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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Give Me Liberty: 1935
1935. "Scotchtown, Chiswell Lane, Beaverdam, Hanover County, Virginia. Structure dates to 1698. Related names: Miss Sally Taylor. Built by a Scotsman named Chiswell. Once the home of Patrick Henry and Dolly Madison." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
Half-hipped roof.
I would have called it a half-hipped roof.
And it did have some functional properties in some areas.
It did reduce the wind loads on large exposed gables. As some people had to find out the hard way when they replaced the half hip by a full gable to more usable space and lighting in the attic during remodeling. And their new full gable caved in during a storm.
Jerkinhead roof detail
When roofs were thatched in England and Europe the tip of the gable was lopped off to weave the thatch around the corner. This building is a sort of homage to that look as it is mostly decorative. The term has been dropped from most dictionaries.
Have nice trip, see you next fall
Something very unfinished-looking about stairs with no handrails. I'm sure it was common, but the combination of no handrails and no lights seems like an accident waiting to happen.
Still there!
Now disputed whether Dolley Madison ever lived there.
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