1 00:00:06,44 --> 00:00:08,31 Welcome to SR college in action 2 00:00:08,81 --> 00:00:12,97 a presentation of senior college at Belfast we provide 3 00:00:12,98 --> 00:00:17,85 a variety of classes field trips and special events for members who come from 4 00:00:17,86 --> 00:00:23,19 throughout mid coast me and he one fifty or older may join along with their spouse 5 00:00:23,20 --> 00:00:27,74 or partner and now thanks to the technology of video and the financial 6 00:00:27,75 --> 00:00:32,70 contributions of supporters Raible to share with you today one of our all. 7 00:00:51,12 --> 00:00:56,49 OK welcome back and we will now move on to other places that the shingle style got 8 00:00:56,50 --> 00:01:02,57 a foothold in the mid coast clearly down by Portland Kennebunk Bar Harbor but also 9 00:01:02,58 --> 00:01:08,19 right in our area Camden and especially casting but some other things along the way 10 00:01:08,95 --> 00:01:13,56 I will start on Isles borough. And more of the same kinds of cottages that we'll 11 00:01:13,57 --> 00:01:20,16 see there again filling out sitting on the land on specially on the dramatic sights 12 00:01:20,44 --> 00:01:27,39 that we have in aisles. This one is Fred Savage of Bar Harbor 13 00:01:28,13 --> 00:01:31,52 who has had a major career as 14 00:01:31,53 --> 00:01:37,71 a single style architect and then like John Calvin Stevens went over to look. Other 15 00:01:37,72 --> 00:01:42,43 styles in the case of Fred Savage he not only did Colonial Revival the Georgian 16 00:01:42,63 --> 00:01:46,79 classical revival but also the tutor revival which we'll see next week when we 17 00:01:46,80 --> 00:01:51,62 think of these of colonial we think an entirely generally of the white clabbered 18 00:01:51,70 --> 00:01:56,79 and classical detailing but also there was the attempt to revive the English the 19 00:01:56,80 --> 00:02:03,65 other English style the tutor tutor. Brown boards and plaster style and Fred would 20 00:02:03,66 --> 00:02:08,81 do that you can see that he's not as comfortable really with the shingles as 21 00:02:09,32 --> 00:02:10,24 somebody like C.P. 22 00:02:10,25 --> 00:02:15,15 Brown or or John Calvin Stephens because their little little fussing is going on in 23 00:02:15,16 --> 00:02:20,36 some of these areas he's got the prominent brackets under the roof and here in fact 24 00:02:20,37 --> 00:02:22,43 is a little hint of tutor to come you've got 25 00:02:22,44 --> 00:02:29,33 a little bit of plaster over that doorway. And Peabody in Stearns of Boston 26 00:02:29,34 --> 00:02:34,22 they are the architects of that house that's on the cover of the shingle style the 27 00:02:34,23 --> 00:02:37,00 crags side of Manchester by the sea There's 28 00:02:37,01 --> 00:02:43,62 a curious thing about that house it was torn down but some people saw the book and 29 00:02:43,62 --> 00:02:47,66 they wanted to find out about that house they actually went to Manchester and went 30 00:02:47,67 --> 00:02:51,80 to the town office found out that had been turned down turned torn down but the 31 00:02:51,82 --> 00:02:54,14 plans were still on file from the eight hundred ninety S. 32 00:02:54,53 --> 00:02:58,01 So they copied the plans and they went out to Swans Island and they built 33 00:02:58,03 --> 00:03:02,96 a replica of that that elaborate cottage out there and they in fact reversed the 34 00:03:02,96 --> 00:03:06,16 plan because they said it fit better on their land to do it that way which is 35 00:03:06,17 --> 00:03:09,97 exactly what the shingle style architects would have said yes go ahead and fitting 36 00:03:09,98 --> 00:03:13,40 the land is the most important thing so here we have P.P. 37 00:03:13,41 --> 00:03:18,10 Body and Stearns of Boston they also will become major Colonial Revival architects 38 00:03:18,11 --> 00:03:24,68 next week. And here they are doing their own sort of 39 00:03:24,69 --> 00:03:29,78 version of Tudor with this kind of gothic arch on the on the roof and the roofs are 40 00:03:30,13 --> 00:03:31,71 are much more pinnacle 41 00:03:31,72 --> 00:03:37,98 e and the the problem these trees don't help them. They look like they're sort of 42 00:03:38,07 --> 00:03:42,80 