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Former gunpowder and dynamite factory built in 1879 somewhere in Belgium. This site is where powder and explosives were made, in particular for a use in the mines. The site was sold and demilitarized in 1990 after the bankruptcy of its company.
Spread over about ten hectares secretly hidden in the forest, the "factory" is subdivided into approximately fifty buildings isolated from each other. The reason of this isolation? Simply to avoid chain explosions in case of accident.
Among all these buildings, there are workshops, laboratories and testing rooms, as well as administration and machinery buildings, and also warehouses. The site is also provided with a central heating network distributed towards all the buildings through above-ground insulated conducts.
Discovering the site is comparable to a long and pleasant stroll in the forest, but we have to admit that most of the instruments and working accessories are gone and many buildings are now empty.
Besides, the site is polluted and many nitrophilous plants took a malicious pleasure in regaining control of the place, even growing inside the houses.
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Ancienne poudrerie et dynamiterie belge construite en 1879. À ne pas confondre avec la poudrière (soit le "magasin à poudre"), ce site était une usine de fabrication de poudre et explosifs, destinés notamment à un usage dans les mines. Le site fut revendu et démilitarisé en 1990 suite à la faillite de la société.
Étalée sur une bonne dizaine d'hectares enfouis secrètement dans la forêt, "l'usine" se subdivise en (approximativement) une cinquantaine de bâtiments isolés les uns des autres. La raison de cet isolement? Simplement pour éviter des explosions en chaîne en cas d'accident de travail.
Parmi tous ces bâtiments, on retrouve des ateliers, laboratoires et salles de test, ou encore des bâtiments administratifs, de machinerie et des entrepôts. Le site est également muni d'un réseau de chauffage central redistribué vers tous les bâtiments via des conduites aériennes à parois isolantes.
Si la visite du site constitue une longue et agréable balade en forêt, force est de constater qu'il reste peu d'instruments et accessoires de travail dans les bâtiments.
Le site étant par ailleurs pollué par des ingrédients (comme le nitrate) qui servaient à la fabrication de la poudre, les plantes nitrophiles ont depuis lors pris un malin plaisir à se ré-approprier les lieux, allant jusqu'à pousser à l'intérieur des maisons.
Built 1911 for Alexander Macully who named it “Dunluce”, sold to Silas Robert Thomas Carman who subdivided property, became Dunluce Lodge Guest Home, later owned by T S Wilson, now named Dunluce Castle.
“The seatholders of St. Jude's Church, Brighton, have unanimously requested the trustees to nominate the Rev. Alexander Macully, M.A., LL.B., of the Semaphore, for the vacant incumbency of the parish.” [Express & Telegraph 23 Mar 1905]
“The Rev. A. Macully. M.A., LL.B., has resigned the office of priest-in-charge of St. Jude's, Brighton, to take effect on March 31.” [Evening Journal 19 Dec 1907]
“a recital of ‘Hamlet’ at, the Druids' Hall, Park-street, Hyde Park, on Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. Professor Macully has already won the admiration of the press and the public by his elocutionary efforts.” [Critic, Adelaide 22 Apr 1908]
“Poetry Recital. Rev. Alexander Macully, M.A. LL.B., Trin. ColL. Dublin., Hon. Fellow Literature and Art, London, Late Professor Alexandra College, Dublin, About to Open Studio, |City. Cultivation oi Speaking Voice. Aesthetics in English Literature.” [Advertiser 9 May 1910 advert]
“Zante Currants, well rooted. £3 10s per thousand. Alexander Macully, Dunluce, Brighton.” [Advertiser 18 Jun 1910 advert]
“Garden, Pigs, Poultry. — Gentleman requires experienced, trustworthy Man, on shares; good quarters. ‘Dunluce’, Brighton.” [Advertiser 6 Jul 1910 advert]
“Brighton.— About 8 Acres Sandhills, level, with Buck Scrapers. Tenders received. . . Address Macully, Brighton.” [Advertiser 23 Jul 1910 advert]
“Mr. Gwynne has accepted an appointment to supervise a large garden for the Rev. A. Macully, at Brighton.” [Areas Express, Booyoolee 11 Nov 1910]
“An explosion of petrol gas occurred on Friday afternoon at the newly erected residence of the Rev. A. Macully, Brighton. An escape of gas had been noticeable in the house for some days, and a plumber, after trying without result various means to detect the leakage, lighted a candle, and the disaster followed. The plumber sustained a severe shock. . . Damage was caused to three of the rooms. . . portion of the ceiling fell down.” [Register 17 Jun 1911]
“An enjoyable house-warming dance was given. . . to the Misses Macully at their new home, 'Dunluce’, Brighton. About 70 guests were present. Dancing was indulged in the drawing-room and dining-room, a dainty super being served in the turret room.” [Chronicle 1 Jul 1911]
“The Outdoor Life. — Wanted, Partner, garden, poultry farm, bees; prospects good. — Macully, Dunluce, Brighton” [Advertiser 5 Jul 1911 advert]
“The Value of Literary Competitions. Professor Macully, M.A., has returned to Dunluce, Brighton, after adjudicating at Balaklava and Hamley Bridge.” [Advertiser 22 Sep 1911]
“Municipal Corporations. Brighton. . . Rev. A. Macully requested permission to fill up hollows on his property from the sandhills; referred to public works committee.” [Advertiser 4 Mar 1912]
“Rev. A. Macully waited on the council, and intimated that he intended levelling the sandhills on the sea frontage of his property to form an esplanade. He asked that the town surveyor be instructed to furnish him with the proper levels, and if road scrapings were placed at his disposal he would use them for covering the sand to prevent drift. Resolved that Mr. Macully’s requests be complied with.” [Register 26 May 1913]
“The Rev. A. Macully stated that he had been residing at Brighton for eight or nine years, and the site of the proposed hotel was the next block to his property. He considered a family hotel necessary for the accommodation of visitors, and the site selected was the best for such a building. An up-to-date hotel was necessary for the convenience of the people.” [Advertiser 10 Dec 1913]
“Miss Kitty Macully, of Dunluce, Brighton, will continue her instruction in swimming, diving, and life-saving this summer. Classes are being formed now, and will be held in the Glenelg Baths, off the beach, and from a raft at Brighton.” [Observer 30 Oct 1915]
“MACULLY.— [Died] On the 31st October, in France, Arnold, dearly loved and only son of Rev. Alexander and Mrs. Macully, Dunluce, Brighton.” [Register 6 Nov 1918]
“'Dunluce’ Estate, Brighton. The above well-known seaside estate (formerly so well known as the property of the late Professor Macully) has been purchased this week by Mr. S. R. T. Carman. . . to proceed with its subdivision into, residential sites. . . The imposing 13-roomed modern residence, is offered for immediate private sale.” [The Mail 11 Feb 1922]
“Dunluce Lodge, Brighton— Furnished Rooms, linen, dining rooms, kitchens. . . Mrs. Salman.
Dunluce Lodge, Brighton—Vacant, 18th, large four Bedroom, private sleeping-out verandah.” [Advertiser 16 Jan 1923 advert]
“Dunluce Lodge. . . Brighton. . . Accommodation this week-end; holidays.— Mrs. Salman.” [Advertiser 26 Jan 1923 advert]
“Dunluce Lodge Guest Home for comfortable Board and Residence. . . Brighton.” [Register 18 Aug 1927 advert]
“Brighton. . . a garden party was held at Dunluce Lodge, attended by members of the Y.M.C.A.” [Register 10 Apr 1928]
“Brighton Mothers and Babies' Health Association. . . The annual gift tea to raise funds for the assocition [sic] will be held in the grounds of Mr. T. S. Wilson, Dunluce Estate. Brighton.” [Advertiser 26 Oct 1937]
“The twenty first annual meeting and election of officers of the Brighton branch of the Mothers and Babies' Health Association will be held at the home of the secretary, Mrs. T. S. Wilson. Dunluce Lodge. Brighton.” [Advertiser 20 Aug 1946]
“To raise funds for a community hall at Brighton and for Townsend House school for deaf and blind children, a fete will be held tomorrow in the grounds of 'Dunluce,' Yester avenue, Brighton.” [Advertiser 4 Dec 1953]
MACULLY
“MACULLY.— [Died] On the 8th January, at Dnnluce, Brighton, Rev. Alexander Macully, M.A., LL.B., beloved husband of Minnie Macully, aged 74 years.” [Register 10 Jan 1921]
“Rev. Alexander Macully. . . was born in the cathedral city of Armagh, Ireland. When he was a child his parents emigrated to Melbourne, and there his father occupied an important position in the Civil Service for about 35 years, He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and distinguished himself in English literature, and obtained the first prize in elocution.” [Register 10 Jan 1921]
“Rev. Alexander Macully. . . was widely known as Professor Macully. . . His academic distinctions included B.A. and LL.B., degrees of Trinity College, Dnblin. . . In 1888 he graduated M.A. at the Melbourne University. He was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church at Meath in 1880 and priest two years later at Derry. After filling come appointments in Ireland he took the position of curate at Bendigo in 1883. . . rector of Nundah with Clayfield, in the diocese of Brisbane, in 1897. In 1901 he became curate at Hindmarsh, and four years later. . . at Semaphore. From 1903 to 1908 he was priest in charge at Brighton. . . He has left a widow and three daughters. His only son, Arnold Macully, was killed in France during the war.” [Advertiser 10 Jan 1921]
“Professor Macully. . . has left three daughters, the Misses Eileen and Norah Macully and Mrs,. E. P. Whyte.” [Register 11 Jan 1921]
“MACULLY.— [Died] On the 21st October, at ‘Dunluce’, 24, Glenunga-avenue, Glenunga, Julia Maira, widow of Rev. A. Macully and beloved mother of Eileen and Norah.” [Advertiser 22 Oct 1930]
“Mrs. Julia Macully. . . was a daughter of the Hon. Alexander Campbell, M.L.C., founder and first chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in Sydney. She was the widow of Rev. A. Macully, who died nine years ago. Born in Sydney and educated abroad, Mrs. Macully assisted her husband in his parish at Bowden, Hindmarsh, and Brighton. She was an active worker for the Red Cross. Mrs. G. Buchanan (Barmera) and Miss E. Macully (Glenunga) are daughters. Other members of the family were Mrs. P. Whyte, who was killed by a shark at Brighton, and Mr. A. Macully, who died in action at the war.” [News 22 Oct 1930]
Former gunpowder and dynamite factory built in 1879 somewhere in Belgium. This site is where powder and explosives were made, in particular for a use in the mines. The site was sold and demilitarized in 1990 after the bankruptcy of its company.
Spread over about ten hectares secretly hidden in the forest, the "factory" is subdivided into approximately fifty buildings isolated from each other. The reason of this isolation? Simply to avoid chain explosions in case of accident.
Among all these buildings, there are workshops, laboratories and testing rooms, as well as administration and machinery buildings, and also warehouses. The site is also provided with a central heating network distributed towards all the buildings through above-ground insulated conducts.
Discovering the site is comparable to a long and pleasant stroll in the forest, but we have to admit that most of the instruments and working accessories are gone and many buildings are now empty.
Besides, the site is polluted and many nitrophilous plants took a malicious pleasure in regaining control of the place, even growing inside the houses.
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Ancienne poudrerie et dynamiterie belge construite en 1879. À ne pas confondre avec la poudrière (soit le "magasin à poudre"), ce site était une usine de fabrication de poudre et explosifs, destinés notamment à un usage dans les mines. Le site fut revendu et démilitarisé en 1990 suite à la faillite de la société.
Étalée sur une bonne dizaine d'hectares enfouis secrètement dans la forêt, "l'usine" se subdivise en (approximativement) une cinquantaine de bâtiments isolés les uns des autres. La raison de cet isolement? Simplement pour éviter des explosions en chaîne en cas d'accident de travail.
Parmi tous ces bâtiments, on retrouve des ateliers, laboratoires et salles de test, ou encore des bâtiments administratifs, de machinerie et des entrepôts. Le site est également muni d'un réseau de chauffage central redistribué vers tous les bâtiments via des conduites aériennes à parois isolantes.
Si la visite du site constitue une longue et agréable balade en forêt, force est de constater qu'il reste peu d'instruments et accessoires de travail dans les bâtiments.
Le site étant par ailleurs pollué par des ingrédients (comme le nitrate) qui servaient à la fabrication de la poudre, les plantes nitrophiles ont depuis lors pris un malin plaisir à se ré-approprier les lieux, allant jusqu'à pousser à l'intérieur des maisons.
Built in 1893.
"Summerhill is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located north of Downtown Toronto.
It was named after Summer Hill house, built in 1842 by Canadian transportation magnate Charles Thompson. Much of the area was once part of the original Thompson estate but was subdivided for development during the following decades.
During the 1880s, the North Toronto railway station was established on Yonge Street, and the neighbourhood of Summerhill quickly developed around it. The railway station was rebuilt in 1916 in honour of a visit by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). The neighbourhood underwent very little growth after the railway station closed in 1931, but it was revitalized by the launch of the Summerhill subway station in 1954.
