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The razing of the old Hotel Windsor began Nov. 3, 1912 and construction of the new building started in early 1913. The new modern and fireproof 12-story Windsor Hotel formally opened June 4, 1914.
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A view of the entrance to the Windsor Royal Shopping arcade in Windsor town centre opposite the castle. This was originally part of Windsor & Eton Central railway station which had be reduced to just a single platform by the early-1980s. In 1982 Madame Tussauds assisted British rail in the refurbishment of the station to include an exhibition recalling the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Vistoria in 1897 featuring a scene on the platform depicting the arrival of the Royal Train, complete with figures of station staff and a full size replica train. The exhibition closed in the 1990s and with the privatisation of the railways the buildings were sold off and converted into a fashionable shopping arced as seen here. The wording on the glass in the archway originally spelt 'Windsor Royal Station' rather than 'Windsor Royal Shopping' as pictured here.
Windsor Castle was built by William the Conqueror within what was a royal hunting lodge after the Norman conquest of 1066. The castle has been successfully enlarged, adapted and rebuilt by monarchs from Henry II to Elizabeth II. It occupies 26 acres, in the upper ward there are 951 rooms, 225 of which are bedrooms.
Houses and businesses along a curved road next to Windsor Castle. In the background, jet streams slice through a thin white sheet of clouds.
The Windsor Mound lies immediately to the northwest of the round barn I posted yesterday.>>>
White River runs behind the mound.
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738 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Windsor Hotel is a three-story wood-frame hotel building, with chamfered corner entrances at the front and rear, located at the corner of Begbie, Front and Columbia Streets, on the main commercial street in New Westminster's historic downtown core.
Heritage Value:
The Windsor Hotel is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of Columbia and Front Streets, which dates from 1898 to 1913, when New Westminster was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area. Rushed to completion in 1899 after the Great Fire, the Windsor Hotel was one of the few wood-clad structures to be built on Columbia Street, and remains the only one dating from the fire reconstruction to survive in the downtown. In 1905 the hotel was extended with a one-storey addition that faced Front Street, which two years later was expanded to three stories, resulting in the existing form of the hotel. The original facades were covered in the 1940s, when the Windsor was stuccoed in an attempt to reduce its vulnerability to fire and as a means of updating its Victorian appearance, but much of the original building has been preserved underneath.
The Windsor Hotel is a landmark building that was built to the designs of architects Emil Guenther (born 1855) and T. Van Aken, who were briefly in partnership at this time. Guenther had relocated from the United States to New Westminster just after the Great Fire, and with Van Aken participated in some of the reconstruction. Shortly afterwards, Guenther moved his office to Vancouver, where he specialized in the design of hotels, including the Dominion Hotel, 1900-1901, and the Terminus Hotel, 1901, both of which still stand on Water Street in Gastown.
Additional heritage value lies in the Windsor Hotel's landmark status as a meeting place, retail venue and community institution for over one hundred years. The hotel was built to accommodate a number of retail shops on the ground floor, and later it became a local bar. From 1944 to 1950, the Windsor Hotel was the well-known broadcasting centre for CKNW radio.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Windsor Hotel include its:
- corner lot location on at a prominent corner at Columbia, Front and Begbie Streets, with facades facing three main streets, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- three-storey (with lower level) height, chamfered corners at the front and rear, flat roof and cubic massing
- intact elements of the original wooden siding obscured by later stucco, metal and tile cladding
- heavy timber-frame internal structure
- fenestration, including: a regular pattern of window openings on the second floor; intact third floor double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows under the later metal cladding
- interior features such as the original room configuration on the second and third floors, lath-and-plaster walls, wooden trim, and wood floors
- remaining elements of the CKNW radio studio
- surviving elements of the ground floor bar from the 1940s and 1950s, including separate mens' and ladies and escorts' entrances marked by backlit signs
Windsor Castle, parts of which date back to the 11th century, is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. The castle is notable for its long association with the British royal family and for its architecture
Windsor, England
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Camera - Nikon D7000
Lens - tamron 18-270 mm
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire and is located close to the River Thames. It is notable for its long association with the English and later British royal family and for its architecture. The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I, it has been used by all monarchs, and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe.
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Windsor Ruins are located in Claiborne County in the state of Mississippi, about 10 miles southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. The ruins are those of the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion built in the state, and have been used in various motion pictures. During the American Civil War, the home was used by both Union and Confederate troops.
Confederate forces used the roof observatory as an observation platform and signal station. After the capture of the area by Union forces, the mansion was used as a hospital following the Battle of Port Gibson and as an observation station.
The home survived the war and continued to be used for social gatherings in the area. Mark Twain stayed at the home and is said to have used the roof observatory to observe the Mississippi River.
On 17 February 1890, a guest left a lighted cigar on a balcony (it is also said that someone dropped a cigar or cigarette in a pile of wood chips left by carpenters working on the 3rd floor).
The family said the fire started around 3:00 in the afternoon. They had planned a seated dinner and had gone into town to pick up the mail. Riding back they saw flames shooting through the shingled roof. The fire burned from top to bottom making it impossible to extinguish, and the house was completely destroyed in the conflagration
Model: Windsor (MM #1594751)
© Mark Rosa (MM#1071727)
A PCB PLM as the main light from camera right center. A octobox on camera right and left for fill and another light in a gridded 7" reflector as a hair light. Two additional light on the white background from either side.
Adobe Lightroom 3 and PhotoShop CS5
Nikon D3, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens, ISO 200, 200mm, f/8, 1/160 sec.
Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. It has been the family home for British kings and queens for nearly a thousand years.
MV Windsor Castle at Leith Docks. It was formerly the Northern Lighthouse Board's Fingal but was bought in 2014 by the Royal Yacht Britannia and is being turned into a floating hotel.