morphing into the the building but but the shingles are there complete with our 43 00:03:42,81 --> 00:03:49,44 door here and. And now we're moving up the coast here we are in 44 00:03:49,45 --> 00:03:53,37 Belfast are there not you there's not much in Belfast but this is Park Street and 45 00:03:53,73 --> 00:03:59,25 it does have the shingles and it does have the. Games with the windows in fact this 46 00:03:59,26 --> 00:03:59,46 is 47 00:03:59,47 --> 00:04:05,24 a detail over the window you can't really see but instead of this is the doit right 48 00:04:05,28 --> 00:04:06,23 there there's 49 00:04:06,24 --> 00:04:09,84 a bend with the shingles come out another couple of inches to perform this little 50 00:04:10,16 --> 00:04:15,46 tiny cap over the windows things like that and then using casement sash instead of 51 00:04:15,47 --> 00:04:19,84 the double on this which is happens in some places my own house the one nine 52 00:04:19,85 --> 00:04:24,54 hundred twenty six has wooden casements on the two windows facing the street and 53 00:04:24,55 --> 00:04:31,50 then every in double things everywhere else on his cast teen are showing this 54 00:04:32,19 --> 00:04:36,61 side view because there is this thing sitting on top of the porch that we'll see in 55 00:04:36,62 --> 00:04:41,66 the next slide but again the Oculus window probably on the stairway going up here. 56 00:04:43,51 --> 00:04:49,45 Shingles on the posts this kind of portrayal which I really like it's open at the 57 00:04:49,46 --> 00:04:51,40 porch it's sort of like a scuppers on 58 00:04:51,41 --> 00:04:56,16 a sailboat and so you get the drainage but you don't have all of that stuff to 59 00:04:56,17 --> 00:05:00,47 paint you've got more of the same same running along there that's 60 00:05:00,48 --> 00:05:07,05 a nice detail that's the thing that 61 00:05:07,10 --> 00:05:07,92 probably was 62 00:05:07,93 --> 00:05:10,89 a sleeping porch when it was originally built and somebody thought it would look 63 00:05:10,90 --> 00:05:17,84 better enclosed it doesn't. But. And you can see note the trim along that 64 00:05:18,29 --> 00:05:21,40 is not trim It's just shingles running up and down that there is 65 00:05:21,41 --> 00:05:24,01 a little bit of trim when he sits and see that but it's 66 00:05:24,41 --> 00:05:30,41 a minimize the amount of detail whether this is original or not I doubt that looks 67 00:05:30,42 --> 00:05:35,65 a little fussy but this kind of thing where these two sort of flow together and 68 00:05:35,66 --> 00:05:38,35 wrap around it one of the things I like to do when I'm working on 69 00:05:38,36 --> 00:05:39,89 a house like this is to is to have 70 00:05:39,90 --> 00:05:45,45 a continuous roof line so not something that bulges out and then has to dive back 71 00:05:45,46 --> 00:05:51,52 into the house but you can just follow it around it's just a little game. And 72 00:05:51,74 --> 00:05:58,08 a very simple one with its bay window bulging out of the weather headline and then 73 00:05:58,09 --> 00:06:00,78 returning back to it that's the Stevens will see 74 00:06:01,77 --> 00:06:08,74 a drawing of his next week that is that that does that testing also 75 00:06:08,75 --> 00:06:14,07 had more adventurous versions of the the back to nature style you have the sort of 76 00:06:14,08 --> 00:06:19,74 heavy log porch things and trellis work but with the end within the context of 77 00:06:19,75 --> 00:06:24,32 a surcingle style thing but look at these logs coming out over the little porch 78 00:06:24,54 --> 00:06:30,77 some of that may have been added later in this when the same idea but again with 79 00:06:30,78 --> 00:06:35,26 the same shingle style idea in the corner tower could sort of tucked in. 80 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:44,39 It and and also in casting Wilford men sir who is we last saw building the Richard 81 00:06:44,40 --> 00:06:48,100 Sony and building on Main Street here. Gets a call to do 82 00:06:49,04 --> 00:06:53,75 a cottage I look at this and say he doesn't really understand what the shingle 83 00:06:53,76 --> 00:06:57,76 styles about this is much more Queen and it's feeling that shingle style because it 