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Ionic Ferry ships mast in the main basin.
Images kindly provided by Martyn Chesworth courtesy of Heather Crook.
Melrose
1 Melrose - Montebello Parkway
Natchez, Mississippi
Adams County
Circa 1848
NR No 74002253
This 1800s Greek revival-style mansion built by the John T. McMurran family beginning in 1841.
The interior of the first floor is arranged around a central hall and consists of a dining room, drawing room, parlor, library, back hall, storage and service rooms. The central and back hall provide a fine example of painted floor cloth that is original to the house, and another feature is the punkah found in the dining room. Interior doorways are framed by Ionic columns and sunburst-type woodwork above.
Guided tours of the home give visitors a glimpse into the lifestyle of the pre-Civil War American South and help them understand slave life in an estate setting. Sitting today on 80 acres maintained by the National Park Service, the home stands as a well-preserved piece of America's history.
In 1883 the colonial government decided to construct new public offices on Treasury Square and the Queensland Government stated it was anxious to get as perfect a design as possible and offered prizes for the three best designs. Architects from the various colonies submitted plans for the proposed building.
In 1883 a design competition for a two-storeyed building was won by Melbourne architects Grainger and D'Ebro. However this design was never used as the Queensland Colonial Architect, John James Clark, argued that the site warranted a four-storeyed complex. Clark's own design, entered in the competition prior to his appointment, was used.
Liverpool trained architect John James Clark, who designed the Yungaba Immigration Depot, was the chosen designer of one of the then largest public buildings in Australia. The design can be described as Classical Revival style, with facades having a mix of Ionic, Doric and Corinthian columns. Italian Renaissance style colonnades protected the interior from direct sunlight and rain.
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The Treasury Building Brisbane became outmoded as suitable office accommodation and in 1971 the Treasury and Works Departments moved to the new Executive Building at 100 George Street. A Government proposal in the 1990s to convert the building into a Casino met with some objection. Conversion of this magnifient building into the Brisbane casino has ensured that Clark's creation and Brisbane's most imposing building has been saved for posterity without the need to spend Government money on its restoration.
From The Treasury Building Brisbane - History of the Treasury Casino
Ionic capital from the Bank America Building on South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois.
See an example of a Doric Capital.
See an example of a Corinthian Capital .
Tenuous Link: Ionic Capital.
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Montpelier, Vermont USA • A bat's-eye view: Fluted Ionic columns, against the polished marble floors in the first floor of the state Capitol building.
• After 140 years, the Vermont State House still commands the landscape of Montpelier, the smallest capital city in America. The House and Senate chambers are the oldest legislative chambers in their original condition anywhere in the country. – from the State of Vermont's website.
Between 1778 and 1808, Vermont had no permanent seat of government, and its legislature met 47 times in 13 different towns around the state. In 1805, Montpelier was established as the permanent seat of the legislature, contingent on the town erecting suitable buildings and conveying them and the land to the State by September, 1808. Subscriptions and pledges were made, and the land was donated by Thomas Davis, son of Jacob Davis, the first permanent settler of Montpelier. The first wooden State House, "whittled out of use" by representatives' pocket knives, was replaced in the late 1830s with a Barre granite building designed by Ammi B. Young. It looked similar to the present Capitol, but was smaller, In January 1857, fire destroyed the Capitol so that reconstruction was necessary, with only the Greek Revival portico remaining. For the third time, Montpelier raised the funds. Architects Thomas W. Silloway and Joseph R. Richards designed the exterior and interiors, respectively. Standing on a small rise with a spacious and carefully landscaped approach, this Renaissance Revival building combines dignity of purpose with grace and beauty. Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, stands atop a gold-leafed dome. – per Central Vermont Historic Walking Tour's Montpelier's State Street Tour list.
From Wikipedia: The dome is topped by a statue titled Agriculture though more commonly referred to as Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. The original statue was carved by Vermont artist Larkin Goldsmith Mead, who carved the large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions on the State House's ground floor. The current statue is a replacement, and something of a piece of folk art, based on Mead's original. It was carved in 1938 by then 87-year old Dwight Dwinell, Sergeant-at-Arms (in Vermont this official position is similar in nature to the White House Chief Usher).
