Sleigh Bed Or Is It Sleigh Desk?..Alice Austen Moorish Interior…

Posted by on July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

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Sleigh Bed Or Is It Sleigh Desk?..Alice Austen Moorish Interior…
Moorish Interior Featuring Sleigh Desk, Alice Austen Photograph
 
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Category Historic Context, Historic Preservation, History, Interior, Location Location Location, Moorish Revival, Most Recent, New York City, New York State, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Alice Austen, , , Historic Interior, Historic Preservation, Moorish Architecture, Sleigh Bed, Sleigh Desk

One Fry, One Coke, and One Aperture Grilled with a Wrought Iron Window Treatment and/or Security Door…and that’s for here, not to go…

Posted by on February 28, 2011 · 3 Comments 

Wrought Iron Grill Security Door Window Bars Cast Iron Grill Iron Security Door

One Fry, One Coke, and One Aperture Grilled with a Wrought Iron Window Treatment and/or Security Door…and that’s for here, not to go…
The Modern Application of Wrought Iron Grills for Apertures Including Doors (Security Doors) , Windows (bars), or Even Alone the Glazed Openings Among Them!?.

We feel as though the application of security doors and [...]

Category Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Craftsman (Early Twenieth...), District of Columbia, Eastlake (in houses), Federal (Urban), HOME DEPOT Doors, Italianate, Location Location Location, Moorish Revival, Most Recent, Neoclassical, Queen Anne Revival, Residential Architecture, Romanesque Revival (1860-1900ish), Second Empire (1860-1900ish), Spanish Colonial (1880-1940ish), Style Section... · Tags , Architectural Style, Asethetic Taste, Bars, Cast Iron, Iron Grill Door, Iron Grill Window, Iron Grill Work, Moorish Revival, New Options for Security Doors, Prison Door, Queen Anne Revival, Security Doors, , Wrought Iron

Visit Isabella Stewart Gardner…

Posted by on February 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum John Singer Sargeant Boston Massachusetts

Visit Isabella Stewart Gardner…
A Wondrous House of Boston, Massachusetts
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Category Art (all inclusive), Boston, Built Environment, Location Location Location, Moorish Revival, Oldie But Goodie, Style Section... · Tags , Art, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Singer Sargeant

Semi Cluttered Interior of the Late Victorian Era

Posted by on November 17, 2010 · 2 Comments 

Semi Cluttered Victorian Interior

Far less stylized than the most interesting and exotic of Victorian Interiors, this room, which most of today’s world would interpret as a commercial frame or decorative arts shop, was most likely just the lost music room or salon of an overly indulgent “thing” person who really really enjoyed framing pretty pictures.  We won’t say art, [...]

Category Absurd Mansard, Art (all inclusive), Interior, Moorish Revival, Most Recent, Queen Anne Revival, Style Section... · Tags , , , , Old Buildings Taste, Victorian Interior

Moorish? Spanish? It was all good for St. Augustine, Villa Zorayda, Franklin Smith, St. Augustine, Florida

Posted by on October 20, 2010 · 1 Comment 

St Augustine Villa Franklin Smith

Moorish? Spanish? It was all good for St. Augustine, Villa Zorayda, Franklin Smith, St. Augustine, Florida
Even within the comfortable environs of the wealthy Boston suburb—Newton, Massachusetts, the winters at 549 Columbia Avenue grew cold—especially, for well-to-do steel manufacturers like Franklin Waldo Smith (1826-1911), his wife Sarah, and their children. What was a family such as [...]

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Building of the Week: Cincinnati Synagogue of Moorish Revival Mania

Posted by on March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

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Among the boundless architectural wonders of Ohio’s third largest city (largest metro area), this Moorish Revival and Neo-Byzantine Synagogue, the Isaac M. Wise Temple (formerly the Plum Street Temple), is probably the best example of its kind that we have seen in our travels throughout the United States.

Designed by Cincinnati architect James Keys Wilson, this [...]

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