84 00:06:57,99 --> 00:07:04,13 first because it's so massive and and it's so big also because it's painted which 85 00:07:04,14 --> 00:07:08,78 doesn't help it but things like what I was just saying of continuous rooflines 86 00:07:08,79 --> 00:07:13,65 letting this come down and that emerge from it and then have this which again maybe 87 00:07:13,66 --> 00:07:14,51 in addition with 88 00:07:14,52 --> 00:07:20,98 a nasty little valley that catches ice. And it's just not quite there 89 00:07:21,66 --> 00:07:24,62 too much. Going on. 90 00:07:32,36 --> 00:07:36,57 Yes The only reason it's not in the slide show is it isn't in the mid coast you 91 00:07:37,52 --> 00:07:41,71 know that's very true the camp of Belo is a gamble roof house built by 92 00:07:41,95 --> 00:07:48,65 a Boston architect. On the campus below and paid for 93 00:07:49,21 --> 00:07:53,35 by Roosevelt's mother or bought by Actually she bought the house she didn't build 94 00:07:53,39 --> 00:08:00,23 a house but it is exactly one of these you. And this one is somewhere and dies it's 95 00:08:00,24 --> 00:08:04,95 head and casting the southern tip going down there and this is almost more of 96 00:08:04,96 --> 00:08:06,75 a lake cottage you know just a sort of 97 00:08:06,76 --> 00:08:11,83 a simple fisherman's cottage from could be from Rangeley Lake. And. 98 00:08:13,66 --> 00:08:18,09 It shows the simplicity of it the one little grace note is that the fact of this 99 00:08:18,10 --> 00:08:22,56 porch curves out with the stone foundation sort of giving you this space to stand 100 00:08:24,60 --> 00:08:24,79 now 101 00:08:24,80 --> 00:08:31,72 a move to. The other buildings the. Residential buildings and 102 00:08:31,73 --> 00:08:33,00 one of the ones that is 103 00:08:33,24 --> 00:08:40,10 a perfect. Marriage of state of style and intention is the me 104 00:08:40,11 --> 00:08:41,52 going to cook golf club built by 105 00:08:41,53 --> 00:08:46,56 a Boston architect Charles Brigham designed by him and then built by one of our 106 00:08:46,57 --> 00:08:51,55 three major architects and believe me shorts and you can see from the rendering 107 00:08:51,56 --> 00:08:55,02 it's this very much the landscape here you do have 108 00:08:55,03 --> 00:08:59,92 a basement coming out which allows these arches to open out on to ground level and 109 00:08:59,93 --> 00:09:00,14 then 110 00:09:00,15 --> 00:09:05,77 a porch going around the whole area the continuous roof line the long sweeping hip 111 00:09:05,84 --> 00:09:10,82 coming down and then the it's Dormer emerging from the hip of the other roof with 112 00:09:10,83 --> 00:09:16,25 these brackets holding up the window very restrained very pure and 113 00:09:16,26 --> 00:09:20,73 a lovely lovely building and then on the inside not not even finished just the 114 00:09:20,74 --> 00:09:26,38 shell of the summer cottage John Calvin Stevens says in his book even if it's the 115 00:09:26,39 --> 00:09:27,25 mere shell of 116 00:09:27,26 --> 00:09:31,84 a summer cottage the architect need not despise the work for he is building 117 00:09:31,85 --> 00:09:37,26 a shrine to the family and so here we have and there have been arguments about 118 00:09:37,46 --> 00:09:44,43 painting that and doing all of its things but I hope it stays. Stays this way and 119 00:09:44,44 --> 00:09:50,02 you can see how it how it does just follow the landscape this wonderful port to 120 00:09:50,03 --> 00:09:56,88 share which will see shortly at the Yacht Club. This is 121 00:09:56,89 --> 00:10:02,36 John Calvin Stephens and this is doing the same thing letting the roofs kind of 122 00:10:02,37 --> 00:10:08,53 emerge from this one in great shape who portrays share here in the judge's platform 123 00:10:08,54 --> 00:10:15,25 up there with the flag poles and then again simple posts with the ship's knees no 124 00:10:15,37 --> 00:10:21,92 none of this ornament and the open interior and sitting right there on the wharf 125 00:10:22,42 --> 00:10:27,45 and this built by one of the richest men in America at this point Cyrus Cyrus 126 00:10:27,46 --> 00:10:32,70 Curtis and what he chooses to build is absolute simplicity what the humblest 127 00:10:32,71 --> 00:10:37,99 village neighbor of. Course the getting into the Yacht Club involves another. 