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The Sunday porch: Kalaupapa, Hawaii

March 27, 2016March 28, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure3 Comments

The west front of St. Francis Catholic Church, Moloka’i Island, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, July 1991, by Jack E. Boucher for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).

The church was built in 1908 to serve the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, now part of Kalaupapa National Historical Park.

The word porch — “1250-1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico” — was originally used to indicate the covered entrance to a church, usually on the south side.

The Sunday porch: Oak Hill, Alabama

March 20, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure4 Comments

The Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House, Oak Hill, Alabama, March 24, 1937, by Alex Bush for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).

A nice front porch, but not especially interesting — except that it is a Carolina (or rain) porch.

Its columns rest on masonry bases set “directly on the ground . . . in front of the foundation of the porch floor. This is a distinctive regional characteristic,” according to the registration form (1998) for the National Register of Historic Places for the Oak Hill Historic District.

The back porch, however, is more unusual.

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“[The] rear wings have integral recessed porches facing inward and creating an atrium-like space which has been roofed [with] corrugated metal. . . . [The] . . . first floor [is] essentially an enclosed dogtrot. . . .”

The house was built in 1836 by Abiezer Clarke Ramsey, a school teacher and Methodist circuit rider. In 1937, he married Elizabeth Amanda Wardlaw, a widow with four children. She and Abiezer had seven more before her death in 1854.

The house still stands in the Oak Hill Historic District.
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The Sunday porch: Oxford, Ohio

February 28, 2016April 11, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

“Woman in hat and stole on porch,” Oxford, Ohio, ca. late 19th or early 20th century, by Frank R. Snyder, via Miami University Archives Commons on flickr.

Is her slight Mona Lisa smile about her nice outfit or the photographer? (Click on the image for a larger view.)

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
— Bo Derek

The Sunday porch: celebration

February 21, 2016April 11, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure2 Comments

“Anniversary celebration” from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Unfortunately, the couple’s names, their location, and the date are unknown.

The Luther Hamilton Photograph Collection, from which the picture is taken, contains almost 1,000 photos made or collected by the Luther Myles Hamiltons — Sr. and Jr. — during the first half of the 20th century, principally in and around the town of Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

Click on the image for a larger view — or here.

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years. . . .

— John Donne, from “The Anniversary“

The Sunday porch: Naples, Florida

February 14, 2016January 10, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

Porch at the Hole in the Wall Golf Club, Naples, Florida, February 16, 1960, by Gottsho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.