Buildings and Other Structures
The Shrine of the Grotto of Redemption
The place's homepage.The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 06, 2023 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Religion, Outsider Art, North America, Twentieth Century
Mystery Illustration 109
What was the function of this lovely building?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 03, 2022 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, 1900s
Mystery Illustration 99
What fairly high-tech product--for 1911--would require such a vast factory?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 01, 2021 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Technology, 1910s
Flagpole Rock
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 13, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Buildings and Other Structures, Eccentrics, Music, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1950s
Queen Mary’s Dollhouse
Queen Mary's Dolls' House is the largest, most beautiful and most famous dolls' house in the world. Built between 1921 and 1924 for Queen Mary, consort of George V, by the leading British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, it includes contributions from over 1,500 of the finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers of the early twentieth century. From life below stairs to the high-society setting of the saloon and dining room, and from a library bursting with original works by the top literary names of the day, to a fully stocked wine cellar and a garden, created by Gertrude Jekyll, no detail was forgotten. The house even includes electricity, running hot and cold water and working lifts. Each room is fully furnished and waiting to be explored.
The official homepage.
Article on the library therein.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 10, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Domestic, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Royalty, 1920s, United Kingdom
The Corpus Clock, aka Chronophage
The first video is pretty, the second, explanatory.Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 19, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Art, Buildings and Other Structures, Culture and Civilization, Inventions, Time-travel, Fictional Monsters
Unauthorized Dwellings 11
The Sacramento Squatter Riots were one of the more outrageous outcomes of squatting.From a contemporary account:
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 20, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Buildings and Other Structures, Death, Unauthorized Dwellings, Nineteenth Century
Florida Ghost Towns
How does a Florida ghost town exist in one of the fastest growing states in our country? Many early Florida towns were located near natural resources. These communities grew up to house and support companies and people who turned the resources into products. There were towns that relied on fishing, clams, lumber, phosphate, citrus, cattle, oysters, watermelons, celery, and other products of sea and earth. There were also boom time towns that were really just lot sales programs. Many of these towns barely got off the ground when they collapsed during the Florida land sale bust that preceded the Great Depression. As natural resources were exhausted or economic depression, hurricanes, and freezes slammed into the state, many of these towns folded and mostly disappeared. Railroads closed, highways were built that bypassed the town, other things happened that made the town only a footnote in history.
Good article here.
Another article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 20, 2019 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Destruction, Regionalism
The House in the Middle
Atomic bombs hate slums, but respect a nice clean domicile.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 13, 2019 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Death, Destruction, Domestic, War, 1950s
Unauthorized Dwellings 8
Postwar squatting in England was a big thing.This article goes into much detail. But they don't mention the weird squatter letter detailed in the news article.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 11, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Buildings and Other Structures, Urban Life, 1940s, United Kingdom
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