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
For history click here
Touring the Ridges
Category: architecture
Round Corner Hotel in Lawrenceville
An interesting building built during the Civil War (1862) – you don’t see many round corner buildings in brick.
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
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Holiday Handmade Crawl
Sunday December 15 at
WILKINSBURG PA Train Station
WCDC Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation
TOPTOWN Auto Maintenance
Hassle-Feee Car Care Delivered to You
Stupid Stupid Studio
Built in 1916. Vacant for 50 years. Full Restoration completed in 2019.
Muskingum County Courthouse Zanesville Ohio
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.
Click to hear A Tisket A Tasket sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
Silent Sunday
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.”
Cathedral of Learning
535 feet tall
from Oaklander Hotel Window
“a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone …contains more than 2,000 rooms”
Silent Sunday
It’s a Wrap 2! Guest Blog
My friend Joanne’s flight was delayed so she was getting a bite to eat and then walking around Terminal A-East in the Philadelphia Airport, waiting for her flight to be called. Although she was eager to get to her destination, the delay gave her time to photograph all these colorful artworks. Creating a guest blog today was not her plan, it just happened. There was a lot of yarn!
IT’S A WRAP 2 is in Terminal A-East
Ticketed Passengers
“This exhibition features work by Philadelphia area artists(listed below) who were invited to create unique architectural interventions within the Airport terminal. Using yarn, fabric, felt, found objects, tape, paint, wheat paste, and wood, the artists applied their work to the ceiling tiles, columns, rockers, walls, walkway, and windows. They have visually transformed this location into an immersive and experiential art-filled passageway.”
Artists
- HENRY BERMUDEZ
- HEIDI BLEACHER
- LUIZA CARDENUTO
- RHONDA COOPER
- JESSICA CURTAZ
- MARIE ELCIN AND JOHANNA MARSHALL
- MELISSA MADDONI HAIMS
- KAY HEALY
- JESSIE HEMMONS
- EURHI JONES
- NATALIE KUENZI
- TIM McFARLANE
- ANGELA McQUILLAN
- NICOLE NIKOLICH
- ANGELA RIO
- ANNE SCHAEFER
- MIRIAM SINGER
- ANTHONY TORCASIO
- ANTHONY VEGA
- ANDREW JEFFERY WRIGHT
Have a wonderful holiday . Thank you Joanne. Joanne’s most recent guest blog was the one of the bronze sculptures in Halifax Nova Scotia – The Volunteers.