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Wellington's Column, or the Waterloo Memorial, is a monument to the Duke of Wellington standing on the corner of William Brown Street and Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
After the Duke's death in 1852, in common with other cities, Liverpool decided to erect a monument to celebrate his achievements. A committee was established to organise public subscriptions, but the money was slow to come in.[2] A competition was set up in 1856 to find a designer for the column, and this was won by the architect Andrew Lawson of Edinburgh. There were further delays while a suitable site was found, with sites at the top of Duke Street and Bold Street, in front of the Adelphi Hotel and Prince's Park being considered before the eventual location was settled on.[3] In 1861 a second competition, this time for the statue of the Duke, was won by George Anderson Lawson, brother of the column's designer.[4] The design of the column and plinth closely resembles that of the Melville Monument commemorating Henry Dundas, Lord Melville in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh,[5] itself loosely modelled on Trajan's Column in Rome.
The foundation stone was laid on 1 May 1861 by the Mayor of Liverpool. There were further delays during construction of the monument due to subsidence. Although it was inaugurated on 16 May 1863 in a ceremony attended by the Mayor and Sir William Brown, it was still not complete.[6] Reliefs depicting Wellington's victories and the charge at the Battle of Waterloo were still to be added and it was finally completed towards the end of 1865.
The foundations of the monument are in Runcorn sandstone, the pedestal is in granite, and the column itself is in Darley Dale sandstone. The overall height of the monument is 132 feet (40.2 m), the column being 81 feet (24.7 m) high and the statue 25 feet (7.6 m) high. It stands on a stepped base with a square pedestal. On each side of the pedestal is a bronze plaque; at the corners are bronze eagles joined by swags along the sides. Standing on the pedestal is a Roman Doric fluted column. Within the column are 169 steps leading up to a viewing platform. On top of the column is a cylinder surmounted by a cupola on which the bronze statue of the Duke stands.[2] The statue is made from the melted-down bronze from cannons captured at the Battle of Waterloo.
The brass plaque on the south of the pedestal is a relief depicting the final charge at the battle of Waterloo. On the east and west faces, the plaques bear the names of the Duke's victorious battles. The east panel lists the battles of Assaye, Talavera, Argaum, Busaco, Rolica, Fuentes de Onoro, Vimeiro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Oporto, and Badajoz; the west panel Salamanca, Bayonne, Vittoria, Orthez, San Sebastian, Toulouse, Nivelle, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo.Also on and around the base of the monument are pre-metric standard Board of Trade measurements of length, the shorter ones being embossed on a bronze panel. Set into the pavement is a brass strip containing the measure of 100 feet (30.5 m), and a chain of 100 links.
A once grand terrace of housing sitting close to St. Mark's church in Snow Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, the side street is named St. Mark's Street.
This Victorian row dating back to the mid nineteenth century (probably around 1860) is made up of residencies with a unusual range of names, from left to right they read:
Victoria House
The Schonecc (possibly Schonegg)
The third house name has been erased.
The Eiger
Westbourne
Prospect House.
The development of the Snow Hill area of Hanley is tied up with the name John Ridgway, whose family were pottery manufacturers and prominent Methodists and around whose estate much of the area was developed.
From memory some of these houses were occupied by doctors and medical practitioners, I used to be taken to have earing tests at one when I was a child.
The Grand Opera House is in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
The four-story Second Empire style building was built in 1871 by the Delaware Grand Lodge of Masons to serve as a Masonic Temple and auditorium.
I saw this absolutely beautiful townhouse (fancy row house) in downtown Baltimore.
I'm sure it has now been divided up into condos or apartments.
The Strand Arcade is a Victorian-style shopping arcade in Sydney, New South Wales.
Designed by English architect John Spencer, The Strand was built in 1891 and opened in 1892, as the fifth and last of the arcades built in Sydney in the Victorian era. It is the only one remaining in its original form today.The Arcade was originally known as the 'City Arcade' and sometimes as 'Arcade Street'. In 1891 it was named after the famous London Street that links the City of London and the City of Westminster. The Strand was London's smartest theatre, hotel and shopping street in the early 1900s.
The arcade became run down as time went by. Restoration work was carried out in the 1970s, but a fire broke out on the morning of 25 May 1976. The arcade was partly destroyed. Restoration began again and the arcade, now back to its original grandeur, re-opened in 1977.