☞ On December 30, 1970, the National Park Service designated this structure a National Historic Landmark (#70000739); one of only 17 in Vermont.
National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Today, fewer than 2,500 historic places bear this national distinction. [And only 17 in Vermont.] Working with citizens throughout the nation, the National Historic Landmarks Program draws upon the expertise of National Park Service staff who work to nominate new landmarks and provide assistance to existing landmarks.
National Historic Landmarks are exceptional places. They form a common bond between all Americans. While there are many historic places across the nation, only a small number have meaning to all Americans--these we call our National Historic Landmarks. – from the National Park Service.
☞ This Statehouse has also been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#70000739), since 1970.
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☞ Shot during a visit to Montpelier, Vermont, to participate in the Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, one of 1,000 locations around the world where photographers meet-up & shoot away, all on the same day. • Why? More info.
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In July, 2010, I started a project to visit and document all seventeen Landmarks in Vermont. Here they are (in order of designation by the National Park Service):
[01] 09/22/60 – JUSTIN S. MORRILL HOMESTEAD, Strafford, Orange County
[02] 01/28/64 – TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat), Shelburne, Chittenden County
[03] 06/23/65 – CALVIN COOLIDGE HOMESTEAD DISTRICT, Plymouth Notch, Windsor County
[04] 12/21/65 – EMMA WILLARD HOUSE, Middlebury, Addison County
[05] 11/13/66 – ROBBINS AND LAWRENCE ARMORY AND MACHINE SHOP, Windsor, Windsor County
[06] 06/11/67 – GEORGE PERKINS MARSH BOYHOOD HOME, Woodstock, Windsor County
[07] 05/23/68 – ROBERT FROST FARM, Addison County
[08] 12/30/70 – VERMONT STATEHOUSE, Montpelier, Washington County
[09] 11/28/72 – MOUNT INDEPENDENCE, Addison County
[10] 12/20/89 – STELLAFANE OBSERVATORY, Springfield, Windsor County
[11] 11/04/93 – NAULAKHA (Rudyard Kipling House), Dummerston, Windham County
[12] 06/19/96 – OLD ROUND CHURCH, Richmond, Chittenden County
[13] 06/19/96 – ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM, St. Johnsbury, Caledonia County
[14] 12/09/97 – ROKEBY, Ferrisburgh, Addison County
[15] 05/16/00 – ROCKINGHAM MEETING HOUSE, Windham County
[16] 05/16/00 – SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY HALL, Barre, Washington County
[17] 01/03/01 – SHELBURNE FARMS, Shelburne, Chittenden County
A Luna marble relief depicting the facade of an Ionic temple: here a detail of one of the carved Ionic capitals. The fragment belongs to an altar that is thought to have closely resembled the Ara Pacis in Rome. The fragmentary reliefs, including this one, depicted a procession and sacrifice. One hypothesis is that the panels belonged to an altar set up in honor of the emperor Claudius's return from his campaigns in Britain (decreed by the Senate in 43 CE): the Ara reditus Claudii. Other panels from this altar are on display in the Ara Pacis Museum and on the exterior wall of the Villa Medici in Rome (the so-called Della Valle-Medici panels). The panels may have been reused in the early fourth century; the original altar is thought to have stood on the slopes of the Capitoline Hill, perhaps on the side facing the Theater of Marcellus.
Ara Pacis Museum inv. 1386
Jun Qu displays a flask of the Ionic Liquid Anti-wear Additives for Fuel-efficient Engine Lubricants, one of ORNL's eight 2104 R&D 100 Award winners.
On the Pershore Road in Stirchley, Birmingham.
Heading towards Dog Pool Lane.
The closed down Stirchley Public Baths on the corner of Bournville Lane and Hazelwell Street. Built in 1910.
Grade II listed.
Stirchley Public Baths, Birmingham
SP 08 SE BIRMINGHAM BOURNVILLE LANE
Stirchley
997/12/10208
Stirchley Public Baths
GV II
Swimming baths. 1910, by John P. Osborne. Red brick in Flemish bond and diaper pattern blue brick, and with stone dressings. Slate roofs.
