Magnificent 1885 home in Helena, Montana's address is undisclosed. This is the 2nd time I've come across something like that. 9bds, 5.5ba, but the # of bedrooms is also undisclosed. The price however, is $6.180M on Redfin and $5.5 on Realtor.com.
Beautiful original wood, pocket doors and inlaid floor. But, for some reason, while it's attractive, it's weird that they put modern stained glass in the doors.
Beautiful wainscoting and fireplace in the central hall.
Maybe the owners don't want people traipsing thru this fabulous house just to look. I can't believe this wood is still intact. (Can you imagine if they painted it all white?)
Beautiful fireplace in the sitting room. However, the wallpaper makes it look like an old granny house.
Intricately carved built-in cabinets in the dining room.
I don't like the kitchen. The cabinet finish does match the wood, but I just don't like it.
Less formal sitting room has a nice brick fireplace.
This is a good idea to make one of the rooms a pool room.
Roomy stair landing fits a Chesterfield sofa.
Very wide 2nd level hallway.
Interesting windows. The pair of end ones look like architectural salvage that came from a church, and the middle one is modern art.
Well, here's one of the bedrooms. I don't know if it's the primary.
So far, the bedrooms are large and have fireplaces.
Not terribly impressed with the bath.
Now, we're up on the 3rd level.
Two more large bedrooms are up here.
One of the other baths. Small and unimpressive.
There's a fieldstone patio in the back.
These doors must be to a garage, storage, or maybe a guesthouse.
Very large house on a desirable corner lot.
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Trinity Church in the City of Boston, 2000.
One of the masterpieces of architect Henry Hobson Richardson in a style now often referred to as Richardsonian romanesque.
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before/after.... i don't know that i love the second one but i do think it's better and stretching my texturing and shading skills a lot more. it's modeled after a real house in my neighborhood because i love riffing on richardsonian romanesques.
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knowledge is a burden. i see pictures of a house online, and someone calls it a lovely little demonstration of the queen anne victorian style. i get irrationally angry about it. because it's not queen anne victorian. it's richardsonian romanesque revival. so then i close my laptop and i try to remind myself that it's stupid to get so bent out of shape over a simple misattribution of contrived style terms. but then i get even angrier because i can't help but remember that queen anne victorian is basically the very definition of a contrived style term, because if 'victorian' implies the style was popular during the reign of queen victoria, then why in the world is queen anne involved? especially because the traditional queen anne style looks nothing like the queen anne victorian style. why is that? oh! oh. it's because america wanted to sell houses and plans so they just slapped a fancy-sounding name on the style they invented. queen anne victorian. sounds historical huh? queen anne victorian. maybe even regal? queen anne victorian. i look outside and i see a street full of cape cods. they're all modified one way or another. everyone's replaced the original siding or popped out the roofs. i like my street though. i like how it looks. it doesn't have to be historically accurate. what is a house anyway? queen anne victorian. i hate how they look honestly. i prefer second empire. which is silly too. french and british? really? it doesn't matter. i go to sleep and dream of richardsonian romanesque revivals. i hate them too.
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Masonic Temple Building, Denver
This 1890 Romanesque Revival style building, located at the corner of 16th and Welton streets, served for many years as a center of activities for the Masonic Order in Colorado. As one of downtown Denver's few surviving examples of the use of rockfaced Manitou sandstone as a building material, its warm red-orange walls provide an interesting contrast with the cool grey stone of the adjacent Kittredge Building. Denver architect Frank E. Edbrooke's design for the five-story Masonic Temple Building incorporated numerous semicircular arches and intricately carved detailing. After a 1984 fire nearly destroyed the building, its walls were reinforced with a steel frame.
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The Masonic Temple Building in Denver, Colorado is a Richardsonian Romanesque style building from 1889, designed by Frank E. Edbrooke. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The wealth of the Masons in Denver is evident in the fact that no expense was spared in the siting and construction of the building.
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doing character design for the architecture personification series (that's what i'm calling this brainrot btw) has made me realize i need to get better at drawing different body types because richardsonian romanesque is harder than it should be
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