– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Carpenter Theatre The Carpenter Theatre is a contributing building to the Grace Street Commercial Historic District of Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by John Eberson, an architect known for his movie theater designs, especially in the more exotic revival styles such as we see here. Eberson was famous for...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – House of the Temple Today we return to our intermittent look at some of the buildings of Washington DC which are not on most tourists’ must see list. Today we are a mile north of the White House on 16th Street. Here we find the House of the Temple, the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Wooden Runabout During the summer we visited the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. As luck would have it, the day we visited the local chapter of The Antique & Classic Boat Society were holding their annual boat festival at the museum. In another post we took a look at some of the permanent exhibits at the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St Peters Parish Church St Peters Parish Church, located near Talleysville in New Kent County, Virginia, was first used in July 1703. The church was built to replace the the apparently dilapidated “Broken-Back’d” Church, which had been constructed in about 1685. The building we see today is the oldest church in...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Rigging on Skipjack In another post we looked at the Chesapeake Bay oyster canning industry. In the early days the oyster harvest was limited to small row boats in the waters close to shore. The expansion of the oyster industry came with the development of larger boats which could sail further into the Bay. It is...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Centenary United Methodist Church The Centenary United Methodist Church in downtown Richmond was dedicated in June, 1843. This was a replacement building to the Methodist Meeting House on Shockoe Hill which had been built in 1810. The new church was built to celebrate Methodism’s Centennial, hence the name....
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