#warren museum

[anothergoodtime]

Guys!!! Elton Castee and Corey Scherer are doing a livestream on YouTube fundraising for Feeding America! They are living in the Warren Museum and extend a night for every 100K raised!

Watch the livestream here!

And make sure to subscribe to TFIL and the Overnight channel!

Donate if you can, it’s for a great cause!

[lucentparanormal]

Enjoy this 4 hour series investigating the Haunted Warren Museum with the Real Annabelle doll.

[amnhnyc]

This Fossil Friday, meet the Warren mastodon: the first complete American mastodon (Mammut americanum) skeleton found in the United States! This fossilized proboscidean was discovered in a bog in Newburgh, New York in 1845. It was remarkable for being preserved in the position in which it had died some 11,000 years ago—standing upright with its legs thrust forward and its head tilted upward, likely gasping for air under mud in which it had become mired.

Photo: Image no. 35140 / © AMNH Library (circa 1906)

[marzipanandminutiae]

Boston history museum workers out of context

"I don't have a crush on Henry Pelham [1748-1803]!"

"YOU SAID HE WAS A YAOI BOY!"

[sofiasfanartcollection]

Day 27 of TMayNT: favorite mutant villain

I made one last entry to TMayNT :]

I don’t think anyone who’s been around my blog for long will be surprised when I say that Hypno-potamus (from rottmnt) is my favorite <3

the TMayNT challenge was hosted by @mikasleaf see more at @tmaynt

Also, here’s a bonus sketch of him with his beloved roomie/magical assistant/best friend/partner, Warren <3<3<3

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Winter Woods

Artist: Charles Warren Eaton

Date: 1900

Genre: Landscape

[bizarreauhavre]

Lam Qua (1801-1860)

Oil painting of girl with hip tumor, circa 1837.

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

I love when Annabelle’s sign gets covered so it just says “positively do not”.

Like, bro just don’t.

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

[jonathanrook]

went to the international museum of cryptozoology today which is in fact a real location that i really paid $10 to enter

[quo-usque-tandem]

The Warren Cup - Roman, 1st century C.E.

[fuckinuhhh]

Take a Walk 06/30/2023

Welcome back to my daily walk diaries. Today we walked around between 5th ave and Park Ave because I was going to check out the Morgan Library & Museum (which if you live in NYC and you didn't know they have free friday's, they do). Anyways I was a little early for the entry time so I walked around and here were the buildings that caught my eye. If you want to listen to the music I was listening to while you read this, I made a playlist of it. Buckle in, this might be a long one.

Edit: As I was writing this entry I accidentally deleted ~1.5 hrs of work so Im going to keep this rewrite real brief. sry :/

The Robb House

Built 1892

Architect: Stanford White

Fellow Architect/architectural critic of the time Russel Sturgis (who I love) said of this building, "not a palace, but a fit dwelling house for a first-rate citizen."

Curious as to whether one of those medallions on the third floor was replaced since they're slightly different.

The Haviland Building/Lightolier Building/Morgan Lofts

Built 1912, unknown architect

The interesting split facades and bell tower are without a doubt what grabbed my eye.

Funny enough they also stood out on the back of the building when I took a trip around the block without even realizing they were the same building!

Next we have Tiffany & Co.'s second building, built after their previous cast-iron store at Union Square, and as a posthumous completion in honor of Tiffany founder, Charles Tiffany.

Built 1905

Architect: Stanford White! (yes again)

Just look at those Corinthian orders! This building is massive.

(Now is probably a good time to bring up my camera situation.) I've been shooting these on my iPhone 8 mainly because my only other camera is film, and because of it's convenience. However I may end up getting another camera so that my pictures don't come out with such poor quality. (I wish I remember how I worded this during the first take of this post, it was much better)

This is the CUNY Graduates Building, formerly known as its original identity the B. Altman department store. The past 3 buildings in fact were part of a push up 5th ave from Barclay's St downtown where Haviland's, Tiffany's, and Altman all had stores previously.

