Baseball Withdrawal

Shea is not the most beautiful stadium, but the big chunky concrete walkways and steal i-beam supports have a repetitive appeal.

Architectural Overview from Queens

This is the view of a sunset over Manhattan from Shea Stadium, which will no longer be...

from Shea Stadium, Queens, New York
of Manhattan

Decay

I love decay...I don't know why.

Cow Heads!

I was walking in Seattle this summer. I looked up and saw cows looking down at me.

Seattle is full of these fun random architectural treats!

Banana Republic Building, Downtown Seattle.

Hoboken Train Station

The waiting room at the Hoboken Train Station. I wish the bottom picture was clearer. But it was dinner time so it was hard to keep my hands still long enough to take the picture because I was hungry.

Zig-Zag

It has taken me so long to update this blog because I really liked the pictures from the last post. I didn't want to change it. I know the park was opened in 2001, but this looks like an overhang at my local highschool from the 70's.

I didn't even get to see the Cyclones play because the game was fogged out. I guess I'll have to go back next season.

Keyspan Park, Brooklyn, NY

100 Broadway

This entryway has everything...Faces, lions, leaves, animals, and decoration for it's own sake. It's very busy. I like it.

100 Broadway
Financial district, New York City

Church in the Round

I thought this was an interesting Church. Building in the round is more expensive, which is why we don't see a lot of round buildings. The details on this building also make it look like a chunky doily. It's definitely not delicate, but interesting nonetheless.

Downtown Seattle, WA

Dynamic Leaves

This is another Gothic Revival architectural element from Trinity Church in lower Manhattan.

Corner of Broadway and Wall Street.

Gothic Faces?

These are all the faces around the back of Trinity Church. I'm wondering if they are modeled after faces on gothic era churches. Are they saints or are they are modeled after people around New York in the 1800's?

I'm sure I'll never know.

Corner of Broadway and Wall Street.

Gothic Revival Architecture

Trinity Church is the oldest church in Manhattan. This of course was not the first church building the congregation worshiped in because the church was founded in 1697, and this building was dedicated in the spring of 1846.

The cemetery is so old that most of the grave stones are worn away so they are unreadable or even broken.

The second picture reminds me of the drip sand castles I used to build on the beach. I never realized I was building a historic style sand castle when I was little.

Trinity Church History

Corner of Broadway and Wall Street.

Mountain Retreat

It's an interesting hotel and it really speaks of a time when travel took longer, so this is really an "old money" resort for people from New York City before flights to Europe were easily accessible. The hiking, nature, and gardens really are the highlights, but the Mountain House is very nice too. Here you have the area by the water that looks like a log cabin and the rest of the hotel looks like the Victorian Castle that it is, with two distinct sides. The right side of the resort looks older and the left looks like it was built later.

New Paltz, NY

Quasi-Neo-Classicism in New York

This building has neo-classical elements paired with the chunkiness of baroque forms and the harsh shapes and angles of elements that are american-art-deco-turned-social-realism. It is definitely one of the ugliest buildings I have seen. It's so ecclectic that it doesn't go with itself. There are cool bear faces on the side, but I didn't get a good picture of them, so I'll have to go back.

Financial District, Manhattan, New York City

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

It All Started With the Cows...

Of course the animals on parade began with the cows in Chicago. I have also seen fish in Grand Rapids, and now there are pigs in Seattle...




...and apples in Winchester Virginia. I'm not quite sure this is the same thing, but maybe...