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RI - Newport: Salve Regina University - Ochre Court

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RI - Newport: Salve Regina University - Ochre Court
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Commissioned by Gilded Age banker and developer, Ogden Goelet, as his family's summer residence, Ochre Court (1888-1892) is the first of a group of spectacular houses in the Grand Manner designed by Richard Morris Hunt, America's foremost architect of the late nineteenth century. The mansion was gifted, in 1947, by Ogden's son, Robert, to the Religious Sisters of Mercy who established Salve Regina College.

For this limestone palace overlooking the reddish seacliffs that give the estate its name, Hunt drew his inspiration from the late medieval period in French architecture. With its high roofs, turrets, whimsical gargoyles, and tall chimneys, Ochre Court recalls the style of Francois I, a transitional era when established medieval elements like the pointed Gothic arch and heavy stained glass were lightened by newly-emerging Renaissance details including rounded arches and delicate lacy ornamentation. The Atlantic Ocean is ever-present, framed by windows and terrace entrances, reflected in mirrored walls, and repeated in symbolic motifs. Hunt emphasized the social position of the Goelet family and their patronage of learning and the arts with exuberant decoration both within the house and on the grounds. In classical ceiling paintings, royal heraldic devices, carved emblems and statues, and a rainbow of antique stained glass, the architect signaled his client's aristocratic status and intellectual interests. Inside the mansion, Hunt used details from French Gothic chateaux and churches to create a Great Hall, which soars upward for three stories and dramatically frames a seaward vista. Radiating off the Great Hall, both the impressive ground floor reception rooms and the private upstairs family rooms, which are now University offices, were richly designed with imported antique fireplaces and lavish wallcoverings. The formal gardens and walkways of Ochre Court, designed by the Olmsted Brothers, are shaded by several mature specimen trees including the dramatic Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica atropunicea), a European variety that reaches a height of 80- 90 feet. The exquisite blossoms of the Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa) transform the grounds in June. The dense flower heads this Far Eastern native are surrounded by creamy-white bracts.

The Goelets were an established American dynasty that had grown from humble eighteenth century trade. Ogden Goelet was one of the most famous competitive yachtsmen in the world. His wife, Mary Wilson Goelet, was one of the most important hostesses of her generation in a time when the operation of Ochre Court during a typical eight-week summer season required twenty-seven house servants, eight coachmen and grooms, and twelve gardeners. Their daughter, May, married the English Duke of Roxburghe, taking with her an million dowry, while their son Robert became a major force in the development of American railroads, hotels, and real estate.

It was Robert's gift of Ochre Court to the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1947 that established the then Salve Regina College in Newport. The stately fifty-room mansion was the entire college for the first few years, with the original fifty-eight female students living on the third floor. The original fifty-eight women students lived on the third floor, attended classes on the second, studied, prayed, and dined on the first, and snacked and purchased books in the basement. The eight Sisters of Mercy who made up that post-war faculty established their own modest living area in the servants' quarters. Salve Regina University has since grown to encompass over 60 acres and more than two dozen buildings, yet Ochre Court remains its heart.


RI - Newport: Salve Regina University - Ochre Court
real estate commission
Image by wallyg
Commissioned by Gilded Age banker and developer, Ogden Goelet, as his family's summer residence, Ochre Court (1888-1892) is the first of a group of spectacular houses in the Grand Manner designed by Richard Morris Hunt, America's foremost architect of the late nineteenth century. The mansion was gifted, in 1947, by Ogden's son, Robert, to the Religious Sisters of Mercy who established Salve Regina College.

For this limestone palace overlooking the reddish seacliffs that give the estate its name, Hunt drew his inspiration from the late medieval period in French architecture. With its high roofs, turrets, whimsical gargoyles, and tall chimneys, Ochre Court recalls the style of Francois I, a transitional era when established medieval elements like the pointed Gothic arch and heavy stained glass were lightened by newly-emerging Renaissance details including rounded arches and delicate lacy ornamentation. The Atlantic Ocean is ever-present, framed by windows and terrace entrances, reflected in mirrored walls, and repeated in symbolic motifs. Hunt emphasized the social position of the Goelet family and their patronage of learning and the arts with exuberant decoration both within the house and on the grounds. In classical ceiling paintings, royal heraldic devices, carved emblems and statues, and a rainbow of antique stained glass, the architect signaled his client's aristocratic status and intellectual interests. Inside the mansion, Hunt used details from French Gothic chateaux and churches to create a Great Hall, which soars upward for three stories and dramatically frames a seaward vista. Radiating off the Great Hall, both the impressive ground floor reception rooms and the private upstairs family rooms, which are now University offices, were richly designed with imported antique fireplaces and lavish wallcoverings. The formal gardens and walkways of Ochre Court, designed by the Olmsted Brothers, are shaded by several mature specimen trees including the dramatic Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica atropunicea), a European variety that reaches a height of 80- 90 feet. The exquisite blossoms of the Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa) transform the grounds in June. The dense flower heads this Far Eastern native are surrounded by creamy-white bracts.