The railway station from 1916 still exists, and it currently serves as a LCBO outlet. The station, along with the still-operational Canadian Pacific Railway bridge, is a landmark of the neighbourhood. As part of the provincial government's "MoveOntario 2020" program, plans were being considered to return the building to its original use as a train station, serving a planned GO Transit Crosstown line.
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/ tə-RON-toh; locally [təˈɹɒɾ̃ə] or [ˈtɹɒɾ̃ə]) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original limits through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than half of residents were born outside of Canada, more than half of residents belong to a visible minority group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city. The mayor of Toronto is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive of the city. The Toronto City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure on land outside of Asia, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism. Toronto is the third-largest tech hub in North America after Silicon Valley and New York City, and the fastest growing." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
On this trip I had a surprise 4 day layover in Toronto.
Now on Instagram.
Phetchabun is one of the northern provinces ( Changwat ) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Loei, Khon Kaen, Chaiyaphum, Lopburi, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit and Phitsanulok. Phetchabun is located in the lower northern region of Thailand, in the area between the northern and the central region. The province lies in the broad fertile river valley of the Pa Sak River, with mountains of the Phetchabun mountain range to the east and west. It is surrounded by places of interest, many well known national parks, beautiful waterfalls and great lakes. The province is subdivided in 11 districts ( Amphoe ). These are further subdivided into 117 sub districts ( Tambon ) and 1261 villages ( Muban ).
1. Mueang Phetchabun 2. Chon Daen 3. Lom Sak 4. Lom Kao 5. Wichian Buri 6. Si Thep 7. Nong Phai 8. Bueng Sam Phan 9. Nam Nao 10. Wang Pong 11. Khao Kho
Phetchabun was established by two kingdoms: the Sukhothai Kingdom, and the Ayutthaya Period of the King Narai. In the thesaphiban administrative reforms at the beginning of the 20th century, the province together with Lom Sak Province to the north formed the monthon Phetchabun. As it was the smallest monthon, it was also the first monthon to be dissolved in 1915, after being temporarily administered from Monthon Phitsanulok between 1903 and 1907. Lom Sak Province was abolished and merged into Phetchabun in 1932. During the period between 1968-1982 communist insurgents established bases in the mountains in the province. From hidden locations they fought occasional skirmishes against the Thai Army.
It is the mountains that draw tourists. The rolling peaks of Khao Thor, known as Little Switzerland, were once a battlefield against communist insurgents. Today, its beautiful scenery and cool weather attracts many visitors, to see the mountain-top army base turned into a museum, and enjoy trekking in the open zoo and non-hunting areas. The national parks of Phu Hin Rong Kla, with its stunning rock formations, and Nam Nao, whose forests are home to many large animals and birds, are now starting to attract more and more trekkers and eco tourists. Khao Kho The most engaging national park of Phetchabun Province is Khao Kho National Park, about one hour northwest of Phetchabun town. It was designated to be Little Switzerland from many visitors, because of beautiful scenery and cool weather like Switzerland. It was once a battle field against communist insurgents conducted their struggles against the authorities. Its charming scenery and great weather allure tourists to see the mountain – top, army base turned into a museum, a Chedi containing a holy relic and enjoy trekking in the open zoo and non – hunting areas.
Phetchabun may be reach by Road No.21 ( Kochasenee Rd.) from Saraburi and 370 kilometres from Bangkok.
How to get there
By Train
There is no railway system to Phetchabun
By Car
Road No.1 from capital city ( Bangkok ) to Saraburi province and then Road No.21 to Phetchabun road No.12 from Khon kaen ( central province of the northeastern region ) to Lom Sak and then Road 21. southward to Phetchabun.
By Bus.
Quite a lot of buses stop at this town on the way to Lom Sak. Here are some services you can find from Mo chit Terminal: www.transport.co.th 0 2936 2852-66
Phet Tour 0 2936 3230
Thin Siam Tour 0 2936 0500Buses are very frequent, like 2 or 3 within an hour. First Class service from Phet Tour cost 263 Baht and takes 4 hour+.
Wat Mahathat Phetchabun, Thailand. on Nikon Bamrung Road in town, houses several ancient Chedi's of Sukhothai style. Situated in Muang Phetchabun municipality. It seemed strange seeing this Temple as there is another Wat Mahathat I visited in Ayutthaya last year in 2010. However this Temple is totally different to that at Ayutthaya as you will see. Within the grounds is a school for the training of Buddhist Monks and many where around the day I visited this fine Temple. This monastery is an ancient temple which HRH Prince Damrong presumed that this monastery might be constructed during Sukhothai period. Wat Mahathat has the important objects of worship such as, Phum Khao Binth styled pagoda has been presumed that it might be constructed about B.E. 1926 ( 1383 ). This pagoda is a place that comprises Buddha's relics, Orrahan's ( saint ) ashes, and small images of Buddha in several styles. Two Buddha images of the U-Thong period whose laps are 36 inches wide. One is housed in the main chapel and the other is housed in the vihara of Wat Mahathat.
The collection of monochromatic colours (black, white, greys) have been subdivided into @ 16-20 separate drawers each, seen in other pics. This wall contains more compact storage for less common colours. Plastic bins from local hardware store. Labels custom made by Michael Gale (Avery Easy Peel).
Phetchabun is one of the northern provinces ( Changwat ) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Loei, Khon Kaen, Chaiyaphum, Lopburi, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit and Phitsanulok. Phetchabun is located in the lower northern region of Thailand, in the area between the northern and the central region. The province lies in the broad fertile river valley of the Pa Sak River, with mountains of the Phetchabun mountain range to the east and west. It is surrounded by places of interest, many well known national parks, beautiful waterfalls and great lakes. The province is subdivided in 11 districts ( Amphoe ). These are further subdivided into 117 sub districts ( Tambon ) and 1261 villages ( Muban ).
1. Mueang Phetchabun 2. Chon Daen 3. Lom Sak 4. Lom Kao 5. Wichian Buri 6. Si Thep 7. Nong Phai 8. Bueng Sam Phan 9. Nam Nao 10. Wang Pong 11. Khao Kho
Phetchabun was established by two kingdoms: the Sukhothai Kingdom, and the Ayutthaya Period of the King Narai. In the thesaphiban administrative reforms at the beginning of the 20th century, the province together with Lom Sak Province to the north formed the monthon Phetchabun. As it was the smallest monthon, it was also the first monthon to be dissolved in 1915, after being temporarily administered from Monthon Phitsanulok between 1903 and 1907. Lom Sak Province was abolished and merged into Phetchabun in 1932. During the period between 1968-1982 communist insurgents established bases in the mountains in the province. From hidden locations they fought occasional skirmishes against the Thai Army.
It is the mountains that draw tourists. The rolling peaks of Khao Thor, known as Little Switzerland, were once a battlefield against communist insurgents. Today, its beautiful scenery and cool weather attracts many visitors, to see the mountain-top army base turned into a museum, and enjoy trekking in the open zoo and non-hunting areas. The national parks of Phu Hin Rong Kla, with its stunning rock formations, and Nam Nao, whose forests are home to many large animals and birds, are now starting to attract more and more trekkers and eco tourists. Khao Kho The most engaging national park of Phetchabun Province is Khao Kho National Park, about one hour northwest of Phetchabun town. It was designated to be Little Switzerland from many visitors, because of beautiful scenery and cool weather like Switzerland. It was once a battle field against communist insurgents conducted their struggles against the authorities. Its charming scenery and great weather allure tourists to see the mountain – top, army base turned into a museum, a Chedi containing a holy relic and enjoy trekking in the open zoo and non – hunting areas.
Phetchabun may be reach by Road No.21 ( Kochasenee Rd.) from Saraburi and 370 kilometres from Bangkok.
How to get there
By Train
There is no railway system to Phetchabun
By Car
Road No.1 from capital city ( Bangkok ) to Saraburi province and then Road No.21 to Phetchabun road No.12 from Khon kaen ( central province of the northeastern region ) to Lom Sak and then Road 21. southward to Phetchabun.
By Bus.
Quite a lot of buses stop at this town on the way to Lom Sak. Here are some services you can find from Mo chit Terminal: www.transport.co.th 0 2936 2852-66
Phet Tour 0 2936 3230
Thin Siam Tour 0 2936 0500Buses are very frequent, like 2 or 3 within an hour. First Class service from Phet Tour cost 263 Baht and takes 4 hour+.
Wat Mahathat Phetchabun, Thailand. on Nikon Bamrung Road in town, houses several ancient Chedi's of Sukhothai style. Situated in Muang Phetchabun municipality. It seemed strange seeing this Temple as there is another Wat Mahathat I visited in Ayutthaya last year in 2010. However this Temple is totally different to that at Ayutthaya as you will see. Within the grounds is a school for the training of Buddhist Monks and many where around the day I visited this fine Temple. This monastery is an ancient temple which HRH Prince Damrong presumed that this monastery might be constructed during Sukhothai period. Wat Mahathat has the important objects of worship such as, Phum Khao Binth styled pagoda has been presumed that it might be constructed about B.E. 1926 ( 1383 ). This pagoda is a place that comprises Buddha's relics, Orrahan's ( saint ) ashes, and small images of Buddha in several styles. Two Buddha images of the U-Thong period whose laps are 36 inches wide. One is housed in the main chapel and the other is housed in the vihara of Wat Mahathat.
I am unsure what this was before, possibly Grants? I cannot tell if this building was subdivided between TSC and FoodTown; if so then this was most likely a Zayre.
709 West Perkins Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio
A group at the 14th Northumberland VAD hospital; bowls, croquet, tennis and golf! The house itself was a mid-19th century private residence, now subdivided into two dwellings.
www.donmouth.co.uk/local_history/VAD/VAD_hospitals.html
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-239521-holeyn-hall-wy...
Located on the spot of the the mansion for H. S. Gilbert, built around 1900, it was later owned by Harry Sinclair of the Teapot Dome Scandal fame. The mansion was demolished and the Sinclair Estate was subdivided in 1946.
2871 Steveston Highway, Richmond, BC.
Statement of Significance:
Description of Site:
The Steves Farmhouse is a large, two-story structure with a bell cast hipped roof. The farmhouse has a large front yard and is located directly adjacent to the west dyke.
Statement of Values:
Although it is the second Steves house on this site, the farmhouse has historical significance as being continuously occupied by the Steves family, early Richmond pioneers, and still active in the community. Manoah Steves, the first member of the family to settle in Richmond subdivided his land holdings to create the township of Steveston in 1888, and was a signatory to the petition for Richmond’s incorporation. The site is associated with the pattern of early large lot subdivision for agriculture which occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century. The house has heritage value for its Edwardian design with Craftsman influences, a popular design at that time. This particular house design was selected by Joseph Steves from a catalogue of plans entitled “Homes of Distinction” published by Nor’west Farmers Co-operative Lumber Company. The farmhouse has a domestic landscape of mature trees and shrubs, while the backdrop of fields, the dyke and the river speaks to the agricultural nature of the early large lots in this area.
Character Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the site include: · The early Edwardian Builder style of the entire house, which includes elements such as the vertical massing, hipped roof, and front verandah with bell-cast roof and support columns · The Craftsman influences of the house design, including a gabled dormer window , open railing on the verandah, and square columns supporting the verandah roof · The large lot adjacent to the dyke and the mature landscape · The location of the house on the site of the original Steves homestead and farm.
History:
The Steves Farmhouse was built by Manoah Steves, the first member of the family to settle in Richmond; he arrived from New Brunswick by way of Ontario and Maryland to purchase land on the southwestern tip of Lulu Island from A.E. Stamp. Manoah Steves became a very prominent citizen in Richmond; he subdivided his land holdings to create the township of Steveston in 1888, he was a signatory to the petition that had the Township of Richmond incorporated, and he served on the first city council. His family exemplified the early pioneer settlers, with involvement in the initial development of Richmond and the hardships that came with it: marshy land for farming, land flooded, and communities separated by water. His two sons and his grandson inherited his interest in local politics and served as councillors as well. His daughter Ida was also active in the community. Manoah contributed to Richmond’s agricultural history by importing award winning dairy cows and becoming involved in the important dairy industry, a job that was carried on by his son Joseph. The original house on this site was built by Manoah Steves and survived until 1950. The current house was built by his son, Joseph Moore Steves, who ordered plans from the Northwest Farmers Co-operative Lumber Company. The present owner is Harold Steves, grandson of Manoah Steves, and son of Harold Moore Steves and his wife Bessie.
Architectural Style: Edwardian with Craftsman Influences; Transitional Style
Name of Architect or Builder:
This house design was selected by Joseph Steves from a catalogue of plans entitled “Homes of Distinction” published by Nor’west Farmers Co-operative Lumber Company, Design No. 85.
