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The eye catching Vancouver House, there seemed to be a crane on top of the roof, perhaps for exterior walls cleaning(?).
On Castle Hill looking towards Steep Hill, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Castle Hill is the area between Bailgate/Exchequergate and Lincoln Castle east gate. It is popularly called Castle Square. John Wesley who is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement Methodism preached here in 1780. Public floggings were still held here until 1819 and Bull-baiting took place until 1823.
Documentary evidence shows that a market was held in Castle Hill in the medieval period. The constable of the Castle may have benefited from the resulting tolls. It was held on Saturday evenings under the auspices of the Duchy of Lancaster in the rectangular square which developed between the East Gate of the Castle and Exchequer Gate.
There seems to be no record of its grant, but it was still in operation in the 19th century as a vegetable market and stallage was free to individuals, being paid to the Duchy by the parishes of St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene and St Peter in Eastgate. The right to collect these tolls was abandoned in 1847.
Although the market may have been established in the mid-12th century, and although it may have been encroached upon to both the north and south, little seems to be known of the scope of the market stalls here. Even so, as it was held outside the jurisdiction of the city (being within the Bail), in the early modern era it may not have specialised in any particular product (unlike those in the Lower City).
The classic rectangular shape and accessibility makes this waterfall an instant classic. One of the most popular waterfalls in the country, you can experience it from its misty base as well as from its precarious top. If you have time and energy, don't forget to hike further upstream for even more waterfalls along the Skoga River.
More or less we all have the same images from this great waterfall, but a must have when being on Iceland.
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Dealey Plaza, a generally rectangular and approximately 3-acre park, was formed in 1934-40 from several blocks of Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's original land grant. The Plaza replaced residential and commercial buildings on the tract. The land was acquired by the City of Dallas during the 1930's to create a major gateway to the city from the west, and to relieve traffic congestion at the Union terminal railroad tracks which passed north-south at the western edge of the city. Originally called the "Elm-Main-Commerce Subway", the gateway was conceived as a "triple underpass" of streets, which afforded access to the western edge of Downtown Dallas beneath the Union Terminal company tracks. To build the underpass, engineers regraded the area to slope gently down toward the west. All plans for the Plaza showed a rectangular park traversed by three streets rearranged in a bisected triangle - Commerce to the south, Main in the middle, and Elm to the north converging to the west in the Triple Underpass.
The plaza and roadway were designed by city engineers, with assistance in the final plan from E.F. Mitchell, chief engineer for the Texas & Pacific Railroad and Union Terminal Company. The joint federal-city-railroad project was supervised by the Texas Highway Department. The park was named Dealey Plaza in 1935, in honor of George Bannerman Dealey (1859-1946), an outstanding civic leader who had advocated city planning for Dallas for decades already, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, crusader for improvements to the Trinity River corridor, and president of West of Commerce Realty Company, which had donated most of the right of way west of the underpass. The Plaza was dedicated in 1936, the same year the park was placed under the administration of the City of Dallas Park Board, which still maintains jurisdiction over it.
Located within Dealey Plaza itself is the above photographed monument commemorating the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On the right is a plaque showing the Plaza and the surrounding blocks making up the parade route along with the significant landmarks around that route. And, on the left, is a plaque that reads:
On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States, visited Dallas. A Presidential parade traveled north on Houston Street to Elm Street and west on Elm Street. As the parade continued on Elm Street at 12:30pm, rifle shots wounded the President and Texas Governor John Connally.
Findings or the Warren Commission indicated that the rifle shots were fired from a sixth floor window near the southeast corner of the Texas School Depository Building, Elm and Houston, a block north of this marker.
President Kennedy expired at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00pm. The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Plaza is nearby, bounded by Main, Record, Market and Commerce Street.
On April 19, 1993, the Dealey Plaza Historic District was itself named a National Historic Landmark (NHL) and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This district is significant for National Historic Landmarks criteria #1 - an event---the assassination of the 35th President of the United States---that is identified with the broad national patterns of U.S. history; #2 - important associations with persons nationally significant in U.S. history---i.e. President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson; and #5 - composed of integral parts of the environment that collectively compose an entity of exceptional national historical importance. These associations are so consequential in American history that they are of extraordinary national importance. President John F. Kennedy's association with Dealey Plaza was momentary but eternal. The street approaching the Triple Underpass in what was then the main municipal plaza in Downtown Dallas--a place of civic pride, where he was fatally shot on November 22,1963 in front of his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson who was riding in the second car back, several hundred eyewitnesses, and the world--instantly became one of the most notorious sites in U.S. history. Hailed in 1936 as the "Gateway to Dallas" and a place "that must surely play a great part in the future of this city," it has, since that fatal day, to the world outside Dallas, summoned all the emotions that only such a loathsome event can. In the United States there is only one other such site that is intact...Ford's Theatre.
All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for consideration of listing as a NHL and on the NRHP. There is much more included on these documents that can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/88315def-c6a9-408b-ac2a-b...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Bagno Vignoni è una frazione di 30 abitanti,appartenente al comune di San Quirico d'Orcia, in provincia di Siena.
