– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bettys Hope Bettys Hope was the largest sugar plantation in Antigua. It was established by Govenor Keynel in 1650. His wife inherited the estate in 1663 after his death but abandoned it in 1666 when the French occupied the island. The British recaptured the island and awarded the estate to the Codrington...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ringling Museum Grounds and Gardens The Ringling Museum Grounds and gardens also provide a wealth of photographic opportunities to anyone visiting the museum buildings. As you walk through the Ringling Bayfront Gardens, as the gardens are formally known, past the two circus museum buildings you pass a number of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Circus Museum at the Ringling Museum The Ca d’Zan Mansion is one of a number of buildings on the grounds of the Ringling Museum. John Ringling was one of the five brothers who formed the Ringling Bros. Circus in 1884. John Ringling was responsible for overseeing the route taken by the traveling circus that...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ceiling of the Grand Court, Ca’ d’Zan Mansion Having looked at the external architectural details of the Ca’ d’Zan Mansion at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida (see other posts: Colored glass door, Belvedere Tower; Venetian Gothic Architectural Details and External corridor) it is time to move...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – External corridor leading to wooden door, Ca’ d’Zan Mansion Our final look at the external architectural details of the Ca’ d’Zan Mansion at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida (see other posts: Colored glass door, Belvedere Tower; and Venetian Gothic Architectural Details). The Ringlings hired...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Venetian Gothic Architectural Details of Ca’ d’Zan Mansion Continuing our look at the architectural details of the Ca’ d’Zan Mansion at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida (see first post of the colored glass door and second post of the Belvedere Tower). Both of these images were made on the large bayfront...
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