Design Features:
The Steves Farmhouse is rectangular in plan with a concrete foundation and asymmetrical massing. The roof is a bellcast hip with a front gable extension and a gable dormer; it is covered in cedar shingles. The chimney is brick and situated exterior side right. There is a second story balcony above the entry and a bellcast shed roof over the verandah which once extended to the left of the front door. The windows are multi-paned double hung wooden sash, with a replacement front picture window. A sliding glass door has been installed. The concrete steps and railing are not original. The house is clad in stucco that was applied in 1960; the original material is unknown.
- City of Richmond
Former Winn-Dixie located at 143 East Harwood Rd. in Hurst,TX. The building is currnetly subdivided bike store operating under the name Trek Bicycle Outlet and an amusement center under the name WhirlyBall of HEB.
Note Winn-Dixie opened this store on April 30th 1986 and operated until May 2002.
Photos taken of Fig at 7th Mall, formerly known as 7th at Fig Mall around 2009. Originally mall contained Bullocks Department Store and a May Co Deparment Store. Over the years, Bullocks closed due to a duplicate store at Macy*s Plaza) and was subdivided into a Gold's Gym on the bottom floor and and vacant space for the rest of the building, and the May Co converted into a Robinsons May Department Store around 1993 after May Co merged two chains together (May Co and Robinsons), and in 2006, Macy*s took over the Robinsons May and converted the store into a Macy*s. Again faced with operating two stores within blocks of one another with the same merchantise, Macy*s finally Macy*s closed the site, and the mall sat vacant for a couple of years. In 2011, it was announced that Target Stores has taken over. The Mall closed for renovation and Target converted the two main floors of the former Bullocks and Macy*s into a City Target. The mall as of 2012 has been completely renovated with a new store mix. City Target is now the main tennant. Fig and 7th Mall is located on Figueroa between 7th and 8th Streets in Downtown Los Angeles
Macy*s has operated in Downtown Los Angeles as Macy*s since 1996, when it took over The Broadway Department Store Chain. As a result of that merger, Macy*s was faced with operating two stores in the same area.
Macy*s had been operating under the name of Bullocks, and was forced to operate both Macy*s and Bullocks for a short peiod of time. They had intented to close the 7th and Fig location but was forced to keep the location and run it as a Bullocks. This 7th and Fig location was the last of the Bullocks Department Store Chain Stores as Macy*s converted all the other stores to the Macy*s nameplate. Bullocks. After settling with the owners of the mall, Bullocks finally closed.
In 2006, the issue arose again, when Macy*s took over the Robinsons May Store. In early 2009, Macy*s closed this location.
Mt Pleasant –last town on the Torrens.
This sprawling hills town near the source of the trickling Torrens has an interesting history. The area was part of one of the SA Company Special Surveys of 1839. The government consequently had surveyed land to sell off which it did in 1842 to three men, Henry Giles Senior, Henry Bushell and James Phillis. They cleared a few trees, built their houses and attracted their relatives, brothers etc to come and take up land in the district. Landowner Henry Glover subdivided some of his land to create the town of Mt Pleasant in 1856 near the pre-existing Mt Pleasant Inn established in 1853. (When this Inn burnt down in 1860 a new hotel was erected called the Mt Pleasant Hotel).
Meantime, Henry Giles also decided to subdivide some of his land in 1858 and create a township which he called Totness, immediately adjacent to Glover’s Mt Pleasant township. Giles was already operating a general store here. The two townships competed and then finally amalgamated. In Totness the hotel there opened in 1860 (it began as a single storey hotel with the second floor added in 1918 to provide accommodation for an influx of holiday makers expected with the arrival of the railway in that year). After 1860 Henry Giles developed most of the town himself with a flourmill (1863), blacksmiths, cottages for his workers and his own residence Totness House (1840s) behind the Mt Pleasant Soldiers Memorial Hall. Giles’ town progressed more quickly and it soon had a Bible Christian Chapel (1858) now part of the School, an Anglican Church (1860), a Presbyterian Church (1866) and a Wesley Methodist Church (1867). The Town Pound for straying animals had also pre-dated Giles town of Totness as it was erected in 1855, only closing in 1944. When the former Bible Christian Chapel closed in 1861 it became the town schoolroom until finally being incorporated into a state school in 1876. Glover’s town however got the police station (1867).
From its earliest days Mt Pleasant was the service centre for some large estates in the district. By the mid 1850s when the town was established the Melroses had Rosebank estate and the McBeans had Glen Devon estate. Further away Alexander Borthwick Murray had Borthwick Brae and Mt Beevor. These landed gentry had an impact on the town and by 1904 when George Melrose died the Rosebank estate had increased to around 60,000 acres. It was left to the four Melrose children, one who was married to a Murray. This set the stage for ongoing conflict between two rival families of the McBeans and the Melroses over the location of the proposed Institute building. Lachlan McBean wanted it on the triangle on the main street which is now an antique shop on land he would donate but it was a very small parcel of land. Robert Melrose wanted it on its present site or similar on a spacious block of land that he would donate. There was no agreement on this issue amongst the local committee. The impasse was broken after Henry Giles Junior died in 1921. Robert Melrose bought up most Giles’ lands. Robert Melrose then donated the land for the hall in its present spacious site with parking and a small public reserve. Work began in 1926 and the Institute opened in 1927 but by then it was a late Memorial Hall for World War One which had hardly started when this saga began! In recent years Rosebank estate has been owned by the McLaughlin family.
The speckled wood is a butterfly found in and on the borders of woodland areas throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone. The species is subdivided into multiple subspecies, including Pararge aegeria aegeria, Pararge aegeria tircis, Pararge aegeria oblita, and Pararge aegeria insula. The color of this butterfly varies between subspecies. The existence of these subspecies is due to variation in morphology down a gradient corresponding to a geographic cline. The background of the wings ranges from brown to orange, and the spots are either pale yellow, white, cream, or a tawny orange. The speckled wood feeds on a variety of grass species. The males of this species exhibit two types of mate locating behaviors: territorial defense and patrolling. The proportion of males exhibiting these two strategies changes based on ecological conditions. The monandrous female must choose which type of male can help her reproduce successfully. Her decision is heavily influenced by environmental conditions.
Former gunpowder and dynamite factory built in 1879 somewhere in Belgium. This site is where powder and explosives were made, in particular for a use in the mines. The site was sold and demilitarized in 1990 after the bankruptcy of its company.
Spread over about ten hectares secretly hidden in the forest, the "factory" is subdivided into approximately fifty buildings isolated from each other. The reason of this isolation? Simply to avoid chain explosions in case of accident.
Among all these buildings, there are workshops, laboratories and testing rooms, as well as administration and machinery buildings, and also warehouses. The site is also provided with a central heating network distributed towards all the buildings through above-ground insulated conducts.
Discovering the site is comparable to a long and pleasant stroll in the forest, but we have to admit that most of the instruments and working accessories are gone and many buildings are now empty.
Besides, the site is polluted and many nitrophilous plants took a malicious pleasure in regaining control of the place, even growing inside the houses.
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Ancienne poudrerie et dynamiterie belge construite en 1879. À ne pas confondre avec la poudrière (soit le "magasin à poudre"), ce site était une usine de fabrication de poudre et explosifs, destinés notamment à un usage dans les mines. Le site fut revendu et démilitarisé en 1990 suite à la faillite de la société.
Étalée sur une bonne dizaine d'hectares enfouis secrètement dans la forêt, "l'usine" se subdivise en (approximativement) une cinquantaine de bâtiments isolés les uns des autres. La raison de cet isolement? Simplement pour éviter des explosions en chaîne en cas d'accident de travail.
Parmi tous ces bâtiments, on retrouve des ateliers, laboratoires et salles de test, ou encore des bâtiments administratifs, de machinerie et des entrepôts. Le site est également muni d'un réseau de chauffage central redistribué vers tous les bâtiments via des conduites aériennes à parois isolantes.
Si la visite du site constitue une longue et agréable balade en forêt, force est de constater qu'il reste peu d'instruments et accessoires de travail dans les bâtiments.
Le site étant par ailleurs pollué par des ingrédients (comme le nitrate) qui servaient à la fabrication de la poudre, les plantes nitrophiles ont depuis lors pris un malin plaisir à se ré-approprier les lieux, allant jusqu'à pousser à l'intérieur des maisons.
"Summerhill is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located north of Downtown Toronto.
It was named after Summer Hill house, built in 1842 by Canadian transportation magnate Charles Thompson. Much of the area was once part of the original Thompson estate but was subdivided for development during the following decades.
During the 1880s, the North Toronto railway station was established on Yonge Street, and the neighbourhood of Summerhill quickly developed around it. The railway station was rebuilt in 1916 in honour of a visit by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). The neighbourhood underwent very little growth after the railway station closed in 1931, but it was revitalized by the launch of the Summerhill subway station in 1954.
The railway station from 1916 still exists, and it currently serves as a LCBO outlet. The station, along with the still-operational Canadian Pacific Railway bridge, is a landmark of the neighbourhood. As part of the provincial government's "MoveOntario 2020" program, plans were being considered to return the building to its original use as a train station, serving a planned GO Transit Crosstown line.
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/ tə-RON-toh; locally [təˈɹɒɾ̃ə] or [ˈtɹɒɾ̃ə]) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original limits through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than half of residents were born outside of Canada, more than half of residents belong to a visible minority group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city. The mayor of Toronto is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive of the city. The Toronto City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure on land outside of Asia, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism. Toronto is the third-largest tech hub in North America after Silicon Valley and New York City, and the fastest growing." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
On this trip I had a surprise 4 day layover in Toronto.
Now on Instagram.
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.
The Garden District in New Orleans is one of the main areas of tourism after the French Quarter. It's not a place that has sat well with me over time, and I've tried to pinpoint the reason. It comes down to this: there's nothing interactive about it; very little to get passionate about. But, first, a little history...
The Garden District was originally part of the Livaulais Plantation in the early 1800s. It eventually became subdivided and filled with beautiful Italianate, Victorian, and Greek Revival mansions on oak-lined streets. The houses were almost exclusively owned by Americans (as opposed to the French or Creoles who were in the French Quarter and Esplanade, and the working class German and Irish of Marigny, not to mention people of color. So...this was basically the upper class "white" neighborhood.
In 1832, this was actually the independent city of Lafayette (hence Lafayette Cemetery #1 & #2), which was eventually incorporated into the city of New Orleans as the 10th Ward. Fast forward to today, and here's what you find...
Historic, beautiful homes -- as mentioned above -- but, they're all privately owned, so you can't go into them (nor should you be able to, since...they're privately owned). But, all Garden District tours will walk you through this neighborhood and point out all of these houses that remind you that you can't touch them, and that these people are richer than you.
Many celebrities live, or have lived in this neighborhood. Anne Rice lived in two houses here. Nicolas Cage had a house here. John Goodman lives here now, full-time. Sandra Bullock owns a house here, though is rarely in town. The football Mannings (Peyton, Eli) grew up in the Garden District and their parents (Archie, also a football legend in his own right) still live here.
Within the Garden District -- which is only about 50-60 blocks -- almost everything is residential. The exceptions are: Commander's Palace, which started as a saloon and is now an upscale Creole restaurant (where Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse got their culinary starts), Lafayette Cemetery #1 (very photogenic, used in many television shows and movies, historic -- and closed indefinitely to preserve it), and the Rink Shopping Center (where the Garden District Book Shop is). Lafayette Cemetery #2, by the way, is actually 6 blocks away, across St. Charles, outside the neighborhood.
The majority of the Garden District that may appeal to you are on its periphery. The borders of the neighborhood are Toledano Avenue, Magazine Street, Jackson Avenue, and St. Charles Avenue.
It's very easy to reach the neighborhood from the French Quarter via the St. Charles streetcar (the oldest continuously operated streetcar in the world, running daily since 1835) which makes about 4-5 stops next to the Garden District. The opposite side of St. Charles, 4 blocks down, is Magazine Street, where you can find a lot of boutiques and a variety of restaurants to fit any budget. Magazine Street...is definitely worth checking out. And while you're there to grab a bite to eat, you can wander around the Garden District for a few minutes afterwards to walk off whatever you ate.
A look around the market town of Bromyard in Herefordshire.
On Tenbury Road heading towards Old Road and Cruxwell Street.
Whitehouse Mews
Grade II listed building
Listing Text
BROMYARD
815/1/177 CRUXWELL STREET
12-APR-73 BROMYARD
1
(Formerly listed as:
CRUXWELL STREET
BROMYARD
WHITE HORSE INN)
GV II
A multi-phase residential building with C17 origins and later extension, now subdivided into flats.
MATERIALS: The principal facade is in red brick. Rear ranges have some exposed timber framing with brick infill, and some rough stone elevations. The roof is slate and there are brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: The building occupies a corner plot on Cruxwell Street and Tenbury Road. The main range of the building has three bays and runs roughly east-west, parallel with Cruxwell Street. There are further gabled ranges to the rear, perpendicular to the main range.
