Saurbær Church, Saurbæjarkirkja, Iceland, ca. 1900, by Frederick W. W. Howell, Cornell University Library, via Cornell University Library Commons on flickr.
This now rare turf church still exists. You can see it in 2015 here.
Tag: stone wall
The Sunday porch: Struan
Grape vines over the porch of an old outbuilding at Struan, Arden, North Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Detail of the above; note the potted plants on the old ladder.
By the time Johnston photographed the old plantation of Struan for her Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, the property had been a school for boys, Christ School, for 38 years.
Vintage landscape: the old bell
Old farm bell as planter, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, May 1936, by L.D. Andrew, via Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Have a happy 2015!
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