Il villaggio sorge nel cuore della Toscana, all'interno del Parco Artistico Naturale della Val d'Orcia e grazie alla vicinanza con la via Francigena (il percorso principale seguito nell'antichità dai pellegrini che si recavano a Roma) le acque che sgorgano in questo luogo vennero utilizzate fin dall'epoca romana a scopi termali.
Al centro del borgo si presenta la "Piazza delle sorgenti", una vasca rettangolare, di origine cinquecentesca, che contiene una sorgente di acqua termale calda e fumante che esce dalla falda sotterranea di origini vulcaniche. Fin dall'epoca degli etruschi e poi dei romani - come testimoniano i numerosi reperti archeologici - le terme di Bagno Vignoni sono state frequentate da illustri personaggi, come Papa Pio II, Caterina da Siena, Lorenzo de' Medici e tanti artisti che avevano eletto il borgo come sede di villeggiatura.
Bagno Vignoni is an Italian village and frazione of San Quirico d'Orcia, situated on a hill above the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany. It is a popular tourist destination and well known for its hot springs.
The ancient village of Bagno Vignoni is located in the heart of Tuscany, in the Val d'Orcia Natural Park. Thanks to the Via Francigena (which was the main route followed by pilgrims in antiquity who went to Rome), these thermal waters were found and have been used since Roman times. At the heart of the village is the "Square of sources", namely a rectangular tank, of 16th-century origin, which contains the original source of water that comes from the underground aquifer of volcanic origins. Since the Etruscans and Romans - as evidenced by the numerous archaeological finds - the spa of Bagno Vignoni was attended by eminent personalities such as Pope Pius II, Saint Catherine of Siena, Lorenzo the Magnificent and many other artists who had elected the village as main holiday resort.
(wikipedia)
Mały Rynek - a square in the Old Town in Krakow, regular, rectangular, delineated as a result of Kraków's location to the east of the Main Market Square as an auxiliary market, at the back of St. Mary's Church, limited by Mikołajska Street to the north and Sienna Street to the south.
Formerly known as Forum antiquum (Old Market), Wandeta, Tandeta, and in the second half of the 18th century the Butcher's Market. According to information from 1626, one of the slaughterhouses was located in the south-west part of Mały Rynek, and the other - according to the note from 1646 - was probably located near the cemetery of St. Mary's Church.
In the southern part of Mały Rynek, at the intersection of Stolarska and Sienna Streets, there used to be a school for Panna Maria (NP Maria Archiprescript School). This building already existed in the 13th century, and its founder was probably Iwo Odrowąż. The school of the Virgin Mary was built in the Gothic style. It was a spacious and magnificent building, with two floors. Until around 1812 , the square was closed with the building of the St. Mary's school, after it was demolished and the butchers' slaughterhouses, the square was cleaned up, creating a fruit and vegetable market.
The market includes:
•church of st. Barbara
•The fourteenth-century tenement house (No. 7) was once inhabited by altarists , then Marian penitentiaries . The tenement house has a courtyard with wooden cloisters from the 17th century and a late-baroque façade from the 18th century.
•Szoberowska tenement house (No. 6) - the place where the first Polish newspaper " Merkuriusz Polski " was printed in 1661 ; Bronisław Malinowski lived in this house as a child.
•Lamelli tenement house
•Gothic Fritsch tenement house (no. 1, rebuilt in the baroque style).
In 1539, 80-year-old Katarzyna Weiglowa was burnt at the stake in Mały Rynek for departing from the Catholic faith [5] .
Mały Rynek is located on the route of the Małopolska Way of St. Jakub from Sandomierz to Tyniec.
Part of a roadside outcrop near Banff townsite, Banff National Park, western Canada.
Erosion focused along a grid-like (orthogonal) network of planar fractures is causing this bedrock to break up into rectangular or cubic blocks.
Not a monochrome image - green and brown plants are present at lower left.
C. J.R. Devaney
Description of Buildings:
Gesu Church is a rectangular structure of structural steel, reinforced-concrete construction and features exterior walls covered with stucco.
An arcaded portico projects from the west façade of the church and is divided by four massive piers into three bays.
The piers and pilasters on the opposite wall rest
on cubical pedestals approximately nine feet high. A chamfered molding serves as a capital for each pier and is repeated, at the same level as a belt course
running completely around the building.
The central bay of the portico projects slightly, and its arch springs from two semi-engaged Doric columns, thus framing
the main entrance of the church.
Articulation of the west wall echoes the tripartite divisions of the portico with semicircular arched portals at each bay. Double doors of wood and glass are recessed within the portal and have dentilled transoms and cartouches above.
The north façade of the church features an elevated basement from which piers rise to the architrave above. Indented panels between the piers contain tall, semi-circular arched stained glass windows.
A tripartite tower complex embellishes the roof. The central tower which is square in plan, rises in a series of steps and contains a belfry with arched windows. Two hipped roof towers flank the central tower.
