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Former Steve and Barry's in Middleburg Heights, Ohio by Fan of Retail

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This was originally part of a Halle's Department Store. This section was subdivided and became a Dick's Sporting Goods ( I believe), then later Steve & Barry's.

Alphington Como St 17 1982 folder 01, p 15 1397 by Graeme Butler

Northcote Conservation study 1982 survey images: colour slide, black & white:.

`Thomas Wills' original Lucerne Farm, of tha 1840's, became the Lucerne Eacata of 1885. Renowned Heidelberg developer, A D Hodgson, had subdivided the western boundary of Lucarne Farm: creating, in the first plan, Constance, Chenouni and St Bernard Streets and. in the second. St Gothards and Geneva Streets. These startad from the eastern boundary of Manning's 1850s subdivision; feeding into Como Street. At the bottom of tha first subdivision, at St Bernard Road, a former Heidelberg farmer, ona Peter B. Fanning, purchased two lots in the name of his wife, Mary Alicia Panning..

Petar Fanning reputedly came from a farm at Moonee Ponds to tha Banyule Estate, at Heidelberg, where he leased a farm from James Graham. During the period from tha 1850s to 1878, Fanning became, initially prosperous; being elected to the Heidelberg Road Board in 1868, the Shire Council in 1871 and to the Shire Presidency, in 1877. He took an interest in municipal matters: designing and supervising the establishment of Heidelberg Park which also served his private interest in botony and floriculture. Fanning left Heidelberg in 1878; purchasing part of .

the Berlin Estate, north of Bell Street, in the following year. Ha became a hotelkaeper for a time but, at the age of 62, he retired to Alphington where he had built Balclutha possibly to the design of the architects, Twentyman and Askew, in 1889..

He lived there until his death, in 1905; the property being then leased out for a period of fifteen years.'

Kingswood Eynesbury House by aquilareen

Original house built c1856 on land owned by William Martin Letchford, leased 1877 to Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson. Purchased, enlarged & named Eynesbury by George Wilcox 1881, property subdivided 1919, house purchased 1919 by Henry Maxwell Bradford, later converted to flats, leased 1980s by religious group, leased as a school 1990-2001, now private.

“District Councils. . . Mitcham. . . [Letter] from W. M. Letchford, for culvert to his entrance on Unley-road, offering to pay half cost of same — to be attended to.” [Register 28 Aug 1872]

R Hickson, Lower Mitcham [Adelaide Directories 1878, 1879]

“Mr Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson. . . From 1874 to 1881 he was engineer-in-chief of harbours and jetties In South Australia.” [Sydney Morning Herald 29 Jun 1923]

“A garden party, followed by a banquet, was given to the Stow Church Choir and their friends on Saturday, October 19, by Mr. and Mrs. George Wilcox, at their residence, ‘Eynesbury’, Lower Mitcham. During the afternoon outdoor games were participated in, and in the evening about forty guests sat down to the spread.” [Evening Journal 21 Oct 1889]

“the beautiful grounds of Eynesbury, the residence of Mr. George Wilcox at Mitcham, presented a busy scene when a strawberry fete in aid of the building fond for a new Anglican church at Hawthorn was held.” [Advertiser 15 Nov 1897]

“the fine wisteria climbing over Mr. George Wilcox's residence, Eynesbury, Mitcham, shows the enormous growth to advantage. The wisteria is 30 ft. high, and covers a space of over 1,200 ft., and now that it is in full bloom makes a beautiful exhibit.” [Critic, Adelaide 13 Oct 1900]

“The late Mr. George Wilcox purchased the property from Mr. Letchford, of the firm of Messrs. Shuttleworth & Letehford in March, 1881, but the owner was not living there at the time, as Capt Hickson, the Engineer for Harbours, was then renting the place. When Mr. Wilcox took possession the whole of the back portion of the land was under vines, but these were subsequently rooted out. The late Mr. Wilcox also imported all the ornate ironwork for the front gates, fence, and balconies. These were purchased by his son, Mr. John Wilcox, while he was in England. The first consignment of .this material went to the bottom of the sea on a sailing ship off the coast of Ireland in 1884, and the duplicate set ordered is that now standing at Eynesbury House.” [Register 8 May 1919]

“'Eynesbury House', Unley Road, formerly the residence of the late Sir. George Wilcox. This imposing mansion, which is massively built of stone, is famed throughout Australia for its wonderful wistaria [sic] creeper. The estate, which comprises some 20 odd acres, has just been subdivided, leaving 3 acres of garden surrounding the house, and the balance of the land (together with the beautiful tree-studded paddock adjoining Mr. Alfred Wilkinson's residence) has been surveyed into 66 residential sites, and named 'Kingswood Park'. 'Eynesbury House' contains 12 rooms, also magnificent ballroom (52 x 25 ft.), and extensive domestic offices. For a family residence, a high-class guest home, for residential flats, or for a rest home it would be hard indeed to find its equal. The trustees of the estate (Elder's Trustee & Executor Co.. Ltd., and Mr. Sydney Wilcox) have instructed Messrs. Wilkinson, Panda, & Wyles to dispose of the property by public auction. . . To ensure its sale, the nominal upset price of £1,700 has been placed on ‘Eynesbury House' (with 3 acres).” [The Mail 10 May 1919, p 11]

“Eynesbury House. . . The residence of the late Mr. George Wilcox, containing 12 rooms, &c. realised £1,825, the purchaser being Mr. J. Milburn. The iron fencing on the Unley road frontage of the estate was sold separately, and realized the sum of £120.” [Register 29 May 1919]

“the following sales by public auction and private contract. . . Account Messrs. Milburn and Jeffery — the well-known two-story residence of 14 rooms, &c., known as Eynesbury House, Kingswood Park, to Mr. H. M. Bradford.” [Register 4 Dec 1919]

“Mr. W. M. Bradford, 'Eynesbury', Unley, referring to the 380 ft. of iron palisading, presented to the Town Council by Mr, Willcox [sic]; as he had purchased 'Eynesbury’, he would be pleased to make the Council an offer for 120 ft. of same, as he desired to replace the home as Mr. Willcox left it.” [Bunyip, Gawler 5 Mar 1920]

“Mitcham Study Circle. At the invitation of the Misses Humphris, the opening meeting of the Study Circle will be held at Eynesbury House, 69 Victoria terrace, Mitcham.” [Advertiser 23 Feb 1934]

“Super U. furn. flats, s.c. 5 or 6 rooms, adults, garage, Eynesbury House, 69 Victoria terrace. L. Mitcham.” [Advertiser 18 Nov 1936 advert]

WILLIAM MARTIN LETCHFORD

“At a meeting of the ratepayers, held at the Brownhill Creek Inn, Mitcham. . . Mr. William Letchford was duly elected to serve as a Councillor for the year 1858.” [Register 2 Jul 1858]

“LETCHFORD. — On the 16th July, at Lower Mitcham, after 12 hours' illness, Anne, the beloved wife of W. M. Letchford, aged 36 years.” [Register 17 Jul 1872]

“the death of Mrs. W. M. Letchford. . . at Mitcham. . . Mrs. Letchford leaves seven young children behind her.” [Register 17 Jul 1872]

“LETCHFORD — CHAMBERS.— On the 4th June, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Wm. Walker, Parade, Norwood, by the Rev. W. L. Binks, W. M. Letchford, of Lower Mitcham, to Anne, widow of the late Thomas Waterhouse Chambers.” [Advertiser 18 Jun 1874]

“For Sale.— The Valuable Freehold Property, known as the Residence of Mr. W. M. Letchford, comprising 18 Acres of Land, on the Unley and Mitcham Road, together with the Excellent Family Residence erected thereon, and Stabling, Storerooms, Wine Cellars, Tanks, and every requisite required.” [Register 1 Jul 1876 advert]

“For Sale, or To be Let on Lease, with or without Right of Purchase, the Residence of the undersigned, Grove Villa, Lower Mitcham. . . W. M. Letchford.” [Evening Journal 26 Dec 1876 advert].

