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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
Buchanan and Pine
San Francisco, CA
05-01-21
Using the patterns effect in Photoshop CC to add an almost M.C. Escher inspired frame to this photo.
950nm IR image, full contrast and structure filter in Nik Silver Efex, with a Kodak ISO32 Pantonic emulation and a virtual copper tone.
Baltimore is a city chock full of Victorian houses and row houses.
The city has several great neighborhoods to wander through and admire the architecture.
I saw this attractive Victorian Gothic Revival house on my last visit to Baltimore.
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 Castle" on the corner of North Salina Street, Ash Street and Prospect Avenue was built in 1890 by Charles L. Hoffman, President of the National Brewing Company, as an enchanting Victorian home for his family.
Now the location of International Puppet and Mask Museum
North Salina Street Historic District
#85002441
Skagway, Alaska, is historically considered the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. The downtown Skagway Historical District is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park.
The University of Tampa is just across the Hillsborough River from downtown Tampa, Florida.
Plant Hall is in an absolutely fabulous building - the former Tampa Bay Hotel.
The hotel was built in 1891 by Henry B. Plant near the terminus of his rail line.
The Old Provincial Normal College (now a public library) is a Second Empire style, three storey brick building, with a mansard roof and round headed windows. Built in 1877 to serve as a training centre for Nova Scotian teachers. There was originally a turret towering over the main entrance above the cupola, but was destroyed by lightning in 1951.
I'M ABOUT TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK! What does fan #1 do when she receives an invitation to have her pic on a tv doc about The Beatles?
"My name is Jivan Nagra and I'm an archive researcher hoping to license an image you posted on your site of Quarry Banks High School. Is this something we can use in our television series? We're more than happy to pay a license fee.
Thanks!
Jivan"
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.
Also known as the Batty Moss Viaduct. It was designed by John Sydney Crossley. The first stone was laid on 12 October 1870 and the last in 1874. I set off with grand visions of shooting this and capturing those arches bathed in gold...Instead I was faced with low cloud, constant rain and heavy wind. This is the result of those conditions. I quite like it and feel it echoes some of the conditions faced by those who built it and died during it's construction. Find out more here:
Ralston Hall Mansion located in Belmont, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, founder of the Bank of California, and financier of the Comstock Lode. It is an opulent Italianate Villa, modified with touches of Steamboat Gothic and Victorian details. It is a California Historical Landmark and is designated a National Historic Landmark.[3] It is now part of Notre Dame de Namur University.Ralston Hall Mansion is situated on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University, on the San Francisco Peninsula. The mansion has been built around the villa of Count Leonetto Cipriani, former owner of the estate. Taking three years to build, it was completed in 1867, when San Francisco's leaders and first citizens had large summer homes on the Peninsula, an integral part of San Francisco high society. Architect John Painter Gaynor, who later worked with Ralston on the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is thought to have worked on it. Several of the design elements of Ralston Hall Mansion were copied in the design of the Palace. Victorian-Italianate Villa
William C. Ralston House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
California Historical Landmark #856
San Francisco's Postcard Row. It is probably the most photographed row of Victorian houses in the world.
The row is part of the Alamo Square Historic District. The photo was taken from Alamo Square.
In the distance is the San Francisco skyline.
These Victorian Ladies certainly are skilled at putting on makeup!
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a NIKKOR-H 1:3.5 f=5cm lens and Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Week 35/52, 2016
This week’s theme for my 52 project is “Doors and Windows.” I visited Stratford Ontario for a weekend, which gave me lots of opportunities to take pictures. Stratford is a small town that hosts a large theatre festival including Shakespeare and modern plays and musicals. The town also has lots of historic Victorian-era architecture. This row of buildings has always gotten my attention. I especially like the “64” address at the top. This is the third shot in my photostream of this building.
Designed by Jesse Hartley, Stanley Dock opened on 4 August 1848. The dock is the only one in Liverpool which was built inland, all the others being built out from the foreshore. The original quay warehouses are of a similar design to those at Albert Dock and are grade II* listed buildings. The warehouses were built to five storeys, covering an area of 12,000 sq yd (10,000 m2). Between 1897-1901, the southern part of the dock was filled in to build the large Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse by Anthony George Lyster. The northern warehouse has since been developed in to a hotel devoted to the White Star Line's RMS Titanic liner, which has strong links to the area's history of docks and shipping.
Chester is a walled city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is the largest and most populous settlement of the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a combined population of 328,100 according to the 2001 Census, increasing to 329,608 at the 2011 Census.Chester was granted city status in 1541.
Chester was founded as a "castrum" or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix, during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian in AD79. One of the three main army camps in the Roman province of Britannia, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded the Minster Church of West Mercia, which later became Chester's first cathedral, and the Saxons extended and strengthened the walls, much of which remain, to protect the city against the Danes. Chester was one of the last cities in England to fall to the Normans. William the Conqueror ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby Welsh border.
Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Britain. It has a number of medieval buildings, but some of the black-and-white buildings within the city centre are Victorian restorations. Apart from a 100-metre (330 ft) section, the listed Grade I walls are almost complete. The Industrial Revolution brought railways, canals, and new roads to the city, which saw substantial expansion and development – Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of Victorian architecture from this period.
Sonnenberg Gardens, also known as Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, Canandaigua, New York, USA, at the North end of Canandaigua Lake, in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. The house and gardens are open to the public every day, May through October.
The property was once the summer home of Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent banker in New York City, and his wife Mary Clark Thompson, whose father, Myron Holley Clark, was Governor of New York State in 1855.