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My title here is suggestive of a prison. In the middle of this courtyard is indeed a lovely Victorian garden, but there is still a relatively large space that would allow a significant number of people to exercise.
This idea is not so far removed from the historical facts (and Victoria's largest high security juvenile prison is in fact a literal stone's throw away behind razor wire). There is even a photograph on this link that shows "Female inmates in 1928" [Royal Park: from parklands to a home: 1840s-1920s] www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
Now of course they weren't strictly prisoners, but those destitute and under the care of the state were certainly institutionalised in a way that we no longer find acceptable.
So in a nutshell, the land was purchased in 1858 to form an experimental farm. The farm ultimately came to nothing and in 1875 an Industrial School for Girls was set up. Might I suggest that the term "Industrial" here has much in keeping the with term "Female Factory" in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) in the first half of the 19th century. These young women were essentially wards of the state.
In 1880 the girls were moved into foster homes and young males were moved into the buildings on the same conditions. This didn't last long. The rest of the story is best summarised from the history supplied by the RMH:
"By 1881, the boys had been removed and the Royal Park Industrial School buildings were left vacant. In July 1882, the site and buildings were given to the Immigrants’ Aid Society by the government for use as a home for houseless and destitute persons. At this time, the Male Division of the Society was relocated from St Kilda Road to Royal Park.
In 1914, the remaining operations, including female and child inmates, were transferred from St Kilda Road to Royal Park.
The change in name of the Society to Victorian Homes for Aged and Infirm, in 1902, was followed by another in 1925, to Victorian Benevolent Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm. By this time the majority of inmates no longer represented a range of ages, but were primarily elderly. This constituted the true start of geriatric care for the institution." www.thermh.org.au/about/about-rmh/our-history/history-roy...
So it is not an exaggeration to say that the space in this photograph was indeed at one time an exercise yard.
Charles Smith Hyman, Idlewyld’s builder, was born in London in 1854. Educated at Hellmuth College, Charles worked for John Birrell and Co. until 1874 when he became a junior partner in his father’s tanning business.
In 1876, he married Elizabeth Birrell and built the original Idlewyld, a large brick home, in 1879 on land purchased for $4,000 from Elizabeth’s sister.
Two years later, Hyman commissioned the architectural firm of Tracy and Durand to design an addition and alterations that would cost more than the original house and outbuildings. The architects integrated the picturesque roof line and heavily ornamented gables of the 1879 Queen Anne design with a simpler addition featuring parapet gables at each end. Inside, identical Eastlake molding unified the two early parts of the house. In 1912, a ballroom was added to the eastern wing.
After his father’s death in 1878, Charles took over the tannery, entered municipal politics, and became mayor in 1884.
Elected M.P. for London in 1900, Hyman became Minister of Public Works in 1905. He had close ties with Sir Wilfrid Laurier who stayed at Idlewyld when he visited London.
Charles was also a noted sportsman. Seven times in a row he was the Canadian Men’s Singles tennis champion. He was also captain of the Canadian champion cricket team and a member of the London Tecumsehs baseball team. Hyman was exceedingly generous and loyal to his friends. He was known to have given away $1,000,000, including $100,000 to sporting and social clubs.
After the death of Elizabeth in 1917 he married Alexandra Rechnitzer, becoming stepfather to her four sons, who took over Hyman Tannery when Charles died in 1926. In the last years of his life, Charles took an extensive world tour including several months in China.
Today, Hyman is remembered by the street named after him and this house which later became a luxurious inn.
Situated in London’s quaint Old South neighborhood, the historic Idlewyld has sustained its grandeur for over a century. The Victorian character, landscaped grounds, well-kept gardens and overall ambience of the Inn appeals to travelers who are looking for unique and intimate accommodations.
The brilliantly illuminated high Italianate façade of Brunetti’s on Faraday Street. Even late on a cold July night, this Carlton stalwart was extremely busy!
Built in 1841, the Ouse Valley Viaduct (also called Balcombe Viaduct) over the River Ouse on the London-Brighton Railway Line in England north of Haywards Heath and south of Balcombe is 1,475 feet (450 m) long.
The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades. Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit to reduce the number of bricks required.At each end of the abutment is an ornamental square open tower, the brickwork of which is faced with stone from Heddon Quarries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The viaduct was designed by engineer for the line John Urpeth Rastrick in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. It has been described as “probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain.”