“At Glenelg fronting the sea wall, a handsome villa residence in the Italian style is being erected for Mr. W. M. Letchford.” Advertiser 10 Jan 1877]

“LETCHFORD. — On the 13th December, at Albert-terrace [now South Esplanade], Glenelg, William Martin Letchford, aged 56 years.” [Advertiser 14 Dec 1880]

“Mr. W. M. Letchford. . . many years ago established the soap and candle factory in South Adelaide which is now known as Tidmarsh & Co.'s. Since then, for a number of years, he has carried on business as a land and estate agent, and was confidential manager for Mr. T. G. Waterhouse. . . South Australian Carrying Company. . . Equitable Insurance Company, and also of the Equitable Building and Investment Society.” [Register 14 Dec 1880]

ROBERT ROWAN PURDON HICKSON

“On Wednesday morning, June 30, the professional and clerical staff of the Department of Harbours and Jetties waited upon the Engineer, Mr. Hickson, in his office, for the purpose of bidding him farewell prior to the dissolution of the department, which was to take effect on the following day.” [Register 3 Jul 1880]

“Mr. Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson, I.S.O. . . born in .1842, in County Kerry, Ireland, and served articles as an engineer to James Burton, engineer-in-chief of the principal works in the North of Ireland, He was appointed to take charge of the Carlingford Harbor works in 1864, and was Engineer-in-Chief of Harbors and Jetties in South Australia from 1876 to 1881. In 1881 Mr. Hickson became Resident Engineer at Newcastle. . . President of the Sydney Harbor Trust, 1901-1912. . . He is survived by a widow, 7 children. . . Mrs. W. F. Everett (London), Mrs. E. A. M. Merewether (Newcastle), Messrs. G. F. Hickson (Mildura), R. P. Hickson (Gunnedah), W. L. Hickson (Singleton), C. H. Hickson (Western Australia),. R. M. Hickson (Armidale).” [The Sun, Sydney 28 Jun 1923]

GEORGE WILCOX

“WILCOX.— On the 13th April, at Eynesbury House, Lower Mitcham, Annie, beloved wife of George Wilcox (suddenly), aged 57 years.” [Register 14 Apr 1897]

“wife of Mr. George Wilcox, of Mitcham. . . was a native of Huntingdonshire, England, and a colonist of over thirty-five years. . . There are two daughters — Mrs McRostie and Miss Wilcox — and three sons, who are in business in Sydney.” [Advertiser 15 Apr 1897]

“WILCOX.—On the 5th September, at Eynesbury, Lower Mitcham, George Wilcox, aged 78 years. No flowers by request.” [Express & Telegraph 6 Sep 1917]

“Mr. George Wilcox. . . took keen interest in his garden at Mitcham, and was particularly proud of the magnificent wistaria [sic] — one of the finest and largest in Australia — growing against the house.” [Register 6 Sep 1917]

“Mr. George Wilcox. . . was a native of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. He was born in 1838. . . Mr. Wilcox became apprenticed to the grocery trade in England, and in 1858, he came to South Australia and started as a storekeeper at Gawler, where he remained until 1872, when he relinquished business and returned to England for two years. In 1874 he returned to South Australia. . . a business as an export merchant until 1903, when he retired. Subsequently he interested himself only in the Koonamore sheep station in the north-east, which he held in partnership with the late Mr. William Hamilton. . . Two sons (Messrs. Sydney Wilcox, of Adelaide; and Murray Wilcox, of Sydney), and two daughters (Mesdames H. E. McRostie, of Glencoe East, and Miss Wilcox, of Mitcham) survive. Mrs. Wilcox died about 20 years ago.” [Critic, Adelaide 12 Sep 1917]

107-109 Riverside Drive House by Emilio Guerra

Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

The 107-109 Riverside Drive House, originally designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898- 99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and West 83rd Street. Today the 107-109 Riverside Drive House is architecturally significant and as one of the five extant houses in this group represents the first period of development on Riverside Drive. True designed several hundred houses, primarily in groups, on the Upper West Side in the years between 1890 and 1901, and was largely responsible for promoting the development and establishing the character of lower Riverside Drive. The houses in the group at Riverside and West 83rd Street were designed in True's signature "Elizabethan Revival" style based on French and English Renaissance prototypes and built by True's development firm, the Riverside Building Company; they are the northernmost of True's designs built along the Drive. The trapezoid-shaped 107-109 Riverside Drive House is prominently located on the corner and has wide facades of over forty feet; its design is characterized by such picturesque elements as contrasting orange Roman ironspot brick and Ihnestone facing, an elaborate entrance with a low stoop, round-arched and rectangular windows, keyed surrounds, decorative ironwork, prominent chimneys, crenellation, and a tile roof. This house was originally designed with a three-quarter-round comer tower and projecting three-sided bays on both sides, but these features facing Riverside Drive (along with those of the adjacent houses) became the focus of an interesting legal controversy several years after construction. As the result of a lawsuit brought by an adjacent property owner, the court ruled in 1903 that no one had the authority to place permanent encroachments onto public thoroughfares, and the owners of the houses in the True group facing onto Riverside Drive were thus ordered to remove the projections. In 1911 the facades were removed and rebuilt to follow the diagonal of the Riverside Drive property lines. No. 107-109 (owned by Charles Austin Bates, a successful businessman) was partially rebuilt with the original materials by the firm of Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield; the West 83rd Street facade apparently was not subject to the lawsuit as it does not face the Drive and remains unaltered. As seen today, although the 107-109 Riverside Drive House reflects the work of two architectural firms, it basically remains a successfully modified version of the original picturesque Elizabethan Revival design.

The Development of Riverside Drive

The Upper West Side, known as Bloomingdale prior to its urbanization, remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s. In the early eighteenth century, Bloomingdale Road (later renamed the Boulevard and finally Broadway in 1898) was opened through rural Bloomingdale and provided the northern route out of the city which was then concentrated at the southern tip of Manhattan. The Upper West Side was included in the Randel Survey of 1811 (known as the Commissioners' Map) which established a uniform grid of avenues and cross streets in Manhattan as far north as 155th Street, although years elapsed before streets on the Upper West Side were actually laid out, some as late as the 1870s and 1880s, and the land was subdivided into building lots. Improved public transportation to the area contributed to the growth and sustained development of the Upper West Side, particularly the completion in 1879 of the Elevated Railway on Ninth Avenue (renamed Columbus Avenue in 1890).

