Red brick and terra cotta building built as Balmer & Weber Music House Company in 1905. Also known as Ludwig-Aeolian Piano Building and Lofts Building. Designed by architect Henry Wiliam Kirchner. Saint Louis, Missouri.
This page simply reformats the Flickr public Atom feed for purposes of finding inspiration through random exploration. These images are not being copied or stored in any way by this website, nor are any links to them or any metadata about them. All images are © their owners unless otherwise specified.
This site is a busybee project and is supported by the generosity of viewers like you.
Red brick and terra cotta building built as Balmer & Weber Music House Company in 1905. Also known as Ludwig-Aeolian Piano Building and Lofts Building. Designed by architect Henry Wiliam Kirchner. Saint Louis, Missouri.
(38.4999400, -90.5891800). Not much is known about the cart. It is located in the woods across the old road from the ruins of the main building. Video: youtu.be/67Lr9d_S8p8?feature=shared.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while its bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second-largest in Illinois.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for king Louis IX of France, and it quickly became the regional center of the old Illinois Country. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
A global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. It is home to eight Fortune 500 companies. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts.
Major research universities include Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University and University of Missouri–St. Louis. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
St. Louis has four professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, St. Louis City SC of Major League Soccer, and the St. Louis BattleHawks of the XFL. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis, the St. Louis Zoo, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the St. Louis Art Museum, and Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Barracks_Military_Post
The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. Louis. It was an important and active U.S. Army installation from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard. A Veterans Affairs healthcare system campus is located on the southern portion of the base and is also the headquarters for the Veterans Canteen Service.
Source: www.jbtelmuseum.org/
The Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum is housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building and features an extensive collection of telephones, telephone-related equipment and memorabilia. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located in the 426-acre historic Jefferson Barracks Park, a 15 minute drive south of downtown St. Louis.
Employees and retirees from Southwestern Bell, SBC, AT&T, members of the Telecom Pioneers, a non-profit 501(c)(3) telephone company employee service organization, and their families and friends spent over 66,500 hours in repairing and renovating the building.
The self-guided, accessible history museum has many hands-on, educational and fun displays.
Besides its extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the late 1800s through 2012, the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum also contains:
- A Central Office Step Switch.
- Operator switchboards from the 1920s and 1960s.
- Military telephones from WWI through the Gulf War.
- Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment and tools.
- A telephone pole complete with climbing equipment.
- Hundreds of pieces of telephone-related memorabilia from the 1880s through the 2000s.
- A large variety of novelty telephones.
- A statue of Alexander Graham Bell and replicas of his 1876 Liquid Transmitter and 1877 First Commercial Telephone.
The museum is located all on one floor and there is a wheelchair entrance and ramp on the east side of the building. Accessible parking and an accessible restroom is also available. Chairs are also located throughout the museum in the event a short break is needed.
Guided tours are available for groups of 10 or more and should be scheduled at least two weeks before the tour.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Missouri) "ميزوري" "密苏里州" "मिसौरी" "ミズーリ" "미주리" "Миссури"
(St. Louis) "سانت لويس" "圣路易斯" "संत लुई" "セントルイス" "세인트루이스" "святой Луи"
DOESN'T IT!! Maybe it's the windows. But the Kansas Historic Resources Inventory said in 2015 that the building "retains [the] integrity" of its original 1950s design. Okay!
"Brown with light brown horizontal stripes" reminds me of a shirt I have that I like to wear.
-----------------------
In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, 823 SE Quincy St on the east side of SE Quincy Street, south of SE 8th Avenue, built 1951, a "contributing property" in the South Kansas Avenue Historic District, 15000386 on the National Register of Historic Places.
-----------------------
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Shawnee (county) (2000748)
• Topeka (7013945)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brown (color) (300127490)
• drive-in banks (300005218)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• light brown (300127503)
• Modern Movement (300121793)
• oblique views (300015503)
• office towers (300007046)
• side views (300264743)
• stripes (300010230)
Wikidata items:
• 28 March 2022 (Q69306380)
• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)
• 1951 in architecture (Q2812025)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• March 28 (Q2458)
• March 2022 (Q61312974)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• South Kansas Avenue Commercial Historic District (Q116272094)
• Southwestern Bell (Q3301294)
• telephone company (Q1266169)
• Treaty with the Kansa, 1825 (Q111541683)
• Treaty with the Shawnee, 1854 (Q111540627)
It drove people wild!, everybody in town talked about it.
-----------------------
In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on February 12th, 2023, the AT&T Building, formerly the Southwestern Bell Building, at the northeast corner of Throckmorton Street and West 11th Street, as viewed from the north side of West 10th Street, east of Taylor Street.
The tower is from 1974, designed by Albert S. Komatsu & Associates. The shorter wings to its left and right were built in stages from the 1940s to the 1960s, as detailed here.
-----------------------
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Fort Worth (7013934)
• Tarrant (county) (1002939)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• beige (color) (300266234)
• blank walls (300002474)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• central business districts (300000868)
• high-rise buildings (300004810)
• light brown (300127503)
• oblique views (300015503)
• one-way streets (300008266)
• streetscapes (300249570)
• tan (color) (300266248)
• telephone exchanges (300005416)
Wikidata items:
• 12 February 2023 (Q69306707)
• 1970s in architecture (Q17173162)
• 1974 in architecture (Q2812628)
• AT&T (Q35476)
• Dallas-Fort Worth (Q179295)
• Downtown Fort Worth (Q5303439)
• February 12 (Q2336)
• February 2023 (Q61312937)
• North Texas (Q3493922)
• Southwestern Bell (Q3301294)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Brick walls (sh85016796)
• Streets—Texas (sh93000606)
• Telephone stations (sh85133431)
Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Komatsu & Associates (American architectural firm, contemporary) (500208293)
The Pine Street entrance to the Southwestern Bell building in St. Louis, MO. Note the Bell System iconography in the stone work over the door and to either side of the entrance. A very architecturally distinct building in St. Louis. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Bell_Building - Camera = Fuji GA645 - Film = Kodak TMAX 400 B&W - Film developed by The Darkroom Lab in San Clemente, CA, USA - TheDarkroom.com
Ads from 1964 and 1965 advertising new models of telephones could be used as one of those "find six differences" games.
Photoshoot cancelled due to cold weather, so I went and finally got myself a haircut. Then, since I was in the neighborhood, I went to the Half Price Books store, then got a salad.
Click the pic, to show the ugly details We All don't miss !
In 1929 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company founder Eugene Nims built this mansion as a weekend retreat south of St. Louis along the MIssissippi River. It is now part of Bee Tree Park in St. Louis County.