128 00:10:41,14 --> 00:10:46,04 And there is there's Curtis's yacht The Lindo Nia and Earl just couldn't resist 129 00:10:46,08 --> 00:10:51,31 throwing that in just saying oh. You've got you've got the contrast between the 130 00:10:51,32 --> 00:10:57,26 yacht club and they got. And there you will see that when shortening 131 00:10:58,66 --> 00:11:03,41 of church is also become an appropriate place to use the shingle style because of 132 00:11:03,42 --> 00:11:09,42 its sort it can be seen with its sloping shapes to be related to the idea of the 133 00:11:09,43 --> 00:11:13,82 Gothic in the sense of the point the steep roofs and the pointed arches and things 134 00:11:13,83 --> 00:11:18,18 like that make it a fairly congenial shape for a church and we have 135 00:11:18,19 --> 00:11:23,04 a number of these here is this William Ralph Emerson and we've seen several times 136 00:11:23,41 --> 00:11:28,20 doing this extremely tiny little church in Rockland which is St Peter's Episcopal 137 00:11:28,21 --> 00:11:32,15 Church but it isn't that's not the way it looks now but this was 138 00:11:32,16 --> 00:11:37,40 a church. Probably half the size of this room it's 139 00:11:37,41 --> 00:11:43,31 a very small chapel and he's got this elaborate medieval chimney sticking up but 140 00:11:43,32 --> 00:11:46,55 otherwise you see he's just played with the notion that Shingles can do these 141 00:11:46,56 --> 00:11:50,77 curving things this is the church bell it's this is little good comes out for that 142 00:11:51,20 --> 00:11:54,86 and he's got a little dormer window bringing light into it and he's even got 143 00:11:54,87 --> 00:11:59,66 a little bump in the shingles to support across there and this is the vestry door 144 00:11:59,67 --> 00:12:03,30 where the preacher comes in warms himself at the fireplace then goes out into the 145 00:12:03,31 --> 00:12:08,04 cold church to preach. I did some remodeling here and we discovered the little 146 00:12:08,05 --> 00:12:10,53 fireplace was still there in a closet there 147 00:12:10,54 --> 00:12:15,66 a little fireplace about that size it's great. This is another sketch done by 148 00:12:15,70 --> 00:12:20,15 a visitor. Of the same church makes it 149 00:12:20,16 --> 00:12:24,84 a little less romantic I like the other sketch better you can see that and he 150 00:12:25,05 --> 00:12:29,19 doesn't have that right either that's not that's the dormer this is that's 151 00:12:29,20 --> 00:12:33,56 a Richard sone in the armor and here is what it the church looks like until 152 00:12:33,57 --> 00:12:36,80 recently where this has been modified slightly and then I added 153 00:12:36,81 --> 00:12:41,70 a parish hall that will see next week or it's in the last week so this you can see 154 00:12:41,71 --> 00:12:46,43 is the the hood over the door you can't see it but that bell Hood was still there 155 00:12:46,47 --> 00:12:51,02 and then this was in addition put on as a church meeting room possibly 156 00:12:51,03 --> 00:12:55,47 a bathroom I Not really don't remember. But this is the basement entrance with this 157 00:12:55,55 --> 00:12:59,93 thing that the shingles can do and then this Dormer which is just two rectangular 158 00:12:59,94 --> 00:13:05,68 windows has been made into an eyebrow by simply bringing the things down now what 159 00:13:05,69 --> 00:13:11,22 happened here is that the builder Edward Glover of Rockland one of the major 160 00:13:11,23 --> 00:13:15,85 builders down there got the job to expand the church on I also borough though it's 161 00:13:15,86 --> 00:13:22,43 the summer chapel the nominal Episcopal summer chapel on Isles borough and he came 162 00:13:22,44 --> 00:13:27,64 back to Rockland and said we can do the same thing to our church that they did on 163 00:13:28,14 --> 00:13:33,74 which is to build. A perpendicular roof which then becomes the church and the 164 00:13:33,75 --> 00:13:37,85 original church becomes essentially the crossing or the little transepts of 165 00:13:37,86 --> 00:13:44,35 a classic medieval church so this is all you have when you look at this you have to 166 00:13:44,36 --> 00:13:51,20 see the old church buried inside the new church here are some others this 167 00:13:51,21 --> 00:13:55,45 is the Congregational Church in rock and this is this was probably this is doesn't 168 00:13:55,46 --> 00:14:00,73 exist anymore it was probably a remodelling this has this is specious look of 169 00:14:00,99 --> 00:14:06,43 a plain. Doffing Gav gable roof church with 170 00:14:06,44 --> 00:14:12,16 a porch added and with this amazing tower going up to you platform waiting for 171 00:14:12,17 --> 00:14:18,62 a clock that never arrives. And the Catholics. 