The biggest boost to the development of the West End (the area west of Broadway), however, was the creation of Riverside Drive and Park (a designated New York City Scenic Landmark). The presence of the Park and Drive was an important factor in making this area desirable for high-quality residential development. In 1865 the first proposal for converting the land on the Upper West Side along the eastern shore of the Hudson River into an ornamental park had been presented by Park Commissioner William R. Martin. The purchase of the park site and initial plans were approved in 1866. The drive, as proposed at this time, was to be a straight 100-foot wide road; however, this plan was impractical due to the existing topography. Hired by the Commissioners in 1873, Frederick law Olmsted (1822-1903), already distinguished by his collaboration with Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) in the successful design for Central Park, proposed an alternate scheme. Olmsted's design for Riverside Park and Drive took into consideration the pre-existing topography, landscape possibilities, and views, resulting in a park and drive that would be amenable for horses and pleasure driving, would provide shaded walks for pedestrians, and would also allow easy access to and scenic vistas from the real estate bordering it on the east. Olmsted's plan was adopted by the Commissioners but the park was not executed under his supervision, due to his departure from New York City; it was actually developed between 1875 and 1900 by other designers including Vaux, Samuel Parsons, and Julius Munckwitz, who did not adhere to Olmsted's original scheme in its entirety. By the fall of 1879, work was completed between 72nd and 85th Streets, and Riverside Avenue (as it was called until 1908) was opened to the public in 1880.

The Drive, from West 72nd Street to approximately 129th Street, where it is effectively terminated by the viaduct and the Manhattanville fault, has a particularly strong character derived from its curves that break with the regular street grid and its location overlooking the park and the Hudson River. Riverside Park and Drive fulfilled the Park Commissioners' plans for promoting the development of the area west of Broadway. The numerous and exceptional advantages of the location, namely, its situation on a plateau, its "advantages of pure air and beautiful surroundings, glimpses of New Jersey hills . . . [and] the nearness of parks," assisted in making the area along Riverside Drive prime real estate, deserving of the highest character of residential development.

Development of the West End began slowly due to speculation, the hesitation of developers, and to the relative inconvenience of transportation compared to the area east of Broadway. By 1885, however, the whole Upper West Side had emerged as the area in the city experiencing the most intense real estate speculation. The expectation that the blocks along Riverside Drive and West End Avenue would be lined with mansions kept the value of these lots, as well as adjacent land, consistently higher and developers were willing to wait to realize profits from the potentially valuable sites.

The initial development along Riverside Drive mostly took the form of single-family town houses and rowhouses, although some freestanding mansions were built there. luxury apartment buildings, as they gained in popularity toward the turn of the century, also appeared. Most of the single-family residences on the Upper West Side were speculatively-built rowhouses; along West End Avenue and Riverside Drive the houses tended to be larger and more elegant than those on the side streets. Architect-developer Clarence True, who characterized the Drive and its vicinity as "the most ideal home-site in the western hemisphere — the Acropolis of the world's second city," was largely responsible for the promotion of lower Riverside Drive as an attractive residential thoroughfare and his work there, like the group at 83rd Street, did much to establish the character of the area in the 1890s.

Clarence F. True and the Elizabethan Revival Style^

Clarence Fagan True (1860-1928) was a prolific and well-known architect (and later architect-developer) who designed, almost solely, rowhouses and town houses and practiced mainly on the Upper West Side of Manhattan during the years from 1890 to 1901. Born in Massachusetts, he came to New York City in 1880 and was trained in the office of Richard M. Upjohn beginning around 1881; he was listed in directories in 1884 and established his own firm in 1889. True received his commissions primarily from speculative builders and developers who were rapidly constructing houses throughout the Upper West Side. True is documented as having designed at least 270 houses on the Upper West Side, the majority located west of Broadway between 71st and 107th Streets. Diverse and eclectic in architectural style and massing, these houses contribute greatly to the architectural character of the Upper West Side. He also designed some twenty houses in Harlem, including several now located in the Hamilton Heights and Mount Morris Park Historic Districts. In 1893 he published a prospectus of his work, Designs of 141 Dwelling Houses, in which he stated his aim of creating distinctive well- designed houses, both in interior plan and exterior appearance, that would mark a shift away from the homogeneity of the standard New York City brownstone rowhouse. True's executed work demonstrated that he succeeded in his ambitions.

True was primarily an architect of rowhouse groups. In his houses of the early 1890s, True employed a variety of contemporary architectural styles, frequently mingling them in an eclectic fashion; these included the popular Romanesque and Renaissance Revival styles, as well as the Francois I and a style he called "Elizabethan Revival" which was based on French and English Renaissance prototypes. In 1894 True began to work in part as his own developer and later formed the Riverside Building Company. A second prospectus, [A True History of! Riverside Drive (1899), pictured many of the houses for the Riverside Building Company, including the group of six houses at 102 to 107-109 Riverside Drive and 332 West 83rd Street which were then under construction and completed later that same year. In this prospectus True promoted the development of lower Riverside Drive:

Mr. Clarence True, who had erected houses upon some of the lower lots, became so thoroughly impressed with the possibilities of the river front as a residence district that he secured all the available property south of 84th street, and by covering it with beautiful dwellings, insured a most promising future for the Drive.

The area along and adjacent to Riverside Drive, from 75th to 85th Streets, includes the densest concentration of extant houses designed by True; many of these are now included in the West End-Collegiate and Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic Districts. These houses along the Drive — including No. 107-109 and the other houses in the corner group at 83rd Street — are characteristic of most of True's mature work; all were designed in the architect's highly idiosyncratic and readily identifiable "Elizabethan Revival" style. True's rowhouses in this vein are typified by lively silhouettes, composed of such elements as steeply-pitched roofs that often have curved or stepped gables, chimneys, stepped end-walls, turrets, bowed fronts, projecting three-sided and square bays, and dormers. The facades, varied within the group, also display a variety of contrasting materials, including fine brick and stone, and such features as quoins, keyed surrounds, stylized cornices, crenellation, parapets, and decorative ironwork. True's interest in the use of varied colors of building materials is also evident in the group at Riverside and 83rd — the brick colors graduate in hue from house to house, from tan to light orange to orange to red.

True was one of the architects who greatly popularized the American basement plan for rowhouse design in New York City during these years. He received much favorable notice in the architectural press of the 1890s, which published a number of his designs. Real Estate Record & Guide (1893) stated that True "has earned quite a reputation for the novelty of the ideas he has carried out in a large number of houses built from his designs on the West Side in the last few years. The old method of high stoop construction has been abandoned ... the houses are entered almost on a level with the street." Architecture and Building (1893) noted: "The facades show great variety and taste, and the plans, many of them upon narrow lots, ingenuity and skill in arrangement." A History of Real Estate. Building, and Architecture in New York (1899) considered True "probably the best known New York architect designing almost entirely residential structures .... His work as exemplified by his houses is a credit both to himself and the city."

True also designed several apartment houses, hotels, and small commercial structures, as well as a church building in Harlem. Little is known about the end of his career, but it appears to coincide with the demise of rowhouse construction in New York City after the turn of the century. His last directory listing was in 1910, although Clarence True & Son received a listing in 1916-17. True died in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1928, and was buried in Middle town, Connecticut.