Built 1906

Architect: Trowbridge & Livingston

The back of the Altman building has this interesting moment where seemingly 3 portions of the building meet. I say 3 instead of the obvious division of the top addition only because if you look closely at the roof overhang on the left, it turns 90 degrees into the building before the 4th window in.

Regardless this transition between is artfully done both between the front and the back, as well as between the base and the upper addition in the reference but not direct copying of window/facade themes.

The Stewart Building

Built 1914

Architect: Whitney Warren

(Bonus picture of the proximity to the Empire State Building)

Right across the street from the Tiffany building lies this beautifully ornamented loft/department building with terracotta tiles said to resemble Josiah Wedgwood jasperware pottery.

Before we get to the Chrysler building this building caught my eye with it's geometric ornamentation on the facade of the building, which I assumed was to fit in amongst the foothills of such an icon in Art Deco Architecture (the Chrysler Building).

This is the Socony-Mobil Building

Built in 1956

Architect: Harrison & Abramovitz

The Icon in question, The Chrysler Building.

Built 1930

Architect: William Van Allen

There is a wealth of knowledge on the internet about this art deco beauty, but I'm just going to give you my brief takeaway.

First, that entry way!!! I'm in love, its so grand and those angles are so pleasing to look at. There is one on each side of the building facing the street and boy oh boy it does not lose it's charm the second time you see it.

I also wanted to point out that, um, the base of the building is not centered????? I had literally no idea prior to this but if you look, in the third picture there are three bays of windows to the right of the center and five bays to the left. No your eyes aren't tricking you that's really how it looks in person.

In the tune of imperfections to such a seemingly pristine design, the backwall isn't actually perpendicular to the road or to the rest of the building. It wanders off at some other angle as seen in the fourth picture.

I give it a 9/10 still, it's imperfections are even more reason to love it. They give it an organic beauty that art deco even tends to reference and emphasize, the beauty in natural forms.

Right around the corner of the Chrysler Building is Tudor City, and here are just some highlights. In the order of most difficult things to photograph, these buildings are all built up in a style I like to call the princess tower style with an elaborate penthouse on top. Here are some of the highlights of this group of blocks on the east side.

45 Tudor City Pl. (pics 1 & 2) aka Prospect Tower & St. Albans Church Built 1927, the worlds first residential housing skyscraper Architect: H. Douglas Ives

Around the corner (which regrettably is not pictured) is Harry Osborne's penthouse in the Spider-man movies at 5 Tudor City Pl. aka Windsor Tower

The Church of the Covenant (pic 3) Built 1871 Architect: J. Cleveland Cady

Woodstock Tower (pic 4) Built 1929 Architect: H. Douglas Ives

(pics 5-7) The Cloister & The Manor Built 1927 & 1928 Architect: H. Douglas Ives I think this is also an interesting marrying of facade courses.

[subsidystadium]

The Chicago Bears continue to meet with local officials and tell them absolutely nothing

One day, the Chicago Bears will teach other sports teams on how not to ask for taxpayer money when wanting a new stadium. For the last few years, the Bears have decided on this odd strategy of trying to confuse the public about every detail involved in their plans. Where exactly would this stadium be built? It will be built in Arlington Heights! Maybe it will be in Aurora? Perhaps on the Museum…

[marylairre]

Obsessed with the knowledge that the last surviving brick of Borley Rectory exists in a basement in Connecticut, so far removed from where it originally was.

Bless the Warrens for bringing it back because to be honest, I would have done the same. I take rocks and bricks with me from wherever I go, and I always have done so for decades. It is not a habit I see myself breaking.

Just mildly amused by the fact that of all places where a last piece of the rectory could exist, it is halfway across the world in a museum that has been closed for about four years now.

Ought to humour myself with involving it in a fic some day, solely because the Annabelle doll is also there and Lairre would hate that thing with a passion, I'm sure.

[lunastar92]

The live stream is still going strong!

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Moon over the Forest

Artist: Charles Warren Eaton

Date: 1895

Genre: Landscape