172 00:14:19,74 --> 00:14:24,08 Earl thinks this might be Francis facet of Portland working for the Diocese of the 173 00:14:24,08 --> 00:14:30,49 Catholic Diocese this is the one that's on Camden in on Union Street in Camden it's 174 00:14:30,51 --> 00:14:36,84 still there will see see that. And the last week when we talk about modern and way 175 00:14:36,84 --> 00:14:41,57 modern architects have added on to existing buildings this was 176 00:14:41,58 --> 00:14:44,71 a design the diocese used in several other places Here's 177 00:14:44,72 --> 00:14:50,01 a picture of Prout's neck the same church in crowds neck and my favorite one is in 178 00:14:50,02 --> 00:14:55,77 a quasi Cup and the range the lakes fly rod Crosby paid for the construction of Our 179 00:14:55,79 --> 00:15:00,94 Lady of the lakes between the range the lake and was that the going to click in in 180 00:15:00,95 --> 00:15:07,87 aquatic And so it's and this one is even more purely retained as the original so. 181 00:15:09,17 --> 00:15:12,58 What makes it obviously it's trying to be Gothic here the rest of the windows are 182 00:15:12,59 --> 00:15:15,44 sort of these diamond shape we've seen in 183 00:15:15,45 --> 00:15:18,47 a number of these cottages which is trying to be sort of 184 00:15:18,48 --> 00:15:22,90 a reference to the Gothic and medieval It doesn't have cottage corners it does have 185 00:15:22,91 --> 00:15:26,93 little corner boards but they're shrunk down to just be being accents rather than 186 00:15:27,32 --> 00:15:31,87 the turned corners which we call cottage corners which we have actually have back 187 00:15:31,88 --> 00:15:37,08 here but otherwise. It's drawing the language of the shingle style and of the 188 00:15:37,09 --> 00:15:39,07 country Gothic church together. 189 00:15:43,94 --> 00:15:49,95 In dark harbor this is the other the Episcopal church out there again what's 190 00:15:49,96 --> 00:15:55,64 happening is that Boston architect is adding on to the original church which is 191 00:15:55,65 --> 00:16:00,77 back here and this is the new nave coming out and it's getting the tutor the heavy 192 00:16:01,26 --> 00:16:06,68 classical trim of the tutor period but you've still got some shingle details like 193 00:16:06,69 --> 00:16:12,45 this Weatherhead coming out and the shingles curving out at the base and begin to 194 00:16:12,65 --> 00:16:18,42 and this is the original shingle style church at the far end little tutor arches 195 00:16:18,43 --> 00:16:23,93 there and then this is how the addition would look this looks like it's actually 196 00:16:23,94 --> 00:16:29,91 a proposal photograph with this sketch onto it to show how that would look and this 197 00:16:29,92 --> 00:16:35,95 is the interior of the church with all of the the great timber work modeled roughly 198 00:16:35,96 --> 00:16:41,10 on Richard of John's Church and first church in in Brunswick which has this kind of 199 00:16:41,11 --> 00:16:46,16 hammer beam idea exposed interior trim which is 200 00:16:46,41 --> 00:16:48,62 a gothic feature and it has 201 00:16:49,54 --> 00:16:54,19 a careful sort of plaster relief sculptures over there in the panels over the altar 202 00:16:57,86 --> 00:17:01,97 cast ina went all the way with stone again and this is the same sort of country 203 00:17:01,98 --> 00:17:08,02 church idea. With the fieldstone coming up even as it does and places like. 204 00:17:11,16 --> 00:17:18,12 Beechnut it has the Allister's of the stair also in the stone work. This is the 205 00:17:18,13 --> 00:17:24,05 interior very dramatic spaces and but still rustic you know still