Tagged With "School of Architecture"
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Re: 13 Year Old Boy Starts Travel Charity
Good on Eli for starting this! I've had a similar idea for starting a travel charity in the future and this gives me more inspiration to do it.
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Re: Visiting an Andean School, Peru
Absolutely beautiful children- rosy cheeked, grubby dirty and so happy!! Heart warming!
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Re: March 6, 2016: CCNY Grotesques
"The terra cotta gargoyles (animal-like) and grotesques (humanlike) have chipped and flaked. Some fell from their parapets and smashed into a thousand pieces." - NYTimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09...ed-city-college.html
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Re: March 6, 2016: CCNY Grotesques
Thanks for the article Garry. I am planning a longer piece on CCNY and will use the info.
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Re: Where was Gumbo #18 - Olana, Hudson NY
This was a hard one interesting church with beautiful paintings
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Re: Where was Gumbo #18 - Olana, Hudson NY
Well done Jonathan. After your last clue I considered the Hudson River bunch as well as the Ash Can School but could find no reference to this place. It's quite a house.
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Re: Where was Gumbo #18 - Olana, Hudson NY
For anyone who'd like a look at Church's paintings, HERE is a link to a Wikipedia Commons page with many images, including his wonderful painting of Niagara Falls.
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13 Year Old Boy Starts Travel Charity
13 year old Eli Pollak started "Travel to Learn" last year. It's goal is to award free domestic and foreign educational trips to Madison, Wisconsin public school students whose families can't afford travel. It has raised $5000 so...
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Jan. 10, 2018: Mike the Tiger VII, LSU School Mascot
Samantha takes us to visit a young tiger who's having fun despite his imoortant job.
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Sagrada Familia School (Escoles de la Sagrada Família), Where Gumbo was #183
Gumbo was visiting Sagrada Familia Schoolhouse. Built more than a century ago to educate the children of the construction workers who were building Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, it is a excellent example of simple yet beautiful design that was the hallmark of much of the Modernisme architectural movement.
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Visiting an Andean School, Peru
Sylvia shares photos and memories of a visit to a one-room school high in the Andes.
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Where was Gumbo #18 - Olana, Hudson NY
We have gotten to Tuesday and no one has guessed Where Gumbo went this week. So here is the answer: Gumbo traveled to the New York state town of Hudson, where Frederic Church built a house over looking the Hudson River so that he could paint....
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April 3, 2016 - Olana near Hudson NY
Olana, in Hudson NY, was home to Frederic Church, one of the most famous painters of the Hudson River School.
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School spirit? Get your mascot on Frontier's tail!
Frontier Airlines puts big animal pictures on the tails of its planes. Now they invite you to vote for your favorite school or college mascot to go on a new one.
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March 6, 2016: CCNY Grotesques
Salvaged from the razing of buildings at the City College of New York, these gothic grotesques wait on a lawn near the School of Architecture.
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Re: St. Augustine, Florida—The Old City
June 18, 1964, James Brock, the manager of the Monsoon Motor Lodge ( now destroyed) pouring acid on demonstrators attempting to desegregate the pool Great Piece Jonathan L! One thing I wish St Augustine would do a better job is telling what role St Augustine played in the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King got arrested in St Augustine on June 11th 1964 after picketing. His charge was unlawful assembly and civil disobedience. Many people say events that summer helped sparked the Civil...
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Re: St. Augustine, Florida—The Old City
Thanks Travel Rob. In fact there are several info boards in and around Plaza de la Constitucion that do discuss the civil rights era history. Not just MLK's arrest, but more than one large demonstration that took place.
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Re: St. Augustine, Florida—The Old City
For more on the history of the civil rights movement in St. AUGUSTINE, you can look here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...._Augustine_movement
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Re: St. Augustine, Florida—The Old City
There are info boards at the beaches too but certain things they didn't preserve, like the Monsoon Motor Lodge, now a Hilton. Martin Luther King Ave, Downtown is one street named after Dr. King where he had marched.
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Re: Sagrada Familia School (Escoles de la Sagrada Família), Where Gumbo was #183
I love this building!
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Re: Jan. 10, 2018: Mike the Tiger VII, LSU School Mascot
I think tigers are the most beautiful animals in the world! So beautiful to look at -- yet at some level terrifying.
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Re: Jan. 10, 2018: Mike the Tiger VII, LSU School Mascot
Thanks for the comment DrFumbleFinger. He is beautiful, but I was very happy for the glass and fences between us, lol.
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Re: School spirit? Get your mascot on Frontier's tail!
I flew Frontier last week. From Miami to Philadelphia. Pleasant, courteous staff. Clean plane. Couple of hours in the air. None of the refinements of a long haul flight - I knew not to expect any. Just like any European Budget carrier. I'd recommend them to anyone. Nice folks.
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Re: The Sacramento Valley Museum
I agree. And I immediately noticed that the old school smell is also intact, throwing me right back to my own high school of a similar era. https://www.sequoiahs.org/ABOU...s-History/index.html
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Re: The Sacramento Valley Museum
Nice to see that the school is allowed to play host for the museum without losing its own character!
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The Sacramento Valley Museum
A community museum in a preserved early 20th century high school makes a quick trip to Williams, California doubly worthwhile for PortMoresby.
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New London, Connecticut's Waterfront
Jonathan L reveals that Gumbo has been visiting New London's waterfront.
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1912 Center, Moscow, Idaho
The 1912 Center is Moscow, Idaho's old High School building. It is currently used as a community service building.
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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas
Samantha explores the life, assassination and legacy of John F. Kennedy through the many exhibits at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas Texas.
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Re: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas
Thanks for the post! I found my visit to the 6th floor fascinating.
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Re: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas
I was in high school when the announcement came over our PA system located in each room. I remember so many adults crying. An historic tragedy. Thanks for the museum photos and story.
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St. Augustine, Florida—The Old City
Saint Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest continuously-inhabited European settlement in the Americas. Join us for a tour of its historic center...
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Exploring the Philippines: Cebu
LestertheInvestor shares a unique diving experience in the Philippine's, along with an exploration of beautiful Kawasan Falls,
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The Airport...and how it got that way
You've all probably got an airport you hate, and a favorite (or perhaps least-hated) one. And I'm sure you've often wondered why they put the baggage claim there, and why the food is over there, and why it just so often seems to be two miles to the gate.