Ackerman vs. True

An interesting controversy developed around the construction of the houses at 102 to 107-109 Riverside Drive which affected the design of their facades eleven years after completion. On July 28, 1898, Clarence True applied, by letter, to the Commissioner of Buildings, Thomas J. Brady, for a foundation permit for six, five-story houses. According to his accompanying plans, each of the six structures partly extended beyond the property line, due to the oblique angle of the Drive, by incorporating stoops, areaway walls, and projecting bays arid bowfronts. On August 8, Brady returned a permit to True granting him permission "to construct the foundation work provided for new buildings on E. S. Riverside Drive bet. 82 & 83 St. as per plans...." On August 16, True filed an application for the erection of these six new buildings (NB 730-1898), five fronting Riverside Drive and one fronting West 83rd Street. The Department of Buildings issued an objection to the application on September 15, stating that "projections beyond building lines are unlawful." True then obtained a letter from George C. Clauson, Commissioner of Parks, dated November 21, which granted consent "to the erection of projections on six proposed buildings" and exacted a fee based on the square footage of each projection. On November 28, True filed an amendment to the application which mentioned "consent from Park [sic] Department for projection beyond building lines is filed this date with

plans & etc " The structures were completed a year later in November

of 1899.

Building encroachments onto public property, a fairly common practice in New York City during the nineteenth century, became an increasingly debated topic at the turn of the century, as evidenced by the numerous lawsuits filed and by discussions in such periodicals as Real Estate Record & Guide. A lawsuit was brought against Clarence True, after the completion of the houses at Riverside Drive and West 83rd Street, by the adjacent property owner, Charlotte Y. Ackerman, who had purchased from True the lot to the south of the group. Ackerman's case argued that the projecting bays, bowfronts and stoops on the houses next to her property were illegal encroachments upon the public street which also diminished the value of her property through the obstruction of her view, light, and air. Ackerman won the case in 1903 on appeal to the New York State Court of Appeals, which reversed the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court's finding in favor of True. The court ruled that New York City's ownership of streets from property line to property line was "inalienable," that an encroachment was an "appropriation of the public street for private purposes," and that no individual or agency had the authority to permit encroachments onto public property. Thus the owners of the five houses in the group facing Riverside Drive had to remove the projections on their buildings.

In 1911 the main facades of these houses were completely removed and rebuilt to follow the diagonal of the Riverside Drive property lines. No. 103 and No. 104, both altered by the architectural firm of Clinton & Russell, and No. 107-109, altered by Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield, were rebuilt using the original materials and retaining many architectural elements; No. 105 received a new facade designed by Bosworth & Holden. No. 332 West 83rd Street and the West 83rd Street facade of No. 107-109 remained unaltered as they do not face onto the Drive and were thus apparently not subject to the lawsuit. The sixth house at 102 Riverside Drive, to the south of the existing group, was later demolished for a corner apartment building, built in 1932.

The 107-109 Riverside Drive House

The 107-109 Riverside Drive House was purchased from Clarence True's development firm in 1901 by Charles Austin Bates, a successful businessman, and his wife, the former Belle Brandenburg. Bates began his New York career in advertising in 1893, and established the Bates Advertising Co. in 1903. Later he turned to finance, forming the Knickerbocker Syndicate and the Fidelity Bond & Mortgage Co. (1909). The Colorado-Yule Marfcle Co. (1905), which quarried, cut, and finished "the largest and most reliable deposit of high-grade white marble known to exist in the world," was an important venture financed by Bates. In 1908 he also organized and became president of the Rutherford Rubber Co.

An application for alterations to No. 107-109 was filed in December of 1910 (Alt. 2798-1910) and the changes were carried out by the architectural firm of Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield in 1911. Tracy & Swartwout was formed in 1900 by Evarts Tracy (1869-1922) and Egerton Swartwout (1871-1943), both alumni of Yale and former draftsmen in the office of McKim, Mead & White. From 1904 to c. 1911 they were joined by James Reily Gordon, and the firm achieved prominence with a number of public buildings across the United States, including the U.S. Post Office-Courthouse, Denver (1908-14), and Missouri Capitol, Jefferson City (1912-15). From about 1909 to 1912 the firm was known as Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield, with the inclusion of Electus Darwin Litchfield (1872-1952). Litchfield, a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology, had worked in the offices of Carrere & Hastings and Lord & Hewlett. After leaving this firm, he formed his own and also became involved in town planning and housing issues, notably Yorkship Village, near Camden, N.J., a community created by the Emergency Fleet Corp. during World War I. The Tracy & Swartwout partnership ended with Tracy's death, though Swartwout continued to practice until 1941.

No. 107-109 was owned from 1921 to 1931 by Roraualdo Sapio, an Italian conductor, opera coach, and accompanist who worked with a number of leading opera singers. The house was converted to a multiple dwelling in 1937.

No. 107-109 is prominently located on the corner, on a trapezoid-shaped lot, with wide facades of approximately forty-two feet. The original design, executed in orange Roman ironspot brick and limestone trim, featured a five-story three-quarter-round corner tower and projecting three-sided bays on each side capped by a steeply-pitched tile roof. The Riverside Drive facade was dismantled in 1911, removing part of the tower and one projecting bay, and was skillfully rebuilt using the original materials as a flat wall following the diagonal of the property line. The picturesque, unaltered West 83rd Street facade, geometrically complex, is designed with an asymmetrically-placed three-and-a-half-story projecting stone three-sided bay on the eastern half, which abuts the remaining half-round portion of the corner tower. The ground-story entrance, located at the intersection, is an elaborate stone frontispiece embellished with carved stonework, colonnettes, niches, and a recessed and molded round-arched doorway with wrought-iron and glass doors. To the east in the bay is a service entrance surmounted by a pointed-arch transom with a wrought-iron grille. The door is a replacement. The areaway has stone entrance posts and a wrought-iron fence with a gate. The majority of the windows are rectangular, ornamented by keyed surrounds with drip molds, and have one-over-one double-hung wood sash, with the exception of the small square upper windows of the bay and the ground-story corner window, which is round-arched and has a molded surround, leaded glass, and decorative wrought ironwork (an elaborate tympanum and a bowed grille). The diagonally-placed windows of the bay also have leaded glass. The second-story corner window is fronted by a wrought-iron railing. The facade is capped by a crenellated parapet, the tower also with banding; the red tile roof has a hipped dormer above the bay and a dormer (still at its original angle to the street) above the tower. The Riverside Drive facade continues the decorative scheme of the rest of the building; the northern bay is the flattened section of the tower and two bays of windows exist at the south where there was formerly a projecting bay. The ground story has a wide stone watertable. Ground-story windows are round-arched while the rest are rectangular, and all have surrounds similar to (and the ground and second stories have wrought ironwork similar to) those on the other facade. The roof (at its original angle to the street) has three prominent banded chimneys, the northern two forming an end-wall, a hipped dormer parallel to the facade (added or rebuilt in 1911), and a small round portion of the upper tower remaining at the south end.

The 107-109 Riverside Drive House, incorporating the work of two architectural firms in the house of 1898-99 and its alteration of 1910-11, rema ins a success fully modi f ied version of the original picturesque Elizabethan Revival design.

Portland, Oregon-Township and Range by Daniel Coe

Photo mosaic of Portland, Oregon. This was originally created for a map-themed restaurant called Township and Range. The grid represents the standard subdivided units in a quarter section of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS).

Movie Star by Linus Gelber

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The Village East Cinema multiplex has been one of my favorite movie houses for ages. I lived near it just after high school, before it had been subdivided as thoroughly as it is now, and spent some cramped afternoons there (replacing the seats = good move), as it went through a succession of owners with a succession of odd and idiosyncratic programming tastes.

