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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.
Last miscellaneous posting before we return to Jerusalem.
The result of an 1891 vision of English architect, John Spencer. The Strand Arcade was named after the famous London street that links the City of London and the City of Westminster. A 100+ metre long arcade with three storeys, a central bridge linking the upper floor galleries, delicate ironworks brackets to support the galleries and the railings, glass roof specially tinted to reduce glare, finely carved cedar balustrades and shopfronts, richly tiled floor.
Strand Arcade, Sydney, Australia (Friday 4 Mar 2011 @ 1:02pm).
During a walkabout in downtown Ormond Beach, FL, I noticed the gorgeously restored Victorian building occupied by the Rose Villa Southern Table and Bar.
It appears to have originally been built as a home.
The Southernmost Point Guest House is located in Key West, Florida, at the end of Duval Street.
This house was originally built in 1894 by E. H. Gato.
Soon after the house was built, he realized his favorite porches were not getting the right sun exposure, so he moved the house across the street.
Mules pulled the house across rolling logs to get it across the street. The house was also rotated the house to create the most favorable mix of sun and shade.
I saw these absolutely beautiful townhouses (fancy row houses) in downtown Baltimore.
I'm sure they have now been divided up into condos or apartments.
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Parklet commemorating queer victims of the Third Reich
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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!
Originally built as the Leeds Mechanics’ Institute in 1868, this grand Renaissance-style structure by Cuthbert Brodrick has seen many chapters: a hub of civic lectures, the war-scarred remains of a bombed Victorian hall, and now a 21st-century museum at the heart of Millennium Square. Reopened in 2008 after a major restoration, Leeds City Museum continues to welcome curious minds — just as its founders hoped two centuries ago.
A corbel on the north side of the door lintel of Christ Church in the Wiltshire village of Worton. Although I know the church was completed in 1841, I don't know if the corbel is absolutely original or came slightly later.
This creation is titled “Blue Victorian Mansion.” I have always admired Victorian architecture with its many gables, sloped roofs, vibrant colors, decorative railings, turrets and decorative “gingerbread.” For this creation, I tried my hand at a Victorian-style home in which I would like to live!
Principal construction began on this MOC on 8/26/19 and was completed on 10/18/19. This MOC measures 40 inches wide, 30 inches long and is 32 inches high. The mansion was done in medium blue with medium azure and white trim. The roof was done in dark blue gray. The mansion has three full floors as well as three towers. Two of the towers are four stories and are situated at the back of the east and west wings. The central tower at the front of the mansion is five stories and has a balcony on the fourth floor overlooking the front gardens. There are two additional balconies in the back of the mansion. The first spans most of the second story and the second is accessed through the third story of the central tower. The mansion boasts many gables and has two-story bay windows in the west wing. Also, there is a stained-glass window on the third floor of the west wing. The property is surrounded by an ornate wall completed with ornamental parts in white, medium blue and medium azure. Elegant gardens surround the mansion with a variety of flowers, shrubs and sword leaves. At the front of the mansion are two tall Lombardy Poplars. The walkway around the property was completed with white and medium blue tiles. In “real” life, I estimate the mansion to be approximately 12,000 square feet with upwards of 30 rooms.
As usual, I would like to thank everyone in the Lego groups whose work serves as an inspiration. Also, a special thank you goes out to Queen Victoria! I hope you enjoy “Blue Victorian Mansion.”
I saw this attractive Queen Anne Victorian with tower in Montgomery, Alabama.
The house has been turned into offices, and it looked like it was being lovingly maintained.
During my walkabout in downtown Frederiksted, on St. Croix of the US Virgin Islands, I noticed this attractive house with gingerbread trim.
The town house on Queen Street with its gingerbread trim and galleries and arcades is little changed since it was built in 1867.
There are many beautifully restored shotgun houses in Key West, FL.
Many of the shotgun houses were built by cigar factory owners to house their Cuban cigar makers.
Most of these houses are now worth a million dollars!
The Pioneer Building in downtown St. Paul, MN, was built in 1889.
When built, it was the tallest building in St. Paul as well as west of Chicago.
Bridge House, Hunslet Road. It actually predates its illustrious New York counterpart, having been built in 1875 as a temperance hotel. It is Grade II* Listed.
November 2014
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
The Yorkshire Penny Bank’s headquarters building was erected in 1895 under architect James Ledingham on a prominent corner site between Manor Row and North Parade in Bradford. The official listing for this Grade II building positively gushes about this sandstone ashlar building’s “profusely decorated and richly modelled facades, an admixture of Franco-Flemish and Italian Renaissance details” and the “notable quality of carving and stone masonry”. The interior is also richly decorated.
This is not the most salubrious part of Bradford, a slightly down-at-heel cluster of streets between the Central Ring Road and the main shopping district, so this building has struggled for stable use in recent years, hosting a series of bars and restaurants.