EXTERIOR: The Cruxwell Street facade has three storeys and three bays. The windows are aligned and the door is to the right of the central window. The ground-floor windows have large fixed arched lights with three casements above. At first-floor level there are two-over-two sashes, and at second-floor level three-over-three. The front door is solid with six fielded panels with a rectangular over-light with marginal glazing bars. There is a moulded door case with fielded panels to the return, it has a moulded cornice with scroll corbels. There is a ceramic tile to the left of the front door.
The Tenbury Road elevation is three storeys on the main range to the right, and two storeys on the rear gabled range. At ground-floor level there are two windows of the same style as the front, and a modern casement to the left. There are two six-light windows at first-floor level, with central fixed panes and casements either side. Most of the road-facing elevation of this rear range is rendered.
The rear elevation consists of two gables; that to the right has an exposed timber frame with brick infill to the upper level. The left-hand gable is in rough stone and has steps up to a first-floor entrance.
There is a dentil cornice below the eaves on the two road-side ranges.
INTERIOR: Not inspected
HISTORY: Bromyard is a small market town that was first recorded in circa 840. No. 1 Cruxwell Street is situated on one of the principal thoroughfares in the town, which runs east from the vicarage and church. It was known as Corkeswalle Vicus in the late C13 and recorded as Croxewalle Streate in 1575. To the west, where it meets Old Road, it was and was known as Sheep Street in the early C20. This central area of the town to the south of the church and around the market place appears to have been fully built up by the early C17, though some of the plots have been re-developed since that time.
No. 1 Cruxwell Street has origins in the C17. It appears it was originally a rectangular two-and-a-half-storey dwelling which was then extended to the rear with perpendicular gabled ranges, and was refronted with brick in the C18. There are records referring to a public house on the site as early as 1669 and it remained in use as such until the late-C20 before being converted to domestic use.
SOURCES:
Dalwood H and Bryant V, An Archaeological Assessment of Bromyard - The Central Marches Historic Towns Survey 1992-6 (2005) - ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/EUS/marches_eus_2005/do... - Accessed on 18 August 2010
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: No. 1 Cruxwell Street is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: an attractive and well-proportioned facade with good-quality brickwork, and historic fenestration and door case
* Early date: a C17 building with later refronting and extension, and operational as a public house from the C17 until the late C20
* Group value: it has group value with both neighbouring listed buildings and those elsewhere in the street scene
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Photos taken of Fig at 7th Mall, formerly known as 7th at Fig Mall around 2009. Originally mall contained Bullocks Department Store and a May Co Deparment Store. Over the years, Bullocks closed due to a duplicate store at Macy*s Plaza) and was subdivided into a Gold's Gym on the bottom floor and and vacant space for the rest of the building, and the May Co converted into a Robinsons May Department Store around 1993 after May Co merged two chains together (May Co and Robinsons), and in 2006, Macy*s took over the Robinsons May and converted the store into a Macy*s. Again faced with operating two stores within blocks of one another with the same merchantise, Macy*s finally Macy*s closed the site, and the mall sat vacant for a couple of years. In 2011, it was announced that Target Stores has taken over. The Mall closed for renovation and Target converted the two main floors of the former Bullocks and Macy*s into a City Target. The mall as of 2012 has been completely renovated with a new store mix. City Target is now the main tennant. Fig and 7th Mall is located on Figueroa between 7th and 8th Streets in Downtown Los Angeles
Macy*s has operated in Downtown Los Angeles as Macy*s since 1996, when it took over The Broadway Department Store Chain. As a result of that merger, Macy*s was faced with operating two stores in the same area.
Macy*s had been operating under the name of Bullocks, and was forced to operate both Macy*s and Bullocks for a short peiod of time. They had intented to close the 7th and Fig location but was forced to keep the location and run it as a Bullocks. This 7th and Fig location was the last of the Bullocks Department Store Chain Stores as Macy*s converted all the other stores to the Macy*s nameplate. Bullocks. After settling with the owners of the mall, Bullocks finally closed.
In 2006, the issue arose again, when Macy*s took over the Robinsons May Store. In early 2009, Macy*s closed this location.
Ateles fusciceps (fusciceps)
Our first full morning of birding was marked by a torrent of new and unfamiliar birds, and far too many voracious mosquitoes whose abilities to bite clean through normally impenetrable 'performance clothing' were unprecedented !
One thing we did not expect to encounter was a troop of Spider Monkeys - we were really scratching our heads - what was even possible here ?
It turned out that these were a fragment of the already critically endangered population of Brown-headed Spider Monkeys, which are often considered a subspecies of Black-headed Spider Monkey. Given the rapid reassessment of primate taxonomy that keeps subdividing into new species, I wouldn't be surprised if these are given full species status at some point.
English
Macedo de Cavaleiros is a Portuguese city, in the district of Bragança, North and sub-region of Alto Trás-os-Montes, with about 6 000 inhabitants.
It is the seat of a municipality with 699.27 kilometers ² and 17 210 inhabitants (2004), subdivided into 38 parishes. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Bragança, Bragança to the northeast, east by Vimioso south of Bragança and Alfândega da Fé, on the southwest by Vila Flor and west by Mirandela.
History
According to the Inquiries of D. Afonso III, in 1258, the territory belonged to D. Macedo Nuno Martins and D. Mendes Gonçalves, noble knights. That territory was at the time, only a small village of less importance to their neighboring Nozelos, Vale Meadows, Tenements, and Sezulfe Pinhovelo which, were chartered before Bragança.
It was from the fourteenth century that Macedo first appears in documents as the Knights Macedo. It is likely that the fact that its grantees are riders have estaja the source of this additive.
In 1722, D. John V has reguengueiros letter of the House of Braganza to the residents of the fifth de Macedo. By designating M as "Thursday" it demonstrates the small size of this population.
On July 18, 1835, decreed that the new administrative division. The country was divided into districts, in these counties and in these parishes.
No Map No. 2 attached to the decree, mentioned, among the 44 counties that were to constitute the district of Bragança, in the Chacim, Tenements, Nozelos, Sezulfe and valley grasslands.
On November 6, 1836, reduced to two - and Chacim Slum - the old Municipalities that would constitute the core of Municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros.
A new administrative division was adopted in 1853 and establishing M as the Knights tried and County by removing the old counties of Chacim and Tenements.
An error graph gives a final name to Macedo de Cavaleiros.
In 1863 the town of Macedo de Cavaleiros is elevated to a town.
Undoubtedly the growth of the ancient village of Macedo must have been huge from the beginning of the eighteenth century and the second half of the XIX century, from a simple "farm" the head of the county and village.
On 13 May 1999 is voted on in Parliament elevation of Macedo de Cavaleiros to city
Português
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedo_de_Cavaleiros
Macedo de Cavaleiros é uma cidade portuguesa, pertencente ao Distrito de Bragança, Região Norte e subregião do Alto Trás-os-Montes, com cerca de 6 000 habitantes.
É sede de um município com 699,27 km² de área e 17 210 habitantes (2004), subdividido em 38 freguesias. O município é limitado a norte pelo município de Vinhais, a nordeste por Bragança, a leste por Vimioso, a sul por Mogadouro e Alfândega da Fé, a sudoeste por Vila Flor e a oeste por Mirandela.
The Front Range is part of the true Rocky Mountains of western America. The American Rockies are subdivided into three physiographic provinces - the Southern Rockies, the Middle Rockies, and the Northern Rockies. The Front Range is in the Southern Rockies - this includes mountain ranges in New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. The ranges in the Southern Rockies are cored by Precambrian-aged igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Locality: view from the balcony of Denver's natural history museum
Sandergrove.
In 1849 a local farmer, William Rogers subdivided seven town blocks which he called Sandergrove. His mother was Elizabeth Sanders hence the name. A Post Office opened in Sandergrove in 1851 and one town block was reserved for a school. The school opened in 1859 and operated until 1952. The main building in town was the Wesleyan Methodist Church which opened in 1867. It has been closed for many years but a few graves remain in the attached cemetery (mainly named Billing or Tucker.) Sandergrove’s main claim to fame was the rail junction about 2 kms from the town which is the start of the spur line to Milang which opened in 1883. Until the line closed a daily train did the 22 minute trip to Milang after meeting the train to or from Adelaide. Until the 1930s this train was met by a steamer at Milang that then carried passengers across Lakes Alexandrina and Albert to Meningie and the Coorong.
Nos. 156 & 157 were built semi-detached in 1889.
"Summerhill is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located north of Downtown Toronto.
It was named after Summer Hill house, built in 1842 by Canadian transportation magnate Charles Thompson. Much of the area was once part of the original Thompson estate but was subdivided for development during the following decades.
During the 1880s, the North Toronto railway station was established on Yonge Street, and the neighbourhood of Summerhill quickly developed around it. The railway station was rebuilt in 1916 in honour of a visit by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). The neighbourhood underwent very little growth after the railway station closed in 1931, but it was revitalized by the launch of the Summerhill subway station in 1954.
The railway station from 1916 still exists, and it currently serves as a LCBO outlet. The station, along with the still-operational Canadian Pacific Railway bridge, is a landmark of the neighbourhood. As part of the provincial government's "MoveOntario 2020" program, plans were being considered to return the building to its original use as a train station, serving a planned GO Transit Crosstown line.
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/ tə-RON-toh; locally [təˈɹɒɾ̃ə] or [ˈtɹɒɾ̃ə]) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original limits through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than half of residents were born outside of Canada, more than half of residents belong to a visible minority group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city. The mayor of Toronto is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive of the city. The Toronto City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure on land outside of Asia, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism. Toronto is the third-largest tech hub in North America after Silicon Valley and New York City, and the fastest growing." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
On this trip I had a surprise 4 day layover in Toronto.
Now on Instagram.
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Although its history can be traced as far back as the late seventeenth century, the West Side, including the land within the boundaries of the West End-Collegiate Historic District, was still largely farmland until 1880. Prior to its urbanization at the end of the nineteenth century, the West Side, stretching roughly from 23rd Street to 125th Street, was known as Blooming-dale. This appellation came from the early Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam who called the region "Bloemendael" in fond recollection of a flower-growing area of the same name near Haarlem, in Holland,
In the 1660s, Governor Nicholls, the first English governor of New York, granted a large parcel of land in the Bloomingdale district to a syndicate of five patentees. Known as the "thousand acre tract," it was bounded roughly by the Hudson River and what are today 42nd Street, a point midway between 89th and 90th Streets, and Central Park West. The tract was surveyed and subdivided among the patentees. The territory which compromises the historic district fell within lots seven and eight, with the bulk of it being within lot seven. Both lots became the property of Egbert Wouterse, one of the five patentees.
In the early eighteenth century Bloomingdale Road was opened through the region following the course of an old Indian trail. The road provided the main link with the city at the tip of Manhattan. Gradually, wealthy New Yorkers began to establish country seats in the hinterland flanking Bloomingdale Road.
A number of country seats were established in the vicinity of the historic district. One of them, the homestead of Stephen De-Lancey, which was built before 1729, probably occupied the site of the later Vandenheuvel mansion on the west side of Bloomingdale Road at the present location of the Apthorp Apartments, a designated New York City Landmark. In 1792, John Cornelius Vandenheuvel, former governor of Demerara, built his mansion on this site."
By the 1830s, the mansion had been converted into a hotel called Burnham's. The Astor family acquired the site in 1879 and had the mansion demolished in 1905 to make way for the Apthorp Apartments
Another country seat in the vicinity was established by Teunis Somarindyck when all of lot seven of the thousand acre tract fell to him. After 1745 Somarindyck's house stood at the northwest
corner of 75th Street and Broadway. The house was demolished in 1868 to make way for the Boulevard, now Broadway. A second house belonging to the Somarindyck family was located at roughly the southeastern corner of the present West End Avenue and West 77th Street.
In the late 1840s, Fernando Wood purchased this house and the adjoining one, added a structure on its south side and used the house as his country seat. Wood lived here while he was mayor of New York City (1855-1858, 1860-1862). In 1860 Wood entertained the Prince of Wales in the home when the Prince of Wales made his famous trip to the United States as Baron Renfrew.
By the early nineteenth century four small villages had sprung up in Bloomingdale. According to historian Hopper Striker Mott, each of these villages was a distinct locality which maintained a semblance of village life at least up to the Civil War.
The general vicinity of the historic district was known as Har-senville, a hamlet centered around the present West 70th Street and Broadway. It was named for John Harsen whose house stood between 70th and 71st Streets.
Although Bloomingdale itself remained largely rural until the late nineteenth century, its eventual development as an integral part of New York City had been foreseen much earlier in the century. The state legislature appointed a commission of three in 1807 to prepare a plan for the orderly expansion of the city, and John Randel, Jr., an engineer, assumed the task of formulating such a scheme.
In 1811 he produced a plan, known as the Randel Survey or Commissioners' Map, which imposed a uniform grid of broad avenues and narrow cross streets upon the rolling hills of Manhattan as far north as 155th Street. The austerity of the rigid grid was relieved only by Bloomingdale Road (now Broadway) which cut across the plan diagonally.