PLAN: Quadrant on plan, with main bath range on north with boiler house and chimney to west, tower to east and range to south and east with main entrance at centre of curved front.
Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. Long curved SE front with parapet and cornice, and rusticated stone aedicules with broken pediments containing festoons; moulded cill and cornice and rusticated stone entrance centrepiece with Ionic pilasters, broken pediment containing festooned cartouche inscribed A 1910 D, coved round-arch doorway with quadrant panelled double doors, flanked by small diamond-shape windows; small octagonal cupola above with consoles and inscribed Public Baths on drum, and lead-clad dome. Large gable end on right to main north range with moulded string, large semi-circular window with raised voussoirs and occulus on raised gable of ridge light, flanking broad rusticated pilaster on left and tower on right corner, with rusticated stone lower stage with cornice and broken pediment at front with occulus, and brick upper stage with two stone quoins on each corner, and parapet with moulded stone coping raised over corners, and with louvered cupola with shallow lead-clad dome. Chimney at rear west end of north range with round-arch panels and cornice.
INTERIOR largely intact. Glazed tile pool, open to braced iron roof trusses and ridge-light; white glazed brick walls with red brick dressings; changing cubicles below and above balconies on side walls. Glazed screen at entrance, ticket hatches and glazed brick walls.
Listing NGR: SP0533481233
Sculptural detail on the old baths building.
Ionic Column, North Porch of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, marble, 421-407 B.C.E. (British Museum, London)
Ionic Capital and Column base
circa 1910
From the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, formerly at 31st and 33rd Streets between 7th and 8th Avenues, Manhattan, designed by Charles Follen McKim
Limestone
6.250.2, Gift of Lipsett Demoliton Co. and Youngstown Garbage
This truncated shaft was one of the enormous columns that stood at the north and south ends of the Waiting Room in the original Penn Station, a vast railroad terminal complex whose style was inspired by ancient Roman baths. Completed in 1910, the station was demolished in 193. A female figure that once flanked a clock above one of the entrances is installed nearby on the upper terrace of this sculpture garden.
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Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden hosts a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Brooklyn Museum's Norman M. Feinberg Entrance. Most of these remarkable objects date to the period between 1880 and 1910, recording a great era in the cultural, architectural, and industrial history of New York City.
The Brooklyn Museum, sitting at the border of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights near Prospect Park, is the second largest art museum in New York City. Opened in 1897 under the leadership of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences president John B. Woodward, the 560,000-square foot, Beaux-Arts building houses a permanent collection including more than one-and-a-half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art.
The Brooklyn Museum was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
National Historic Register #77000944
Early 19th century. 2-storey, 6-bay mirrored pair of terraced houses with basement. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar, coursed and squared ashlar to rear and sides. Band course above basement; band cill course at ground floor; band course above ground floor; dentilled eaves cornice with leaded blocking course; architraved windows at ground floor. Elevation mirrored about centre; round-arched doorways with Ionic doorpieces to inner bays approached by steps, semi-circular plate glass fanlights, panelled doors; single windows to 1st floor above. Single windows to remaining bays. Single rectangular dormers with piended roofs.
"Wimbourne Court" is an Arts and Crafts style complex of flats in the Melbourne suburb of Elwood. The name possibly derives from the fact that there is a central courtyard behind the flats' stuccoed walls.
Built in Arts and Crafts style, the flats have stuccoed brick walls which was a typical element of the movement. The flats feature large sash windows that must flood their rooms with light. There is a central stairwell with balconies flanked by ionic columns. Perhaps most interestingly, the central portico is decorated with ornamental chains, as though suspended by them. I have only seen this used on one other set of flats in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. Perhaps the architects were the same.
Originally two storey, the "Wimbourne Court" flats have had a modern third storey discreetly added to the building as part of a major restoration of the original building. Although modern, it is simple in design too, and because it is set back from the facade, it does not interfere with the original, uncluttered original facade.
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.