Depicted here are two key figures in the bank’s early days, Peter Bent, General Manager of the Bank from 1858, and John Ward, Director of the Bank from 1873-80.
Heritage Square Museum
Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, CA
11-01-20
Looking down the street toward the Lincoln Ave. Church from the porch of the Colonial Drug Store at Heritage Square.
Margam Castle is a large mansion house built in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, for the Talbot family. It was built on a site which had been occupied for some 4000 years and from the 11th century was an abbey. The "castle" is actually a comfortable Victorian era country house, one of many "mock" or "revival" castles built in the 19th century during the Gothic Revival. It was commissioned by Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890) and was constructed over a ten-year period from 1830 to 1840.
This photograph was used in the Western Mail's Postcards From Wales feature on Tuesday September 3rd 2013.
This Windows Operating System pre-dates the Microsoft version by over 100 years.
This photo was taken by a Mamiya C-330 TLR medium format film camera and Mamiya-Sekor 1:2.8 f=80mm lens with a Mamiya 46ø Y2 SY48•2 filter using Kodak TMAX 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered in Photoshop.
There are many beautifully restored shotgun houses in Key West, FL.
Many of the shotgun houses were built by cigar factory owners to house their Cuban cigar makers.
Most of these houses are now worth a million dollars!
Rising quietly along Eddy Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the Joan San-Jule Apartments are a fading but still-striking example of Victorian Italianate architecture—a style that once dominated the city’s streetscape before the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire. This image captures a dramatic upward angle of the building’s ornate façade, highlighting its detailed cornices, fluted pilasters, and recessed windows with scrollwork brackets—all hallmarks of a bygone era in San Francisco housing.
Though partially boarded and weathered with time, the structure remains deeply expressive. Painted a soft cream color, its wood siding and classical ornamentation stand in stark contrast to the more austere and modern buildings surrounding it. The shadows cast by projecting bays, dentil molding beneath the cornice line, and egg-and-dart details suggest a care in craftsmanship not often seen in contemporary urban development.
The small sign identifying the building as the “Joan San-Jule Apartments” suggests a late-20th-century renaming—perhaps by a landlord, a preservationist, or someone commemorating a family name. Its placement in the center of the narrow façade draws the viewer’s eye up into the symmetrical verticality of the building, where light dances on glass and texture.
San Francisco’s Tenderloin is one of the most architecturally overlooked neighborhoods in the city. While often associated with social services and dense housing, it also hosts a remarkable number of surviving Victorian and Edwardian-era buildings, especially on the quieter blocks just a few steps from Van Ness Avenue. The Joan San-Jule Apartments stand as a rare survivor—a structure that likely dates to the late 1800s and speaks to the city’s past in wood, glass, and paint.
Captured in a sharply vertical composition, this photograph emphasizes the contrast between preservation and decay. Wavy windowpanes, bird netting stretched across the cornice, and the texture of aging paint all reinforce the passage of time. The boarded windows, while unfortunate, add a documentary truth to the image: many such buildings teeter between renovation and ruin.
Yet even in this in-between state, the Joan San-Jule Apartments tell a rich story. They remind viewers that not all history is enshrined in museums—some of it lingers quietly in residential architecture, holding onto its dignity despite the chaos and change that surround it. For urban explorers, architecture enthusiasts, or San Franciscans eager to look past the surface, this building is a modest masterpiece waiting to be noticed.
The historic Windsor Hotel is located in downtown Americus, Georgia. It occupies an entire city block.
Built in 1892, to attract winter visitors from the north, the Windsor was a 100 room, five story Victorian masterpiece with tower and turret, balconies, and a three story open atrium lobby.
The hotel closed in 1972 after almost 80 years in operation.
In 1991, the hotel re-opened after a $6.5 million dollar renovation.
In 2010, the hotel underwent a second extensive renovation.
The photo was taken on July 3, 1985.
The Great Hall and Library building was completed in 1845. It was designed by Philip Hardwick, who had also worked on Euston station and the Goldsmith’s Hall. The Library was later extended eastwards to the design of Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1872.
The Great Hall and Library were opened by Queen Victoria on 30 October 1845. It was a high profile event; covered in national papers with an extensive feature included in The Illustrated London News.
Queen Victoria also recorded the particulars of her visit in her diary, describing the Great Hall as ‘a very fine building’ and the Library as ‘a very handsome room where I was placed on a Throne, and received an address.’
Much of the life of the Inn centres round the Great Hall. It is here, four times a year, that the ceremony of calling students of the Inn to the Bar takes place. It is also where events take place as well as normal dining.
Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul, MN, was originally the Federal Courts Building.
The building was completed in 1892 in the Victorian Richardsonian Romanesque style.
In 1972, the City of St. Paul purchased the building for $1.00. In 1978 it opened as Landmark Center.