The Park Hotel, Kolkata, India

Hip Park Hotel set back from frenetic Park Rd.

Metcalfe Hall, Kolkata, India

Metcalfe Hall built in 1844 in memory of Lord Metcalfe

The design of the building basen on the Temple of Winds in Athens.  Note double height Corinthian columns. Building accommodated Agri-Horticulture Society and the Public Library.

Cricket stars

High Court of India & Nearby, Kolkata, India

The High Court of India is arguably the most spectacular arhitectural gem in Kolkata.  It was built in 1872 in Gothic style by Walter Granville, on the model of the belfry at Yepers in Belgium.  It had to be down-scaled as the marshland would not support such a structure.

sugar cane crusher

Writers' Bldg

Raj Bhawan & nearby, Kolkata, India

Raj Bhawan, Government House

 Raj Bhawan, built in 1803, after Lord Wellesley decided that India should be governed from a palace, based on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, the property of Lord Scarsdale.  It has more than 60 rooms and housed King George V in 1911.  It became the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal when the capital was moved to Delhi.

Sidhu Kanu Dahar

Military Secretariat, 1904

1938 WPA Murals, Flushing High School, Flushing,Queens. New York, New York

These life-size murals funded by WPA Federal Art Project.

lobby view

Matinecock Indians, English settlers landing 1645.  Vissingen (Flushing) purchased for one axe per 50 acres.  john Bowne under arrest for hiding Quakers, who signed Flushing Remonstrance.

George Fox, founder of Society of Friends.  Bowne House to the right.  Bowne's father killing an attacking bear. 

lobby view

Quaker Mtg House (1634), British soldiers leaving in 1783.  George Washington and Mr. Prince watch nursery planting.

Flushing center of abolitionist movement.  St. George's Church (1854) depicted.  LIRR in background (1854).  Subway on extreme right.

CREC Academy of Aerospace & Engineering, Windsor,Connecticut

The Capitol Region Education Council magnet school was voted best high school in Connecticut by U.S. News & World Report's latest "Best High Schools" edition. Architects: Friar Associates, Farmington, CT.

Strivers' Row, 139th St. (North side), Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York

Developer David H. King hired 3 architectural firms to design middle class "striver" housing on 138th and 139th Streets, between Frederick Douglass Blvd. and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.  Construction was 1891-1893. King had built the 1889 New York Times Bldg. and the base of the Statue of Liberty.  The dark brick, brownstone and terra cotta buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2380 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.  Instead of high stoops, White chose street level entry.

CCNY Shepherd's Hall

Arcaded loggia at center of symmetrical row