To be sure, some fifty years elapsed before streets in the vicinity of the historic district were actually laid out. In the interim, the bucolic character of the area began to undergo changes. The large Somarindyck farm was subdivided during the early nineteenth century and much of the land within or near the historic district became part of six separate parcels.
Though ownership of these parcels varied throughout the first half of the century, they continued in use as either country seats or farms until being conveyed during the 1850s and 1860s in small parcels and lots. The Wood estate, centered on the present block bounded by West 76th and West 77th Streets, West End Avenue and Broadway, was not broken into lots until the 1880s.
The ready availability of land in Bloomingdale encouraged the establishment of a number of institutions there in the early nineteenth century.
One, the Orphan Asylum Society of New York, decided to move from its existing home in the increasingly congested and urbanized Greenwich Village area of the city to a new home in Harsenville so that the children in its charge could "enjoy purer air and more ample accommodations.
In the 1830s the Society purchased nine and one half acres of land, some of which is presently incorporated into the southern boundary of the historic district, and, on the site presently bounded by Riverside Drive, West End Avenue, West 73rd and West 74th Streets, erected its imposing new asylum. Completed in 1840, the asylum building survived until 1902.
During the period, the increase in the permanent population of Harsenville and Bloomingdale was sufficient to warrant opening a local public school. Established in the late 1820s at West 82nd Street and Eleventh Avenue (-West End Avenue), Public School 9 served the families who lived on the farms and in frame houses scattered throughout the area.
In spite of these various developments, Bloomingdale retained its countrylike atmosphere to the time of the Civil War. New York City, on the other hand, found itself in the throes of expansion and transformation into a rapidly growing metropolis.
Both the impact of the Industrial Revolution and massive immigration from Europe provided the impetus to northerly residential expansion which was channeled primarily to the East Side and roughly followed the uptown march of New York's wealthy citizens.
The predilection for development on the East Side was also heavily influenced by transit facilities which were provided there earlier than on the West Side. With the inauguration of the horsecar era in 1852, the city was pushed ever further north until it reached 59th Street.
As the city continually expanded to the north, it was increasingly apparent that Bloomingdale would eventually be engulfed by the tide of urban growth. However, residential development proceeded slowly in Bloomingdale. Its pace was influenced by a complex interrelationship of factors which included the opening of rapid transit lines, the construction of various civic improvements, and successive waves of real estate speculation .
Rapid growth and expansion only exacerbated the problems confronting New York City and led to closer scrutiny of the deficiencies of the Commissioners Map of 1811. Its rigid grid system for laying streets made meager provision for new squares ,
promenades or parks as a means of relieving congestion which resulted from the high densities of urban building. Moreover, the city's breathing spaces were confined to a few small squares, mostly damp and unwholesome "reservations" on the site of old water courses.
As early as 1840 a serious campaign was launched to create a park to benefit all the people of New York. By the late 1850s, Central Park, with a southern boundary coinciding with the northern boundary of the city, was under construction in a predominantly rural area of the island.
The decision to build Central Park in a rural, undeveloped part of the city spurred development during the 1850s in what is now midtown, particularly in the West 40s and 50s, close to Fifth Avenue, where brownstone rowhouses began to appear.
The determination of the park's boundaries also boosted property values to its east, west and north and sparked a wave of real estate speculation in all three areas. This first wave of speculation to affect the Upper West Side was confined to vacant lots along Eighth Avenue, just west of the park, which sold for nearly as much as those just to the east along Fifth Avenue. Since neither the population of the city at the time nor its transit facilities, which on the Upper West Side were limited to a stage line on Bloomingdale Road, warranted the prices at which property was being traded, the speculation was restricted to paper.
The period after the Civil War triggered the greatest speculative craze seen to that point in New York City. Land in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue was particularly susceptible even though most of it was unimproved, overvalued, and sold for very high prices. Generally speaking, the postwar speculation undoubtedly was one of the consequences of the inflation which followed the war. On the Upper West Side, it received an additional stimulus from contemplated rapid transportation facilities and from promised civic improvements.
The craze, however, was almost entirely restricted to vacant land. In 1868, for example, there were not more than half a dozen "modern" houses on the Upper West Side. In 1873, four lots on 81st Street and Riverside Drive, an avenue which then existed only on paper, were conveyed for $75,000. It was estimated that, between 1868 and 1873, the value of land north of 59th Street increased by 200 percent and in many cases 300 or 400 percent.
One of the earliest improvements to fuel post-war speculation on the Upper West Side was the extension of the Eighth Avenue horse car line to 84th Street in 1864. However more ambitious projects exerted far greater influence in this regard. By
the late 1860s a new rapid transit system connecting both the Upper East and Upper West Sides with downtown Manhattan seemed virtually assured.
The demand for other city improvements was also particularly insistent. Chief among the demands was a proposal to convert the Riverside precipice on the West Side of Manhattan into a park. The idea received additional support when Andrew H. Green, President of the Board of Commissioners of Central Park, submitted a plan to convert the precipice into a landscaped park for the West Side from 55th to 155th Streets.
The plan, approved by the Board of Commissioners of Central Park in 1867, called for not only the development of a Riverside Park but also the creation of Riverside Drive, Fort Washington Park and Morningside Park, as well as new streets and avenues that conformed to the natural contours of the land. One of the results was the replacement in 1868-71 of Bloomingdale Road by a wide avenue with grass malls from 59th Street to 155th Street.
The new avenue was named the "Boulevard" in the area of the historic district and the "Public Drive" further north. In 1899, the Boulevard and Public Drive were renamed "Broadway." At the same time city improvements, such as the opening, grading and flagging of streets in the area was proceeding slowly. By the 1870s most of the streets and avenues in or near the historic district had been laid out.
The Panic of 1873, caused by the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. and the suspension of the Union Trust Co., burst this speculative bubble. Not only did the bottom fall out of the real estate market, but the real estate industry entered into a period of stagnation which lasted until recovery at the end of the decade. During this period little building occurred on the Upper West Side and, more significantly, the value of building lots fell dramatically, often to their pre-Civil War levels.
Although this period of stagnation did not completely end until 1879, a large amount of capital had already been invested by then in the region of the historic district. The Boulevard had been opened, Riverside Drive and Park were under construction and the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad was nearing completion and in operation by the end of 1879.
The erection of the American Museum of Natural History in 1874 - 1877 in Manhattan Square between 77th and 81st Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues, indicated the emerging role of this area of the Upper West Side as a setting for cultural activities. Despite these improvements, the Upper West Side at this time "was barren, open land marked with occasional shanties, vegetable gardens, menacing rock out-
growths, lowly taverns and decrepit eighteenth and early nineteenth century mansions."
With the gradual return to prosperity by the end of the decade building activity once again resumed in the city, but much of it was confined to the Upper East Side. By contrast, the Upper West Side was distant from the city's historic thrust northward along Fifth Avenue. Rather than shift a mile to the west to proceed up Eighth Avenue or Broadway, development marched logically northward on the East Side into the Sixties and Seventies.
Furthermore, when real estate began to recover, owners of property on the Upper West Side who had suffered great losses during the Panic deliberately kept prices high in anticipation of development. ^ As a result, East Side property was more attractive to builders and, hence, nearly all of them were busy on the Upper East Side and even in Harlem.
After having lagged some twenty years behind the Upper East Side, development on the Upper West Side was finally stimulated by the completion of the Ninth Avenue El in 1879. However, despite the completion of the El, developers were reluctant, at first, to build on the Upper West Side. Builders hesitated to enter a nearly empty area whose social composition had not yet been determined.
Although everyone agreed that Central Park West and Riverside Drive were destined to supplant Fifth Avenue as the future home of New York's wealthy citizens, with West End Avenue being envisioned as the location of small shops catering to the needs of local households, no one seemed to agree about the future constitution of the rest of the Upper West Side. To be sure, the elevated stations at 72nd, 8 1st, 93rd and 104th Streets did attract builders like magnetic points, but there were few other fixed points to guide investors in determining the nature of buildings most profitable to erect.
The Upper West Side was a wilderness of confusing possibilities. In addition, high real estate prices, the unreliability of city improvements, delays in opening streets, and difficulties in evicting occupants of the numerous shanties spread throughout the region further confounded attempts at development.
Development that occurred on the Upper West Side during the first years of the 1880s was restricted largely to individual entrepreneurs. Construct ion first began in the vicinity of 125th Street at the north and in the area of 72nd Street at the south. Edward Clark, President of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., was the first to make major investments on the Upper West Side. In the late 1870s he invested heavily in property bounded by 72nd and 74th Streets, Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
Early in 1880, a row of his dwellings was put on the rental market and later in the same year he filed plans for his long heralded Dakota Apartments, a designated New York City Landmark. Standing at Central Park West between 72nd and 73rd Streets, it was mockingly dubbed "Clark's Folly" because of its unfashionable location.
The Dakota, however, soon became the nucleus of a residential community built up on nearby streets. Clark's real estate ventures proved to be superb investments and attracted much public attention and comment
Despite the publicity generated by such ventures as Clark's, the "Great West Side Movement" continued to lag behind development on the East Side, but by 1885 the Upper West Side had emerged as the recognized speculative area of the city. The developers already at work there undertook new and larger projects and were joined by nearly all of the larger builders in the city to the degree that the city's whole building force seemed to have been transferred to the West Side.
Buildings erected on the Upper West Side now sold readily and builders were inclined and financially able to continue launching even more projects throughout the area. In 1886, the Times wrote:
The west side of the city presents just now a scene of building activity such as was never before witnessed in that section, and which gives promise of the speedy disappearance of all the shanties in the neighborhood and the rapid population of this long neglected part of New York.
The huge masses of rock which formerly met the eye, usually crowned by a rickety shanty and a browsing goat, are being blasted out of existence. Streets are being graded, and thousands of carpenters and masons are engaged in rearing substantial buildings where a year ago nothing was to be seen but market gardens or barren rocky fields.
Construction began on the first houses, as they stand today in the historic district, in 1885. Designed by F. B. White, a very young architect, these houses are located on West End Avenue at 78th Street. Roughly one quarter of the row houses which survive in the historic district were built by the end of the decade. They were concentrated on West 76th and West 77th Streets and Eleventh Avenue, which had been named West End Avenue in 1880.
Contrary to earlier expectations, West End Avenue evolved into a street of fashionable houses rather than a commercial thoroughfare.
By the early 1890s, the Upper West Side had become more densely built up. The West 70s and 80s, in particular, had acquired row houses and began to establish itself as the Upper West Side's most fashionable neighborhood. Development occurred more rapidly on the streets between the Boulevard and Central Park than on the streets to the west of the Boulevard.
This was due, undoubtedly, to two factors. First, the land "vest of the Boulevard was relatively less accessible to street cars and to the Ninth Avenue El. Second, land flanking Riverside Drive, Central Park West, and, to some degree, West End Avenue, was considered to be prime property.
Speculation thrived on the notion that New York's socially elite and wealthy citizens would abandon Fifth Avenue, move en masse to the West Side and erect palatial mansions along these avenues. Consequently, the value of land adjacent to these streets remained consistently higher than elsewhere on the Upper West Side. High property values discouraged development there.
Promotional brochures and publicity in the press, which began to focus on the territory surrounding the historic district, heightened the interest of buyers and sellers alike in the territory west of the Boulevard. In 1888, for example, the West End Association published a pamphlet entitled "West End Avenue: Riverside Park in the City of New York" in which they lauded the virtues of West End Avenue and environs as an ideal residential area.
They pointed out the avenue's proximity to Riverside Park, its high elevation and its scientific sewerage system as its chief amenities.
In August 1890, the New York Herald ran a series of editorials and articles extolling the advantages of the Upper West Side but especially the Riverside Drive area. The paper focused attention on the proposals of Peter B. Sweeney, Chairman of the Department of Parks, for the creation of a "splendid public pleasure ground for lovers of the horse and the horse himself" on an embankment of the Hudson River between 72nd Street and 98th Street.
The newspaper also portrayed the Upper West Side as an extremely desirable residential area.
The district to the east of Riverside Park as far as Central Park is likely, or rather, sure to become within the next twenty years, perhaps the location of the most beautiful residences in the world.
The advantages of pure air and beautiful surroundings, glimpses of the New Jersey Hills at the end of each street, with the glitter of the Hudson between; the nearness of parks and the accessibility of the district will be insurmountable factors in popularity.
As the time of square brick and brown stone houses has gone by, so alas has the time when New York can afford to neglect her approach and her outward appearances.
In spite of the Panic of 1893, the entire area within the historic district had been developed with large row houses for the well-to-do by the late 1890s, a time span of less than 15 years since the first houses were constructed, Especially along Riverside Drive, numerous rows of large, ornate houses were built on speculation.
The architect Clarence True was instrumental in developing these houses which, with their broad widths, hardly qualified as ordinary row houses but rather as "mansions" with party walls.
