Historic Districts USA
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This historic house in St. Augustine, Florida, is known for its iconic gated entry. [Flickr Explore #63, June 21, 2021.]
Historic bridge over the river Alzette in the Grund district of the city of Luxembourg, where a craftsmen's quarter developed in the Middle Ages. Robert Schumann, a founding father of the European Union, grew up near here.
Dark slate was and is used to cover roofs, but also to clad entire houses. Slate arises in the transition area from diagenesis to rock metamorphosis.
These old buildings have been cared for with great love. The pastel colours make an attractive sight sitting as they do under the shadow of The Nut.
The historic character of Stanley has been retained through the years, and is one reason why I plan to return and complete my film project on its history. Stanley was used as a location for the movie "The Light Between Oceans" (2016). www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSX-mpsVutQ
We have a large collection of pictures, articles and videos from Jordan exploretraveler.com/the-many-mysteries-of-petra-in-jordan/
Historic Round Barns
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_round_barns
September 3, 2021
Champaign, Illinois
Austin, Texas, ATX, TX. Historic architecture, residence, home, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint.
Sandomierz: historic town in south-eastern Poland.
It was a royal city of the Polish Crown and functioned as a regional administrative centre from the High Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Sandomierz is one of the oldest and historically most significant cities in Poland.
The first known historical mention of the city comes from the early 12th-century, when the chronicler Gallus Anonymus ranked it together with Kraków and Wrocław as one of the main cities of Poland.
Thanks to the Wikipedia;)
A photo from inside Fort Morgan, Alabama. The historic fort was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812.
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One of our most beautiful songsters, the Grey Shrikethrush. Their song can transport you somewhere else for a few minutes. Photographed in Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale.
Also for Definitely Dreaming Week 30/52 theme of "Close Up".
San Francisco Square in the Historic Center of Quito.
From left to right, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the Chapel of Cantuña, the Chapel of VillacÃsla, the main church, the convent and the museum.
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The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
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Walking from the Old Town’s narrow colonial streets into this open plaza reveals one of the finest sights in all of Ecuador: a sweeping cobblestone plaza backed by the mountainous backdrop of Volcán Pichincha, and the long, whitewashed walls and twin bell towers of Ecuador’s oldest church.
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The Public Square (Plaza de San Francisco) was a purely urban space, demarcated and connected to various public activities (teaching, market, water supply).
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Sad part of our History.
In pre-Hispanic Quito, the current lands of the Church and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spaniards from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui arranged the total destruction of it. In the city fire the palace was destroyed and buried under a huge amount of rubble and garbage. One of Rumiñahui's soldiers was the great-grandfather of the indigenous Cantuña, who as an eyewitness to the events had full knowledge of what was buried in the place. The construction of the church and convent of San Francisco began around 1537, just three years after the Spanish foundation of the city, with the completion of a provisional temple that was maintained until 1550, when construction of the current building began and which was completed around 1680. Although the building was officially inaugurated in 1705.
Built in 1854-1856 the Wheeling Suspension bridge is the oldest bridge of it's kind in the US. But, with a gross weight limit of 2,000 lbs and a requirement that vehicles travel less than 45mph and stay 50' apart it's not practical for today's traffic and has been closed to all vehicles since 2019.
Oscillation is a significant concern for this bridge and noting how close to the banks the piers are built I can understand this is a real issue.
For those inclined to research this bridge, it is interesting the note the battle between Wheeling, to have this bridge built and Pittsburgh, who was concerned about the impact of this bridge on river traffic.
The entrance screen and gate piers date from ca1870
fantastic weather since we arrived ..
Sefton Park, Aigburth Road Entrance Gates
I am going to take a break today from posting new shots. My family took a lot of photos and some how I ended up with an archive of 100's of old shots.. I have slowly been scanning them and thought I would share a few of my favorites with you. This is my grandfather (James Sr., I am the 3rd) and grandmother (Fannie) "courting". This was shot somewhere around Gainesville Texas in 1913 or 1914.
Aconitum napellus (Blauer Eisenhut, monk's-hood) Giglachseen, Steiermark, Austria. The mountains in the background show activity of mining (mainly nickel in the 19th century).
Creek Street in Ketchikan, Alaska, is a historic boardwalk built on stilts over the Ketchikan Creek. Once the city's infamous red-light district, its colorful buildings now house art galleries, shops, and museums.
Laid out in 1857, Gilson was on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Rail Road in the days when the engines burned wood. By the time engines burned coal, the local timber had been pretty much decimated. Gilson Illinois.
The Orleans County Courthouse Historic District in Albion, New York is made up of thirty-three buildings. The buildings are situated on and around Courthouse Square which is bounded by East State Street on the north, East Park Street on the south, Main Street on the west and Platt Street on the east. Most of the buildings in this area date from the 1830s to before 1910, including seven churches, eighteen residences, and eight public and institutional buildings.
Downtown Phoenix, Arizona
The Hanny building, 1947, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally a men's and woman's clothing store, it is now an eclectic, trendy restaurant.
This old hotel was originally built in 1910 in Stevensville, Montana. At that time it served as the Bitterroot Valley's first hospital.
Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!
What remains of an antique Chevy truck (I have no idea the model or year) sits on display in the semi-ghost town of Shaniko, Oregon. I say "semi-ghost" because in 2016 the mayor, Goldie Roberts, insisted the town had a population of 24. If it were a ghost town it would be completely deserted or abandoned.