.

Apron, Portugal,early 20th century.Closely woven red wool on a white warp with geometric patterns in loom embroidery, braid waistband and edging. 62 cm long.

Situated on a large block, complete with tennis courts, behind its original low stuccoed brick wall, this large Inter-War Mediterranean style mansion may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.

Built in the suburb of Wendouree in the late 1920s or early 1930s, this villa features classic Inter-War Mediterranean architectural features. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, classical cast iron grillework, formal entrance with Ionic columns, balcony over the entrance and Georgian style fan detailing above the balcony door.

Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very welathy clientele who wantes something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.

This sizable house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and with pretentions of Hollywood glamour, it would have shown considerable wealth.

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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library

Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University

Title: 1888 Republican National Convention Admission Tickets

Political Party: Republican

Election Year: 1888

Date Made: 1888

Measurement: Ticket: 2 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; 6.985 x 12.065 cm

Classification: Ephemera

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I like the building and I hope these trees will never regrow their leaves!

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In downtown Seattle on January 24th, 2019, outside the King County Administration Building (erected 1971) at the southwest corner of James Street and 5th Avenue.

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Located on Ballarat’s Doveton Street, the former Lutheran Church was built in 1876 to the grand designs of local Ballarat architect C. D. Figgis and was constructed by Taylor & Ellis.

The church building is architecturally quite striking with a formal composition with elements of a Ruskinian Italian Gothic style. It features with banded brick arches, Lombardic motifs and an attenuated version of a stepped arcaded corbel table leading to the central tower. The tall blind arcading of the tower is similar to the Campanile at Venice. The tower has an arcaded corbel table with trefoil arches, above which is a parapet with quatrefoil openings surmounted by a slate clad pyramidal roof. The lower part of the building consists of more conventional elements. There are two occuli in the gable ends flanking the tower and the banded Gothic openings have nail head brick label moulds. At the base of the tower there are two entrance doors under a Gothic banded arch surrounded by cream brick nail head moulding, and an outer Scotia label mould; these continue down to a low impost height and return horizontally as a string course across the facade. Banded Gothic openings and a patterned string course at low impost height lightens the heaviness of the red brickwork. The side elevation has the same nail head and Scotia string course at impost level rising up as stilted segmental arches over the double lancet windows in each of the five bays. The combination of unusual elements in patterned relief brickwork, and the imposing superimposed Venetian Campanile combine to make this a unique church composition.

Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library

Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University

Title: Grant "The Patriot And Soldier" Ceramic Mold Element?, ca. 1868

Political Party: Republican

Election Year: 1868

Date Made: ca. 1868

Measurement: Plaque: 7 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.; 18.7325 x 18.0975 cm

Classification: Sculpture

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zc4

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Everything I buy at thrift shops is a bargain, compared to what I would pay for them in a regular retail environment.

Here are some things that live in my kitchen, but I've put them against a black background for better contrast.

Everything echoes my favorite colors: red, green, yellow, cream and white, with black accents.

("ROYALON INC" brand melmac-like covered butter dish; handpainted ceramic rooster with paper foil label stating, "NIKONIKO IMPORT JAPAN"; over-sized decorative glass tumbler with red, green, yellow and white geometric design [may have been a cocktail shaker but I don't have the lid], various kitchen tools with Bakelite or painted wooden handles.)

This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon has been sympathetically renovated to give it a second floor.

Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the wide half timbered barge boards beneath the eaves of the gables are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick to build the villa with. The latticed glass windows featuring blue stained glass diamond panes are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the differing sections of the facade. This is also reflected in the original garden wall surrounding the property.

The upper floor extension has the same half-timbered wall treatment as the original gables and it features rough cast stuccoed brick between the wood. The stained glass windows, whilst old, are from the more decorative Art Nouveau period.

Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans.

Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. A large villa like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family of some means. This villa would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain, even before the extension!

After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.

"Shirley Court" is a stylish Art Deco complex of flats, featuring one dwelling above the other with interconnecting staircases, and they would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Trvancore (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff.

Built in 1939 by Melbourne architect James Wardrop (1891 - 1975), this cottage style block with its roof in a mixture of tiles in different shades, brick walls with picked out sections of red and clinker bricks, stylised chimneys and round balconies follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. "Shirley Court" has a street frontage four times the size of what is seen in the photograph.

Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens.

James Wardrop also designed Alkira House and the United Kingdom Hotel in 1937.

Staircase, University of Illinois

Styles & attitudes ...

Some glittering pieces of trend

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Đông Sơn drums (also called Heger Type I drums) are bronze drums fabricated by the Dong Son culture, in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The drums were produced from about 600 BC or earlier until the third century AD, and are one of the culture's finest examples of metalworking.

The drums, cast in bronze using the lost wax method, are up to a meter in height and weigh up to 100 kg. Dong Son drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats. The latter alludes to the importance of trade to the culture in which they were made, and the drums themselves became objects of trade and heirlooms. More than 200 have been found, across an area from eastern Indonesia to Vietnam and parts of Southern China. (source: wikipedia)

After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.

This stylish Art Deco block of two flats, featuring one dwelling above the other with an interconnecting staircase would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Trvancore (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff.

This cottage style block with its roof in a mixture of tiles in different shades, red brick walls with picked out brown feature bricks in geometric patterns, stylised stepped edgeing beneath the eaves, Streamline Moderne iron balustrade and "Mock Tudor" lamp above the stairs follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war.

Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens.

Standing amid a well maintained garden of exotics and standard roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.

Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is most noticable in the centre bay window.

This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth.

Standing amid a well maintained garden of exotics and standard roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.

Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is most noticable in the centre bay window.

This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.

Styles & attitudes ...

Some glittering pieces of trend

#pfw16 # #paris #glitter #brillant #metaliccolors #strasses #fashion #trend #geometricpatterns #geometry #streetstyleparis #streetstyle #mode #skirts #navystyle #colors #beauties #stylishpeople #

Located on Ballarat’s Doveton Street, the former Lutheran Church was built in 1876 to the grand designs of local Ballarat architect C. D. Figgis and was constructed by Taylor & Ellis.

The church building is architecturally quite striking with a formal composition with elements of a Ruskinian Italian Gothic style. It features with banded brick arches, Lombardic motifs and an attenuated version of a stepped arcaded corbel table leading to the central tower. The tall blind arcading of the tower is similar to the Campanile at Venice. The tower has an arcaded corbel table with trefoil arches, above which is a parapet with quatrefoil openings surmounted by a slate clad pyramidal roof. The lower part of the building consists of more conventional elements. There are two occuli in the gable ends flanking the tower and the banded Gothic openings have nail head brick label moulds. At the base of the tower there are two entrance doors under a Gothic banded arch surrounded by cream brick nail head moulding, and an outer Scotia label mould; these continue down to a low impost height and return horizontally as a string course across the facade. Banded Gothic openings and a patterned string course at low impost height lightens the heaviness of the red brickwork. The side elevation has the same nail head and Scotia string course at impost level rising up as stilted segmental arches over the double lancet windows in each of the five bays. The combination of unusual elements in patterned relief brickwork, and the imposing superimposed Venetian Campanile combine to make this a unique church composition.

Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library

Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00668

Title: The Nunnery [Las Monjas], Inner Façade of West Wing, Uxmal

Photograph date: ca. 1895-ca. 1935

Building Date: ca. 600-ca. 900

Location: North and Central America: Mexico; Uxmal

Materials: gelatin silver print

Image: 7 x 8 7/8 in.; 17.78 x 22.5425 cm

Style: Mayan

Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5ss4

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Built in the late 1920s or early 1930s, "Tay Creggan" is a classic Inter-War Mediterranean villa that may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballart.

"Tay Creggan" has many attributes of the Inter-War Mediterranean architectural movement. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, an arcaded loggia enclosing the portico, Georgian style fan detailing above the windows and a medium pitch roof of Spanish inspired terracotta tiles.

Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very wealthy clientele who wanted something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.

"Tay Creggan" comes from the Scottish which means "house built on a rock". Whilst this villa is certainly not built on a rock, it has been built on a block of land that affords it fine views of nearby Lake Wendouree. Many enterprising Scottish immigrants settled in and around Ballarat, so the name might be a throw back to the owner's heritage.

"Tay Creggan" is sizable villa and would have appealed to the moneyed upper middle classes of Ballarat whose money came from either commercial aspects of Ballarat, or from the wool or farming industries that developed in the area post the Gold Rush boom of the Nineteenth Century.

Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library

Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University

Title: "Gen. Chester A. Arthur" Portrait Collar Box, ca. 1880

Political Party: Republican

Election Year: 1880

Date Made: ca. 1880

Measurement: Collar Box: 4.75 x 4.75 x 3.375 in.; 12.065 x 12.065 x 8.5725 cm

Classification: Decorative Arts

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5z0d

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As the sun sets, shadows stretch from the columns of Minoru Yamasaki's Education Building at Wayne State University.

Hand formed brass ovals have been embellished with a geometric beaded pattern. I then added a faceted picasso bead in the middle for a pop of shine and color.

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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library

Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01472

Title: Prato. Cathedral (Interior)

Photographer: Fratelli Alinari (Italian, 1852-present)

Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1890

Building Date: 1211

Location: Europe: Italy; Prato

Materials: albumen print

Image: 16.6535 x 12.5984 in.; 42.3 x 32 cm

Style: Romanesque

Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5tpj

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What an incredible world! So much beauty to wonder at , both on land, water and in the skies. This was one of the most unusual sunsets I've seen, taken a couple of weeks ago, and pretty much sooc. I haven't uploaded the photos on my camera for some time now. Even longer on my little camera.....it will be a surprise to see what's on there now.

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Grand Courtyard of the British Museum

label: Linda Originals Ltd

"The Oaks" is stylish Art Deco block of flats, painted in beautiful buttercup yellow in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick.

Very contemporary in its design at the time of construction during the 1930s, "The Oaks" follows the uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the Great War (1914 - 1918). It features stylised chimneys, Functionalist windows and speed lines around the balconies.

Built in the 1880s, "Park Lodge" is a very grand asymmetrical Victorian mansion situated in the finest section of the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.

Built of polychromatic bricks, "Park Lodge" has a wonderful verandah and balcony adorned with elegant cast iron lacework. The roof is made of slate tiles with metal capping. The brown and yellow bricks are constructed in a profusion of geometric designs, which even make the wall treatment a great feature. Even the chimney is built of polychromatic bricks. Perhaps its most outstanding features are the distinctive French inspired Second Empire mansard roofed central tower which bears "Park Lodge's" name in a cartouche over the upper floor windows. This feature makes the property stand out for miles around.

Sadly, the original grounds of "Park Lodge" have been lost in the years since it was built, no doubt a victim to the Melbourne property bust of the 1890s. The widening of the road onto which it faces has also encroached upon its boundaries as has the widened railway line. Nevertheless, the current owners have made the most of the space they do have, planting a formal Victorian style garden in keeping with the house's age. It features a range of topiaries and small hedges. The whole garden is enclosed by an ornate wrought iron fence.

Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Built in the most affluent area of Moonee Ponds, this mansion would have suited a large, wealthy Victorian family of some importance and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain. Today it is still mantained as a private residence.

Standing amid a well maintained garden, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, would have been built for a larger sized middle-class family.

Built of red and brown feature bricks, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older late Victorian or Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns.

This style of house would have appealed to the merchant middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the business generated in the burgeoning city by the Nineteenth Century gold rush. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth, yet not been to showy.

The grouping of my rings has the mod look, which I do love and is now rather hot….

Just a bit of info about "The Mod Look"...

The mod look of the mid to late 1960’s was innovative, creative, bold and brash. Sixties fashion belonged to London, England. “The Brits set the tone and the world followed.”

Color played a big role in defining the look. The muted and pastel palette of Fifties fashions gave way to bright, bold color often splayed in geometric patterns.

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The facade of a pretty stylised primrose yellow stuccoed brick Art Deco villa in the north eastern country town of Alexandra.

This villa with its low slung tile roof, primrose yellow stucco work, and windows of geometrically patterned leadlight glass windows were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy. It has a neighbouring sister villa painted in cream with slightly different windows, but the exact same layout.

Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.

Located on Ballarat’s Doveton Street, the former Lutheran Church was built in 1876 to the grand designs of local Ballarat architect C. D. Figgis and was constructed by Taylor & Ellis.