Flats like those found in the "Wimbourne Court" complex would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Elwood, and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff. With its simple style, it mirrored the prevailing uncluttered lines of architecture that came out of England after the war.
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"Ionic Hall, 805 Brighton Place, between 4th & 5th, Ocean City, N.J. One block from beach. All outside rooms. Apartment. Comfortable. Phone 2374-J. Your hosts, Mr. H. Gaverich, Mrs. Irean Gaverich, R.N."
Ionic portico of St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Valletta. Architects: William Scamp adapting a design by Richard Lankasheer, consecrated 1844. Misrah L-Indipendenza, Il-Belt Valletta, Malta.
"Bailey's Mansion" is a magnificent boom period mansion built in 1883 for successful mine manager William Bailey on the corner of Drummond and Mair Streets, in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
William Bailey was born in 1827 in Wellington, Somersetshire, and came to Australia in 1848. He landed at Melbourne and was employed at a wine and spirit merchants however he remained only a short time, and he also had a short stay of eight months at the Ampitheatre Station, Lexton, when he was made manager at the Mt Cook Station, Werribee. He left Mt Cook Station in 1851, having been bitten, like so many others, by gold fever. After initially being involved in mining he entered into partnership with Wilson Brothers in the operation of general stores. Bailey returned to mining with the Staffordshire Reef Company near Smythesdale where he remained for three years as manager before accepting a similar managerial position with the Egerton Mining Company where he was occupied for the next 12 years. The mine was owned by the renowned Learmonth family. Bailey was a loyal manager and when the Learmonths decided to sell the mine he arranged the sale. As a reward the Learmonths paid him a five per cent commission on the sale amounting to 675 pounds, a very sizable sum even in those days. At the time of the sale the returns from the mine had been diminishing, and when the Learmonths paid him his sizeable commission they were unaware that they had rewarded him for arranging the sale of a mine of which he was actually now a part owner. Fortunately, almost immediately after the mine was sold its returns increased dramatically and William Bailey was left a very wealthy man.
For the princely sum of £1,400, William Bailey had a Victorian Italianate mansion, complete with tower, designed by architects Caselli and Figgis. William Bailey and his wife Emily had eight children between 1861 and 1876, so the mansion, described as "one of the most palatial homes in Ballarat" was extended further and had an extra wing added, but in the same style.
The mansion features many architectural elements used in Italianate style houses of the period beyond the typical prominent tower, including; Corinthian columns, arcaded loggias, grouped openings, the use of arches and stuccoed wall treatment. When William built the mansion it originally had cast iron verandah posts, frieze and corner brackets along the loggias, both up and downstairs. The present heavy Ionic columns being a later modification which are not so in keeping with the overall design of the house.
Originally, "Bailey's Mansion" sat amid large and decoratively ornamental gardens, most of which have since been consumed by subsequent divisions of the land and residential construction in the early years of the Twentieth Century.
It was in his beloved mansion that William Bailey died in 1906 after catching a chill, dying a happy and still wealthy man, leaving an estate of some £10,000.
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), like so many other wealthy families of the boom period, the Baileys "gilded age" had come to a shattering end. Rates, death duties and income tax had deminished the family to far more moderate means. The "servant problem" also left them unable to live on such a grand scale as William and Emily had done. They could not sell the mansion, as no-one had the means to maintain, or the wish, to live in an old mausoleum of a bygone age in the new century. There was also a local belief that it was haunted by Bailey's ghost, which made it impossible to sell. "Bailey's Mansion", now deserted, fell into dereliction.
Salvation arrived for the grand old house in 1915 when the Catholic Church acquired it for a mere £4000, £10,000 less than its original cost and a bargain, even in the depressed property market immediately after the First World War. The church restored "Bailey's Mansion" and used it to form the St John of God hospital in Ballarat. It is still an intergal part of the hospital today, the grande dame surviving as a testimony to the wealth and tenacity of its original owner.
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Either end of Devonshire House, Mayfair Place, off Piccadilly, with the coat of arms of the Cavendish family (Dukes of Devonshire). This is an office building built on the site of the demolished original.