By the turn of the century the region of the historic district had evolved into, in the minds of many, the most fashionable residential district in the city. In 1899, one observer noted that West End Avenue above 68th Street was one of the finest residential streets in New York City, while Riverside Drive, known as Riverside Avenue, was "universally acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque streets in the world."
The early years of the twentieth century witnessed the increasing popularity and acceptance by the upper middle class of the residential hotel and apartment house, particularly in Manhattan.
As they appeared throughout the city, the value of available vacant land, which previously had been reserved for row house development, escalated sharply and ultimately the cost of the average row house jumped to a point where not even the prosperous upper middle class could afford to buy one.
Legislation of the early twentieth century, which permitted the construction of taller apartment buildings, as well as a "universal demand for comfort, with less care and expense then entailed in private house maintenance," further encouraged the construction of apartment houses and residential hotels and caused the virtual disappearance of rowhouse construction in Manhattan.
The completion of the Broadway subway (IRT) in 1904 undoubtedly contributed to the popularity of the apartment house on the West Side. During the first decade of the twentieth century, residential hotel and apartment house construction boomed.
Apartment house construction on the Upper West Side continued up until the time of the Depression. However, as vacant lots became ever more scarce, particularly after World War I, developers took to demolishing existing rowhouses, many of which were less than twenty years old, in order to assemble sites for more lucrative apartment house construction.
Riverside Drive and West End Avenue were particularly vulnerable to this development trend. Most of the rowhouses which had once lined West End Avenue and Riverside Drive succumbed to the apartment house. Numerous apartment buildings standing along both avenues in the historic district date from this period and are the fruit of this development practice.
With the onset of the Depression, the Upper West Side entered a period of stagnation and decline. Little new construction occurred there. Many rowhouses, which had become financial burdens to maintain, were converted into multiple dwellings. Although urban renewal activity in the 1950s and 1960s left its mark on the Upper West Side, it did not affect the historic district. Moreover, the district has seen no major building activity since World War II. In recent years, however, the historic district has become one of the most desirable residential areas in the city.
Former location of Zody's Department Store which closed in the early 1980s. The different locations were split up among the different major supermarket chains. This site was acquired by Ralphs Grocery Company as a concept Supermarket known as The Giant. Eventually Ralphs merged The Giant with Ralphs and the supermarket became known as Ralphs Giant Supermarket. When Yucaipa, parent of Boys Markets took over Ralphs Grocery Company, they divided the many different chains that they owned into two divisions in Southern California. This store converted over to the warehouse format of Food 4 Less. Across the street was another Yucaipa owned market, Alpha Beta, which was divested due to government ownership regulations. Also the building was subdivided, with Thrifty Drug Store moving in the right portion of the building. After the Rite Aid take over of Thrifty Drug Store Chain, this site was closed, and it has gone through a series of different tennants, current a College. Also in the parking lot is a McDonald's Restaurant. One of xx photos of this site. Locate at Sunset and Western in Los Angeles, California, Southern California. Photo of McDonalds Restaurant.
Located in what now is the heart of the Garden District, between Washington, Sixth, Prytania, and Coliseum streets, Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest of the seven municipal, city-operated cemeteries in New Orleans. It is a non-segregated, non-denominational cemetery. There are immigrants from over 25 different countries and natives of 26 states as identified on the closure tablets.
The developers commissioned City surveyor Benjamin Buisson to develop a plan. The plan, dated March 5, 1832, subdivided the area between First Street and Toledano. The cemetery was laid out with two center aisles, a cruciform (cross) pattern, lined with trees giving it a park or garden-like appearance, and divided the cemetery into four sections. The intersecting avenues were built to accommodate funeral processions and originally paved with shells.
The cemetery was named for the City of Lafayette, which was annexed to the City of New Orleans as the Fourth District. The area of New Orleans that once was the city of Lafayette consists of two designated historical districts, the Irish Channel and the Garden District. The residents of the Irish Channel were first-generation immigrants many from Ireland and Germany, the two largest groups of immigrants to settle in New Orleans in the two decades before the Civil War. It was known as a working-class poor neighborhood, a rough and tough riverfront area. The Garden District, on the other hand, represented the new wealth of immigrants from Great Britain and the North who came and made their fortunes as cotton factors, brokers, and merchants after the Louisiana Purchase. They are often called “Southern Yankees.”
In the cemetery, there are almost 500 wall vaults on Washington Avenue which have been sealed. Only a few of the plaques are engraved.
In Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, there are society tombs for several volunteer fireman organizations (now extinct), the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, German Presbyterian Community, Home For Destitute Orphan Boys, Poydras Orphans Home, YMCA, and the New Orleans Home for Incurables.
Individual family tombs in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 feature Judge Ferguson of the Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate-but-equal” case. Also buried in the cemetery is Brigadier General Harry T. Hays who led the 1st Louisiana Brigade. The Brunie family, buried here, were notable jazz musicians who were associated with Papa Laine and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Perhaps the most famous residents of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 are fictional. The tomb for the Mayfair witches, created by Anne Rice, in The Witching Hour, fits a combination of the Lafayette and Jefferson fireman tombs. Rice also staged a jazz funeral where she rode in a glass enclosed coffin down the aisle of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 to introduce her book Memnoch the Devil. The vampire Lestat’s tomb, made from Styrofoam for the movie, Interview with a Vampire, was possibly modeled from the cast iron tomb. Many other movies have been filmed in the cemetery, including Double Jeopardy in 1999 and Dracula 2000 in 2000. Other filming has taken place in the cemetery, such as music videos by acts such as LeAnn Rimes and the New Kids on the Block.
There are about 1,100 family tombs and more than 7,000 people buried in Lafayette I, a single city block.
Unfortunately I did not have a flash on my camera .....
MOUNT Gambier’s abandoned and vandalised old hospital site.
I was passing with a coworker and took a few snaps. The Hospital has just sold and the new owner is cleaning up.
The scap metal merchants invited us in for a closer look. We got rock star access to the entire site.
The 4.9ha property has been closed to the general public for about 13 years.
The ugly and derelict old Mount Gambier Hospital occupies a prime location with views in both directions
The empty shell of the hospital and the surrounding land was originally on-sold to Sky Towers Mount Gambier P/L . They've done little to the site in recent years, despite calls for the building to be demolished or redeveloped. Now it has a new owner.
The plan originally included demolition of part of the old hospital, and turning the remains of the building into luxury apartments. In a controversial move, they also hoped to build a six storey retirement village on the site and subdivide some of the land for a future housing blocks.
The old hospital had been private property since 1998
It is a magnet for vandalism, drug making, squatters and potential death. The Lake Terrace address was opened around 1969/1970 and closed about 1997.
Walking about the grounds, you find doors that open onto overgrowth, the paths are gone and literally you can't use the door.
We found Steam-driven sterilizer's (Smith and Co Steam driven sterilizer - made in Bromptom) - h.l. smith & co pty ltd
We also found Johns Perry Lifts. (This was a company that started out as Johns & Waygood, became Johns Perry, was purchased by Boral and then sold to Otis who shut it down to remove their major local competitor).
We also saw the remains of lift shafts, piping, dumb waiters and much more.
The building is still solid (Although the gaping holes to the floors many meters below are unsafe) and there has been calls for ghost tours.
One can only imagine the births, deaths, pain and joy the walls has seen.
On the lower ground floor you can still walk the maintenance tunnels following the huge pipes that feed the building.
You can climb to the very top of the structure and overlook Mt Gambier.
The floor stairwells are heavily graffitied. You can walk the doctors car pack, the ambulance bay and even look at the big furnace.
There might not be much to look at soon.
Whilst we had "Rock star" access, we had permission to be onsite that we could not abuse. I can't recommend you jump the fence for a look. The site is very dangerous and we did this on our own back without insurance.
Update 8 Nov
Mount Gambier council buys old hospital
SEAN MCCOMISH
08 Nov, 2011 05:04 PM
www.borderwatch.com.au/news/local/news/general/mount-gamb...
THE Mount Gambier City Council is now the proud owner of the dilapidated old hospital and wants the community to decide on the future of the site.
Mayor Steve Perryman yesterday confirmed that council clinched a $1.4m deal on Monday to secure the property, which was sold by receivers after former owners Boots and Partners experienced challenges with the site.
Mr Perryman said the Local Government body was "relieved" at finalising the purchase.
"All of council is relieved and excited - it hasn't been an easy path," he said.
"It has been a cause of frustration for council over many years - senior staff and council members have borne the brunt of community criticism over the site even though we haven't owned it."
Mr Perryman would not be drawn into commenting on any plans for the site, saying the future of the building was in the community's hands following a period of consultation.
"I want to make it very clear that council has no view at this point in time on what the future of the site will be," Mr Perryman said.
"From here we will work to seek the views of the community on the options of the site - it's fair to say there is a fair amount of research, investigation and discussion to be had on the options."
A decision on the site's future is expected to be reached in the first half of next year.
"I know a number of individual members of council are saying they've got an open mind and they really don't know," Mr Perryman said.
The abandoned site has been an ongoing saga for 13 years after the State Government sold the complex to private hands.
Mr Perryman assured the million dollar purchase would not lead to a rise in council rates.
"It's within councils finances to make the purchase and that's why it's important we have a thorough investigation in terms of the options that are available," he said, adding the deal was done without state or federal government assistance.
Other council projects such as the redevelopment of the rail land would be unaffected by the sale, Mr Perryman said.
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This was previously the location of Sally Ann before they moved to the former Felpausch up the street. Located in a subdivided former Kroger that was split up between Ollie's and Dollar Tree.
Constructed in 1878 from the designs of architect Henry R. Searle for Naval Commander Allen V. Reed, the property remained a single-family residence until 1940 when the Reed family sold the building. Typical of many of the large residential properties within the district, Six Logan Circle was subdivided and converted into a multiple-unit dwelling after World War II. In 1982, the property was purchased by the Six Logan Circle Associates with the intent of rehabilitating the property into six residential units.
In the Logan Circle Historic District National Register #72001426, and it's also in the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District National Register #94000992.
Long Point is a sand spit and medium-sized hamlet on the north shore of Lake Erie, part of Norfolk County in the province of Ontario, Canada.
It is about 40 kilometres long and is about a kilometre across at its widest point. Lake Erie lies to the south of Long Point, and Long Point Bay lies on the north side comprise. The bay is subdivided into the Inner Bay and Outer Bay by a line that runs between Turkey Point to the north and Pottahawk Point to the south. Some of the towns along the bay's north shore include Port Rowan, Turkey Point and Port Dover. Long Point is north of and across the lake from Presque Isle and Erie, Pennsylvania.
Settlers from Europe began arriving in this area in 1790. After the American Revolution, many Loyalists began to settle here but after 1796, land was given to anyone who was capable of developing it. The first lighthouse was built in 1830.
In the 19th century, a powerful storm cut an opening through the middle of Long Point. A lighthouse was built alongside the channel, which was the first of several on the point. The opening became known as "The Old Cut". The cut has since closed along the lakeshore, but boaters continue to use the northern portion to access the bay, homes and cottages.
During the mid-19th century some of local residents saw an opportunity to make easy money by "blackbirding." Blackbirders erected fake lighthouses during times of low visibility. Ships trying to enter the old cut would run aground. When the crew abandoned ship the blackbirders would loot the ship of cargo and other valuables. With law enforcement based in London, Ontario, these blackbirders would store their loot on the many hiding spots that Long Point offered.
Abigail Becker on several occasions in the 19th century waded into stormy waters to save crew members of boats that had run aground. Long Point has caused many shipwrecks, with many of the wrecks located right off the tip of the point. More than 400 ships have sunk in an area called "The Lake Erie Quadrangle".
Sport hunting was important after the Long Point Company purchased the Point in 1866 to facilitate this pursuit. Long Point Provincial Park was created in May 1921; by 1929, it was connected to the mainland by a new causeway.
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Located in what now is the heart of the Garden District, between Washington, Sixth, Prytania, and Coliseum streets, Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest of the seven municipal, city-operated cemeteries in New Orleans. It is a non-segregated, non-denominational cemetery. There are immigrants from over 25 different countries and natives of 26 states as identified on the closure tablets.
The developers commissioned City surveyor Benjamin Buisson to develop a plan. The plan, dated March 5, 1832, subdivided the area between First Street and Toledano. The cemetery was laid out with two center aisles, a cruciform (cross) pattern, lined with trees giving it a park or garden-like appearance, and divided the cemetery into four sections. The intersecting avenues were built to accommodate funeral processions and originally paved with shells.
The cemetery was named for the City of Lafayette, which was annexed to the City of New Orleans as the Fourth District. The area of New Orleans that once was the city of Lafayette consists of two designated historical districts, the Irish Channel and the Garden District. The residents of the Irish Channel were first-generation immigrants many from Ireland and Germany, the two largest groups of immigrants to settle in New Orleans in the two decades before the Civil War. It was known as a working-class poor neighborhood, a rough and tough riverfront area. The Garden District, on the other hand, represented the new wealth of immigrants from Great Britain and the North who came and made their fortunes as cotton factors, brokers, and merchants after the Louisiana Purchase. They are often called “Southern Yankees.”