It has settled down some these days, and it's one of those great houses that mixes a couple of current hits with a few indie and arthouse releases. I'm here to see Teeth, which is terrific. The ornate ceiling is lit today, which is nice - when I first discovered it a couple of years back, it was dark and murky and obscured.

I have a few other shots of this treasure elsewhere on my stream.

History, cribbed from the Cinema Treasures site:

Construction on this theater began in 1925 when developer Louis N. Jaffe started the job for actor Maurice Schwartz. It opened the following year as the Yiddish Art Theatre, and later became known as the Yiddish Folks Theatre. In the '30s the play Yoshe Kalb ran for a record 300 performances there. The theatre was later called the Phoenix, and still later, the Jaffe Art Theatre. In the '30s and '40s it converted to movies, first as the Century and then as the Stuyvesant, with several stints as a burlesque house under the names Casino East, Gayety, and Eden. There followed several more attempts at movies as the 12th Street Cinema, Entermedia, and Second Avenue. City Cinemas last converted it into the current Village East multiplex.

Asia - Philippines / Kaumahan Festival in Barili - Cebu by RURO photography

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Barili is administratively subdivided into 42 barangays.

Azucena

Bagakay

Balao

Bolocboloc

Budbud

Bugtong Kawayan

Cabcaban

Campangga

Dakit

Giloctog

Guibuangan

Giwanon

Gunting

Hilasgasan

Japitan

Cagay

Kalubihan

Kangdampas

Candugay

Luhod

Lupo

Luyo

Maghanoy

Maigang

Malolos

Mantalongon

Mantayupan

Mayana

Minolos

Nabunturan

Nasipit

Pancil

Pangpang

Paril

Patupat

Poblacion

San Rafael

Santa Ana

Sayaw

Tal-ot

Tubod

Vito

ATV with log arch by Eli Sagor

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As more and more forested parcels are subdivided ever smaller, there

is a growing interest in small-scale timber harvesting equipment like

this. This ATV and arch can move a surprisingly large log or bundle

of logs with ease. This equipment is far cheaper and more

maneuverable than larger equipment.

Not for every logger or harvest, but I think we'll see more of this

kind of equipment in the woods in the future.

This particular arch was designed by Mark Havel, formerly of Future

Forestry Products, and is now sold by Logright.

Shrine below a desk in the common areas by Anne Roberts

Despite the poverty the residents retain hope...

There are 1.3 million people living in poverty in Hong Kong. Over 100,000 these live in subdivided flats in "cage dwellings" or cubicle homes. The residents are the single elderly, new immigrants, low income families and people with mental and physical disabilities - the most vulnerable and needy groups in society. In April 2010, the AWA (American Women's Association, together with HKIS delivered donations of food and toiletries to the residents of this type of accommodation.

If you are interested in finding out more, take a look at the website of the Society for Community Organization (SoCo)

www.soco.org.hk/rights/rights_main_e.htm

Caminha Village / Vila de Caminha by Hugo Carriço

English

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminha

Caminha Village is a municipality in the north-west of Portugal, 21 km north from Viana do Castelo, located in the district of Viana do Castelo.

The municipality has a total area of 137.4 km² and 16,839 inhabitants (2006).

Caminha is subdivided into 20 parishes, among them Vila Praia de Âncora, Moledo, and Vilar de Mouros. The latter is well-known for the oldest rock festival in Portugal. The seat of the municipality is the town (or vila in Portuguese) of Caminha, with 2,500 inhabitants.

The present Mayor is Júlia Paula Pires Pereira da Costa, elected by the Social Democratic Party.

The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.

Caminha is located 2 km from the Atlantic Ocean, on the southern side of the Minho estuary, where this river is met by the smaller and meandering Coura. Here the Minho reaches its widest point (about 2 km) and marks the border between Portugal and Spain. The highly scenic area, with the wide estuary marked by low-tide sandbars, a pastoral and green rural landscape, and pine forests on the slopes of the granitic mountains is increasingly popular for second homes and as a summer resort.

Português

pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminha

Caminha é uma vila portuguesa no Distrito de Viana do Castelo, região Norte e subregião do Minho-Lima, com cerca de 2 500 habitantes.

É sede de um município com 129,66 km² de área e 16 839 habitantes (2006),[1] subdividido em 20 freguesias. O município é limitado a nordeste pelo município de Vila Nova de Cerveira, a sudeste por Ponte de Lima, a sul por Viana do Castelo, a norte pela Espanha e a oeste pelo Oceano Atlântico.

A foz do rio Minho situa-se em Caminha, fazendo este rio parte integrante da paisagem da vila. Para atravessá-lo rumo à vizinha Galiza, existe um terminal fluvial de barcos, que transportam não só passageiros, mas também automóveis. Desde 1978, Caminha encontra-se geminada com o município francês de Pontault-Combault.

The L Magazine: Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York By James T. Murray and Karla L. Murray by Sarah Moroz by James and Karla Murray Photography

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Store Front is a visually compelling tome filled with photographs of stores that have maintained the I've-been-on-this-corner-since-your-ancestors-came-over-from-the-old-country look. Photographers Karla and James Murray intentionally selected places that "look like they've been around forever" — though, ironically, the stores may only exist forever in photographic form, since they're becoming ephemera so quickly. Organized by borough and further subdivided by neighborhood, the book encyclopedically chronicles the shops that have (or had) outlasted the onslaught of aesthetic and commercial homogeneity.

The project, while evoking all kinds of politicized issues about commerce, is ultimately about art. Always interested in fonts, it was in scavenging the city for graffiti that led the Murrays to Storefront. Returning multiple times to a particular neighborhood, the couple noticed how sharp the local turnover was between one trip and the next. Without photography, these marginalized subjects would have faded into the ether, unremembered. It became their quest to counter the vanishing of old-world New York.

Their archival project, carried out with near-exhaustive zeal, is in the vein of Bernd and Hilla Becher (a German couple who photographed neglected industrial architecture from a firmly objective point of view), with an August Sander-level scope. The Murrays shot with a traditional 35mm manual camera, and the old-school apparatus serves as an apt mirror of the time-honored authenticity of the subjects. The un-manipulated approach wholly preserves the vintage aesthetic of the stores.

The extinction list for small businesses is swiftly growing as the contemporary city shifts. A certain manic pursuit was necessary to archeologically capture these venues before they were lost in the constant palimpsest that is New York. The Murrays note in their introduction that a third (a third!) of the businesses photographed no longer exist, which imbues the photos with a mournful feeling.

Small-scale business survival is rooted in endurance, with signs often making proud declarations of longevity (Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery, original since 1910; Russo's Fresh Mozzarella & Pasta, since 1908). Embedded in these dates is a confirmation of successfully maintained tradition that is tried and true and unflappable in the face of passing trends. These long-standing guys are the real New Yorkers, with street cred as caked into their reputation as the stains into their decades-old signs. It is they who have witnessed gentrification firsthand — not just of populace, but of branding, of visual grammar. They have refused to wither in the face of trademark. The signs' missing letters, the rusted corners — they are a badge of individuality. Their ramshackle aesthetic dates them as much as their actual histories, and proudly so. Like modern forensics, you can actually size up an older store by the visual cues of its exterior. The Murrays list some singular visual hallmarks indicative of the stores' storied pasts, including overhanging signs (which are no longer permitted and must be grandfathered); huge turn-of-the-19th and -20th century wooden display cases; rolling wooden ladders that hook onto a metal railing for easy access to upper display shelves (found at hardware stores and liquor stores, dating back before Prohibition). Something as seemingly mundane as a ladder is actually a historical marker.

