Montréal - Vieux Montréal: Pointe-à-Callière - Ancienne-Douane
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Pointe-à-Callière, musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History), at 350 Place Royale, opened on May 17, 1992 marking the celebration of Montréal 's 350th birthday. The museum consists of the Éperon Building, designed by Dan S. Hanganu of Provencher Roy, which marks the entrance to the building and is set atop a crypt containing four centuries of archaeological remains, preserved and exposed, in situ; the renovated Ancienne-Douane building, Montréal's first Custom House; the Youville Pumping Station, a modest 1913 structure that housed Montréal's first electrically-run waste-water pumping station and was converted in 1999 as an interpretation centre for the museum; the Archaeological Field School; and the Mariners House.
L'Ancien Édifice de la Douane (The Old Customs House), at 150 Rue Saint-Paul Ouest, was erected from 1836-1838 by John Ostell, and doubled in size when a south extension was added in 1882. The Pallian-style structure is distinguished by an elegant facade embellished with pilasters and a wide pediment. The building housed the customs service until 1871. In converting the building for museum use in 1992, architects LeMoyne Lapointe Magne managed to conserve the outside exterior, confining all changes to the interior.
Montréal - Vieux Montréal: Pointe-à-Callière - Ancienne-Douane
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Pointe-à-Callière, musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History), at 350 Place Royale, opened on May 17, 1992 marking the celebration of Montréal 's 350th birthday. The museum consists of the Éperon Building, designed by Dan S. Hanganu of Provencher Roy, which marks the entrance to the building and is set atop a crypt containing four centuries of archaeological remains, preserved and exposed, in situ; the renovated Ancienne-Douane building, Montréal's first Custom House; the Youville Pumping Station, a modest 1913 structure that housed Montréal's first electrically-run waste-water pumping station and was converted in 1999 as an interpretation centre for the museum; the Archaeological Field School; and the Mariners House.
L'Ancien Édifice de la Douane (The Old Customs House), at 150 Rue Saint-Paul Ouest, was erected from 1836-1838 by John Ostell, and doubled in size when a south extension was added in 1882. The Pallian-style structure is distinguished by an elegant facade embellished with pilasters and a wide pediment. The building housed the customs service until 1871. In converting the building for museum use in 1992, architects LeMoyne Lapointe Magne managed to conserve the outside exterior, confining all changes to the interior.
Town Bridge - Weymouth Harbour
Image by ell brown
It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.
The harbour in Weymouth.
Along Custom House Quay at Weymouth Harbour.
This is the Town Bridge in Weymouth. It is currently getting renovated. I assume that it opens in half, based on the barriers, and level crossing like lights.
It is Grade II listed.
Town Bridge, Weymouth
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE Town Bridge
873-1/23/2
GV II
Bascule road bridge crossing the Harbour, and linking Old
Weymouth with Melcombe Regis. 1930. Steel bascules, Portland
ashlar abutments and arches with some coursed sandstone.
The bridge has a nearly level roadway carried on bascules to a
flat segmental arch between formal abutments with square
corner buttresses.
At the S end, connecting with Trinity Road, a parapet wall to
the height of the abutments swings round in a segment, and the
Harbour wall is swept round to meet it, containing a small
platform to the W, and a similar platform to the E, but with a
set of steps within ashlar walls. At the N end, leading into
St Thomas Street, there is a similar abutment, with a pavilion
for the bridge controller, then 2 low segmental arches over
the quayside road, with stone parapets, stopped on the E side
to a flight of 20 steps to the Quay level.
The bascule section has a steel balustrade in 10 panels each
side, with a broad teak handrail. The end abutments are in
channelled ashlar, with a square opening with paired doors at
the lower level, surmounted by a cornice at roadway level. The
corner buttresses provide recessed embayments at pavement
level, and an entry to the control building on the NE unit;
they are terminated with prominent steel lanterns, 6 in all,
on open truncated pyramidal bases and with a trellis top. The
control pavilion has a low stone weathered roof above a
cornice, and is semi-octagonal on the E side, with a glazed
door from the pavement, and a single casement to 5 outer
facets, above 4 oculi and a door on the water side.
At the St Thomas Street end the 2 segmental arches over the
low road are in concrete cast on permanent steel shuttering,
and there is a low connecting arch in the wall between the 2
throughways; most of the stonework here, and in the lower
parts of the abutment retaining walls, is in grey sandstone.
There are 4 commemorative plaques or tablets: on the NW
abutment, in the embayment facing the pavement, is a granite
panel inscribed: 'From Weymouth New England to Weymouth in Old
England: 1930', and on the opposite side a bronze plate
records 'This bridge was opened by HRH the Duke of York on the
4th July 1930.....', also gives Bolton and Larkin Ltd as the
general contractors, Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd
as steelwork contractors, and RW Vince as the Borough
Surveyor. At the S end, to the E the plaque records the
Council members for 1929/30, and opposite the bronze plaque
gives historical information about this and previous bridges.