Twelfth Century Ionic columns of the portico of the church of San Giorgio in Velabro, Rome (Italy)
Rome never ceases to surprise, not only in the astonishing and often hidden diversity of its historic monuments and ancient remains, but in its connections and history. If we are to believe the history of the founding of this church, somewhere behind this portico is the cranium of the Greek warrior saint, St.George (San Giorgio) - that is, the St.George who slayed the dragon and was adopted as England's patron saint during the Crusades, and he of England's national flag of a red cross on a white ground, and he who is invoked by Henry V in his famous speech in Shakespeare's play of the same name (Act III Scene 1) which includes the line, 'Cry God for Harry, England and Saint George'. (St.George is also patron saint of many other places too.)
'In Velabro' refers to the swampy ground where this church was first constructed in the 7th Century, when it was dedicated to St. Sebastian. It was re-dedicated in the 8th Century to the Greek saint, St.George. This part of Rome was a Greek quarter at the time. The church has been reconstructed and added to many times, including extensive repairs following a street bomb in 1993.
----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_in_Velabro
----- www.revealedrome.com/2010/11/st-george-in-velabro-medieva...
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LONDON - PARIS - CATANIA - ROME - LONDON ----- DAY 8
Photo from the eighth day of our crazy long distance rail trip from home (London) to Sicily. We had had an unscheduled but happy first night stopover in Paris because our Eurostar train out of London was badly delayed due to 'a fatality [unexplained - perhaps fortunately] on the train'. We therefore missed our onward sleeper train connection to Rome, so spent our second day in Paris. We left Paris that evening, on the equivalent sleeper train service a day later. We reached Rome during the third day, where we changed to a daytime train for Catania, Sicily, arriving there the same evening. Our fourth day was our first full day in Sicily, and we spent this in the centre of Catania itself. We spent our fifth day on an excursion to Mount Etna run by GeoEtnaExplorer. We chose this tour company because the guides are geologists. Our particular tour went high up on the flanks on the summit, but not to the summit proper. For this sixth day, our final full day in Sicily, we took the bus from Catania (our base) to Siracusa, in search of Ancient Greek remains, while also getting distracted by other interesting sights, and some excellent ice cream, at various points in the day. But perhaps the most spectacular thing was the huge thunderstorm which hit us in the early part of the afternoon. The seventh day was the start of our homeward journey, for which we took our sixth train of the trip, from Catania and ending with an overnight stop in Rome. We spent the eighth day on a long walk through the heart of Rome, where we hadn't been back since I worked there briefly many years ago, before continuing our way home to London by catching a sleeper train that evening to Paris.
By the end of the whole holiday trip we had seen things and sites from ancient Greek time to modern, so the trip felt like a mini Grand Tour. Or given the rich mythology of Sicily, Etna and the Straits of Messina (Odysseus, the Cyclops, Scylla & Charybdis, etc.) perhaps our trip was like a modern mini Odyssey of our times. Odysseus took ten years to get home. It took us ten trains - but no monsters.
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50 Year Masonic Pin presentation by M.W.Bro. Raymond S. J. Daniels, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario.
Ray Daniels Obit:
Lifetimes: Beloved music teacher’s legacy went far beyond classroom.
Ray Daniels of Waterloo. Born: Sept. 2, 1937, in Orillia; Died: Jan. 24, 2016, of age-related illness.
Waterloo Region Record
By Valerie Hill
Ray Daniels was a conundrum, a man who sculpted himself a career that shot him into the limelight, but who also refused public accolades and often downplayed his abilities. Outgoing or introverted? Ray was both, and that is what made him so interesting and a bit mysterious.
Ray taught vocal music at Eastwood Collegiate for 23 years, started numerous choirs and co-founded the Waterloo Regional Gilbert & Sullivan Society, launching it at the school. Because
of Ray, students not only found their voices but several went on to professional careers including Alex Mustakas, artistic director of Drayton Entertainment.
Alex recalled, "I learned more about music and the works of Gilbert and Sullivan from him than anyone else I have ever met. He set the musical bar for me, no pun intended. An amazing human being."