During demolition of the adjacent Coles store in King Street, where there had been a link into the Strand, building inspectors deemed the structure unsafe after the fire. Fortunately they found a shipwright who had somes Australian red cedar logs which were purchased. This enabled the shop fronts to be an exact replica of the original internal shopping facades (unlike the Queen Victoria Building, which had to resort to painted timber shop fronts due to a lack of cedar).
This Connecticut State Capitol is the third capitol building for the State of Connecticut since the American Revolution. The Architect, Richard M. Upjohn designed the building is in the Eastlake(Victorian) style, with French and Gothic Revival styled elements. Architect James G. Batterson designed some of the more elaborate details of the building including the central tower. Construction of the building began in 1871. The building imposing building was completed in 1878. The Connecticut Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Centre Theater,Norristown Pa-Built as Odd Fellows Lodge in 1851.35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400
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!
South façade of Knightshayes Court near Tiverton, designed by William Burges in 1873 for the Heathcoat Amory family.
The Donnan–Asher Iron-Front Building is a historic commercial building located on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia.
It was built in 1866, and is a four-story, 12 bay, Italianate style brick building with a cast iron front.
The Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse (also known as the Municipal Building) is located in downtown Minneapolis.
The building was completed in 1902 and is an outstanding example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
These men were totally absorbed in taking photos of the Great Hall as I was sitting on a chair at the entrance, and their stances made a small drama of the occasion. I was here with DizDiz and her two sons, who all had cameras. They're in this photo too. We'd spent several hours in the main Art Gallery, including the extensive Ford Madox Brown exhibition, which finished the next day. [It will be on show in Ghent, Belgium, soon] As the Town Hall is only across the road from the Gallery, we were well-placed to view FMB's murals here in the Great Hall. They depict a dozen scenes from the history of Manchester. The artist was painting them within a few months of his death.
Detail from the celebrated jelly-mould ceiling decoration in the Drawing Room at Knightshayes Court.
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.
I saw this attractive Victorian building with corner clock tower during a walkabout in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 2018.
Rolling bascule lift bridge on Regent Road, Stanley Dock, Liverpool. "Bascule" is the French word for "seesaw," and this drawbridge works exactly like a seesaw. Image Taken 2008
The Royal Buildings on Southport's handsome Lord Street. Grade II listed. Build in 1883 and still more-or-less used for its original retail purpose. A fine piece of Victoriana.
The Perry Mansion at Heritage Square Museum shot from behind the glass in the antique windows of the Palms Depot across the street.
The Legarda Elementary School is a public elementary school located in J. Fajardo,Sampaloc in the City of Manila. Built in 1922, the school is notable for its main school building that has managed to retain its pre-war architecture, making its building the oldest surviving school building in Manila
The school was built on the land that was donated by the heirs of Benito Legarda, an eminent legislator and cabinet member of the First Philippine Republic who later became the first Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the American colonial period. It was in his honor that the school that the school was named after
Andres Luna de San Pedro, the architect son of painter Juan Luna, designed the school's main building. It became a prominent landmark in the area with its unique Victorian style of architecture which evokes a sense of grandeur.
The school's first principal was Andrea Vitan Arce, a renowned educator and writer. The school also received an early distinction for being a model school in 1924.
During the Japanese Occupation in World War II, the Japanese forces used the school as barracks. Having survived the war, it was subsequently liberated by the Americans during the Battle of Manila, after which it became the headquarters of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division as well as being the 29th Evacuation Hospital for wounded American soldiers. The Philippine Army also made the school its headquarters for a brief time.
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This is a nice partial block of Victorian row houses near downtown Richmond, Virginia.
Unfortunately, most of the houses on the block have been torn down for a parking lot.
A sweeping arc in Edinburgh’s West End, Melville Crescent was designed in the 1850s by John Tait as part of the expansion of the New Town’s Second Phase. Acting as a key junction in the grand grid of the West End, the crescent’s geometry forms a striking contrast to the orthogonal plans of earlier New Town streets.
It takes its name from Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, whose statue stands at its centre – sculpted by David Watson Stevenson and erected in 1886. The buildings are classical in style, with their ashlar façades, basement levels, cast-iron balconies, and regimented window spacing typical of the Victorian interpretation of the Georgian ideal.
