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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.
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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.
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
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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
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Designed by local architectural firm Terry and Oakden, the former Wesleyan Church of Ballarat was constructed between 1883 and 1884. Built on the corner of Lydiard and Dana Streets, on the crest of a steep hill, the former Wesleyan Church is architecturally significant as an important and essentially intact example of the work of the prominent firm of architects Terry and Oakden.
The Gothic design of the former Wesleyan Church, which skilfully handles a difficult site, is important as a striking example of polychromatic brickwork. The elongated windows of the former Wesleyan Church, with geometric tracery, are also of significance for their notched brickwork diaper patterns, together with the horizontal wall banding the lozenge motifs.
The buildings are of historical significance as a symbol of faith and identity of the Wesleyan community in Ballarat, which was, at the time of construction, was one of the wealthiest cities in Victoria, indeed Australia, at the time.
The buildings are significant in their ability to indicate the aspirations and values of Wesleyans in the colony in the Nineteenth Century. Whilst Wesleyans typically constructed austere chapels, it is probable that this elaborate church at Ballarat was intended to be a symbol of the faith of Ballarat Wesleyans.
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: McKinley-Hobart Campaign Buttons and Admission Ticket, ca. 1896
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1896
Date Made: ca. 1896
Measurement: Mount: 11 x 8 1/2 in.; 27.94 x 21.59 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/612f
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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/1813.001/5zsk
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Ballarat is a provincial Victorian town established during the Australian Gold Rush. For many years it was an extremly prosperous town which demonstrated its wealth through architecture on a grand scale. As a result, there are buildings and public infrastructure from different decades and even different centuries right alongside one another. Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the city does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
Made of and honey coloured clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this neat Metroland villa would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
What makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its wonderful angular portico which features four white Ionic columns and a very Jazz Age stepped balustrade. Neither strictly Art Deco nor Spanish Mission, this villa is an amalgum of these styles, unique to the interwar period. With a low roofline and simple sash windows without ornamentation, the villa has a cozy and simple style which so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Metroland style, was most popular between the two World Wars, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who built homes in the burgeoning suburbs around old town centres around the world. Comfortable and very English, it would have represented the ability to afford chic modernity rather than the fusy Victorian and Edwardian villas of their forebears.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01047
Title: Durham Cathedral, Interior
Building Date: 1093-1128
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1895
Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Durham
Materials: albumen print
Image: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 29.21 x 24.13 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
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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.
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/1813.001/5zsm
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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.
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.
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: Garfield-Arthur "The Union And The Constitution Forever" Portrait Handkerchief, 1880
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1880
Date Made: 1880
Measurement: Handkerchief: 20 x 21.25 in.; 50.8 x 53.975 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/603n
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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. 1848
Political Party: Whig
Election Year: 1848
Date Made: ca. 1848
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsn
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Made of locally produced red, brown and clinker bricks this substantial Mock Tudor villa in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill, would have been for a larger sized middle-class family.
This house with its high gabled roof line features wonderful brick detailing across its facade. The decorative nogging in the ornamental niche in the chimney breast, geometric designs around the windows and vents and the stepped design beneath the eaves all pay homage to the craftsman who built the villa. Even the chimneys feature ornamental lines around them.
The Mock Tudor or Tudorbethan style, was most popular between the two World Wars throughout Britain and her dominions, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth.
Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind its original fence, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa would have been built in the decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful terracotta tiled roof is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing. Red and brown brick detailing fans out above the arched upper gable windows, highlight the curves in the chimney nook and appear in a thick band around the base of the house. The curving of the chimney is also reflected in the entrance pillar and and unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large diamonds in the upper panes.
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. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the entrance to the house to the right hand side of the building.
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.
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.
"Riawena" is a wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. Its name is taken from the Australian Aboriginal word for "fun" or "sport", which is an unusual choice in the 1930s, when so many people were naming their houses after English or American places.
Standing on the corner of a busy main thoroughfare and a much quieter side street, this well proportioned stand alone villa is extremely large and sprawling, with its original garage next to it behind a high wall. The clean uncluttered lines of the house, the speed lines around the pedement of the rounded portico, feature bricks in geometric patterns and the overall low slung design of the house are very Streamline Moderne in design.
The whole property is surrounded by a low fence with plain pillars and wrought-iron swirls inserts and a gate featuring a geometric Art Deco pattern.
The tree in blossom in this photograph is a prunus; a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. This is an ornamental variety, which burst into blossom almost a month before usual owing to an unusually warm spell of weather just prior to the photograph being taken.
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. 1848
Political Party: Whig
Election Year: 1848
Date Made: ca. 1848
Measurement: Hand mirror (diameter): x 2.625 in.; x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Decorative Arts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zsp
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Yea, pretty plants in a flowerbed at a wall of midcentury modern concrete blocks in terracotta-colored paint. This is a motel.
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In downtown Zanesville, Ohio, on November 28th, 2020, at the Travel Inn at the southeast corner of Market Street and North 6th Street. The motel was built in 1965.
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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.
By the 1930s, stylish Art Deco flats like these, would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Essendon (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff. This block of four flats, featuring two dwellings above the others with an interconnecting staircase would have suited a small family, or perhaps a newly married couple for whom this would have been their first home.