It also records that the bridge was built by the Corporation,
the cost being shared between the Borough Council, Dorset
County Council and the Ministry of Transport.
Town Bridge inevitably holds an important position visually in
the town, and has been designed to give a dignified character.
At the same time it is of considerable historical interest; a
bridge was built, to replace a rope ferry, in 1597, rebuilt 3
times in the C18, the last in 1769, when it was moved from the
former alignment opposite Nicholas Street to the present
location. In 1821 a new 'permanent' bridge was sought, and
built in 1824. This is known to have had a toll gate at the
Melcombe Regis end in 1857.
The 1824 bridge was replaced by the present structure which
has importance in the townscape. It is a fine example of its
type displaying both technological and architectural
virtuosity.
(Ricketts E: The Buildings of Old Weymouth: Melcombe Regis and
Westham: Weymouth: 1975-: 111).
Listing NGR: SY6786778716
Time to leave this Quay and head to the other side. You walk up the steps and turn left.
Town Bridge - Weymouth Harbour
Image by ell brown
It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.
The harbour in Weymouth.
Along Custom House Quay at Weymouth Harbour.
This is the Town Bridge in Weymouth. It is currently getting renovated. I assume that it opens in half, based on the barriers, and level crossing like lights.
It is Grade II listed.
Town Bridge, Weymouth
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE Town Bridge
873-1/23/2
GV II
Bascule road bridge crossing the Harbour, and linking Old
Weymouth with Melcombe Regis. 1930. Steel bascules, Portland
ashlar abutments and arches with some coursed sandstone.
The bridge has a nearly level roadway carried on bascules to a
flat segmental arch between formal abutments with square
corner buttresses.
At the S end, connecting with Trinity Road, a parapet wall to
the height of the abutments swings round in a segment, and the
Harbour wall is swept round to meet it, containing a small
platform to the W, and a similar platform to the E, but with a
set of steps within ashlar walls. At the N end, leading into
St Thomas Street, there is a similar abutment, with a pavilion
for the bridge controller, then 2 low segmental arches over
the quayside road, with stone parapets, stopped on the E side
to a flight of 20 steps to the Quay level.
The bascule section has a steel balustrade in 10 panels each
side, with a broad teak handrail. The end abutments are in
channelled ashlar, with a square opening with paired doors at
the lower level, surmounted by a cornice at roadway level. The
corner buttresses provide recessed embayments at pavement
level, and an entry to the control building on the NE unit;
they are terminated with prominent steel lanterns, 6 in all,
on open truncated pyramidal bases and with a trellis top. The
control pavilion has a low stone weathered roof above a
cornice, and is semi-octagonal on the E side, with a glazed
door from the pavement, and a single casement to 5 outer
facets, above 4 oculi and a door on the water side.
At the St Thomas Street end the 2 segmental arches over the
low road are in concrete cast on permanent steel shuttering,
and there is a low connecting arch in the wall between the 2
throughways; most of the stonework here, and in the lower
parts of the abutment retaining walls, is in grey sandstone.
There are 4 commemorative plaques or tablets: on the NW
abutment, in the embayment facing the pavement, is a granite
panel inscribed: 'From Weymouth New England to Weymouth in Old
England: 1930', and on the opposite side a bronze plate
records 'This bridge was opened by HRH the Duke of York on the
4th July 1930.....', also gives Bolton and Larkin Ltd as the
general contractors, Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd
as steelwork contractors, and RW Vince as the Borough
Surveyor. At the S end, to the E the plaque records the
Council members for 1929/30, and opposite the bronze plaque
gives historical information about this and previous bridges.
It also records that the bridge was built by the Corporation,
the cost being shared between the Borough Council, Dorset
County Council and the Ministry of Transport.
Town Bridge inevitably holds an important position visually in
the town, and has been designed to give a dignified character.
At the same time it is of considerable historical interest; a
bridge was built, to replace a rope ferry, in 1597, rebuilt 3
times in the C18, the last in 1769, when it was moved from the
former alignment opposite Nicholas Street to the present
location. In 1821 a new 'permanent' bridge was sought, and
built in 1824. This is known to have had a toll gate at the
Melcombe Regis end in 1857.
The 1824 bridge was replaced by the present structure which
has importance in the townscape. It is a fine example of its
type displaying both technological and architectural
virtuosity.
(Ricketts E: The Buildings of Old Weymouth: Melcombe Regis and
Westham: Weymouth: 1975-: 111).
Listing NGR: SY6786778716
Koifhus with Schwendi
Image by wfbakker2
The Schwendi fountain, in the foreground, was designed by Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty in the USA. Schwendi was a 16th century noble who fought the Turks in Hungry and received lands near Colmar from Charles V. The Koifhus, which Schwendi faces, was the old customs house of Colmar, and the center of city life during its active years. It is the oldest public building in Colmar, completed in 1480.
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