The viaduct was opened in July 1841. The 11 million bricks needed for its construction were shipped up the Ouse River (via Newhaven and Lewes) from the Netherlands. It cost £38,500 to build (equivalent to about £3½ million in 2014).
The structure is a Grade II* listed building and was restored in 1996 with grants from the Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage. Matching stone was imported from France, to ensure a close match with the existing balustrades and pavilions.
The viaduct is still used, with around 110 trains per day passing over it on the Brighton Main Line.
Central Hall was renamed Hintze Hall in 2014 following a £5 million donation from Sir Michael and Lady Hintze.
Grade I listed. Museum 1873-81 by Alfred Waterhouse.
The statue is of Charles Darwin by Sir Joseph Boehm.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/museum-history-hintze-hall.html
I wonder how much longer our museums will be free. I didn't see a single person make a donation which I find extraordinary.
A remarkable church with superb use of space and form - on entering it appears much bigger than it is, having a restrained grandeur. Sarah Losh inspired local people to undertake the stone carving, woodwork etc... Nikolaus Pevsner in the Building's of England asks: "What is best in church architecture during the years of Queen Victoria? The first building to call out… the church at Wreay" Sarah Losh had a passion for architecture travelling in Europe to study and learn. After the death of her sister Katherine in 1835 she built this church as a memorial - there is a mausoleum and other buildings in the village. It is Romanesque in style but at the same time unique and original. In many ways it anticipates the Arts and Crafts movement by a generation. Of course any male architect would have been inundated with commissions after building this.
But at least it is much loved, and Sarah has been wonderfully brought to life in a biography by Jenny Uglow called The Pinecone.
Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. After White Star merged with Royal Mail Line the headquarters remained at Albion House until 1934 at which time the British Government forced the merger of Cunard Line and White Star Line. The building is situated on the corner of The Strand and James Street. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony. During World War II, the gable was damaged and was later rebuilt in the late 1940
I saw this striking Victorian home in the Concord, North Carolina.
The home is located in the North Union Street Historic District. The district contains fine examples of Late Victorian homes.
The Pincus Building, also known as the Zadek Building, is a historic Queen Anne-style commercial building in Mobile, Alabama, United States.The four-story brick masonry structure was designed by Rudolph Benz and completed in 1891. It first housed the Zadek Jewelry Company. The original design included a round tower with a spire on the outside corner of the building; this was removed by the 1940s. Additionally, the architectural details of the first floor exterior have been simplified. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976.
1891
Architect:
Benz,Rudolph
Architectural style:
Late Victorian
Governing body:
Local
NRHP Reference#:
76000345
Added to NRHP:
December 12, 1976
Built as Banque de Paris in 1882.Now BNP Paribas.Monument Historique,Edouard Corroyer Architect,Aime Millet Sculptor,Paris France-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400
Spent some time setting up this shot with the the elements as close to symmetry as I could ... then a detached lilypad came floating by to give that little random element which so often gives a shot that little something ...
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I saw this lovely Victorian while taking the Canal Street Streetcar. It is located at the corner of S. Derbigny and Canal Streets.
It is the only house standing in a two block area near the University Medical Center.
It looks like it is undergoing restoration. Hopefully, it's not going to be torn down for a parking lot!
During a walkabout in the Irvine Park area, near downtown St. Paul, MN, I found this beautifully restored Queen Anne-style Victorian house.
It's the Murray-Lanpher Mansion, built for Michael Murray in 1887.
Built in the Nineteenth Century, this little weatherboard cottage may be found in the small alpine town of Wandiligong.
Proudly it sits behind its wire fence and well established garden. It features a corrugated iron roof and a verandah to help keep the cottage cool and shady during the warmer summer months. You might notice that it has two gables, and this is because the original cottage would only have been a couple of rooms making up the front building. However, in ensuing years the owners of the cottage became more prosperous, and were thus able to extend the cottage twice its original size. It is not unusual to see little miner's cottages with two or three extensions added onto the back of the original cottage. This once would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Tower Bridge in London from different angles with different shades and different cameras. London is vey quiet at the moment due to Covid 19
Harlaxton Manor is an early Victorian country house close to the village of Harlaxton near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Building of the house was started in 1832 and was designed by the architect Anthony Salvin for the local squire Gregory Gregory. The house was mostly complete by 1837 and by this time Gregory had replaced Salvin with the Scottish architect William Burn who designed most of the interior of the house.