This chic Streamline Moderne style building with its flat roof, white stuccoed brick walls, Functionalist windows, speed lines, rounded feature wall and stepped entrance follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war.
Essendon was established in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens.
Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind its original fence, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa would have been built in the decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful terracotta tiled roof is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing. Red and brown brick detailing fans out above the arched upper gable windows, highlight the curves in the chimney nook and appear in a thick band around the base of the house. The curving of the chimney is also reflected in the entrance pillar and and unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large diamonds in the upper panes.
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. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the entrance to the house to the right hand side of the building.
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.
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This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa is situated in one of the finer areas of the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon. Built on the crest of a hill, it affords splendid views from its bay window, across the inner nothern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne all the way to the Dandenongs on the far east horizon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the wide shingled barge board beneath the eaves of the gable is 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.
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. This is an example of a more traditional floor plan, featuring a central hallway off which the principal rooms were accessed.
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.
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa with its original brick fence may be found in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the choice of red brick to construct the villa with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is the shingling of the bargeboard underneath the gable. What makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its unusual hipped roof, picked out geometric brick patterns and its sloping sides. The leadlight glass windows featuring a geometric pattern are also Arts and Crafts influenced.
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. This house appears to be no exception to the rule as it has a side entry and an enclosed balcony that overlooks the street, which suggest a less traditional layout.
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. Not as large as its neighbours, a villa like this built in one suggests that it was built for an aspiring middle-class family . This villa would have required a live in maid to help her mistress, and probably the assistance of a "daily" woman to do all the harder chores.
Oscar’s Hotel and Café Bar is a beautiful Art Deco, boutique hotel in the heart of the Victorian provincial city of Ballarat. Located at 18 Doveton Street, it is the perfect base when sightseeing around the city, as it is so close to many beautiful and historical Ballarat buildings.
Oscar’s, when it was first built in the 1860s was originally the Criterion Hotel, a popular venue in the gold rush days. However, as the Gold Rush dwindled and was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture in the surrounding area, so the Criterion Hotel changed.
In the 1930s, it was completely refurbished inside. It is this interior with its Streamline Moderne liner style staircase, acid etched frosted glass windows and skyscraper style fireplaces that you see today after a recent restoration.
On a personal note as someone who has stayed there, Oscar’s offers a stylish and comforatable hotel experience at a reasonable price. It also has great food and excellent service.
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: Benjamin Harrison-Reid "The Union And The Constitution Forever" Portrait Handkerchief, 1892
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1892
Date Made: 1892
Measurement: Handkerchief: 20 x 20 in.; 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/603b
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This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa is situated in one of the finer areas of the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Essendon. Built on the crest of a hill, it affords splendid views from its bay windows, across to the Melbourne city skyline.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the shingled barge board beneath the eaves of the gable is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick to build the villa with. The leadlight glass windows featuring geometric patterns 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.
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. This is an example of a more traditional floor plan, featuring a central hallway off which the principal rooms were accessed.
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. Today it serves a nw purpose in life - as a dentist's surgery.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01477
Title: Bitonto Cathedral. Side Entrance
Photographer: Fratelli Alinari (Italian, 1852-present)
Building Date: ca. 1175-ca. 1200
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1883
Location: Europe: Italy; Bitonto
Materials: albumen print
Image: 14.9606 x 11.0236 in.; 38 x 28 cm
Style: Romanesque
Provenance: Gift of Willard Fiske
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5tpq
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"Riawena" is a wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. Its name is taken from the Australian Aboriginal word for "fun" or "sport", which is an unusual choice in the 1930s, when so many people were naming their houses after English or American places.
Standing on the corner of a busy main thoroughfare and a much quieter side street, this well proportioned stand alone villa is extremely large and sprawling, with its original garage next to it behind a high wall. The clean uncluttered lines of the house, the speed lines around the pedement of the rounded portico, feature bricks in geometric patterns and the overall low slung design of the house are very Streamline Moderne in design.
The whole property is surrounded by a low fence with plain pillars and wrought-iron swirls inserts and a gate featuring a geometric Art Deco pattern.
The tree in blossom in this photograph is a prunus; a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. This is an ornamental variety, which burst into blossom almost a month before usual owing to an unusually warm spell of weather just prior to the photograph being taken.
I decided to do some monotone embroidery in a departure from my more usual colorful embroidery. This iPhone 4 cozy is embroidered in ivory cotton on gray wool felt
Christmas mat designed and worked by Ulla Kockum, Stockholm, 1948. Cotton embroidery on a cotton ground. The design of this festive cloth is based on snowflakes. 35.5 cm square.
Peeling blue paint and reflections in glass on a building on Crown Point Road in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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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: Cleveland-Hendricks Portrait Handkerchief
Political Party: Democratic
Election Year: 1888
Date Made: ca. 1884
Measurement: Handkerchief: 18 x 19.5 in.; 45.72 x 49.53 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/603g
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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
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/619p
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Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind an ornate wrought iron fence, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa would have been built in the decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful stepped central gable is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the shingling under the gable and the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing. Unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large diamonds in the upper panes. This villa features a large, rounded vestibule canopy which is overgrown with ornamental creepers, giving the impression that the balcony on the upper floor is floating above the treetops.
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. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the main entrance to the house to the right hand side of the building.
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.