In the cemetery, there are almost 500 wall vaults on Washington Avenue which have been sealed. Only a few of the plaques are engraved.
In Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, there are society tombs for several volunteer fireman organizations (now extinct), the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, German Presbyterian Community, Home For Destitute Orphan Boys, Poydras Orphans Home, YMCA, and the New Orleans Home for Incurables.
Individual family tombs in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 feature Judge Ferguson of the Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate-but-equal” case. Also buried in the cemetery is Brigadier General Harry T. Hays who led the 1st Louisiana Brigade. The Brunie family, buried here, were notable jazz musicians who were associated with Papa Laine and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Perhaps the most famous residents of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 are fictional. The tomb for the Mayfair witches, created by Anne Rice, in The Witching Hour, fits a combination of the Lafayette and Jefferson fireman tombs. Rice also staged a jazz funeral where she rode in a glass enclosed coffin down the aisle of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 to introduce her book Memnoch the Devil. The vampire Lestat’s tomb, made from Styrofoam for the movie, Interview with a Vampire, was possibly modeled from the cast iron tomb. Many other movies have been filmed in the cemetery, including Double Jeopardy in 1999 and Dracula 2000 in 2000. Other filming has taken place in the cemetery, such as music videos by acts such as LeAnn Rimes and the New Kids on the Block.
There are about 1,100 family tombs and more than 7,000 people buried in Lafayette I, a single city block.
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
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 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 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.
Woodchester , Hartley Vale Methodist Church Ruins and Salem Lutheran Church.
The land here was purchased in 1841 by the attorney of William Leigh of Staffordshire England. He was the man who donated extensively to the Catholic and Anglican Churches in Adelaide and gave the city Leigh Street. (Leigh Street is still a privately owned street and was never part of Colonel William Light’s city plan.) Leigh was a great investor and speculator in SA. His attorney was Edward Peake who later ran the first winery at Clarendon. Nothing happened with the land here until Leigh had it subdivided and sold in 1856. Leigh’s grand English residence was called Woodchester Park and so the settlement here was also named Woodchester. A school opened here in 1859 as wheat farmers moved into the district. It operated until 1941. A Primitive Methodist Church opened in 1863 and closed in 1963. The settlement is noted for its fine stone walls. The Richardson Memorial Hall on the main road opened in 1941.
Hartley was a small not well know locality established by a group of Methodist families in the 1850s. The Wesleyan Methodist Church which is now in ruins opened in 1856 which was when the farmers first took up land here. It closed in 1895 and was sold in 1901 after the union of the three Methodist churches in 1900. Later a school started in Hartley but it is now a residence. It operated from 1919 to 1970. A Post Office opened here in 1867 and did not close until 1981. There is almost nothing at Hartley these days but this fertile area along the Bremer River once had a creamery 1894-1906 , an Agricultural Bureau Branch 1893-1994, and a eucalyptus distillery 1931-37. At one time the road from Callington to Wellington was proposed to go through Hartley and to be called Chauncey’s Line Road (1851) but the final decision favoured another route to Wellington. Hartley is not to be confused with Hartley Vale near Gumeracha. Hartley could have been named after one of the South Australian Company ships that brought settlers out to SA in the 1830s called the Hartley which arrived in 1837 with its first load of immigrants.
But the Methodists were not the only settlers as a large German background group also settled at Hartley. They established a Lutheran Church nearby called Salem or Peace church in 1856. The Germans were led by the Jaensch family who settled here in 1853. Another original settler family was the Thiele family who had also escaped from religious persecution in Germany and had arrived at Port Melbourne in 1853. They arrived not long after at Salem near Callington. The German settlers opened their own language and day school here in 1865 and it operated through to 1936, the SA Centenary year. The original 1856 church was replaced in 1890 with the fine stone structure which is still standing today. It has an impressive tower and is still used weekly. Their first Lutheran pastor in 1856 was Christian Gottlieb Teichelmann (1807-1888) the missionary and worker with aboriginal people. Teichelmann had left Salem within ten years. He is best remembered for his publication: Aboriginals of South Australia: Illustrative and Explanatory Note of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Superstitions of the Natives of South Australia which was published early in 1841. He eventually retired to Stansbury as a farmer. Salem Church is not to be confused with Salem Lutheran Church Angaston. Below: Salem Lutheran church 1890; Hartley Vale Wesleyan Methodist 1856-1895;
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
An intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. 1 The rowhouse group is the sole surviving example of a type of site planning used on several comer plots along West End Avenue in the early 1890s where a group of houses facing the Avenue featured a prominent comer house and an additional house was built facing the side street behind the Avenue-facing houses. Treated as the centerpiece of the rehouse group, the comer house at No. 858 West End Avenue is representative of the many larger comer houses with side entrances and comer towers which once stood on West End Avenue.
The group of residences was built in 1892-93 during the first period of intense residential development for the comfortable professional class along the northern portion of West End Avenue where the suburban qualities of landscaped streets, the views of the Hudson River, and the amenities of nearby Riverside Park created a desirable residential area. The 858 West End Avenue House is distinguished by ornament characteristic of the mannerist aesthetic of the firm of Schneider & Herter, the juxtaposition of contrasting textures of rough, smooth-faced, and carved brownstone, and the emphasis on a lively roof line punctuated by a bell-shaped tower and chimneys. The quality and distinctiveness of the Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival style design of the 858 West End Avenue House reflects the desire for individuality in the appearance of houses within rowhouse groups and is representative of the eclectically-styled residential architecture of West End Avenue dating from the 1890s.
Development of the Upper West Side
Despite its long history beginning soon after the colonial Dutch settlement, 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 in 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.
The city grew rapidly northward during the nineteenth century, but it was not until after Central Park (a designated New York City Scenic landmark) was laid out in 1857 that development began around the perimeter of the Park, setting off the first wave of real estate speculation on the Upper West Side.
Improved public transportation to the area contributed to the growth and sustained development of the Upper West Side. By 1880 the horse car line on Eighth Avenue had been replaced by street rail service up to 125th Street and the Elevated Railway on Ninth Avenue (renamed Columbus Avenue in 1890) had been completed. However, the biggest boost to the development of the West End (the area west of Broadway) was the creation, between 1876 and 1900, of Riverside Drive and Park (a designated New York City Scenic Landmark) located north of 72nd Street along the Hudson River. The presence of the park and drive, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, was an important factor in making this area desirable for high-quality residential development.
Development of the Wast End began slowly, due, to a large degree, to the hesitation of would-be residents, but by 1885 it 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 real estate developers, including the West End Association, founded in 1884 by the prominent developer, W.E.D. Stokes, ultimately stimulated the demand for houses in the West End. Real estate brochures and the local press drew attention to the area, emphasizing the scenic quality of the setting, the nearness of parks, and the availability of public transportation.
West End Avenue (formerly Eleventh Avenue) was opened in 1880 from 72nd Street to 106th street and was paved with asphalt by 1893. West End Association members set twenty-year restrictive covenants governing West End Avenue which closed the avenue to commercial traffic and initially limited development to single-family houses, thus enhancing the desirability of the residential area. By 1890 the character of the avenue had emerged as completely residential and was promoted as a suburban-like setting with such amenities as grass plots and trees along the sidewalks. The absence of flats and apartment houses on the avenue provided the opportunity for various treatments of the comers with rowhouses and larger attached residences.
In the mid-1880s the most attractive areas for development along West End Avenue were located near the El stations and along the higher elevations of the hilly avenue. Construction of mid-size rowhouses, rather than the more grand type of mansions originally projected for West End Avenue, began in 1885 near 104th Street which was convenient to a Ninth Avenue El station and by 1895 the high plateau between West 99th and 104th Streets had been built up with three- and four-story rowhouses. The architectural tone of these private residences was set by the presence of costly mansions such as the W.F. Foster residence at 102th Street and Riverside Drive and the Bacon residence at 104th Street and Riverside Drive.
The Schneider & Company's Houses
The site at the northeast corner of West 102nd Street and West End Avenue appears to have been first sold for development purposes in 1881 and at that time an open-ended restrictive covenant was initiated which prevented the construction of a variety of commercial and industrial buildings. The property changed hands several times before Hannah O'Brien filed plans in 1890 to build five three-story limestone-fronted houses designed by Andrew Spence; within a year O'Brien lost control of the property and this project was abandoned.
Two New York architects, Ernest W. Schneider and Henry Herter, along with two partners — John Fish, a previous client, and Eugene Schultz— acquired the property and soon after filed plans for the construction of a group of four three-story residences with raised basements. Beside the comer house, facing West End Avenue, are two narrow houses, nearly identical in design. Situated across the rear of the three West End Avenue houses, facing West 102nd Street and enclosing the yard area, the fourth house has a freestanding side facade. The houses, built between May, 1892, and April, 1893, were appropriately finished on the interior with decorative mantels, hardwood trim, and horseshoe openings ornamented with fretwork dividing the music rooms from the parlors, as well as up-to-date plumbing and utility areas. The placement of the stairhall in the center of each house permitted large full-width front rooms on the upper floors.
The first house to be sold in the rowhouse group was No. 856 West End Avenue. In 1895 the remaining houses were divided among the investors and Schneider & Herter acquired title to No. 858 West End Avenue. The house was sold in 1897 but title reverted to Schneider & Herter in 1898; they soon resold the house. No. 854 West End Avenue had been sold in 1895 and the West 102nd Street House was sold in 1896.
The Schneider & Company development venture is the sole surviving example of a site development pattern that emerged on West End Avenue in which large comer parcels were purchased for the construction of rowhouse groups. By decreasing the depth of the avenue-facing houses, an additional house could be built on the plot facing the side street; the plan worked to the advantage of the developer who sought a maximum return on the expensive West End Avenue lots. Slightly larger and more prestigious comer houses, with highly visible design features such as comer towers, were characteristic of this site development plan. This scheme was particularly favored in the early 1890s when the area between 99th and 104th streets was developed. Rowhouse groups facing West End Avenue, with a side street-facing house (or houses) across the rear of these lots, were built at the southeast comers of West End Avenue and 99th, 100th, 102nd, and 103rd Streets; all of the groups except the Schneider & Company group have been demolished.
The rowhouse group at the southeast comer of 103rd Street and West End Avenue, designed by M.V.B. Ferdon in 1891, included five houses facing West End Avenue and one facing 103rd Street; only the house facing West 103rd Street remains standing. Another group of houses designed by M.V.B. Ferdon and built by Increase Grenell in 1892 at the northwest comer of West End Avenue and 104th Street (demolished) included a comer house very similar to the Schneider & Company house, featuring the entrance near the center of the 104th Street facade.
Picturesque Architecture on West End Avenue
Curing the intense period of rowhouse development on the Upper West Side, from 1885 to 1900, residential design was dominated by a reaction to the conformity and homogeneity of older Italianate style brownstone rowhouses found elsewhere in the city. The first wave of development along West End Avenue in the period between 1885 and 1895 produced a number of individually-designed houses and speculatively-built, yet distinctive, rowhouse groups which, along with houses in the West End as a whole, represent the culmination of single-family house construction in Manhattan. Many of the most prominent architects working in New York City designed these residences, often for speculative developers who invested in the area. The residences designed for West End Avenue were characteristic of the picturesque eclecticism of late-nineteenth-century architecture, drawing from a wide variety of stylistic sources and expressing the desire of architects and clients for originality, variety, and novelty in residential architecture.
There was a movement away from smooth brownstone as a facing material and a new emphasis on the sculptural and textural qualities of surfaces, as well as on the mixture of colors and materials.
Unusual, picturesque house design on West End Avenue had been initiated by the construction of two groups of houses with a "Dutch" flavor in 1885-86, designed by Frederick B. White and McKim, Mead & White. Clarence True and other architects continued to design residences for West End Avenue in unusual and picturesque revival styles which were executed with a high-degree of artistic experimentation. Strong rhythmic patterns, asymmetrical massing, and a lively streetscape were created by the profusion of bowfronts, bay and oriel windows, gables, turrets, chimneys, dormers, cornices, stoops, and ornamentation associated with the popular Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles as well as more exotic revival styles. These later rowhouses on West End Avenue, and throughout the Upper West Side, unlike their Italianate brownstone predecessors from earlier in the nineteenth century, were purposely designed to be distinguished from one another, while together forming visually coherent ensembles.
The houses designed by Schneider & Herter are representative of this picturesque design movement, and although based on the common hybrid of the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles they are enlivened by unusual carved ornament. The treatment of each of the four houses individually within the easily recognizable group provided the architects with the opportunity to create variations on a theme. The high degree of modulation in the plane of the facades, through the use of recessed entrances as well as projecting bay windows and balconies (which afforded views of the river and park) adds depth and grandeur to the rowhouse designs. Schneider & Herter explored the range of surface effects achievable from smooth-faced and rough-cut brownstone, and incorporated both geometric and figural carving of the material.