the idea that 206 00:17:24,06 --> 00:17:29,99 it's not the elaborate finish work but it's the joy of the the raw materials the 207 00:17:30,00 --> 00:17:36,14 materials of the country and that has received A In addition I've forgotten who the 208 00:17:36,15 --> 00:17:42,44 architect is this if I ever knew but this actually shows that detail going up the 209 00:17:42,45 --> 00:17:47,76 ridge better than some of the others that's this works quite well with with the 210 00:17:47,77 --> 00:17:52,70 other church. And St Margaret's in Belfast Russell Porter 211 00:17:52,71 --> 00:17:58,57 a sort of self trained architect and artist that this little exercise in one 212 00:17:58,58 --> 00:18:04,29 hundred fifteen in. You know. Gothics shingle Gothic style 213 00:18:09,52 --> 00:18:14,90 and it's received the Gothic arch recently but now this plan shows that that was 214 00:18:14,91 --> 00:18:16,74 not originally there this was. 215 00:18:25,94 --> 00:18:32,35 And were actually ending earlier because I talk faster than Earth so we're going to 216 00:18:32,36 --> 00:18:32,56 see 217 00:18:32,57 --> 00:18:39,70 a few of the hotels and then the final little flurry of the. The 218 00:18:39,71 --> 00:18:43,78 war it's the buildings on the steamship wars which were all shingles so this was 219 00:18:43,79 --> 00:18:48,60 Rockland in one thousand nine hundred nine with the underneath here this is 220 00:18:48,91 --> 00:18:49,46 basically 221 00:18:49,47 --> 00:18:53,90 a square tower but underneath here you see the Gamble's this peach the sharp peak 222 00:18:53,91 --> 00:18:59,92 Gambrell and sloping down to that and then this tower at the top and in one 223 00:18:59,93 --> 00:19:01,74 thousand two a Washington D.C. 224 00:19:01,75 --> 00:19:03,65 Architect of originally from Maine but 225 00:19:03,66 --> 00:19:10,23 a friend of the. The Richard family who also designed the Poland Spring 226 00:19:10,27 --> 00:19:14,49 hotel does his version of shingle style which is very similar to what we did in 227 00:19:14,50 --> 00:19:18,01 fact and. I think if you're over here he'd say this is actually 228 00:19:18,02 --> 00:19:22,45 a remodelling of the bay point look at that this and then look at that that's the 229 00:19:22,46 --> 00:19:27,44 same thing. So what's really been remodeled is this tower which needs it. 230 00:19:30,75 --> 00:19:31,72 So that's the same 231 00:19:31,73 --> 00:19:35,79 a set which of course burned in one nine hundred seventy two these things do have 232 00:19:35,80 --> 00:19:42,71 a tendency to go away and will you make 233 00:19:42,72 --> 00:19:48,12 doubly sure it's gets the job of building the little Summit House on Mount batty in 234 00:19:48,13 --> 00:19:52,49 one thousand nine hundred seven not really shingle but more shingle than anything 235 00:19:52,50 --> 00:19:58,47 else especially this great stone base out here for viewing platform but there are 236 00:19:58,48 --> 00:20:01,27 some elements especially in the tower that are shingles. 237 00:20:06,06 --> 00:20:12,78 I was burrow in the same language so even these and here again this is the tutor 238 00:20:12,79 --> 00:20:17,01 creeping in this is already this is early though eight hundred eighty nine in 239 00:20:17,02 --> 00:20:22,67 a row they're doing this there are some early versions where the tutor is there and 240 00:20:22,68 --> 00:20:27,81 then disappears because it's hard to do and it's hard to maintain but then the 241 00:20:27,82 --> 00:20:33,21 shingles take over and. Then come back again and then nine hundred twenty S. 242 00:20:33,21 --> 00:20:36,22 . When that's. 243 00:20:42,55 --> 00:20:48,56 And in. Belfast you have this again Wilford months or this is the same guy who's 244 00:20:48,64 --> 00:20:49,84 we've seen trying to do 245 00:20:49,85 --> 00:20:56,79 a little of everything this again is. Doesn't really work and that this is this 246 00:20:56,80 --> 00:21:01,91 is almost more queen and it does have shingles on it it has ornamental bands of 247 00:21:01,92 --> 00:21:07,27 different colored shingles through it but John. It's still too rectangular and boxy 248 00:21:07,28 --> 00:21:10,59 it does not seem to sit on the land as well