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This abandoned green house is on the campus of Kyushu University. What a dump!
Almost all of the buildings look like they barely survived a bombing raid. The campus is littered with abandoned little shacks and junk and piles of metal and rubles. It has to be seen to be believed.
This home from 1837 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dr. Benjamin Franklin Smith House. It's along Columbia Pike (US 31) in Old Lynnville (a.k.a. Waco) in northern Giles County. The Brick house is listed on the register for its local significance for architecture, with styles of Mid 19th Century Revival, Exotic Revival, and Victorian: Queen Anne
I took a 'Marshrutka' (basically a van that is used for public transport), to Mtskheta which is a few miles North of Tbilisi.
Day 2 - Tbilisi, including Mtskheta & Ananauri (approx 30km North of Tbilisi) - Georgia
except now I've added cushions, (gracias Auntie) and pillows. blue/cream damask. see the shot of Ambria and Kathie for of the horrors of before.
Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.
he Lucy family has owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
In the middle of the 19th century the Fairfax Baronets inherited the property when the male line of the Lucy family failed on the death of Henry Spencer Lucy. The baronets changed their family name to Lucy to reflect the traditions of Charlecote.
The Great Hall has a barrel-vaulted ceiling made of plaster painted to look like timber and is a fine setting for the splendid collection of family portraits. Other rooms have richly coloured wallpaper, decorated plaster ceilings and wood panelling. There are magnificent pieces of furniture and fine works of art, including a contemporary painting of Queen Elizabeth I. The original two-storey Elizabethan gatehouse that guards the approach to the house remains unaltered.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result. But it is unclear whether there were any deer in the park at that time. It was landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands. The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
On display at the house is an original letter from Oliver Cromwell, dated 1654, summoning then owner Richard Lucy to the Barebone's Parliament. Also on display is a 1760 portrait of George Lucy by Thomas Gainsborough which cost Lucy the sum of eight guineas.
The brewery at Charlecote Park
A set of archives for the Lucy family at Charlecote is held by the Warwickshire County Record Office The house also has a display of carriages and a period laundry and brewroom.
In April 2012 Charlecote Park featured as the venue for BBC1's Antiques Roadshow.
Charlecote Park has extensive grounds. A parterre has been recreated from the original 1700's plans.
The original house at Kenwood was probably built in the early 17th century. It was transformed by Robert Adam in the 1760s and 1770s into a fine neoclassical villa for the 1st Earl of Mansfield - the greatest judge of his day. In 1925 it was bought by a member of the Guiness family to house his art collection. It was taken over by English Heritage in 1986. In 2012 an extensive refurbishment costing nearly £6 million was started -the house re-opened to the public at the end of 2013.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/kenwood/hi...
Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion with garden in Montacute, South Somerset. All parts are maintained by the National Trust which subsidises entry fees. Wikipedia
This is another view of the same house. The coloring changed because of the light on that day. It was a gloomy day in the city.
Taken a few months back at New Hailes House in Musselburgh. Done a touch of HDR to give it a bit more oomf
n 1730 the 1st Viscount Powerscourt (of the third creation) commissioned the architect Richard Castle to build Powerscourt House, a 68 room mansion which was completed in 1741. The mansion was designed around the medieval castle in the style of Palladian architecture which is based on the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. The north front was adapted to present a grand entrance in the Palladian manner, while the south and front faced the gardens and were initially only two storeys in height. An extra storey was added in 1787 and further major alterations were made in the late 19th century. The house contained some of the finest 18th century interiors in Ireland and was one of the country's most beautiful mansions.
Pilot Point was a little atypical when it come to rural Alaska. The house looked more like what you would see in the rest of the rural America. It might be because it was heavily influenced by the outside fishing industry and
Near my mom's house.
Picture taken at about 11pm.
I just found some old pictures I never uploaded from our trip to Alaska in 2007.
here at paper house farm the new pemanant bridge replaces the old swing bridge where the foundations remain