The Goelets were an established American dynasty that had grown from humble eighteenth century trade. Ogden Goelet was one of the most famous competitive yachtsmen in the world. His wife, Mary Wilson Goelet, was one of the most important hostesses of her generation in a time when the operation of Ochre Court during a typical eight-week summer season required twenty-seven house servants, eight coachmen and grooms, and twelve gardeners. Their daughter, May, married the English Duke of Roxburghe, taking with her an million dowry, while their son Robert became a major force in the development of American railroads, hotels, and real estate.

It was Robert's gift of Ochre Court to the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1947 that established the then Salve Regina College in Newport. The stately fify-room mansion was the entire college for the first few years, with the original fifty-eight female students living on the third floor. The original fifty-eight women students lived on the third floor, attended classes on the second, studied, prayed, and dined on the first, and snacked and purchased books in the basement. The eight Sisters of Mercy who made up that post-war faculty established their own modest living area in the servants' quarters. Salve Regina University has since grown to encompass over 60 acres and more than two dozen buildings, yet Ochre Court remains its heart.

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supposedly this was done by the real estate investor who will be destroying all the art.


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Do you really think that a Real Estate Investor is looking for an apprentice through these types of signs?

Ah, come on folks!


Off-Ramp Sign
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Have you ever seen these signs that say "Real estate investor seeks apprentice"? They're usually situated near freeway off-ramps. I would think they were one of a kind due the hand written look, but I've seen the same signs everywhere. Have all the hobos abandoned panhandling, relying now on real estate scams for money?

Silly hobos, I'm on to your tricks!

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Set right in the middle of Chandigarh in Manimajra, Uppals Marble Arch is only a few kilometers from both the railway station and airport. Spread over 5 acres of prime real estate, the development consists of 3 and 4 BHK luxury apartments incorporating a slew of ultra-modern amenities, including hidden air-conditioning in every room to make for a luxurious living experience.

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Bedroom - Apartment for Sale in Barcelona, Spain
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Nice Wa Real Estate photos

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McMillin Gas Station & Post Office, WA
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I went past this on my way of a Real Estate photo shoot in Orting. After posting, I see there are the other usual suspects that consider it photo worthy.
There is a great looking barn just to the North. But its all closed off with the dreaded "No Trespassing" signs.
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Lakewood WA City Hall
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Its too bad when I'm on location for the sun to be in the wrong place. This building is in full shadow. But my Real Estate customers expect a great looking photo anyway. The US flag looks pretty good. The water was "icky". Not my fault.

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Perth Waterfront
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A stunning view of Perth and the Swan River from the State War Memorial atop Kings Park.
Fortunately for the residents and us, Kings Park has been left for the enjoyment of the public rather than being developed into (very expensive) real estate.
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Il Fontanile - Southern Tuscan Coast

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Ballaterra | Sherwood Real Estate

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Cambridge

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NYC: 6th Avenue - XYZ Buildings

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NYC: 6th Avenue - XYZ Buildings
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The XYZ Buildings, as they are commonly called, are three international-style skyscrapers of different heights but of similar scaleless box-like mass, placed east-west on adjacent blocks lining Sixth Avenue / Avenue of the Americas. Part of the Rockefeller Center complex expansion in the late 1960's and early 1970's, the plans for the three office towers were first made in 1963 by the Rockefeller family's architect, Wallace Harrison of the firm, Harrison and Abromovitz.

The "X" Building, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, is the former Exxon Building, which was built from 1967 to 1971. Originally built as the headquarters for Exxon, the oil company sold the building to a unit of Mitsui Real Estate Development Co. Ltd in 1986 and moved its operations to Irving, Texas in 1989. It is the northermost and tallest of the XYZ plan, and the second tallest in the greater Rockfeller Center complex, at 750 feet and 54 stories and feature a sunken plaza with a large pool and fountains. Despite being as tall as the tallest buildings in other metropolitan areas, 1251 Avenue of the Americas has almost no presence on the New York City skyline as it is flanked by 500-foot tall buildings on all sides.