as some of the others the tower has 249 00:21:10,60 --> 00:21:16,11 some nice happens and I don't know who it was who went after this glass plate with 250 00:21:16,41 --> 00:21:22,30 buckshot but. Pigeons like it's 251 00:21:22,31 --> 00:21:28,95 a flock of crows coming in. But it he's trying to do you see to work with that with 252 00:21:28,96 --> 00:21:32,70 this new idea of the softness of it but he's still doing much more with ornament 253 00:21:32,74 --> 00:21:37,73 ornamented queen and they use that he started out with these balustrades here as 254 00:21:37,74 --> 00:21:39,96 shapes coming out in wood which is 255 00:21:39,97 --> 00:21:46,77 a little tricky. And in cast teen again a house a building that looks like 256 00:21:46,78 --> 00:21:50,04 a plain two story box with a hip roof with 257 00:21:50,05 --> 00:21:55,38 a few things added more Queen end than ten shingles but trying to be shingle 258 00:21:59,17 --> 00:22:03,25 and if for the real shingle we have to go back to Emerson who was with 259 00:22:03,26 --> 00:22:08,59 a second generation after Richardson and who knows and defined what what it means 260 00:22:08,60 --> 00:22:15,28 to be shingle and then Blue Hill we get this and this where is the grand Gambrell 261 00:22:15,29 --> 00:22:19,78 really works with the shape of the roof you don't hide it by sucking it into other 262 00:22:19,79 --> 00:22:26,08 post bumps so that it becomes this strong central shape and this steep pitch of the 263 00:22:26,09 --> 00:22:30,88 upper roof is brought down to become the head of the windows for the second floor 264 00:22:31,37 --> 00:22:35,84 allowing the third floor to have plenty of headroom but and then allowing for that 265 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:39,81 there be enough space for those dormers to light the rest of the third floor so 266 00:22:39,82 --> 00:22:39,96 it's 267 00:22:39,97 --> 00:22:45,40 a really clever way of using both the shed Dormer that goes with the gambrel roof 268 00:22:45,64 --> 00:22:46,70 and then the individual 269 00:22:46,71 --> 00:22:51,29 a dormers that can be used to punctuate that it's been carefully thought through in 270 00:22:51,30 --> 00:22:57,19 terms of the proportions scale and detailing that we heard Mariana Griswold talk 271 00:22:57,20 --> 00:23:03,58 about. And here where we have these open porch especially the one where the stair 272 00:23:03,59 --> 00:23:09,15 is you see the shingles come out and go back in and come out again in this ability 273 00:23:09,16 --> 00:23:12,71 to sheath a soft shape it's 274 00:23:12,72 --> 00:23:17,58 a lovely building in porch doing the same thing up here with shingles and then 275 00:23:17,59 --> 00:23:23,16 a little layer of of small Ballesteros and rail so that you can see down but the 276 00:23:23,63 --> 00:23:29,41 feeling of enclosure that the lower shingles give you. And the water side 277 00:23:35,79 --> 00:23:42,36 so the the steamship or ifs which were all the way you got here if you came up from 278 00:23:42,37 --> 00:23:48,69 Boston and this was the one down at the end of the street in Camden with this this 279 00:23:48,70 --> 00:23:53,19 is a sort of large valley in a French tower but it's 280 00:23:53,20 --> 00:23:57,43 a nice shape the for the shingles to cover it and then again the great hip 281 00:23:57,69 --> 00:24:02,08 Curiously the if the ferry terminal in Rockland now has that same sort of feeling 282 00:24:02,09 --> 00:24:03,51 of a big roof over 283 00:24:03,52 --> 00:24:10,08 a small building we'll see that little bit closer there with tiny balconies coming 284 00:24:10,09 --> 00:24:16,78 out and in serious port again 285 00:24:16,79 --> 00:24:21,43 a little dome which comes out of 286 00:24:21,44 --> 00:24:26,84 a very simple building. But has this event happening at the end of it 287 00:24:31,22 --> 00:24:36,59 and Belfast. And that made. 288 00:24:39,09 --> 00:24:41,77 This That's one of the losses of this thing having 289 00:24:41,78 --> 00:24:44,67 a steamships go away as we don't have these wonderful buildings there and that. 290 00:24:50,36 --> 00:24:55,98 And another view. Oh yes I'm sure they were you know they were they built