True to the spirit of place.
The fire department’s building may have sprouted numerous aerials, antennas, receivers and transmitters in recent years, but the architecture remains true to the spirit of Massachusetts.
Panny GX7, kit zoom.
Rural new England defined.
Located in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, the library dates from 1902. The architecture is typical of the region.
Panny GX7, kit zoom.
Reader comment:
A reader writes:
“Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering is named after the same Thayer (Sylvanus).”
Not the real thing.
Seen at the Scottsdale Railroad Museum which has a lovely model railroad layout, this model of a woodworker’s shop is in O scale, or 1/48th life size. When I was an active woodworker my shop was built inside a single car garage, maybe one third the life size equivalent of this model.
The model railroads on display in the Museum are in three gauges, O, HO (1/87th) and N scale (1/160), each covering approximately 1,600 square feet. While O scale offers the most detailed modeling opportunities, the sheer size of the N scale layout compared to the very small size of the rolling stock and the vast quantity of engines, cars, landscape and buildings therein is really something.
Sail Boston!
It’s the Sail Boston weekend, one which finds us in downtown Boston enjoying the tall ships and the civilized city they call home.
Crafts come in all sizes.
At the Institute of Contemporary Arts, right on the waterfront.
Another.
100,000 visitors this weekend!
The Boys in Blue adopt a latter day version of the Redcoats’ garb. Blackshirts?
The Intercontinental, our hotel, could not be better located.
Old and new blend well.
From our hotel window.
Another.
Snapped on the Panny GX7 with the 14-45 and 45-200mm kit lenses at ISO400.
An orgy of beauty.
For an alphabetical index of the New England College series of pieces, click here.
Whatever their competing academic merits, one thing not in doubt is the beauty of the architecture to be found in New England Ivy League schools. The oldest included here are Harvard (1636) and Yale (1701) with Cornell the youngest (1865).
While most have the occasional horror – a science building as often as not – not just plain ugly but plainly out of context, these few exceptions have to be forgiven in honor of the greater whole. And there are, indeed, some fine examples of modern architecture to be found. Here’s one favorite from each school we visited, with three from Princeton because …. well, why not the best? Primus inter pares, if you like.
Amherst.
Bates.
Bowdoin.
Brown.
Colby.
Colgate.
Cornell.
Dartmouth.
Harvard.
Harvard Business School.
Lafayette.
Middlebury.
Princeton – 1.
Princeton – 2.
Princeton – 3.
Trinity.
Tufts.
Union.
Vassar.
Wesleyan.
Williams.
Yale.