The "Y" Building, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, is the McGraw-Hill Building, which was completed in 1969. The oldest in the XYZ plan, it is the second tallest, sitting at 674-feet and 51-stories. In additon to McGraw Hill, other tenants include Sirius XM Radio whose headquarters and broadcast facility are in the building. The McGraw-Hill Building's sunken plaza features Athelstan Spilhaus's unique Sun Triangle.

The "Z" Building, at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, is the Celanese Building, which was completed in 1973. The youngest in the XYZ plan, it is also the shortest, at 592 feet and 45 stories. It once housed the headquarters of Celanese, J.P. Stevens, and Burlington. Today it is the headquarters of the Fox Entertainment Group / News Corporation.

McGraw-Hill Building National Register #80002701 (1980)
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Tina Manis Associates' "The REAL eSTATE OF THINGS" at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Nice Pennsylvania Real Estate photos

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winner of the "Clumsiest and Most Inept Neighborhood Re-Naming in Philadelphia" Award: Port Fishington. Encompassing Port Richmond, Fishtown, and Kensington...each of which is, in fact, its own distinct beighborhood...

...And all of which were historically known for 200 years as Greater Kensington

Guess the real estate developers win this time...I mean, again

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Nice Commercial Real Estate photos

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Cool Real Estate Market images

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"Dakshin Mukhi Maruti Mandir" in Shivtirthnagar, near Pethkar Projects' Balwantpuram - Samrajya, on Paud Road, in Kothrud, Pune 411 038
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Shubh Kalyan - 3 BHK Flats - Visit to Nanded City Pune on Sinhagad Road
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Nice International Real Estate photos

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Imus, Cavite, Philippines Single Family Home For Sale - SOPHIE SINGLE HOMES, LANCASTER ESTATES
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Marbella Real Estate

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Beautiful property on a 5000m2 plot with stunning views and beautiful landscaped gardens. Total privacy!
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Bryant Park

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Bryant Park
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Gertrude Stein by Jo Davidson

One of five sculptures in the park, this statue honors the trailblazing American author and arts patron Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). Installed in 1992, this casting is based on a model made by Jo Davidson (1883–1952) in Paris in 1923. Its proximity to the New York Public Library reflects Stein’s significant literary contributions—from plays, librettos, and film scripts to biographies, autobiographies, lectures, essays, poems, and novels.

Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Stein was the granddaughter of German-Jewish immigrants. Her father Daniel made a fortune in street-railroads and real estate. Stein spent her early childhood in Vienna and Paris before moving with her family to Oakland, California. She studied psychology with the famous psychologist and philosopher William James (1842–1910) at Radcliffe College in Boston and conducted laboratory experiments there with Hugo Munsterberg. Stein nearly completed a medical degree at Johns Hopkins University, but in 1903 she chose to settle in Paris with her brother Leo, where they befriended Pablo Picasso and became champions of avant garde writers, musicians, and artists, including many early Cubist painters.

Stein’s early literary endeavors were inspired by the spatial concepts explored in Cubism. She developed an experimental use of language that relied upon the sound and rhythms of words as much as their content. In the 1920s she established a cultural salon in Paris, and influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of Stein’s writings from these years include Three Lives (1909), The Making of Americans (written between 1906 and 1911; published 1925), and Composition as Explanation (1906), an essay based on lectures she had delivered at Cambridge and Oxford.

Her life and relationships were recounted in the humorous and trenchant work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), which reflected the life of her longtime companion. In 1934, she traveled to New York, where her opera Four Saints in Three Acts, with music by Virgil Thomson, was a great success performed by an all-black cast. After touring the United States, Stein returned to France, where she and Toklas remained through World War II, living in seclusion in country homes during the German occupation. Stein died on July 27, 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Thomson later wrote music to accompany her work for a posthumously published opera, The Mother of Us All, based on the life of feminist Susan B. Anthony. Stein posed for Jo Davidson in 1920 at his temporary studio in Paris (the sitting is documented in a photograph by Man Ray). Cross-legged and heavy-set, she presented an almost Buddha-like gravity. Davidson, a leading portraitist in twentieth-century America, studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. For a period of time he sculpted at the Bryant Park Studios located opposite this park at 80 West 40th Street. He also sculpted a 1957 portrait bust of Fiorello H. LaGuardia located in Little Flower Playground on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and a full-size figure of poet Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain State Park. This casting of the Stein statue is the eighth in an edition of ten - two others exist in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The sculpture was a gift of Dr. Maury Leibowitz (1917–1992), vice-chairman and president of Knoedler-Modarco Galleries. It rests on a granite base designed by Kupiec & Koutsomitis, Architects. The statue was unveiled on November 5, 1992, a few months after the park reopened following an extensive redesign and restoration under the auspices of the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation. Now, to borrow a phrase from Stein’s lexicon, there is a “there there,” the sculpture occupying a place of prominence in this formerly empty terrace niche between two sycamores (Platanus occidentalis).

