First stop after leaving Rochester was Germantown, NY, to see Libby and Michael and Kierlan in their wonderful house overlooking the Hudson River…but I lost my camera the next day so, alas, I can’t show you the work they’ve done on the house, the beautiful sweeping views of the Hudson, Libby’s amazing concrete tile floors, […]
Category: Architecture
A Visit to Rochester….
Since I lost my camera on our trip east, my photo record is incomplete…and, hence, the various posts forming in my head didn’t make sense so…here we go organizing by the venues–place by place…two weeks in the east, 2011. We landed in Rochester and returned to Rochester…former fame was Kodak (which is pretty much gone […]
1658 Court Street, Historical View Continues…
The porch history post got me looking at old photos, and so…to keep the thought going, here is the historical –mid-historical—and current view of 1658 Court Street. Photos do not exist of the rear of the house when it was on State Street, or at the corner of 17th and Court (it was moved twice…sort […]
Porch Newsnotes…
In 1901 the porch on our house (which, in 1901, sat at the corner of Court and 17th facing east) was not the same porch that we have now. (left to right rear:C.B.Moores, Martin Chamberlin, Lenore Chamberlin Weller. Center row: Rose Weller Chamberlin, Sallie Chamberlin Moores, Mrs. Hollister, Dr. Joseph Hollister. Botoom row: Mary Chamberlin […]
House Progress…
Z & A’s house is done and looking pretty nice…attention is now being turned to the gardens which have suffered between construction and painting…take a look! Before: during: after:
Pienza
We had never been to Pienza…a lovely little hill town with a GORGEOUS small renaissance piazza built by Piccolomini…who later became Pope Pius the second in 1458. Designed by Bernardo Rossellino…student of Alberti…it was envisioned as the “ideal city” and in many ways, it is… and not only did we touristical types like it, it […]
The Bush House Conservatory…!!
The Bush House conservatory was built in 1882…the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. It was built by Mr. Bush for his daughters Sally and Eugenia and was built of brick with a concrete veneer. There was no foundation for the original building and it was first heated with a wood stove. In the 1930’s a […]
Salem Buildings…
K. Williams Brown quoted me in a column in the SJ Sunday , and we had a thoughtful conversation Friday about Salem architecture. The columnist, only here two years…from the south originally, was wanting to write about the “new brutalist” nature of public buildings, and lamenting that Oregonians don’t appreciate good architecture. Over the weekend […]
Porch Update…
Just thought you might like to see how very nice it is to remove an unfortunate update. Here the former porch front at Zach and Ashton’s was removed, and the porch was returned to it’s original proportions with the wider, more welcoming, stairway and the half/post modeled after other similar porches on the street. Good, […]
Another House Project…
Let’s take a very brief breather from the art world (not for long though…next up a visit to Tom Cramer’s studio…) to see how Zach and Ashton’s house came out (BEFORE the landscaping…). When Zach bought the house it looked like this and then last fall the work started on the project of raising the […]
On The Way 