by the 291 00:24:55,99 --> 00:24:59,40 steamship company yacht they would certainly have built their I don't know I mean 292 00:25:00,03 --> 00:25:03,48 it Talon may have been involved in building the dock but of course they were 293 00:25:03,49 --> 00:25:09,64 renting it to or making to the steamship company so I'm sure there was. A mutual 294 00:25:09,83 --> 00:25:15,12 agreement to build these things. And that's all I have. 295 00:25:22,87 --> 00:25:27,04 And so on it is I guess one of the things is I get so enthusiastic about these 296 00:25:27,12 --> 00:25:32,59 buildings that I just keep going. I would do want to just say that it has been 297 00:25:32,60 --> 00:25:37,78 a privilege for me to share this this podium with her it's been good great to have 298 00:25:37,79 --> 00:25:43,13 his. More specific insight into each of the buildings and who who eat these actors 299 00:25:43,14 --> 00:25:49,41 were and who these builders were the owners were. I get caught up in the buildings 300 00:25:49,42 --> 00:25:54,56 themselves because I am so I'm rebuilding them as I look at them that's what 301 00:25:54,57 --> 00:25:58,52 architects do stealing ideas and so it's and it's been 302 00:25:58,53 --> 00:26:01,96 a great Can great thing to to do this with the world and you know. 303 00:26:14,75 --> 00:26:15,16 Very. 304 00:26:23,01 --> 00:26:29,11 Well that. I don't in Belfast we have 305 00:26:29,64 --> 00:26:34,21 issues like that in Camden and that's of course one of the reasons that Earl and I 306 00:26:34,22 --> 00:26:40,63 are happy to do these courses is to to raise awareness of the importance of these 307 00:26:40,64 --> 00:26:42,62 buildings they that each of these buildings has 308 00:26:42,63 --> 00:26:48,50 a history and they're part their history is part of our history when we live and 309 00:26:48,51 --> 00:26:54,12 inaugural say more about this in the final lecture. But when we when we live in 310 00:26:54,13 --> 00:27:00,94 a place we're part of that place and that place is part of us and as we 311 00:27:00,95 --> 00:27:06,77 take down pieces of it and rebuild new thing is our own thing is replacing things 312 00:27:06,78 --> 00:27:11,99 that were built by those who came before us. It's really like Grave Robbing it's 313 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:16,24 we're really tearing down something that someone else has built in order to put up 314 00:27:16,25 --> 00:27:20,83 our own things and the more I was trained as 315 00:27:20,84 --> 00:27:26,66 a modern architect by except by Vincent Scully who was the the one person in the 316 00:27:26,67 --> 00:27:31,09 curriculum who said look at these old buildings they have value look at the ones 317 00:27:31,10 --> 00:27:34,96 that have been neglected the shingle cottages that everyone thinks are just throw 318 00:27:34,97 --> 00:27:41,83 away as. When you look at them when you become as I said as I say I 319 00:27:41,84 --> 00:27:45,50 rebuild a building when I look at it when you enter into 320 00:27:45,51 --> 00:27:51,15 a conversation with the builder who did who was the one who made those decisions 321 00:27:51,32 --> 00:27:57,23 Wired How to put this window here how to put this roof there you reenact that whole 322 00:27:57,24 --> 00:28:03,49 process that thought process that physical process and it puts you in conversation 323 00:28:03,50 --> 00:28:07,50 with somebody who's been dead for one hundred years and it brings them alive again 324 00:28:07,76 --> 00:28:13,19 and it's just one of the pleasures of being human that we can do that and that we 325 00:28:13,21 --> 00:28:16,66 can communicate to each other through these buildings that we make through the 326 00:28:16,97 --> 00:28:22,29 things we write through things we paint but also through things we build and that's 327 00:28:22,34 --> 00:28:26,84 that's what's exciting about the profession that I'm in and the the society that we 328 00:28:26,85 --> 00:28:32,91 live in that we have that opportunity and so that's why we're here is to share all 329 00:28:32,92 --> 00:28:39,73 of that with all of you so that you can experience the same. 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