Welcome June! (With thoughts of Georgia O'Keefe)
A good friend and spiritual guide colleague is being ordained today in NH, and I will be present.
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It's the first of June, and Howard Dean is first.
ReplyDeleteAlan ~~ What you said about "Carpenter Gothic" sent me to Wikipedia to see if it fits the Victorian styles I see around me. But no. Although there are resemblances, it doesn't really correspond. For one thing, a substantial minority of my neighbors' houses have round, tower-like projections at one corner (don't know what the proper architectural description is). None of the pictures on Wikepedia showed that. OTOH, many of the pictures on Wikipedia showed an even greater profusion of gables than I see. And steeper roofs, which seemed to be a deliberate architectural feature. And the article seemed to imply that a characteristic feature of Carpenter Gother was elaborate ornamentation of the eaves. The only place I see that is in a restoration of a house that didn't have such ornamentation when I moved here 43 years ago.
Round, tower-like projection at one corner of a house = turret? I realize this is a rather different usage of the word than in medieval castle architecture, but I think it is the right word.
DeleteSound like Queen Anne, Bill. Another typical feature is a porch wrapping around two sides of the house.
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--Alan
Although the pictures obviously show some of the more elaborate -- or do I mean fanciful? -- examples of the style, the plainer examples look familiar. As do the wraparound porches. Even our house, which is otherwise relatively plain for the neighborhood, has that.
DeleteI always think of today as a personal holiday. ;-)
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