Gesu Rectory is located directly east of the church and is connected to it. This four story rectangular structure is of structural steel, reinforced concrete construction, and its exterior walls are covered with stucco. Its pedimented gable
roof is covered with Spanish tile.
The main entrance is located in the center bay of the north façade and features a double door with large lights. The majority of windows are three over one double
hung sash. Round arch windows grace the fourth floor.
Gesu School is located east of the rectory. The building is a five story rectangular structure of reinforced concrete construction covered with stucco. A flat roof with parapet tops the building and features a pediment above the main entrance.
The focal point of the building is a grand, three story portico on the north façade. Ionic columns support the portico and are repeated in pilasters separating each bay. The main entrance features a colossal semi-circular arch with double doors.
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been instrumental in the establishment of Gesù Catholic Church from its inception. Gesù Parish was established as a result of the large Catholic community present in Miami. The original wooden church was built on land donated by Henry Flagler, and as Miami began to grow the need for a larger Church became a necessity. In 1921, the first cornerstone of this concrete and steel structure was laid to suit the needs of the growing Catholic community in Miami
Through the years, Gesù has been a spiritual ambassador to Catholics living in South Florida. It has taken on many roles aside from being a Church. For more than 75 years, Gesù Church started Gesù School which provided elementary and high school education. The school was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph
In addition, the Centro Hispano Católico at Gesù assisted Cuban refugees and refugees from other Central American countries with basic needs and helped with assimilation into a foreign country. From 1959-1982, the Centro Hispano Católico provided refugees with food, clothes, medical care, jobs, housing, daycare, school tuition, English classes, and immigration assistance. In 1962, Gesù served as headquarters to the Pedro Pan operation which bought more than 14,000 unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba
In September 1961, Gesù housed Belén Jesuit Preparatory School for a year and a half. After being exiled from Cuba, Jesuit Priests opened a school for refugee students who were living in Miami. This was the beginning of Belén Jesuit in South Florida.
Today, Gesù Catholic Church remains the spiritual center of downtown Miami. As the oldest church in South Florida, Gesù invites all to visit this historic landmark that has been serving South Florida’s Catholic community for nearly 120 years.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.halsema.org/places/miami/GesuChurchandRectory.pdf
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Mały Rynek - a square in the Old Town in Krakow, regular, rectangular, delineated as a result of Kraków's location to the east of the Main Market Square as an auxiliary market, at the back of St. Mary's Church, limited by Mikołajska Street to the north and Sienna Street to the south.
Formerly known as Forum antiquum (Old Market), Wandeta, Tandeta, and in the second half of the 18th century the Butcher's Market. According to information from 1626, one of the slaughterhouses was located in the south-west part of Mały Rynek, and the other - according to the note from 1646 - was probably located near the cemetery of St. Mary's Church.
In the southern part of Mały Rynek, at the intersection of Stolarska and Sienna Streets, there used to be a school for Panna Maria (NP Maria Archiprescript School). This building already existed in the 13th century, and its founder was probably Iwo Odrowąż. The school of the Virgin Mary was built in the Gothic style. It was a spacious and magnificent building, with two floors. Until around 1812 , the square was closed with the building of the St. Mary's school, after it was demolished and the butchers' slaughterhouses, the square was cleaned up, creating a fruit and vegetable market.
The market includes:
•church of st. Barbara
•The fourteenth-century tenement house (No. 7) was once inhabited by altarists , then Marian penitentiaries . The tenement house has a courtyard with wooden cloisters from the 17th century and a late-baroque façade from the 18th century.
•Szoberowska tenement house (No. 6) - the place where the first Polish newspaper " Merkuriusz Polski " was printed in 1661 ; Bronisław Malinowski lived in this house as a child.
•Lamelli tenement house
•Gothic Fritsch tenement house (no. 1, rebuilt in the baroque style).
In 1539, 80-year-old Katarzyna Weiglowa was burnt at the stake in Mały Rynek for departing from the Catholic faith [5] .
Mały Rynek is located on the route of the Małopolska Way of St. Jakub from Sandomierz to Tyniec.
Description of Buildings:
Gesu Church is a rectangular structure of structural steel, reinforced-concrete construction and features exterior walls covered with stucco.
An arcaded portico projects from the west façade of the church and is divided by four massive piers into three bays.
The piers and pilasters on the opposite wall rest
on cubical pedestals approximately nine feet high. A chamfered molding serves as a capital for each pier and is repeated, at the same level as a belt course
running completely around the building.
The central bay of the portico projects slightly, and its arch springs from two semi-engaged Doric columns, thus framing
the main entrance of the church.
Articulation of the west wall echoes the tripartite divisions of the portico with semicircular arched portals at each bay. Double doors of wood and glass are recessed within the portal and have dentilled transoms and cartouches above.
The north façade of the church features an elevated basement from which piers rise to the architrave above. Indented panels between the piers contain tall, semi-circular arched stained glass windows.
