More Syracuse University

Very Classic: Nice red brick with Corinthian Columns. The frieze is a bit boring, but I like the eagle's feathers and his little legs sticking out of his "feather bellbottoms."

More Library of Congress Pictures

What can I say? It's an interesting building!

Library of Congress

Who would be interested in going to a place with the name, Library of Congress? I wasn't interested, but I got roped into it. Now I want to go spend some time researching there. It is a beautiful building. There are so many interesting resources and artifacts here, as well as books of course.

Ford's Theatre Interior

The newly renovated Ford's Theatre. We saw Civil War, the musical.



My partial view seat...behind a column, and the balcony overhang. I couldn't see the whole show.


Ceiling painting.



President Lincoln's box

Look At Those Acanthus Leaves!

These acanthus leaves are definitely in the Roman style, but who would expect anything else from Washington D.C.?




These Corinthian Columns are on the pavilion in Arlington Cemetery. This structure is up by the tomb of the unknown soldier where the changing of the guard takes place.

The Palace of Art

The Museum of Fine Art and the Palace of Art flank Hősök tere (Hero's Square) this is the Palace of Art which mainly has traveling exhibitions. It's Eclectic Neo-Classical, which means there are columns of the Corinthian variety, but there are other styles mixed in as well.

Neo-Classicism in Virginia

This is the public library of Winchester. The ecclectic neo-classicism has Corinthian columns on the front of the building and Ionic columns on the sides. The figures are well-proportioned and light, so they do not look like they were fashioned in a social realistic style, but they seem to have a bit of the American social realism message with the tools and the sphynx.

Winchester, VA

Faces and Swirling Columns

There is a lot going on in the architectural detail of this building. Not all the faux columns have faces on them. Some have just abstract leaves on them similar to the style in the second picture. I think it is very interesting.

It is on 93rd on the same block or two as many of my other posts.

How's This For a Column Topper?

This is from the Metropolitan Museum of art. I love this guy's teeth and brow!

More Columns in No Particular Order...

I think these were all from the medieval section of the Met, or at least walking toward that section.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street

Precursor to Corinthian Columns

Anyone who has studied art history knows that Egyptian art had a lot of influence on Greek art...Here is a lotus blossom adorning the top of a column, which no doubt inspired the ecanthus leaves on Greek columns. The Greeks just refined the idea and made it more delicate and less chunky than the Egyptians.

This is the temple of Dendur in the Egyptian Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street

Corinthian Columns

Just standard Corinthian Columns. Standard order columns are hard to find in the United States because everything is so ecclectic.

This is in the 200's on Lafayette Street in SOHO.