Opera singer Thomas Goerz wrote a lengthy tribute to his old teacher, speaking of Ray's ability to inspire students. Ray was always at school an hour early and he led at least three choirs while encouraging even the most reluctant singer to open his mouth and just try.
"Raymond Daniels was known to many an Eastwood music student as Uncle Ray, Mister D, but usually just good ol' Ray," recalled Thomas. "Though I came from a musical family, it was Ray Daniels who was the true difference maker. He gave me the confidence to take the plunge into the unknown: a career in the performing arts."
Ray's father was an orchestral musician so the love of music might have been genetic. As a child, Ray studied piano then graduated to the organ at 13. At 17, he was hired as church organist in Barrie and later studied for a decade with a Toronto organist and at Syracuse University in New York. Ray also held diplomas from Trinity College of Music in London, England, and an undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in music and history.
Ray was hired by a church in Simcoe where he was also music supervisor for the school board.
It was in Simcoe that he met Brenda, a music teacher. Brenda declined to be interviewed for this feature. The couple, married for 52 years, didn't have children.
In 1967 Ray accepted the vacated organist's position at Trinity United Church in Kitchener. He was aware of the church's reputation and told a Record reporter at the time "one of the reasons for my wanting to come to Trinity was its tradition of music. Because of the background and the service already done here the church staff was anxious that they be continued. I am also."
Ray and Brenda were musical powerhouses in the region. Brenda sang in the Grand Philharmonic Choir, then known as the K-W Philharmonic Choir, and Ray served as accompanist.
Retired conductor Howard Dyck said Ray was an exceptional accompanist, an intuitive musician who anticipated the choir's needs, sometimes before Howard did.
"An accompanist has to be a pretty good pianist," said Howard. "He needs to be looking at the choir, watching what the choir is doing."
Ray had to play with emphasis if a particular section was faltering, trying to get them back on track and he usually knew exactly which bar to start at after the conductor stopped the singing to fix a problem.
"Ray was able to do this magnificently," said Howard. "He was a very fine musician."
Howard also spoke of how much his friend loved Great Britain, particularly the musical history, and he had taken The Renaissance Singers, a choral group he founded in 1972, to perform at festivals in England.
"He was an Anglophile, he loved all things English," said Howard. "He was a walking encyclopedia of music, very knowledgeable."
Ray often suggested beautiful but neglected pieces of music, works that even Howard didn't know.
On a personal level, Howard said his friend was "a quirky guy who didn't suffer fools gladly. He would say really irreverent things about people he thought were uninformed. He was very funny."
As Ray began winding down his musical career, he poured his energies into Freemasonry. Ray had joined his father's Orillia lodge in 1959 and he was an active Mason during his teaching
career. By the early 1990s, he started moving up until he reached the highest rank in the province, that of Grand Master. Ray shared his fraternity's basic tenet of gentlemanly behaviour
and compassion for others.
Fellow Mason David Cameron said that Ray worked hard to open lines of communication between the general public and the Masons, an organization that has long suffered from
distorted public opinion about what goes on behind closed doors.
"He wanted to be open with them, get the facts out there as opposed to all those conspiracy theories," said David. "He rose to the top quickly because of his enthusiasm and his teaching
ability."
Ray came up with the idea of the Masons and Brock University partnering to establish the prestigious Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture Series on Masonic studies and they also established a
Masonic lodge in Afghanistan on a Canadian Forces base, to give young soldiers a sense of fraternity.
"He made it happen," said David.
What made Ray a good Grand Master? David thinks it was his friend's caring manner and how he would gravitate to new members ensuring they felt welcome.
"He always had a smile when he'd greet you," said David. "He was always approachable."
vhill@therecord.com
A second obit:
M.W. Bro. Raymond S.J. Daniels
Landmarks/Doric Lodge No.654
Passed January 24,2016
That incredibly rigorous intellectual mind and that gifted eloquence that were his trademarks will be no more; the friendship that was offered so graciously is now but a memory and we gather to bid a fond farewell to a friend and brother.