A tripartite tower complex embellishes the roof. The central tower which is square in plan, rises in a series of steps and contains a belfry with arched windows. Two hipped roof towers flank the central tower.
Gesu Rectory is located directly east of the church and is connected to it. This four story rectangular structure is of structural steel, reinforced concrete construction, and its exterior walls are covered with stucco. Its pedimented gable
roof is covered with Spanish tile.
The main entrance is located in the center bay of the north façade and features a double door with large lights. The majority of windows are three over one double
hung sash. Round arch windows grace the fourth floor.
Gesu School is located east of the rectory. The building is a five story rectangular structure of reinforced concrete construction covered with stucco. A flat roof with parapet tops the building and features a pediment above the main entrance.
The focal point of the building is a grand, three story portico on the north façade. Ionic columns support the portico and are repeated in pilasters separating each bay. The main entrance features a colossal semi-circular arch with double doors.
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been instrumental in the establishment of Gesù Catholic Church from its inception. Gesù Parish was established as a result of the large Catholic community present in Miami. The original wooden church was built on land donated by Henry Flagler, and as Miami began to grow the need for a larger Church became a necessity. In 1921, the first cornerstone of this concrete and steel structure was laid to suit the needs of the growing Catholic community in Miami
Through the years, Gesù has been a spiritual ambassador to Catholics living in South Florida. It has taken on many roles aside from being a Church. For more than 75 years, Gesù Church started Gesù School which provided elementary and high school education. The school was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph
In addition, the Centro Hispano Católico at Gesù assisted Cuban refugees and refugees from other Central American countries with basic needs and helped with assimilation into a foreign country. From 1959-1982, the Centro Hispano Católico provided refugees with food, clothes, medical care, jobs, housing, daycare, school tuition, English classes, and immigration assistance. In 1962, Gesù served as headquarters to the Pedro Pan operation which bought more than 14,000 unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba
In September 1961, Gesù housed Belén Jesuit Preparatory School for a year and a half. After being exiled from Cuba, Jesuit Priests opened a school for refugee students who were living in Miami. This was the beginning of Belén Jesuit in South Florida.
Today, Gesù Catholic Church remains the spiritual center of downtown Miami. As the oldest church in South Florida, Gesù invites all to visit this historic landmark that has been serving South Florida’s Catholic community for nearly 120 years.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.halsema.org/places/miami/GesuChurchandRectory.pdf
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
It is worth taking the ferry across the Mersey just to get a good look at this group of buildings on the Pier Head in Liverpool known collectively as The Three Graces . The low modern building which is the Mersey Ferry Terminal does rather spoil the viewpoint .
On your left is the Royal Liver Building it was opened in 1911. The building is the purpose-built home of the Royal Liver Assurance group, which had been set up in the city in 1850 to provide locals with assistance related to losing a wage-earning relative. One of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, the Royal Liver Building stands at 98.2 m (322 ft) tall to the top of the spires, and 50.9 m (167 ft) to the main roof. Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool and is home to two fabled Liver Birds that watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that were these two birds to fly away, then the city would cease to exist.
The Middle building is the Cunard Building constructed between 1914 and 1917. The building's style is a mix of Italian Renaissance and Greek Revival, and its development has been particularly influenced by Italian palace design. The building is noted for the ornate sculptures that adorn its sides.The building was, from its construction until the 1960s, the headquarters of the Cunard Line, and the building still retains the name of its original tenants. It was also home to Cunard's passenger facilities for trans-Atlantic journeys that departed from Liverpool.
The building on the right is the Port of Liverpool Building more commonly known as the Dock Office . It was constructed between 1904 and 1907, with a reinforced concrete frame that is clad in Portland Stone. The building was the headquarters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for 87 years, from 1907 to 1994, The Port of Liverpool Building is in the Edwardian Baroque style and is noted for the large dome that, acts as the focal point of the building. It is approximately rectangular in shape with canted corners that are topped with stone cupolas.
These three buildings along with others in the city led to Liverpool's being designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City bu UNESCO
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH. ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED
Description of Buildings:
Gesu Church is a rectangular structure of structural steel, reinforced-concrete construction and features exterior walls covered with stucco.
An arcaded portico projects from the west façade of the church and is divided by four massive piers into three bays.
The piers and pilasters on the opposite wall rest
on cubical pedestals approximately nine feet high. A chamfered molding serves as a capital for each pier and is repeated, at the same level as a belt course
running completely around the building.
The central bay of the portico projects slightly, and its arch springs from two semi-engaged Doric columns, thus framing
the main entrance of the church.
Articulation of the west wall echoes the tripartite divisions of the portico with semicircular arched portals at each bay. Double doors of wood and glass are recessed within the portal and have dentilled transoms and cartouches above.
The north façade of the church features an elevated basement from which piers rise to the architrave above. Indented panels between the piers contain tall, semi-circular arched stained glass windows.
A tripartite tower complex embellishes the roof. The central tower which is square in plan, rises in a series of steps and contains a belfry with arched windows. Two hipped roof towers flank the central tower.
