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Room from XIX century in the house museum Ilarion Makariopolski in Elena, Bulgaria. Ilarion Makariopolski was one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.
Стая в къщата-музей "Иларион Макариополски" в Елена,
Room from XIX century in the house museum Ilarion Makariopolski in Elena, Bulgaria. Ilarion Makariopolski was one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.
Стая в къщата-музей "Иларион Макариополски" в Елена,
Sleeping room from XIX century in the house museum Ilarion Makariopolski in Elena, Bulgaria. Ilarion Makariopolski was one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.
Спалня в къщата-музей "Иларион Макариополски" в Елена,.
Fall is here at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come."
Fall is here at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come."
The house-museum of the writer F. M. Dostoevsky is located on the embankment of the Pererytitsa River in the town of Staraya Russa of the Novgorod Region. It was the first and only property owned by a great writer. The house became a real family nest, and Staraya Russa itself is a place where the writer received the desired solitude and silence away from the bustle of the capital. Here were written "Demons", " The Adolescent", "The Brothers Karamazov", and other works.
Fall is here at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come."
On the floor at the entrance to Munthe's dining room, another mosaic design copied from Pompeii.
And yes, the meaning of the skeleton figure with wine and water jugs, is enjoy life while you can, death is always just lurking round the corner. Axel Munthe was obsessed throughout his life with thoughts of death - he saw a lot of it in Naples. Although an aesthete and connoisseur he had very simple tastes in food and thought no-one over 50 should eat meat.
View of the parterre garden and the back porch of the house.
Built as an English Regency-style mansion in 1819, the Owens-Thomas House, along with its adjacent parterre garden, carriage house, and slave quarters, comprises a museum that allows visitors to explore the complicated relationships between the most and least powerful people in the city of Savannah in the early 19th century.
Old scan of a 35mm slide.
Another shot of this much admired water pot with a wonderful display of decorative Lotus and Frangipani blossoms , stock of which grow in the garden at JTH .
Jim Thompson House . Bangkok .
Uma charmosíssima casa de campo transformada em museu localizada dentro da Floresta da Tijuca. Pertenceu ao empresário e mecenas Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Tenha um dia com muito charme. :-)
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Açude House-Museum
A charming country house transformed into a museum located inside the biggest urban forest int he world, the Tijuca Forest. It belonged to businessman and patron Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have a charming day. :-)
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This is the writing desk of Simin Daneshvar(1921-2012), famous Iranian , novelist and fiction writer. The desk is exhibited in her house/museum in Tehran.
Built by shipwrights in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr., the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum epitomizes the “brave houses and flowery gardens” described by Herman Melville in “Moby-Dick”. Greek Revival in style, it was designed by architect Richard Upjohn, a founder and first president of the American Institute of Architects.
This National Historic Landmark was home to three prominent and influential New Bedford families; William Rotch Jr., 1834 to 1850; Edward Coffin Jones, 1851 – 1935; and Mark M. Duff, 1935 – 1981. The estate chronicles important chapters in American history when New Bedford had a major influence on the international arenas of commerce, trade, and culture via whaling, and later through textiles.
The property encompasses a full city block of gardens that include a boxwood parterre rose garden, a boxwood specimen garden, a woodland garden and a cutting garden. It is the only whaling mansion open to the public in New England that retains its original configuration of grounds and outbuildings.
Panorama stitched from four photos.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is a historic house museum with gardens located on the Ashley River in South Carolina. It is one of the oldest plantations in the South and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Founded in 1676 by and still within the ownership of the Drayton family, the former rice plantation is the oldest public tourist site in the Lowcountry, and one of the oldest public gardens in America, opening its doors to visitors in 1870. However, many parts of the gardens are much older, some sections more than 325 years old, making them the oldest unrestored gardens in America. Unlike most of America's gardens, which are formal and seek to control nature, Magnolia cooperates with nature to create a tranquil landscape where humanity and nature are in harmony.
Old scan of a 35mm slide.