The church building is architecturally quite striking with a formal composition with elements of a Ruskinian Italian Gothic style. It features with banded brick arches, Lombardic motifs and an attenuated version of a stepped arcaded corbel table leading to the central tower. The tall blind arcading of the tower is similar to the Campanile at Venice. The tower has an arcaded corbel table with trefoil arches, above which is a parapet with quatrefoil openings surmounted by a slate clad pyramidal roof. The lower part of the building consists of more conventional elements. There are two occuli in the gable ends flanking the tower and the banded Gothic openings have nail head brick label moulds. At the base of the tower there are two entrance doors under a Gothic banded arch surrounded by cream brick nail head moulding, and an outer Scotia label mould; these continue down to a low impost height and return horizontally as a string course across the facade. Banded Gothic openings and a patterned string course at low impost height lightens the heaviness of the red brickwork. The side elevation has the same nail head and Scotia string course at impost level rising up as stilted segmental arches over the double lancet windows in each of the five bays. The combination of unusual elements in patterned relief brickwork, and the imposing superimposed Venetian Campanile combine to make this a unique church composition.

Situated on a large block, complete with tennis courts, behind its original low stuccoed brick wall, this large Inter-War Mediterranean style mansion may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.

Built in the suburb of Wendouree in the late 1920s or early 1930s, this villa features classic Inter-War Mediterranean architectural features. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, classical cast iron grillework, formal entrance with Ionic columns, balcony over the entrance and Georgian style fan detailing above the balcony door.

Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very welathy clientele who wantes something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.

This sizable house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and with pretentions of Hollywood glamour, it would have shown considerable wealth.

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This pretty stylised clinker brick Art Deco villa with its matching brick wall can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury.

Standing proudly on the corner of an intersection of a busy thoroughfare and a side street, its white wrought iron Art Deco gate encourages you to walk up the garden path hedged by diosmas and exotics to the front door, which has an iron grille to match the gate.

The low slung roof, rounded edging of each wall, large "waterfall windows" of curved glass and geometric pattern on the gate and grille all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Australian Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the late 30s, just before the Second World War.

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This wonderful Art Deco walnut case wireless radio was made by the New Zealand manufacturers, Temple. According to its serial number, it was made in 1935 and is very much typical of a wireless found in most middle-class homes during the 1930s. It has a pyramid case; still a popular shape after “Egyptomania” or “Tutmania” gripped the world after the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Its edges however, are rounded, hinting at the Streamline Moderne style so popular in the mid 1930s. Whilst the fine veneer is a warm walnut, the very Art Deco speaker grille and the two fin details on the front are made of stained blackwood. The manufacturer’s name is picked out in brass on red enamel above the convex glass dial and the lozenge knobs are of mottled chocolate brown Bakelite (an early form of plastic that came into everyday use in the 1920s and 30s). Worked with beautiful glass valves, this radio has to be allowed to warm up before use, but still works beautifully, sending forth a soft, slightly dappled sound that only wireless radios of this era and vintage can do. It can still pick up all AM radio stations as well as shortwave radio from around the world.

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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library

Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00666

Title: The Nunnery [Las Monjas], East Building, Uxmal

Photograph date: ca. 1895-ca. 1935

Building Date: ca. 600-ca. 900

Location: North and Central America: Mexico; Uxmal

Materials: gelatin silver print

Image: 6 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.; 17.4625 x 23.1775 cm

Style: Mayan

Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5ss2

There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.

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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library

Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University

Title: Taylor Portrait Hand Mirror, ca. 1844

Political Party: Whig

Date Made: ca. 1844

Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm

Classification: Decorative Arts

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsj

There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.

This wonderful Art Deco walnut case wireless radio was made by the New Zealand manufacturers, Temple. According to its serial number, it was made in 1935 and is very much typical of a wireless found in most middle-class homes during the 1930s. It has a pyramid case; still a popular shape after “Egyptomania” or “Tutmania” gripped the world after the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Its edges however, are rounded, hinting at the Streamline Moderne style so popular in the mid 1930s. Whilst the fine veneer is a warm walnut, the very Art Deco speaker grille and the two fin details on the front are made of stained blackwood. The manufacturer’s name is picked out in brass on red enamel above the convex glass dial and the lozenge knobs are of mottled chocolate brown Bakelite (an early form of plastic that came into everyday use in the 1920s and 30s). Worked with beautiful glass valves, this radio has to be allowed to warm up before use, but still works beautifully, sending forth a soft, slightly dappled sound that only wireless radios of this era and vintage can do. It can still pick up all AM radio stations as well as shortwave radio from around the world.

Private collection.