City Reflection

Seen as we headed to the parking garage after Charlie’s play.

So many lines and shapes.

Downtown Columbus, Ohio

Touring the Ridges

Video of the Ridges Granddaughter Anna was driving so I had to opportunity to film the tour.

Touring The Ridges a Former Psychiatric Hospital 1874-1993

The graves are marked with numbers

For history click here

Round Corner Hotel in Lawrenceville

An interesting building built during the Civil War (1862) – you don’t see many round corner buildings in brick.

Thursday night after dinner across the street at Piccolo Forno.

Local artist William Pfahl painted this interesting building in 2017 as one of his cityscapes. A link to an article about Bill’s paintings. Bill is a fellow retired city art teacher. And link 2011 blog post about him painting the Sixteenth Street Bridge.

ROUND CORNER HOTEL – LAWRENCEVILLE.30x48in. Oil. 2017. SOLD.

The Round Corner Hotel building is the home of Esquina Cantina -Mexican Restaurant

Interested in building radial brick work ? A video with instruction

P.S. big shout out to dc today-
stellar blog follower, guest contributor & frequent commenter

Holiday Handmade Crawl

Sunday December 15 at

WILKINSBURG PA Train Station

Workshop Studios

WCDC Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation

Meet Josie Martin
TOPTOWN Auto Maintenance

Hassle-Feee Car Care Delivered to You

TOPTOWN Tools at the Ready
Meet Alex and Emmalee
Stupid Stupid Studio
clarkmorelia.com Handmade Leather Goods
Wilkinsburg Train Station Historic Landmark

Built in 1916. Vacant for 50 years. Full Restoration completed in 2019.

Muskingum County Courthouse Zanesville Ohio

Saturday afternoon, I took this photo while at a red light.

Muskingum County Courthouse

The Big Basket Slated to Become Luxury Hotel – 3 views

Newark, Ohio at sunset.

Sunday November 17th.

I was a passenger while Maura drove my car back to Columbus from Pittsburgh. Getting some good highway driving practice before her driving test. And I can take a few photos from the passenger seat.

Although maplewood Longaberger Baskets went out of business in 2018, the basket building is a beloved icon of architecture.

“Its former corporate headquarters on Ohio’s State Route 16 is a local landmark known as the “Big Basket”.Built to resemble the company’s top-selling product, the “Medium Market Basket”, the seven-story edifice is a well-known example of novelty architecture. “ Wikipedia

This article says the basket building will become a luxury hotel.

The Big Basket

Click to hear A Tisket A Tasket sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

Silent Sunday

Ruth and Naomi Stained Glass Window designed by William and Ann Willett at Rodef Shalom Fifth Ave Pittsburgh PA photographed Oct 2017 at a Baby Naming Ceremony I was photographing

Steinway Tower is Tall and Thin

I try to keep the blog IRT, but I took this shot Sunday and returned to Pittsburgh Monday. Thought the image was interesting enough to share today.

Steinway Tower is “At 1,428 feet, it is also one of the tallest buildings in the Western hemisphere, standing just short of two others in New York City: The 1,776-foot-tall One World Trade Center and the 1,550-foot-tall Central Park Tower.”

It’s pretty skinny

Cathedral of Learning

Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh
535 feet tall
from Oaklander Hotel Window

“a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone …contains more than 2,000 rooms”

Silent Sunday

parked on Main Street -Sharpsburg, PA