Gesu Rectory is located directly east of the church and is connected to it. This four story rectangular structure is of structural steel, reinforced concrete construction, and its exterior walls are covered with stucco. Its pedimented gable
roof is covered with Spanish tile.
The main entrance is located in the center bay of the north façade and features a double door with large lights. The majority of windows are three over one double
hung sash. Round arch windows grace the fourth floor.
Gesu School is located east of the rectory. The building is a five story rectangular structure of reinforced concrete construction covered with stucco. A flat roof with parapet tops the building and features a pediment above the main entrance.
The focal point of the building is a grand, three story portico on the north façade. Ionic columns support the portico and are repeated in pilasters separating each bay. The main entrance features a colossal semi-circular arch with double doors.
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been instrumental in the establishment of Gesù Catholic Church from its inception. Gesù Parish was established as a result of the large Catholic community present in Miami. The original wooden church was built on land donated by Henry Flagler, and as Miami began to grow the need for a larger Church became a necessity. In 1921, the first cornerstone of this concrete and steel structure was laid to suit the needs of the growing Catholic community in Miami
Through the years, Gesù has been a spiritual ambassador to Catholics living in South Florida. It has taken on many roles aside from being a Church. For more than 75 years, Gesù Church started Gesù School which provided elementary and high school education. The school was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph
In addition, the Centro Hispano Católico at Gesù assisted Cuban refugees and refugees from other Central American countries with basic needs and helped with assimilation into a foreign country. From 1959-1982, the Centro Hispano Católico provided refugees with food, clothes, medical care, jobs, housing, daycare, school tuition, English classes, and immigration assistance. In 1962, Gesù served as headquarters to the Pedro Pan operation which bought more than 14,000 unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba
In September 1961, Gesù housed Belén Jesuit Preparatory School for a year and a half. After being exiled from Cuba, Jesuit Priests opened a school for refugee students who were living in Miami. This was the beginning of Belén Jesuit in South Florida.
Today, Gesù Catholic Church remains the spiritual center of downtown Miami. As the oldest church in South Florida, Gesù invites all to visit this historic landmark that has been serving South Florida’s Catholic community for nearly 120 years.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.halsema.org/places/miami/GesuChurchandRectory.pdf
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
This was one of my personal favorite totem poles, just because it was so different than the traditional ones. I liked the fact that it was rectangular ,instead of round. I liked the Halibut ,because it is a strange looking fish with both eyes on one side of it's body. Also it happens to be one of my favorite fish to eat!!
I think I need a new camera. All the shots I took at this place have weird noise in them. the noise kind of looks like rectangular shapes and it's all of over the images in a kind of pattern. Seems to be a electronic problem of some sort :( I tried my hardest to get rid of most of it but it leaves the images looking a little strange. I suppose you can't really notice if you just take a quick look at them. Sigh ....
Perspective view of a rectangular form staircase from the upstairs in a residential building hall. Stairway leading a few floors down. Interior design tree in the hallway a few stories down.
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Description of Buildings:
Gesu Church is a rectangular structure of structural steel, reinforced-concrete construction and features exterior walls covered with stucco.
An arcaded portico projects from the west façade of the church and is divided by four massive piers into three bays.
The piers and pilasters on the opposite wall rest
on cubical pedestals approximately nine feet high. A chamfered molding serves as a capital for each pier and is repeated, at the same level as a belt course
running completely around the building.
The central bay of the portico projects slightly, and its arch springs from two semi-engaged Doric columns, thus framing
the main entrance of the church.
Articulation of the west wall echoes the tripartite divisions of the portico with semicircular arched portals at each bay. Double doors of wood and glass are recessed within the portal and have dentilled transoms and cartouches above.
The north façade of the church features an elevated basement from which piers rise to the architrave above. Indented panels between the piers contain tall, semi-circular arched stained glass windows.
A tripartite tower complex embellishes the roof. The central tower which is square in plan, rises in a series of steps and contains a belfry with arched windows. Two hipped roof towers flank the central tower.
Gesu Rectory is located directly east of the church and is connected to it. This four story rectangular structure is of structural steel, reinforced concrete construction, and its exterior walls are covered with stucco. Its pedimented gable
roof is covered with Spanish tile.
The main entrance is located in the center bay of the north façade and features a double door with large lights. The majority of windows are three over one double
hung sash. Round arch windows grace the fourth floor.
Gesu School is located east of the rectory. The building is a five story rectangular structure of reinforced concrete construction covered with stucco. A flat roof with parapet tops the building and features a pediment above the main entrance.
The focal point of the building is a grand, three story portico on the north façade. Ionic columns support the portico and are repeated in pilasters separating each bay. The main entrance features a colossal semi-circular arch with double doors.