Sculptor:
Jo Davidson
Architect:
Kupiec Koutsomitis
Description:
Seated figure on pedestal on base
Materials:
Figure--bronze; pedestal--light gray "Stanstead" Rock of Ages granite (polished); base: charcoal Cold Springs granite (polished)
Dimensions:
Figure H: 2'9" W: 2' D: 2'; Pedestal H:4'2" W: 2'6" D: 2'6" (includes base); Weight: 225 pounds (figure only)
Cast:
1991
Dedicated:
November 5, 1992
Foundry:
Cavalier-Renaissance Foundry, 250 Smith Street, Bridgeport, CT 06607
Fabricator:
A. Ottavino Corp.
Donor:
Dr. Maury P. Leibovitz
Inscription:
Front of base

GERTRUDE STEIN
1874-1976
BY JO DAVIDSON, 1923
BRONZE CAST 1991 --

Rear of base

GIFT OF
DR. MAURY LEIBOVITZ
TO THE
CITY OF NEW YORK
1992


Exclusionary Covenants
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Exclusionary covenants
In the 1920s and 1930s, covenants that restricted the sale or occupation of real property on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion or social class were common in the United States, where the primary intent was to keep "white" neighbourhoods "white".

Such covenants (also known as racial covenants or racial restrictive covenants) were employed by many real estate developers to "protect" entire subdivisions. The purpose of an exclusionary covenant was to prohibit a buyer of property from reselling, leasing or transferring the property to members of a given race, ethnic origin and/ or religion as specified in the title deed. Some covenants, such as those tied to properties in Forest Hills Gardens, New York, also sought to exclude working class people however this type of social segregation was more commonly achieved through the use of high property prices, minimum cost requirements and application reference checks.

In practice, exclusionary covenants were most typically concerned with keeping out African-Americans, however restrictions against Asian-Americans, Jews and Catholics were not uncommon. For example, the Lake Shore Club District in Pennsylvania, sought to exclude anyone of Negro, Mongolian, Hungarian, Mexican, Greek, Armenian, Austrian, Italian, Russian, Polish, Slavish or Roumanian birth.

Racial covenants emerged during the mid-nineteenth century and started to gain prominence from the 1890s onwards. However it was not until the 1920s that they adopted widespread national significance, a situation that continued until the 1940s.

Some commentators have attributed the popularity of exclusionary covenants at this time as a response to the urbanisation of black Americans following World War I, and the fear of "black invasion" into white neighbourhoods, which they felt would result in depressed property prices, increased nuisance (crime) and social instability, the consequent race riots of 1917-1921 and the 1917 US Supreme Court ruling of Buchanan v. Warley that invalidated the imposition of racially restrictive zoning ordinances (residential segregation based on race) on constitutional grounds.

During the 1920s, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) sponsored several unsuccessful legal challenges against racial covenants. In a blow to campaigners against racial segregation, the legality of racial restrictive covenants was affirmed by the landmark Corrigan v. Buckley 271 U.S. 323 (1926) judgment that ruled that such clauses constituted "private action" and as such were not subject to the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. As a result of this decision, racial restrictive covenants proliferated across the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Even the invalidation of such a covenant by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1940 case of Hansberry v. Lee did little to reverse the trend because the ruling was based on a technicality and failed to set a legal precedent.

It was not until 1948 that the Shelley v. Kraemer judgment overturned the Corrigan v. Buckley decision in stating that exclusionary covenants were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and were therefore legally unenforceable


Racial Restrictive Covenants


Cogswell Temperance Fountain
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Cogswell Temperance Fountain, 1880. Sculptor: Henry D. Cogswell. Location: Indiana Plaza (Pennsylvania Ave. & 7th). Henry D. Cogswell was an eccentric dentist from San Francisco who made a fortune from real estate and mining stocks. He wanted to be remembered forever. He also believed Americans were drinking too much alcohol. So, he paid for the building of a number of water fountains like this all over the United States. Cogswell himself designed each fountain and each is unique. Atop the DC fountain is a water crane; in the center are two entwined dolphins. The Cogswell Fountain in DC no longer has water, although there is a city water fountain located a few feet away. Given the notoriously poor quality of DC's water, one wonders whether Cogswell's scheme to get Washingtonians to drink water for their health is such a great idea. NOTE: For many years, DC had a Cogswell Society. The master of ceremonies at their dinner was known as the "lead Crane". He would offer a toast to Temperance; the proper response (with drink in hand) was "I'll drink to that!"

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