Poe Cottage in the Bronx - built in 1812 was the last house that Edgar Allan Poe lived in. During the time that Poe lived here from 1846 to 1849 he wrote "Annabel Lee", "The Bells" and "Eureka". Poe lived with his wife Virginia and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm. Virginia was ill with tuberculosis and they hoped that the country air of the Bronx would aid in her recovery. She died in January of 1847. Poe died two years later under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore.
Yesterday there was a "In The Footsteps Of Edgar Allan Poe: A Walk From Poe Cottage To The Highbridge" tour. As much as possible we followed the likely route that Poe would have walked taking Aqueduct Avenue, the Aqueduct Walk, University Avenue and entered the Highbridge from the Bronx side into Manhattan. It was a gorgeous day for the walk which took about 3 hours.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
The view of the Goerke Haus from near the Felsenkirche in Luderitz, Namibia. The fabulous house was originally built near the high point of the city for the wealthy German soldier-turned-diamond magnate Hans Goerke in 1910. The house is neslted into this rock formation at its back.
It has been restored and is now a house museum.
Wall bracket at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj--a private palace (open for tours) in Rome, Italy. The family collected an amazing assortment of art (3 Caravaggios!) starting in the sixteenth century.
Uma charmosíssima casa de campo transformada em museu localizada dentro da Floresta da Tijuca. Pertenceu ao empresário e mecenas Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Tenha um dia com muito charme. :-)
_____
Açude House-Museum
A charming country house transformed into a museum located inside the biggest urban forest int he world, the Tijuca Forest. It belonged to businessman and patron Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have a charming day. :-)
______
Buy my photos at / Compre minhas fotos na Getty Images
To direct contact me / Para me contactar diretamente: lmsmartins@msn.com
Uma charmosíssima casa de campo transformada em museu localizada dentro da Floresta da Tijuca. Pertenceu ao empresário e mecenas Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Tenha um dia com muito charme. :-)
_____
Açude House-Museum
A charming country house transformed into a museum located inside the biggest urban forest int he world, the Tijuca Forest. It belonged to businessman and patron Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have a charming day. :-)
______
Buy my photos at / Compre minhas fotos na Getty Images
To direct contact me / Para me contactar diretamente: lmsmartins@msn.com
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
Uma charmosíssima casa de campo transformada em museu localizada dentro da Floresta da Tijuca. Pertenceu ao empresário e mecenas Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Tenha um dia com muito charme. :-)
_____
Açude House-Museum
A charming country house transformed into a museum located inside the biggest urban forest int he world, the Tijuca Forest. It belonged to businessman and patron Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia.
Alto da Boa Vista neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have a charming day. :-)
______
Buy my photos at / Compre minhas fotos na Getty Images
To direct contact me / Para me contactar diretamente: lmsmartins@msn.com
In Cairo, Illinois.
From the website for the Manor:
Magnolia Manor History
One hundred forty-two years ago the Galigher family—Charles A., his wife Adelia Lippit Galigher, and their three sons, Frank, Albert, and Charles Frederick—moved into a new home, “a stately fourteen-room mansion of brick on upper Washington Avenue.”
Mr. Galigher, a prominent citizen of Cairo, was a milling merchant, whose fortune was accumulated through selling flour for hardtack to the government during the Civil War. Through business transactions, he became a friend of General U.S. Grant who made his headquarters in Cairo while planning and launching his siege of the South.
The building in the middle above the archway is the Prison’s Arch House in Óbidos, I only know this because there is a plaque in front of it, I tried googling it and can’t find any information in English about it.
This is what the plaque says:
“Former Town Hall (14th – 15th centuries).
It was the residence of the scenographer and painter Abilio de Matos e Silva and interior designer Maria José Salavisa.
Nowadays it is his house museum.”
Óbidos is a town and a municipality in the Oeste Subregion in Portugal. The town proper has approximately 3100 inhabitants. The municipality population in 2011 was 11,772, in an area of 141.55 km².