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been instrumental in the establishment of Gesù Catholic Church from its inception. Gesù Parish was established as a result of the large Catholic community present in Miami. The original wooden church was built on land donated by Henry Flagler, and as Miami began to grow the need for a larger Church became a necessity. In 1921, the first cornerstone of this concrete and steel structure was laid to suit the needs of the growing Catholic community in Miami
Through the years, Gesù has been a spiritual ambassador to Catholics living in South Florida. It has taken on many roles aside from being a Church. For more than 75 years, Gesù Church started Gesù School which provided elementary and high school education. The school was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph
In addition, the Centro Hispano Católico at Gesù assisted Cuban refugees and refugees from other Central American countries with basic needs and helped with assimilation into a foreign country. From 1959-1982, the Centro Hispano Católico provided refugees with food, clothes, medical care, jobs, housing, daycare, school tuition, English classes, and immigration assistance. In 1962, Gesù served as headquarters to the Pedro Pan operation which bought more than 14,000 unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba
In September 1961, Gesù housed Belén Jesuit Preparatory School for a year and a half. After being exiled from Cuba, Jesuit Priests opened a school for refugee students who were living in Miami. This was the beginning of Belén Jesuit in South Florida.
Today, Gesù Catholic Church remains the spiritual center of downtown Miami. As the oldest church in South Florida, Gesù invites all to visit this historic landmark that has been serving South Florida’s Catholic community for nearly 120 years.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.halsema.org/places/miami/GesuChurchandRectory.pdf
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
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A year ago, I uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr and admitted that while I had lived in New York City for 45 years — I had never previously attended, observed, photographed, or participated in the annual Halloween Parade that takes place in Greenwich Village. I won’t repeat the rest of the meandering blather that I wrote … if you would like to see it, and/or the photos that accompanied the notes, you can find them here on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/albums/72157646748393453
In any case, though, I decided to return to the parade again this year … and, like last year, I got off the subway at the Canal Street (express) station, and walked north to where the cops and the parade-floats, the bands and the professional photographers were gathering in anticipation of another year of festivity.
But I quickly discovered that, while last year’s parade started at 7 PM, when it was already cold and dark, this year’s parade was not scheduled to get started until 9 PM. I realize that 9 PM is quite an early hour for ghouls and vampires, not to mention teenagers, young adults, party-goers, and even the majority of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd who were presumably just getting in their trains and buses to make the trek from the wilderness regions of Long Island and New Jersey. But for those of us slightly (ahem) older than the age of 35, 9 PM is about the time when we turn on last night’s video-recording of Jimmy Fallon or Trevor Noah, and watch in a glassy-eyed stupor for a few minutes before we begin snoring …
So … I decided not to hang around the official starting position at Spring Street for two or three hours, and instead began wandering further north into the more crowded sections of the West Village — near West 4th Street. And I’m glad I did: while there were no bands or “fancy” displays, there was a lot more energy, and a lot of interesting costumes and people (or ghouls and vampires, depending on your preferences).
The only outcasts, far more confused and lost than the out-of-town tourists, were the cops. There were hundreds of them, maybe thousands; and this was two weeks before the recent terrorist attacks, with nobody expecting any trouble more serious than an occasional happy drunkard falling over in the street. Most of the cops that I saw were somehow affiliated with a “Community Affairs” department (or division, or whatever); but what made it funny is that none of them seemed to have a clue where they were. At one point, I stood near a friendly, attentive police officer at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 8th Street — when a tourist (sounding like he was from Germany) wandered up and asked the cop for directions to 9th Street. The cop shrugged politely and said that he really didn’t know — despite the fact that the street sign for 9th Street was clearly visible, less than a block away. I got the impression that the cops had been brought in from such far-away areas as Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx; and while they could have navigated the neatly-rectangularized streets of mid-town Manhattan, they were utterly lost in Greenwich Village.
Oh, well, it didn’t matter. I watched one woman emerge from the subway, reassuring her clearly-terrified friend, “Don’t worry, I’ll get you back to New Jersey safely. I promise!” But she took one look at the wildly-costumed crowd around her, near the Waverly Theater, let out a loud “Woo hoo!” squeal, and left her friend behind….
In the midst of all this, I did manage to get some photos … and I’ve uploaded a small subset of them here to Flickr. Enjoy …
Plaza rectangular porticada de mas de diez mil metros cuadrados , dedicada a la heroína local María Pita y proyectada a mediados del siglo XIX. En un frente se encuentra el Ayuntamiento y en los otros casas alineadas que se rematan con galerías. En un ángulo, la estatua con una escultura de María Pita.
María Pita Square in La Coruña.
Rectangular porticoed plaza of more than ten thousand square meters, dedicated to the local heroine María Pita and designed in the mid-19th century. On one front is the Town Hall and on the other, lined houses that are finished off with galleries. In one corner, the statue with a sculpture of María Pita.
La Coruña. Galicia. España.
This is a 561 ft (171 m) observation tower in Dallas, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. A free-standing structure until the construction of an addition to the Hyatt Regency Dallas and surrounding complex in 1998, the tower is the city's 15th tallest occupiable structure. It was designed by architectural firm Welton Becket & Associates. The tower contains three floors with circular floor plans on top of four shafts of poured-in-place concrete. A central cylindrical shaft houses both stairs and mechanical equipment. Three rectangular shafts, featuring elevators, rise parallel to the central shaft. Each shaft's outfacing wall is made up of glass panels, providing tourists views of the city during the 68-second elevator ride to the top.