Raymond Sydney James Daniels, the 74th grand master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario first saw the light of Masonry in his father’s Lodge, Orillia Lodge No. 192 in Orillia in 1959. He was to hold membership in a number of lodges throughout this jurisdiction, was the Worshipful Master of New Hope Lodge – now Mystic Tie Lodge No. 279 – and New Light Daylight Lodge No. 744 when it was founded in 2001. He was elected Grand Junior Warden for the term 2000-2001 and served on the Board of General Purposes from 2001 until 2007 when he was elected Deputy Grand Master. He was installed as Grand Master on July 15, 2009.
As his theme for office Ray used the words of an ancient Hebrew scribe which best describe his approach to Masonic life – “get knowledge, get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding”, for he believed that understanding the real and profound meaning of freemasonry should be the quest of every serious mason. Throughout his Masonic career Ray did just that – not only did he seek that profound understanding himself, but he tried to get people to understand that Freemasonry and Education are really synonymous terms. Right to the very end his Masonic Minutes were a source of enlightenment to those who studied them and I am grateful for those brethren of the Ancient Landmarks incorporating Doric Lodge of Hamilton who have taken the time to bring all of these Masonic Minutes together in one publication so that all Masons, present and future, may benefit from them.
In his efforts to ensure that all Masons had access to the benefits offered by our fraternity he spearheaded the initiative that led to the formation of Canada Lodge (UD) in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He also lent his full support to the campaign devised to provide free Tim Horton’s cards to personnel serving in the Afghan sphere of operations a simple “taste of home” that was appreciated by countless numbers of our warriors abroad.
His other initiative of note, the formation of the Sankey Lectures in coordination with Brock University and his attempt to develop a centre for the study of the impact that Freemasonry has had upon this country is still evolving. M.W. Bro. Daniels was a visionary in this regard and I sincerely hope we do not let this vision fade in years to come.
M.W. Bro. Daniels was never happier than when he was surrounded by young men with a willingness to listen and an eagerness to learn. His Socratic approach to teaching enabled others to become imbued with some of his own desire for knowledge and become enthused by the fire of his rhetoric.
Ray was also a trained and accomplished musician who truly appreciated the classics and in his lifetime he brought the joy of classical and sacred music to countless students and concert goers. Ray was not of course all seriousness - he had a highly developed, dry sense of humour that he often used to bring those with inflated egos back to earth and I am certain that at one time or another many in this theatre today have benefitted from his gentle but well aimed, barbs.
Given his frequent visits to the Ottawa Valley a group of brethren conferred “Honorary Valley Lad” status upon Ray and at some point during every visit to the area he reminded one and all that he really belonged as he was simply, a valley lad. At heart he truly was, for Ray enjoyed the people and the country which had borne them.
Raymond Sydney James Daniels, a man of simple tastes, a man who was renowned far and wide as a scholar, a teacher, a friend, a good man and a good Mason; a man who lived a good life and a man whose fortunes are not indeed, a matter of indifference to God. As is recorded in the gospel of Matthew 25:21 – “well done thou good and faithful servant”. He may be gone from us physically but his legacy will continue to be felt for years to come.
Honorary Life Member of Landmarks/Doric No. 654 It is with deepest regret and and profound sense of a great loss that we notify you of the death of our Past Grand Master. M.W. Bro. Raymond S.J. Daniels Sept 2, 1937 to Jan. 24, 2016 Grand Master July 2009 to July 2011.
A Masonic Memorial Service was held on Sunday January 31, 2:00pm at Dunfield Theatre Cambridge, 46 Grand Avenue South, Cambridge.
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The five Ionic columns that stand at the edge of the Museum Building area are apparently salvaged from a mansion that stood in nearby Newburgh, NY. From this page:
"Completed as a residence in 1935 for the late Vermont Hatch, the French Normandy-style building was designed by architect Maxwell Kimball. The building's granite stones were salvaged from Danskammer, the 1834 Edward Armstrong mansion located north of Newburgh that stood overlooking the Hudson River for almost 100 years. The five Ionic columns now situated on the Art Center's property formed the front of Danskammer."