The name "Óbidos" probably derives from the Latin term oppidum, meaning "citadel", or "fortified city". The municipality had its origin in an early Roman settlement near the foothills of an elevated escarpment. The region of Óbidos, extending from the Atlantic to the interior of Estremadura Province along the rivers and lakes has been inhabited since the late Paleolithic. A settlement was constructed by early Celt tribes, that was later a centre of trade for the Phoenicians. Archeological evidence from the base of the medieval tower (south of Facho) at Óbidos Castle indicates Roman construction linked to an outpost of the Roman civitas of Eburobrittium, a large urban area that has been under excavation. Archaeological surveys determined the remains of a forum, baths and other Roman structures near the settlement.
After the fall of Rome, came under the influence of the Visigoths, although specific records are missing. The Roman town of Eburobrittium was abandoned in the 5th century for the more secure hilltop where today the principal settlement located. Sometime after 713 the Moors established a fortification on this mountain, while a Christian community of Mozarabs lived in the Moncharro neighbourhood.
The area was taken from the Moors by the first King of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, in 1148. Tradition states that one knight, Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, was responsible for the successful storming of the Moorish castle. The retaking of Óbidos was a final stage in the conquest of the Estremadura region, after the settlements of Santarém, Lisbon and Torres Vedras. Following the control of the region, the settlement received its first foral (English: charter) in 1195, during the reign of Sancho I. In 1210, King Afonso II gave the title of this village to Queen Urraca. Since then, Óbidos has often been patronized by the Queens of Portugal, giving rise to its informal title as Vila das Rainhas (English: town of the Queens); several royal consorts enriched the village with donations from the Middle Ages until the 16th century.
The castle and walls of Óbidos were remodeled during the reign of King Dinis I. The limestone and marble structure was strengthened and elaborated, while the keep was created in the 14th century, by King Fernando. By the time of the first remodelling project, the settlement had also grown beyond the gates of the castle.
The Church of Santa Maria in Óbidos was the setting for the wedding of King Afonso V to his cousin, Princess Isabella of Coimbra, on 15 August 1441, when they were both still children aged 9 and 10, respectively. Administrative reforms conducted by King Manuel I at Óbidos in 1513, included the institution of a formal charter and major re-qualification of the urban area.
The 1755 earthquake caused damage to the village walls, a few churches, and many buildings, and resulted in the loss of architecture of Arab or Medieval inspiration. Similarly, the Peninsular Wars were fought in the vicinity of Óbidos, including the Battle of Roliça. More recently, the village was a centre of government and meeting place for those involved in the 1974 Carnation Revolution, linking it to the armed forces movement revolt.
in, on, and outside the garden room window at Charleston, Sussex.
CharlestonTrust's website has a link to its Flickr 'stream (scroll down), which includes a selection of images of the interior decoration.
Visited this Bulfinch house a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend was here. Hadn't toured in =ages= and it was really nice to see this place again.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "Sparkle" was chosen by Lisa (red stilletto).
Nothing sparkles quite so much under light as crystal chandeliers, and that was their purpose. Whilst we are all used to the illumination of electric light, crystal chandeliers were invented in the Eighteenth Century to reflect candlelight and thus provide more illumination. Mirrors were also used for the same purpose.
These elegant chandeliers I photographed at three different places I visited whilst on holiday in January.
The main right-hand photograph is of is a Nineteenth Century Victorian crystal chandelier in the drawing room of Werribee Mansion, once the home of the Chirnside family, now a historical house open to the public. Visit www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/werribee-park for more details if you would like to visit Werribee Mansion.
The top left-hand photograph is of a Twentieth Century Edwardian crystal chandelier in the entrance hall of "Warwilla", a grand red brick mansion on St Kilda Road built in 1896.
The bottom left-hand photograph is of an Eighteenth Century Georgian crystal chandelier in the Green Room of the Johnston Collection, a small private museum in East Melbourne that specialises in Eighteenth Century and older antiques and decorative arts, consisting entirely of the collection of antique dealer Mr. William Johnston. Visit: johnstoncollection.org/ if you would like to find out more about the Johnston Collection or visit it.