Today, Melville Crescent offers not only a fine architectural ensemble but also a moment of calm amidst the bustle of the West End — where curve meets corner in the city’s most elegant embrace.
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🇫🇷 Un arc majestueux dans le West End d’Édimbourg, Melville Crescent fut conçu dans les années 1850 par John Tait dans le cadre de l’extension du deuxième développement de la New Town. Cette courbe rompt délibérément avec la rigidité orthogonale des premières rues de la ville nouvelle.
Le croissant porte le nom de Robert Dundas, 2e vicomte Melville, dont la statue trône au centre — une œuvre de David Watson Stevenson érigée en 1886. Les immeubles adoptent un style classique avec des façades en pierre de taille, des niveaux en sous-sol, des balcons en fer forgé et un alignement rigoureux des fenêtres — une interprétation victorienne de l’idéal géorgien.
Aujourd’hui, Melville Crescent est un havre de calme, où l’élégance architecturale épouse la courbe du paysage urbain.
The Langdon Building is a 300 First Avenue North in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District.
It was built in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque Style with elaborate terra cotta ornamentation and finely detailed brickwork.
A decorative letter "L" in a foliated circle can be seen on the facade.
The Nelson Monument is a monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson, in Exchange Flags, Liverpool, England. It was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott. It stands to the north of the Town Hall and was unveiled in 1813.
In 1805, Liverpool City Council resolved to commemorate Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar by erecting a monument and voted to pay £1,000 towards its design and construction. A public subscription fund was launched and within two months a total of £8,930 (£610,000 as of 2014)[1] had been reached; this included £750 from the underwriters at Lloyd's and £500 from the West India Association. It was agreed that the monument should be located in a prominent site near the Exchange. A competition for its design was arranged, and this was won by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, son of James Wyatt, the contract being signed in 1809. Matthew Wyatt was relatively inexperienced, and was assisted by Richard Westmacott.[a] The first stone was laid on 15 July 1812, and the monument was unveiled on 21 October 1813, the eighth anniversary of Nelson's death. In 1866 the monument was moved to its present site in Exchange Flags to allow for an extension to the Exchange Buildings, and the Westmorland stone base was replaced by one in granite
The monument consists of a bronze statue on a stone base. Its overall height is 29 feet (8.8 m), and the circumference of the base is 95 feet 4 inches (29.1 m). The base consists of a drum-shaped pedestal in Westmorland marble 8 feet 10 inches (2.7 m) high, standing on a granite basement 6 feet (1.8 m) high.[b] Seated around the pedestal are four statues depicting manacled prisoners sitting in poses of sadness; they represent Nelson's major victories, the battles of Cape St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. Set into the drum between the statues are four bronze bas-reliefs depicting other naval actions in which Nelson was involved. Encircling the pedestal above the statues are swags of laurel hanging from behind lions' heads. Attached to rings in the lions' mouths are chains that descend to manacle the prisoners. At the top of the pedestal is a cornice with an inscription in metal letters reading ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY (sic).[2]
On top of the pedestal is a bronze group of figures 14 feet 2 inches (4.3 m) high, each figure being 7 feet (2.1 m) in height, and forming a roughly pyramidal structure. There are five figures surrounded by the drapes and poles of captured flags, with an anchor and a rope on the ground. An idealised nude representation of Nelson stands with one foot on a cannon and the other on an enemy's corpse, holding upright a sword on which Victory is placing the last of four crowns.[c] To the right of Nelson is the figure of Death reaching out to touch him. On the left of Nelson is a British seaman striding forward. Behind Nelson is the figure of Britannia holding a laurel wreath and Nelson's decorations.
The monument was the first item of public sculpture to be erected in Liverpool, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. Grade II* is the middle of the three grades of designation for listed buildings and is applied to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest".
The Painted Ladies, Victorian architecture, maintained and beautiful.
San Francisco, California.
March 14, 2019.
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The floodlit building with ornate tower is the former Liverpool Municipal Buildings complex, completed in 1868 in a Second Empire style. Deemed surplus to requirements by the city council in 2016, it has been converted into a 5-star hotel as part of the Accor group.