Of all of storefronts photographed, it was a single letter on the sign for Ralph's Discount City in Tribeca that provided the most surprising example of original typography. "We were fascinated by the "S" when we first saw it," the Murrays recount. "We had never seen anything quite like it before. One person even commented that "it looks like an Elsa Peretti heart. We specifically chose Ralph's as the cover image because we liked the font so much." The fate of the store that used such innovation? Out of business.

The few modern enterprises trying to recapture a vintage approach to signage have nowhere to turn. The Murrays were contacted by an East Village bar owner who wanted to produce a sign resembling the ones they had photographed. "He has not been able to locate anybody capable of doing this because most sign-makers now have plastic printed signs that are computer-designed, not hand-painted or original."

In losing intricate flourishes of signage — and the kinds of stores that interested in having them — the city is losing unique neighborhood localization. In the four pull-out pages, the few stubborn huddles of consecutive mom-and-pop shops represent an old world microcosm. It's startling to realize how foreign they look when compared to the streetscape we are used to strolling past.

In the face of this downward economic spiral, business is bleak for megacompanies and little guys both. But the authors maintain a hopeful attitude, emphasizing that where you shop is as much of a choice as what you buy. These places instill a sense of nostalgia, they honor tradition, and they contribute to the aesthetic of New York's commercial and architectural legacy. Though their pictures are worth a thousand words, being devoted to small businesses while they're still standing is worth all the more.

Public School 17 by Emilio Guerra

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190 Fordham Street, City Island, Bronx, New York City, New York

Summary

Located on City Island in the Bronx, Public School 102 (later Public School 17 -- The City Island School) was constructed in 1897-98 and served as the community's only school until 1931. The architect of the two-story (plus basement), Georgian Revival style red brick-clad building was C.B.J. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings for New York City from 1891 until 1923. This is one of Snyder's few extant school designs in this mode, and represents a suburban typology appropriate to a larger

lot size, in contrast to the constricted building lots located on densely built up urban blocks of Manhattan and Brooklyn, where Snyder pioneered the use of the H-plan school buildings with exterior courtyards. As originally constructed, Public School 102 measured roughly 65 by 87 feet, but was expanded in 192930 to meet the needs of a growing population. Re-numbered Public School 17 in 1903 and designated as The City Island School in 1916, it was replaced in 1975 by P.S. 175. The original school building then began to be used by various community groups; the City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum still occupies a portion. In 2000, part of the original structure and the addition were converted into condominium apartments. Despite the painting of the red brick cladding, loss of the historic entrance and portico by fire in 2007 (since re-created), the removal of the original cupola, and the addition of side dormers, Public School 102 remains a rare example of Snyder's use of the Georgian Revival style, is one of the few small community schools by Snyder that is extant, and is an important reminder of the period of this community's consolidation into the City of New York. The designated Landmark consists of the original 1897-98 portion of the school building, as well as the adjacent western and eastern side yards and the northern front yard.

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

City Island

Located just south of Pelham Bay Park in Long Island Sound, New City Island received its name around 1761, when a syndicate intended to transform it into a commercial center that would rival New York, a project that failed to materialize. In 1818, 42 acres at the island's southernmost tip came into the possession of George Horton, Supervisor of the Town of Pelham in Westchester County, who promoted the layout of streets, including Pilot, Pell, Schofield, and Main (now City Island Avenue), the public highway. In the first half of the 19th century, parts of the island were subdivided and changed hands many times, but this remained a largely rural community. The island's first commercial enterprise, a solar salt works that produced salt from evaporated seawater, was established by E.C. Cooper in the 1820s. Around 1830, Orrin Fordham, a shipbuilder from Connecticut, established an oyster planting business on the island's east side, a concept that revolutionized the American oyster business. Between 1847 and 1869, numerous settlers moved to City Island to take part in the oyster business, which became "the chief industry employing the bulk of the male population at City Island."

City Islanders also profited by servicing, supplying, and building ships, which supported the island's economy throughout most of the 20th century. There were many small shipyards serving the oyster boats throughout the 19th century, but the first commercial one, D. Carll Shipyard, was established in 1862. After the Civil War, the Carll yard became known for the construction and rebuilding of large luxury yachts, and other commercial yards were soon established, resulting in the construction of numerous luxury and racing yachts including a number of America's Cup winners. The federal government also commissioned vessels from City Island boatyards during both World Wars. After World War II, the leisure-boating industry rose to prominence.

City Island was part of the Town of Pelham, Westchester County, linked to the mainland by a toll bridge in 1873, until it became part of the eastern Bronx when it was annexed by New York City in 1895. The population around that time was about 1,400. Limited access to the island discouraged dense development, and as a result the island has retained its small-town atmosphere, with yacht clubs, marinas, and popular seafood restaurants continuing to play a role in the island's economy.

The first school on the island, constructed by the Town of Pelham, opened in 1839 on Main Street (now City Island Avenue), and was enlarged in 1847. This was replaced in 1860 by a school at Main Street and Orchard (now Hawkins) Street. The City Island School (Grammar School No. 102) was one of nine former Westchester County schools that became part of the 24th Ward of the Annexed District of the Bronx. In 1895, the publication School reported that the City Island School was an "old frame structure... found in a dilapidated and unsanitary condition. It is on a low, sunken lot, and [the Chairman of the Board of Education] suggested that the proper disposition of this would be to sell the property and to purchase a new site on higher ground, and erect a new and suitable building." The Board of Education soon began making plans for a new school building for the island.

C.B.J. Snyder, Schools Architect

Charles B.J. Snyder (1860-1945), New York City's Superintendent of School Buildings, was the architect responsible for the planning, design, and construction of all new and expanded schools in the five boroughs after the Consolidation of Greater New York in 1898. Appointed to this position in 1891 (at age 31), when he oversaw only Manhattan and the Annexed District of the Bronx, Snyder remained in the post until 1923. By that year, he had presided over some 400 school projects -- new buildings, as well as numerous additions and alterations to existing schools, throughout the city. Snyder was born in Stillwater, New York, attended Cooper Union (c. 1881-84), and worked in the early 1880s with William E. Bishop. His own architectural practice was first listed in New York City directories in 1886. History and Commerce of New York 1891 claimed that he had erected

a large number of handsome and substantial edifices, warehouses, office buildings and fine residences, not only in this city but elsewhere. He has developed a large business in Central America. He is the designer of the earthquake-proof buildings which have been erected in Costa Rica and other points in that section. ... Mr. Snyder was the first to discover the true principle on which such buildings should be erected...

Snyder remained in practice until around 1936.

