Seagulls in Den Helder, the Netherlands, ca. 1910, photographer unknown, via Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
Category: architecture
Vintage landscape: white fence
Picket fence and view of Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The image was taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration on the then new Kodachrome color transparency film.
The Sunday porch: late afternoon
A repeat porch from June 2014. . .
A gathering on the south portico (or back porch) of the White House, probably between 1890 and 1910, photographer unknown, via the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The portico was built in 1824, principally from an 1807 design by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, then Surveyor of Public Buildings. Latrobe was appointed and supervised by Thomas Jefferson, who loved neoclassical design and called Palladio’s books “the bible.”
The South of France
Roman temple
“simple and sublime”Maria Cosway
harpist
on his mindwhite column
and arch— Lorine Niedecker, from “Thomas Jefferson“
The Sunday porch: Halloween
Front porch of a farmhouse ready for Halloween, near Elderon, Wisconsin, 1994, by John N. Vogel for an Historic American Building Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The HABS noted the house’s “prominent front porch with Tuscan columns and hipped roof” and called it “a good example of the Gabled Ell form” of Wisconsin vernacular architecture. There are wider views here.
The Sunday porch: Franklin, Louisiana
“Thebideau cabin,” near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston for her Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The front yard is very neat. Two old tires protect the daisies and the little tree.
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