The repetition of several ornamental elements unites the houses, including paired stringcourses, gridded panels of rough-faced stone, chamfered window surrounds in the smooth-faced facades, sheet-metal panels at the roofline, and elements of the carved stone program. The two smaller West End Avenue houses are identical except for the shape and detailing of the window openings. No. 858 West End Avenue has recessed balconies at the parlor and second stories that relate the comer house to the West End Avenue houses, while the longer West 102nd Street frontage is visually linked to the house at 254 West 102nd Street through the repetition of unusual columns flanking the entrances and the carved panels at the roofline. The round comer tower with a bell-shaped roof serves as the centerpiece of the group.
The design of picturesque rowhouses in New York was influenced by trends in the design of architectural ornament in the later nineteenth century, a time when ornament was treated by many architects as an opportunity for creative experimentation. European theorists such as Owen Jones, James K. Collings, and Christopher Dresser encouraged an abstract interpretation of vegetation executed with an emphasis on geometricized form and their publications influenced designers in the United States. At the same time, technological change also influenced the design of ornament. The availability of steam-powered tools encouraged the use of bold, machine-cut ornament while the growing use of terra cotta prompted the design of intricate ornament that could be easily reproduced.
The popularity of several revival styles, and the inventive blending of these styles, encouraged the architect/designer to adopt an individualized aesthetic in the design of architectural ornament. This trend can be seen in the abstracted naturalistic ornament developed by such recognized American innovators as Frank Fumess and Louis H. Sullivan, as well as in the pioneering work of architects like Henry Hobson Richardson, who developed a highly personal style drawing on Romanesque sources. Many architects working in New York City also developed identifiable personal styles, such as clarence True with his interpretation of the "Elizabethan Renaissance Revival" style.
Schneider & Herter developed a somewhat idiosyncratic and mannerist aesthetic characterized by a lack of reverence for the traditional placement of ornament, an unexpected combining of architectural styles, and asymmetry in the composition of facades and their detailing; these characteristics appear in the firm's early designs for tenements, rowhouses and synagogues. In the ornamental programs of several buildings, including the 858 West End Avenue House, Schneider & Herter combined incised, machine-cut ornament— recalling the earlier Neo-Grec style of incised ornament — with both abstracted naturalistic designs and romantic figurative carving. An uncommon approach to the composition and placement of ornament appears in the design of the entrance where the architects combined pilasters with the projecting balcony above to suggest an entrance portico.
Two flattened engaged baluster forms, with incised horizontal bands and necks at the bottom, are topped by capitals with carved shell forms above inscribed circles; animal masks extend from the upper portion of plain blocks above the capitals that support the projecting balcony. Framing the door to the east is a variation on this form, a cylindrical baluster with a capital, different from the flanking ones, of stalky acanthus leaves above which an elongated console bracket supports the balcony. A more subtle example of Schneider & Herter's unusual ornamental treatment appears in the placement of carved stones in the upper courses of the rusticated basement to cap undefined piers.
Schneider & Herter
Ernest W. Schneider and Henry Herter began an architectural partnership in New York City around 1887; within a very short time they had a thriving business designing tenements, flats, and industrial buildings, primarily on the Lower East Side. Schneider & Herter worked repeatedly for a group of German-Jewish clients with ethnic backgrounds similar to theirs, the most prominent of whom were the real estate developers Jonas Weil and Bernard Mayer for whom the architects designed a number of multiple dwellings. This association led to the firm's commission for the Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67th Street (1889-90, a designated New York City Landmark), which Weil financed and led as president of the congregation. Schneider & Herter also designed Congregation Kol Israel Arshi at 20-22 Forsyth Street (1892, now owned by the Hellenic Orthodox Community).
The firm of Schneider & Herter had acted as architect-developers prior to its venture on the Upper West Side as Schneider & Co., designing and building a pair of French flats at 731-735 East 5th Street in 1890-91 and a French flat at 233-35 Delancey Street in 1891-92; the firm began a warehouse project at 141 West Broadway in 1893. Schneider & Herter later erected a five-story apartment building at 79-81 Perry Street in 1895 (in addition to designing several other buildings now within the Greenwich Village Historic District) and a pair of flats buildings at 309 and 317 West 93rd Street in 1901-02 (within the Riverside-West End Historic District).
The West End Avenue-102nd Street project was a departure from Schneider & Herter's usual work designing multiple dwellings, and was among the firm's first projects on the Upper West Side. Many of the firm's more than 100 multiple dwellings in Manhattan no longer stand, but those remaining exhibit the firm's individualistic approach to the use of ornament and facade compositions often featuring round-arched windows characteristic of the Romanesque Revival style.
- From the 1990 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Parrots, also known as psittacines (pron.: /ˈsɪtəsaɪnz/), are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ('true' parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos) and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots). Parrots have a generally pantropical distribution with several species inhabiting temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere as well. The greatest diversity of parrots is found in South America and Australasia.
Characteristic features of parrots include a strong, curved bill, an upright stance, strong legs, and clawed zygodactyl feet. Many parrots are vividly coloured, and some are multi-coloured. The plumage of cockatoos ranges from mostly white to mostly black, with a mobile crest of feathers on the tops of their heads. Most parrots exhibit little or no sexual dimorphism. They form the most variably sized bird order in terms of length.
The most important components of most parrots' diets are seeds, nuts, fruit, buds and other plant material. A few species sometimes eat animals and carrion, while the lories and lorikeets are specialised for feeding on floral nectar and soft fruits. Almost all parrots nest in tree hollows (or nest boxes in captivity), and lay white eggs from which hatch altricial (helpless) young.
Parrots, along with ravens, crows, jays and magpies, are among the most intelligent birds, and the ability of some species to imitate human voices enhances their popularity as pets. Trapping wild parrots for the pet trade, as well as hunting, habitat loss and competition from invasive species, has diminished wild populations, with parrots being subjected to more exploitation than any other group of birds. Measures taken to conserve the habitats of some high-profile charismatic species have also protected many of the less charismatic species living in the same ecosystems.
Going west from Caldwell, New Jersey, on Bloomfield Avenue (a main avenue radiating out of Newark), you enter West Caldwell, orignally part of the larger Caldwell Township that once sprawled across northwestern Essex County, but subdivided into the separate towns of Caldwell, West Caldwell, and North Caldwell; what was left of Caldwell Township was renamed Fairfield in 1956. This sign is placed on the median of Bloomfield Avenue as you enter my hometown. The sign was placed here only recently, and the median itself was only landscaped recently in an effort to beautify the town. (Before that, Bloomfield Avenue's medians were strictly patches of grass.) Although the sign looks handcarved, it is in fact fake wood imprinted by a machine. Still, it looks nice.
As the sign says, West Caldwell was incorporated in 1904, one year before Las Vegas, Nevada. Its borders include the old villages of Westville, where a family by the name of Crane set up a grist and saw mill and the DeCamp family owned a dairy farm, and Franklin, where Bloomfield Avenue meets Passaic Avenue and cluster of shopping centers and public buildings serve as our de facto downtown. West Caldwell remained agricultural well into the 1940's before rampant house building and commercial development suburbanized it. Most of the buildings in our "downtown" date back no further than 1970; paradoxiaclly, there are several farmhouses from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that have been integrated into the suburban fabric.
Famous West Caldwell residents, past and present, admittedly do not make much of anything to boast about. They include Tommy Page, a pop singer who had a number-one hit song in 1991 before being relegated to one-hit-wonderland; G. Gordon Liddy, the convicted Watergate burglar turned game show constestant and reactionary talk radio host; and, Samuel Alito, the newest U.S. Surpeme Court justice, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with the second-highest negative vote for a confirmed Supreme Court member (after Clarence Thomas).
Needless to say, we talk more about the fact that we have New Jersey's oldest cucumber magnolia tree. It's even pictured on the town seal.
Shot at Still Future exhibition, open from 8 Feb 2014 to Saturday 16 Feb, hours 11am to 5pm. A panorama snap shot to give an idea of the large size of the gallery's display space. There are another three adjoining smaller gallery spaces which add up to thhe same amount of space in terms of volume as this long gallery, but of course in total are more wall space because of the subdividing walls.
If you're unfamiliar with such a wide perspective view the apparently curved walls are in fact straight. The two edges of the image show the two end walls of this rectangular space. In other words the subtended angle of view is about 180 degrees. If you print this image out at least at A2 size, and then move your nose very close to it, as you swivel your eyes from left to right across it, you will see the perspective distortions almost disappear. In other words the apparent distortion is purely a consequence of looking at the image when the angle of view subtended by your eyes is much less than that of the camera when the photograph was taken. Almost disappear because to get 180 degrees angle of view you'd have to cut off your nose and ram your eyes into the paper. So this wide angle distortion is not, as often mistakenly thought, a distortion caused by the lens etc.. It's a mathematically and optically correct perspective projection. The apparent distortion is created by the "wrong" distancing of your eyes from the image, wrong in the sense of too wide a disparity between ca,era angle of view and eyes angle of view looking at the image.
What about long distance telephoto shots? The camera has a tiny angle of view of say a distant bird, but we look at the image from a foot or so away. Why doesn't that produce this kind of perspective distortion? It does in fact, but in that case the large difference in point of view distance produces so small a change in the form of the image that it you have to look very critically indeed to be able to notice it. It is for most practical purposes insignificant. Some portrait photographers are rather picky about it.
The profanity? Well it so happened that placing the camera opposite the middle of the longest wall in the gallery gave accidental prominence to the nearest works of art, which depending on your moral (rather than geometric) point of view may be seen as art or disgusting profanity. Then of course there is the aesthetic perspective. And so on. All these perspectives depend on the position of your head the various spaces, geometric, moral, aesthetic, and so on. My point of view here is that of a documentary photographer.
Address: Arts Complex, Gallery 1, 3rd floor, St Margaret's House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.
Here below (while still current) are the details from Edinburgh Palette:
www.edinburghpalette.co.uk/events/still-future/
It's a group show featuring work by:
Richard Ash Rowan
John Ayscough
Martin Fowler
David Fryer
Jason Herzmark
Chad McCail
Billy MacCall
Robert Montgmery
Andrew Smith
Original: DSC07118PanX
[Technical note: In the old days you could only create panoramic views like this by cropping the top and bottom off a fish eye perspective projection lens image. That produces a rather low resolution image. Or you could stitch together a sequence of images made by carefully rotating the camera about the the image plane in the camera. That gave very high resolution images but took a lot of work. But now that many digital cameras have very powerful image processors built into them increasing numbers of cameras are offering the ability to create a panoramic image from a handheld sweep of the camera and doing all the complicated alignment and stitching in the camera. You do get better results by swinging round on a tripod, however. The disadvantage of this method is that the camera chooses a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the panning sweep of the camera, which unless the light is very bright (which it certainly wasn't here!) will lose some image resolution to high ISO noise. That's how this was done. Surprisingly good, I think, considering all the compromises involved.]
Former gunpowder and dynamite factory built in 1879 somewhere in Belgium. This site is where powder and explosives were made, in particular for a use in the mines. The site was sold and demilitarized in 1990 after the bankruptcy of its company.
Spread over about ten hectares secretly hidden in the forest, the "factory" is subdivided into approximately fifty buildings isolated from each other. The reason of this isolation? Simply to avoid chain explosions in case of accident.
Among all these buildings, there are workshops, laboratories and testing rooms, as well as administration and machinery buildings, and also warehouses. The site is also provided with a central heating network distributed towards all the buildings through above-ground insulated conducts.
Discovering the site is comparable to a long and pleasant stroll in the forest, but we have to admit that most of the instruments and working accessories are gone and many buildings are now empty.
Besides, the site is polluted and many nitrophilous plants took a malicious pleasure in regaining control of the place, even growing inside the houses.
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Ancienne poudrerie et dynamiterie belge construite en 1879. À ne pas confondre avec la poudrière (soit le "magasin à poudre"), ce site était une usine de fabrication de poudre et explosifs, destinés notamment à un usage dans les mines. Le site fut revendu et démilitarisé en 1990 suite à la faillite de la société.
Étalée sur une bonne dizaine d'hectares enfouis secrètement dans la forêt, "l'usine" se subdivise en (approximativement) une cinquantaine de bâtiments isolés les uns des autres. La raison de cet isolement? Simplement pour éviter des explosions en chaîne en cas d'accident de travail.
Parmi tous ces bâtiments, on retrouve des ateliers, laboratoires et salles de test, ou encore des bâtiments administratifs, de machinerie et des entrepôts. Le site est également muni d'un réseau de chauffage central redistribué vers tous les bâtiments via des conduites aériennes à parois isolantes.
Si la visite du site constitue une longue et agréable balade en forêt, force est de constater qu'il reste peu d'instruments et accessoires de travail dans les bâtiments.
Le site étant par ailleurs pollué par des ingrédients (comme le nitrate) qui servaient à la fabrication de la poudre, les plantes nitrophiles ont depuis lors pris un malin plaisir à se ré-approprier les lieux, allant jusqu'à pousser à l'intérieur des maisons.