As a specialist in school design, C.B.J. Snyder was recognized as a national leader in this regard as early as 1905 in American Architect & Building News:

Possibly it was not the best, probably it was not the most economical, certainly it was not the most expeditious way to have all the school-houses the city stood in such sore need of designed and built by the official architect to the Department of Education. But, since that method had to be followed, it is a matter of wonderful good fortune that the official architect chanced to be such a man as Mr. C.B.J. Snyder, who not only at the outset showed such distinct capacity for his task, but has proved himself a man able to grow as his opportunities opened before him. Mr. Wheelwright in Boston, Mr. Ittner in St. Louis, Mr. Mundie in Chicago, have done excellent service to their respective cities in the way of building schoolhouses... but they have not had to do their work under the same sort of pressure that has been put upon Mr. Snyder, and they have not had to adapt their architectural treatment to as closely restricted

sites.

Snyder's achievement was particularly remarkable given the scale of new school construction in New York City, as cited in the same publication:

The magnitude of the undertaking and the reality of the need for these new school-houses is shown by the fact that, even after several years of active building, there are at this time seventy-seven school-houses in various stages of completeness now in charge of the architect to the Department of Education, while contracts for twenty-four more will shortly be made.

Snyder's concern with health and safety issues in public schools focused on fire protection, ventilation, lighting, and classroom size. He used terra-cotta blocks in floor construction to improve fireproofing, and numerous large windows to increase light and air in classrooms. He also developed new methods for mechanical air circulation in schools, and an interlocking double-staircase for quick evacuation. The problem of school design in New York, particularly in Manhattan and Brooklyn, was heightened by the relatively constricted sites which were necessitated by the high cost of land acquisition.

As a result, in 1896 Snyder introduced the efficient "H-plan" having two side courts, which provided increased light and ventilation as well as areas between the wings for safe recreation. In Snyder's schools, dedicated indoor and outdoor play space was considered "much to the advantage of the untaught training of childhood," and reflected the latest in pedagogical theory. Other innovations included the provision of facilities for manual training, fine arts, and home economics, and accommodations for public assembly and adult education programs.

The use of steel skeleton framing for buildings over four stories allowed for cheaper and faster construction and increased window areas. Because of the need to produce so many buildings in such a short span of time, Snyder's office built upon the design and planning ideas of earlier schools for new ones, and sometimes used the same basic design for multiple sites. This was made easier by his reorganization of the deputy superintendents, so that each was responsible for a single part of the building (such as design and planning, heating and ventilating, electricity, plumbing and drainage, furniture, and inspection and records) and each reported directly to Snyder.

Embracing a variety of architectural styles, Snyder's schools were considered inventive, handsome, and appropriate as civic monuments. His earliest designs continued the Romanesque Revival style of George W. Debevoise, his predecessor as Superintendent of School Buildings, but Snyder later moved into many other idioms, such as Jacobean, Dutch Renaissance, French Renaissance, Georgian and Colonial Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Secessionist. Snyder is credited with the introduction of the Collegiate Gothic style to New York public school architecture, a style usually associated with universities and one that he successfully used for more than twenty years. John Beverly Robinson, writing in the Architectural Record, commended Snyder's design sensitivity, noting

With all this [i.e. so much construction] the architecture of the buildings has not been neglected, for as education ceases to be conducted by factory methods it is well that the walls where education dwells should signalize the change by forsaking their factory appearance.

Snyder was able to adapt these large buildings to the requirements of their sites, while still creating picturesque and well-functioning school buildings. The dramatic and vigorous designs of these buildings, with their distinctive profiles and unique details, helped these schools serve as strong focal points for their communities.

Public School 102 on City Island

The task of designing and constructing a new school for City Island during the years of Consolidation was a convoluted, three-year process. In February 1896, C.B.J Snyder reported to the New York City Board of Education's Committee on Buildings that a one-story brick school could be erected, similar to Bronx Public School 33, for $32,000, and recommended renting a City Island building as an annex to Grammar School No. 102 until a new school was finished. In March, the Committee voted to rent a building at Main Street and Fordham Avenue (later Street) as an annex, and to advertise for construction bids for the new school. Snyder submitted his proposal and sketch plans in April. On May 26, 1896, the City acquired for $4,500, from Charles L. and Phoebe Berge, a 115-by-380-foot site, reputedly the highest point on the island and by legend the location of its earliest cemetery, on the south side of Fordham Avenue between Billar Place (now Minneford Avenue) and Fordham Street (now Place). That same month, Snyder filed plans with the Department of Buildings for a one-story (with basement and attic) brick school to cost $30,000. In June, the Board of Education authorized bids for the construction contract, and received nine. The Board reported in July that it had entered into a $59,000 contract with builder James O'Toole, but he subsequently declined to execute this contract and forfeited his deposit. In August, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment passed a bond appropriating funds for the City Island school.

The Board of Education re-advertised for proposals for the new school's construction in October 1896, receiving five bids, and the contract was awarded to Harry McNally for $70,750. In November, however, this appropriation was laid over, with the request that Snyder report on "what style of a school building" could be erected instead for around $30,000. Snyder in December stipulated that costs could be reduced to $40,000 for a one-story building, with a simpler interior and exterior design; lesser quality materials, including red brick instead of Tiffany (ironspot) brick, and no cut stonework; a flat roof instead of a pitched one; and reduced size of the paved playground.

The Committee on Buildings thus voted to re-advertise for proposals for a less expensive school. In April 1897, Snyder filed new plans with the Department of Buildings, and in July the Board of Education received construction estimates. This time, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment refused to issue bonds on this and another Bronx school project on the grounds of "too much woodwork." Snyder filed new plans in August for a two-story (plus basement) brick school to cost $60,000. In October, after nine bids were received, the contract was awarded to the lowest ($53,906), that of the German-born Herman C. Probst (1853-1911), previously a builder in Chicago. That same month, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved the $53,906 in bonds.

Probst's construction contract was supposed to be completed by March 15, 1898, but there were reports in early 1898 of delays due to extreme weather and the "exposed location" of the school's site. The new Public School 102 was finally completed and opened in October 1898 with some 400 students, at a cost (including contents) variously recorded as $55,828 or $61,578. The building, measuring roughly 65 by 87 feet, accommodated eight classrooms on the two upper floors, with playrooms in the basement. The majority of the furniture was supplied through the Superintendent of State Prisons.

The Georgian Revival style Public School 102 is one of C.B.J. Snyder's few school designs in this mode, as well as one of the few small community schools by Snyder, that is extant, and represents a suburban typology appropriate to a larger lot size, in contrast to the constricted building lots located on densely built up urban blocks of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Snyder's use of the Georgian Revival style was typified here by the pedimented central pavilion with a prominent Palladian window and an oculus window, the segmental-pedimented entry porch (now re-created), the entrance doors with sidelights and fanlight (also re-created), the central cupola (no longer extant), and the use of red brick. Following Consolidation in 1898, schools in New York City were systematically re-numbered, and this became Bronx Public School 17 in January 1903.