Description of Buildings:
Gesu Church is a rectangular structure of structural steel, reinforced-concrete construction and features exterior walls covered with stucco.
An arcaded portico projects from the west façade of the church and is divided by four massive piers into three bays.
The piers and pilasters on the opposite wall rest
on cubical pedestals approximately nine feet high. A chamfered molding serves as a capital for each pier and is repeated, at the same level as a belt course
running completely around the building.
The central bay of the portico projects slightly, and its arch springs from two semi-engaged Doric columns, thus framing
the main entrance of the church.
Articulation of the west wall echoes the tripartite divisions of the portico with semicircular arched portals at each bay. Double doors of wood and glass are recessed within the portal and have dentilled transoms and cartouches above.
The north façade of the church features an elevated basement from which piers rise to the architrave above. Indented panels between the piers contain tall, semi-circular arched stained glass windows.
A tripartite tower complex embellishes the roof. The central tower which is square in plan, rises in a series of steps and contains a belfry with arched windows. Two hipped roof towers flank the central tower.
Gesu Rectory is located directly east of the church and is connected to it. This four story rectangular structure is of structural steel, reinforced concrete construction, and its exterior walls are covered with stucco. Its pedimented gable
roof is covered with Spanish tile.
The main entrance is located in the center bay of the north façade and features a double door with large lights. The majority of windows are three over one double
hung sash. Round arch windows grace the fourth floor.
Gesu School is located east of the rectory. The building is a five story rectangular structure of reinforced concrete construction covered with stucco. A flat roof with parapet tops the building and features a pediment above the main entrance.
The focal point of the building is a grand, three story portico on the north façade. Ionic columns support the portico and are repeated in pilasters separating each bay. The main entrance features a colossal semi-circular arch with double doors.
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been instrumental in the establishment of Gesù Catholic Church from its inception. Gesù Parish was established as a result of the large Catholic community present in Miami. The original wooden church was built on land donated by Henry Flagler, and as Miami began to grow the need for a larger Church became a necessity. In 1921, the first cornerstone of this concrete and steel structure was laid to suit the needs of the growing Catholic community in Miami
Through the years, Gesù has been a spiritual ambassador to Catholics living in South Florida. It has taken on many roles aside from being a Church. For more than 75 years, Gesù Church started Gesù School which provided elementary and high school education. The school was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph
In addition, the Centro Hispano Católico at Gesù assisted Cuban refugees and refugees from other Central American countries with basic needs and helped with assimilation into a foreign country. From 1959-1982, the Centro Hispano Católico provided refugees with food, clothes, medical care, jobs, housing, daycare, school tuition, English classes, and immigration assistance. In 1962, Gesù served as headquarters to the Pedro Pan operation which bought more than 14,000 unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba
In September 1961, Gesù housed Belén Jesuit Preparatory School for a year and a half. After being exiled from Cuba, Jesuit Priests opened a school for refugee students who were living in Miami. This was the beginning of Belén Jesuit in South Florida.
Today, Gesù Catholic Church remains the spiritual center of downtown Miami. As the oldest church in South Florida, Gesù invites all to visit this historic landmark that has been serving South Florida’s Catholic community for nearly 120 years.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.halsema.org/places/miami/GesuChurchandRectory.pdf
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Black and white perspective view of a rectangular form staircase from the upstairs in a residential building hall. Stairway leading a few floors down. Interior design, mystery, solitude concept.
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The military government of Barcelona is a neoclassical building of the early 20th century located in the city of Barcelona. It is located in Plaza del Portal de la Paz at the confluence of the Rambla with the Paseo de Colón.
It was designed as a Clone of the Lonja Palace, located at the opposite end of the Paseo.
Its construction began in 1928 to host the offices of the Ministry of War. + A neoclassical building, designed by Adolf Florensa.
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Rectangular, it was built around two courtyards. Its four facades are decorated with grooved columns, Corinthian capitals, carved plumes, balustrades and other characteristic elements of the classicist monumentalism of the official buildings of the epoch- Today, the Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense has its headquarters.
Il governo militare di Barcellona è un edificio neoclassico degli inizi del XX secolo situato nella città di Barcellona. È Sito 'in Plaza del Portal de la Paz, alla confluenza della Rambla col Paseo de Colón.
È stato progettato come un clone del palazzo Lonja, che si trova all'estremità opposta della Paseo.
La sua costruzione iniziò nel 1928 per ospitare gli uffici del Ministero della Guerra. + un edificio neoclassico, progettato da Adolf Florensa.
Di pianta Rettangolare,è fu costruito intorno a due cortili . Le sue quattro facciate sono decorate con colonne scanalate, capitelli corinzi, pennacchi intagliati, balaustre e altri elementi caratteristici del monumentalismo classicista proprio degli edifici ufficiali dell’epoca- Oggi vi ha sede il Quartiere generale del Ministero della Difesa.