The house is built in a Gothic, Jacobean and Baroque style and has many sumptuous states rooms including a grand cedar staircase and a medieval style great hall. The house is now the UK base for the University of Evansville.
Looking towards Threave House, in Threave Garden (Dumfries and Galloway, in southwestern Scotland), on an afternoon of mixed sunshine and cloud at the beginning of June 2022. Along the lawn, rhododendrons and azaleas are still in bloom.
Threave Garden & Estate have been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) since 1957. Established in 1960, the Trust’s noted School of Heritage Gardening provides intensive education and training in horticulture. It is located in Threave House, a red sandstone Victorian mansion that was designed in 1871 in the “Scottish Baronial” style (by architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear) and built for William Gordon and his family.
The talented students’ work is revealed in the widely varying garden sections or “rooms”; examples include the woodland garden, walled garden, arboretum, pond garden, and rockery, as well as the more recent Garden of Contemplation. Both over the seasons and through the years, Threave Garden continually changes, a development attested to by fellow visitors in 2022 as well as by our own experience – we had first visited Threave Garden in 1994 and were struck this time by the newer features.
The Threave Garden & Estate land is located in Kirkcudbrightshire (a county until 1975, now a lieutenancy area), near the town of Castle Douglas.
(Information from Threave Garden & Estate (the official NTS guidebook, ©2021) and the National Trust for Scotland website, last consulted 26 July 2022.)
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Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was constructed to give better access to the East End of London, which had expanded its commercial potential in the 19th century. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Wales in 1894.
A view from Church Gate of Stockport's gem of a Market Hall, originally open at the sides which resulted in it referred to as The Glass Umbrella, designed and built in the 1860s for a cost of £2,770.
Grade I listed. Museum 1873-81 by Alfred Waterhouse.
The detail throughout the building is astonishing, flora & fauna are everywhere even on the very high vaulted ceiling.
The National Saving And Trust Company is a historic bank building located at the corner of New York Avenue and 15th Street, NW in Downtown Washington, D.C.[1]
It was designed by architect James H. Windrim and built in 1888. The Queen Anne Style building is constructed in red brick, and elaborately detailed with copper and terra cotta. It has also been known as the National Safe Deposit Company and the National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972, and is a contributing property to the Fifteenth Street Financial Historic Built:1888
Architect:James H. Windrim
Architectural style:Queen Anne Style
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:72001428
A view of Scarborough’s imposing Grand Hotel as seen from out in the bay - its striking profile rising above the South Bay promenade. Opened in 1867, the Grand Hotel was one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in Europe at the time, famously designed in the shape of a capital ‘V’ to honour Queen Victoria. A classic example of Victorian ambition, it remains a dominant feature of the seafront skyline and a lasting symbol of the town’s heyday as a premier seaside resort.
Built around 1885 this dramatic lodge marked the entrance to Castle Carr now demolished. Unsure of the architect, but the date suggests John Hogg of Halifax who completed the house succeeding the architects of the house Thomas Ridley and Alfred Smith. The estate is opened once or twice year for people to explore the gardens and see the spectacular fountain - claimed to be second only to Chatsworth's in height. There is a similar lodge ENE of this on Castle Carr Road
The present station was designed by the North Eastern Railway architects Thomas Prosser and William Peachey, and opened in 1877.
Grade I listed. Museum 1873-81 by Alfred Waterhouse.
The detail throughout the building is astonishing, flora & fauna are everywhere even on the very high vaulted ceiling.
On a prominent hilltop site just at the point where East Belfast suddenly goes from being very poor to being very rich, Saint Mark’s Church of Ireland, Dundela, is visible for miles around. It was designed in red sandstone in Gothic Revival style by the eminent Victorian architect William Butterfield, most famous for designing Keble College Oxford. The 45 metre high bell tower creates the impression of a large church. Sir John Betjeman described St Mark's as "Butterfield at his best".
The church has much treasured connections with C S Lewis, who was baptised here, and the door handle of the former rectory is in the shape of a lion and may have inspired him.
The National Saving And Trust Company is a historic bank building located at the corner of New York Avenue and 15th Street, NW in Downtown Washington, D.C.[1]
It was designed by architect James H. Windrim and built in 1888. The Queen Anne Style building is constructed in red brick, and elaborately detailed with copper and terra cotta. It has also been known as the National Safe Deposit Company and the National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972, and is a contributing property to the Fifteenth Street Financial Historic Built:1888
Architect:James H. Windrim
Architectural style:Queen Anne Style
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:72001428