Later History: Public School 17 - The City Island School

As part of the Board of Education's school naming policy in 1916, P.S. 17 was designated as The City Island School. By 1922, additional classrooms were needed, for which the City provided portable ones for 135 students. To meet the needs of the island's growing population, the Board of

Education approved an addition for the school in January 1929, which was occupied in September 1930 (Walter C. Martin, architect). Public School 17 remained the only school on City Island until 1931, when the Catholic parochial St. Mary, Star of the Sea School opened on Minneford Avenue (a new building was constructed in 1948). P.S. 17 ceased its function as a school when it was replaced in 1975 by P.S. 175. The following year, the Save the Schoolhouse Committee was formed, and the former school building was leased as community center by various community groups, including the Community Centre and Historical Nautical Museum, Art Resource Centre, and a Youth Program operated by the Police Athletic League. In 1984, the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The City sold the property in 1988 for $500,000 to the 190 Fordham Street Realty Corp., with a covenant stipulating that 50% of the older portion of the building be used for "not-for- profit, City Island related, museum and community center uses." Part of the 1890s school building, and the entire 1929-30 addition, were converted in 2000 into the 16-unit Nautical Winds Condominium. In 2007, the front portion of the original school, including the entrance and portico, was damaged by fire; the portico and entrance were re-created in 2008 by architect Kaitsen Woo, in part with a grant from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum still occupies part of the original building, which remains an important reminder of the period of this community's consolidation into the City of New York.

Description

Note: the Landmark consists of the original 1897-98 portion of the school building, as well as the adjacent western and eastern side yards and the northern front yard.

Historic: two-story (plus basement) Georgian Revival schoolhouse; brick cladding (now painted), stone watertable, granite stringcourses; central pavilion with Palladian window (originally with Gothic muntins in the round arch) and pediment with oculus window; rear stairwell extension (second-story side windows added 1929-30) with brick chimney stack; denticulated wood cornice; complex hipped roof

Alterations: portico with columns, shingled base, and segmental pediment re-created (2008) after fire (1929 side storm windows not re-created); entrance with wood-and-glass double doors, sidelights, and fanlight re-created (2008) after fire (1929 storm enclosure doors and windows not recreated); one-over-one aluminum windows surmounted by fixed panes (originally six-over-six double-hung wood sash with tripartite transoms on first and second stories, later (c. 1931-36) six- over-six double-hung wood sash without transoms, including basement level), except Palladian window with single panes and fanlight; polygonal cupola on roof removed (c. 1936-77, part of base remains); side dormers and roof deck added (c. 2000)

Site: front yard grassy hill, with steps (post-1984) at eastern corner, and wrought-iron fence set on stone base with gates (pre-1930); historic bluestone entrance steps and stone cheek walls with central pipe railing (post-1936); ramp with metal railings (c. 2000); flagpole (pre-1930); driveway, concrete block retaining wall (post-1984), and chainlink fence on eastern side

- From the 2011 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

On the walk up to Kawasan Falls in October 2012, in Matutinao, Badian, Cebu, Philippines. by G. Knowles

Badian is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 37,699 people. The Municipality of Badian is located 97.6 km southwest of Cebu City. It is bounded on the north by the municipality of Moalboal; on the south by the municipality of Alegria; on the east by the municipalities of Dalaguete and Argao; and on the west by Tanon Strait.

Badian is administratively subdivided into 29 barangays.

Alawijao Balhaan Banhigan Basak Basiao Bato Bugas Calangcang Candiis Dagatan Dobdob

Ginablan Lambug Malbago Malhiao Manduyong Matutinao Patong Poblacion Sanlagan

Santicon Sohoton Sulsugan Talayong Taytay Tigbao Tiguib Tubod Zaragosa

The Kawasan Falls is a three-layered waterfall series located in the Municipality of Badian, Cebu, which has become a huge attraction with foreign and local tourists throughout the years. The first waterfall is the largest and highest of the three falls, while the two falls uphill are smaller.

Kawasan Falls is located in Barangay Matutinao in Badian, Cebu. To get to Badian from Cebu City you can take a bus at the South Bus Terminal for a three hour ride that will directly take you to Badian. From there, you can take a tricycle that will take you to Barangay Matutinao.

If you are taking a private vehicle, drive past the Municipality of Carcar, and upon reaching the Municipality of Badian through the picturesque mountain road, then drive to Matutinao village. You can always ask for directions from people along the way if it is your first time to go to Kawasan Falls, so you won’t get lost.

When you reach the main road leading to Kawasan Falls, there is a main entrance to the waterfalls area and an entrance fee of 10 peso’s per person. From there, you start on a 20 to 30 minute walk on a trail that will lead you to the first waterfall.

You will then have to trek a further 10 to 15 minutes uphill to get to the second waterfall, and another 15 minute trek to the third waterfalls. There is a resort with restaurant at the area of the first waterfalls. There are small cottages and tables for rent at 300 peso’s each table as at September 2012 ( on top of the menu prices ) and several rooms for rent for those who want to stay overnight. A popular attraction is a bamboo raft ride leading to a shower under the cool falling waters of the first and second waterfall.

The Mactan International Airport is located in Mactan, Cebu; it is served by major airlines like Cebu Pacific Air and Philippine Airlines. You can also fly from Metro Manila to Cebu. There are many domestic flights and sometimes it is economical because many airlines offer a cheaper airfare. Check also for any available promo. If you arrived earlier in Cebu, you can leave straight to Badian providing you already arranged your accommodation there before your arrival or you can stay for a night in Cebu City and have your trip to Badian the next day.

Your choices to come from Cebu City to Badian are: from the airport you can take a taxi to South Bus Terminal look for Ceres Bus Liner via Barili, you can also take Librando Trans. There are buses leaving Cebu City to Badian every 30 minutes or one hour. It will take 2-3 hours or more bus travel to reach Badian from Cebu City depending on the number of stops. You can also hire a taxi at the airport or at the city to Badian, it is more comfortable and faster. Make sure the driver knows where Badian is. The fare is about Php 1500.00 - Php 3000.00 and be prepare for some bartering and some hidden costs

The capital barangay of Badian town is Poblacion. It is located in the centre of the town. This is where the local high school is located called Badian National High School ( BNHS ) is one of the two high schools in the town of Badian. This is also the largest of the two and many students from the neighbouring town just like Moalboal, Alcantara and Ronda come to study in this high school. The lower educational facility in Badian is the Badian Central Elementary School where all the younger children go to school for the simple fact that it is completely free and the only elementary school and the biggest one in town. One more very important institution that is located in Poblacion is the Town Hospital where everyone from every other barangay goes to in the time of sickness.

The facility has been better than the past management they have more improvements to the hospitals than anything else which is the best thing they could have done because this is where most Badianganons run to in the time of need. This is also the location where the town church is located ~ the church of Santiago Apostol, which celebrates its Festival on the 25th of July every year. Together with the Feast of Santiago Apostle is the Banig Festival which was started about three years ago. Poblacion is also where the Municipal Hall is located in sitio sawang. Thus, I believe that the municipality should ought to have more funding's in the Hospital Facility more so that the roads that they are trying to fix every single year Poblacion has many sitios which is the little corners of Poblacion which is residential or commercial properties. Some of these sitios are; Syma, Walog, Sawang, Highway, and many more. This is the only urban place in Badian compared to any other barangays that surround the town. Poblacion is also the most populated barangay in all Badian. Which has 3854 population as of 2007 Census. Poblacion is where the marketplace is located. Thus, most of the trading is here. Many vendors from all over town will show up mostly on Saturdays and Sundays for the trading.

Kingswood Eynesbury House by aquilareen

Front fence. Original house built c1856 on land owned by William Martin Letchford, leased 1877 to Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson. Purchased, enlarged & named Eynesbury by George Wilcox 1881, property subdivided 1919, house purchased 1919 by Henry Maxwell Bradford, later converted to flats, leased 1980s by religious group, leased as a school 1990-2001, now private.