From left to right, Metroline TA648 (LK05GGP) and preserved Grey Green 143 (F143PHM) and M1014 (A714THV), lined up on the forecourt of Potters Bar garage stand for the "heritage" service vehicles on the 2019 open day.
Rectangular pincushion made of natural linen & a silky poppy printed fabric, on one side. Red linen on the other side. Red trim. I handstamped the names of (red) poppy in English, French ("coquelicot") & in Latin ("Papaver Rhoeas") on cream cotton tape. I hand-embroidered a little (bumble) bee. Filled with bits of blend felt I cut into mini pieces.
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The Hialeah City Hall is a modest building by Brutalist Architectural standards, It is a rectangular building with a top floor that cantilevers over the rest, The once exposed concrete surface has been painted in shades of pastel browns and oranges. A mural of mosaic stones is its most striking feature. It covers the stairway tower and depicts the American and Cuban flags, a nod to the history of Miami. Other unique features include small framed windows on the second level and exposed supports for the third floor.
Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. With a population of 239,673 at the 2018 United States Census, Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in Florida. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. It is located west-northwest of Miami, and is the only place in the county, other than Homestead, Florida, to have its own street grid numbered separately from the rest of the county (which is otherwise based on Miami Avenue at Flagler Street in downtown Miami, the county seat).
Hialeah has the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban-American residents of any city in the United States, at 73.37% of the population, making them a typical and prominent feature of the city's culture. All Hispanics make up 94.7% of the city's population, the second-highest percentage of a Hispanic population in a U.S. city with over 100,000 citizens.
Hialeah also has one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities in the country. In 2016, 96.3% of residents reported speaking Spanish at home, and the language is an important part of daily life in the city.
Hialeah is served by the Miami Metrorail at Okeechobee, Hialeah, and Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer stations. The Okeechobee and Hialeah stations serve primarily as park-and-ride commuter stations to commuters and residents going into Downtown Miami, and Tri-Rail station to Miami International Airport, and north to West Palm Beach.
The city's name is most commonly attributed to Muskogee origin, "Haiyakpo" (prairie) and "hili" (pretty) combining in "Hialeah" to mean "pretty prairie". Alternatively, the word is of Seminole origin meaning "Upland Prairie". The city is located upon a large prairie between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades.
The Seminole interpretation of its name, "High Prairie", evokes a picture of the grassy plains used by the native Indians coming from the everglades to dock their canoes and display their wares for the newcomers of Miami. This "high prairie" caught the eye of pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright in 1921. Together, they developed not only the town of Hialeah but also the Hialeah Park Race Track.
In the early "Roaring '20s", Hialeah produced significant entertainment contributions. Sporting included the Spanish sport of jai alai and greyhound racing, and media included silent movies like D.W. Griffith's The White Rose which was made at the Miami Movie Studios located in Hialeah. However, the 1926 Miami hurricane brought many of these things to an end.
In the years since its incorporation in 1925, many historical events and people have been associated with Hialeah. The opening of the horse racing course at Hialeah Park Race Track in 1925 (which was nicknamed the "Grand Dame") received more coverage in the Miami media than any other sporting event in the history of Dade County up to that time and since then there have been countless horse racing histories played out at the world-famous 220-acre (0.89 km2) park.[6] It was considered one of the most grand of thoroughbred horse racing parks with its majestic Mediterranean style architecture and was considered the Jewel of Hialeah at the time.
The park's grandeur has attracted millions, included among them are names known around the world such as the Kennedy family, Harry Truman, General Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill, and J.P. Morgan. The Hialeah Park Race Track also holds the dual distinction of being an Audubon Bird Sanctuary due to its famous pink flamingos and being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The famous aviator Amelia Earhart in 1937 said her final good-byes to the continental U.S. from Hialeah as she left on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937.
While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community. Hialeah historian Patricia Fernández-Kelly explained "It became an affordable Eden." She further describes the city as "a place where different groups have left their imprint while trying to create a sample of what life should be like." Several waves of Cuban exiles, starting after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continuing through to the Freedom Flights from 1965 to 1973, the Mariel boatlift in 1980, and the Balseros or boat people of the late 1990s, created what at least one expert has considered the most economically successful immigrant enclave in U.S. history as Hialeah is the only American industrial city that continues to grow.
From a population of 1,500 in 1925, Hialeah has grown at a rate faster than most of the 10 larger cities in the state of Florida since the 1960s and holds the rank of Florida's fifth-largest city, with more than 224,000 residents. The city is also one of the largest employers in Dade County.
In January 2009, Forbes magazine listed Hialeah as one of the most boring cities in the United States citing the city's large population and anonymity in the national media.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hialeah,_Florida
www.miamidade.gov/Apps/PA/propertysearch/#/
miamibrutalism.tumblr.com/post/106367500508/hialeah-city-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
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