A Tudor style entrance in Westmount, Montreal. What is more inviting than a beautiful, historic entrance?
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Preservation Photos #236
An 1848 Greek Revival style church in the Weybridge Hill Historic District.
Vermont is filled with picture-perfect skies and beautiful historic buildings.
Preservation Photos #235
Many of Winooski's historic mill buildings have been rehabilitated to mixed-use spaces filled with lofts and commercial and retail space.
Preservation Photos #234
A flower detail on a granite monument in Burlington’s historic Lakeview Cemetery.
Preservation Photos #233
Fair Haven, Vermont.
The house of last week’s Preservation Photos #232. This 1867 house was built by the A.C. Hopson and is known as one of the earliest and most outstanding examples of French Second Empire style in Vermont. It was the home of Ira Allen, a prominent Fair Haven businessman. Today the house is the Marble Mansion Inn.
Preservation Photos #232
There’s a lot of detail in this photograph. Look up! A cornice, brackets, small window, patterned slate, marble curved lintels, marble construction, crossing roof lines. And that’s just a small piece of the building! Seen in Fair Haven, VT.
There’s entertainment everywhere.
Preservation Photos #231
Reflections in Providence, Rhode Island.
Preservation Photos #230
Inside the 1838 Providence (Rhode Island) Athenaeum, which still operates as a library.
Preservation Photos #229
The lenticular truss bridge in Highgate Falls, VT.
This two-span wrought iron lenticular truss bridge was constructed in 1887 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in Highgate Center. It currently serves pedestrians. A bit about lenticular truss bridges (and other metal truss bridges here):
Lenticular trusses consist of both upper and lower curved chords, giving the bridge the shape of a lens (hence the name lenticular). This bridge type gained popularity during the early 1880s, and a number were constructed in Vermont.
Preservation Photos #228
Marble staircase in the old post office in White River Junction, VT. Now home to the Center for Cartoon Studies.
A bit of history from the Hartford Historical Society:
Built in 1934 as a WPA Project, this building has seen life as a post office, Vermont District Court and as a privately owned office building. Located at the northeast corner of South Main and Gates Street, it is a Neo-Classical Revival-style brick building with a round, arched opening and the inscription “United States Post Office” on its front. The first post office in White River Junction opened in 1849 after the town became a major railhead and was located at or near the train depot. It moved in 1890 to the Gates Block and subsequently relocated to this building in 1934. It was replaced by a new distribution center, built outside the historic district in 1964.
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