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this kinda interesting if you are into it. its the illustrated story of moving the historic 1740 guyon-lake-tysen house across staten island to the richmondtown neighborhood, where many historic homes that needed to be moved are collected:

 

 

 

Moving Day: Guyon-Lake-Tysen House relocates to Historic Richmondtown |

 

Then and Now

Published: Oct. 20, 2023

By Jan Somma-Hammel

 

 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Guyon-Lake-Tysen House is now located between Court Place and St. Patrick’s Place on the north side of Richmond Road. It was moved to Historic Richmond Town in 1962 from its original location in Oakwood, on Tysen’s Lane between Mill Road and Hylan Boulevard, where it sat on 80 acres of land.

 

According to the Historic Richmond Town website, The Guyon-Lake-Tysen House is larger than most 18th-century homes and symbolizes a significant, prosperous way of life. It was built as a farmhouse and was used as such for most of its history.

 

The house is one of the few 18th-century gambrel-roof houses surviving on Staten Island today, according to the Historic Richmond Town website.

 

This house combines Dutch and Franco-Flemish elements in a style later dubbed “Dutch Colonial.” It consists of two stories, a cellar and attic, and a kitchen extension to the west. The central portion of the house has dormers and a wide front porch.

 

Joseph Guyon constructed the house around 1740 (his name can still be seen written in the clay daubing above the door of the middle parlor), only finishing part of the interior before he died in 1758.

 

 

more:

https://www.silive.com/entertainment/2023/10/moving-day-guyon-lake-tysen-house-relocates-to-historic-richmondtown-then-and-now.html

 

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In 1962, the Lake-Tysen House was moved and is seen here at Tysens Lane and SIRT tracks. (Staten Island Advance)

 

 

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The Guyon-Lake-Tysen home is moved along Tysens Lane in 1962. (Staten Island Advance)

 

 

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The Guyon-Lake-Tysen House was moved from Tysens Lane to Historic Richmond Town in 1962. Here, in 2020, it sits on Richmond Road on the Historic Richmond Town property. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)

 

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    this popped up for me and is pretty nuts.

     

    a 1600s amsterdam house was taken apart, moved to nyc and rebuilt in 1845 on the uws.

     

    then it was taken apart again and moved to gramercy park in 1910.

     

    its for sale for $13.95M.

     

     

     

     

    A 400-Year-Old House From Amsterdam Hits the Market for $14 Million. The Catch: It’s in New York City.

     

    The home was originally built some 3,600 miles away and shipped to New York

     

    BY V.L. HENDRICKSON

     OCTOBER 23, 2023

     

     

    more:

    https://www.mansionglobal.com/amp/articles/a-400-year-old-house-from-amsterdam-hits-the-market-for-14-million-the-catch-its-in-new-york-city-668512d6

     

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    The facade.RUSS ROSS PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.

     

     

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    There are six bedrooms. TIM WALTMAN/EVAN JOSEPH STUDIOS AND THE FACADE (PHOTO #11) BY RUSS ROSS PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.

     

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    On 5/24/2022 at 11:17 AM, mrnyc said:

    the new haven breuer next to the ikea reopens as a hotel:

     

     

    Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist Pirelli Building becomes luxe hotel in New Haven

     

    By Linda Laban

    May 24, 2022 10:57am 

     Updated

     

     

    How ironic: The building hovering in sight of busy traffic choked I-95 in New Haven, Conn., claims to be the first net-zero hotel in the nation.

     

    Opened this month, Hotel Marcel is big news in the energy-sucking hotel world, but there’s lots more to this building than a big hug to our planet: It is an architectural marvel, too.

     

    Hotel Marcel, a Tapestry Hotel by Hilton (room rates start at $229), to give this Brutalist icon its full new name, was originally designed as the Armstrong Rubber Company HQ by Bauhaus alum Marcel Breuer — a Hungarian architect and designer famed for his much-reproduced (hello, IKEA!) form-fitting minimalist chairs, and who eventually lived on East 63rd Street after fleeing Nazi Germany.

     

    Listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places, the Pirelli Building, as it became known, is a futuristic two-tiered block — which appears spookily suspended in the air from the highway — completed in 1970. Abandoned for decades, architect and developer Bruce Redman Becker of Connecticut-based architects Becker + Becker, bought the neglected building in 2020.

     

    more:

    https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/marcel-breuers-pirelli-building-becomes-hotel-in-new-haven/

     

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    the latest on this —

     

     

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/hotel-marcel-new-haven-connecticut/index.html

    wow -- what a find on palatine hill in rome -- 🙀

     

     

     

     

    This 2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral has just been found buried under Rome

     

    By Silvia Marchetti, CNN

     4 minute read 

    Published 10:46 AM EST, Wed December 20, 2023

     

     

    Rome, ItalyCNN — 

    A five-year dig into the side of Rome’s Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from around the first or second century BC, featuring a sizable, intact and brightly colored wall mosaic.

     

    Estimated to be around 2,300 years old, the work is part of a larger aristocratic mansion, located near the Roman Forum, that has been under excavation since 2018.

     

     

    more:

    https://www.cnn.com/style/rome-palatine-hill-archaeology-discovery/index.html

     

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    The 2000-year-old shell grotto was used as an outdoor dining room and features a sizeable wall mosaic featuring brightly colored shells, coral and glass.

     

     

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    Being buried under the earth on Rome's Palatine Hill has protected this fragile mosaic from the elements for centuries.

     

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    back to the future —

     

     

     

     

    The Washington Post

     

    Why these homes in the hottest places don’t need AC

     

    Story by Philip Kennicott

     

     

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    It was here that the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy began a social housing experiment in 1945, planning a town with traditional Nubian materials and design, defended against the heat with thick walls of mud brick and natural ventilation — passive cooling techniques that had, for millennia, been an essential part of the local architecture. 

     

    Fathy, a progressive architect with a deep respect for the past, broke with the dogmas of modernism, the generic boxes of concrete and steel, plugged into the electrical grid, that had become a universal symbol of Western progress around the globe. He was interested in something more radical, and better suited to Egypt: sustainable architecture, built by hand by local artisans and designed to be habitable even during the hottest days of the year.

     

     

    more:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/ancient-elements-of-cool/ar-AA1m934C

     

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    NEW GOURNA, EGYPT - DECEMBER 14: Architectural features of a mosque designed by Hassan Fathy in New Gourna, Luxor, Egypt, December 14, 2023. (Photo by Sima Diab for The Washington Post)© Sima Diab/FTWP

     

     

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    Many of the remaining homes designed by Hassan Fathy are now in ruins, and overshadowed by new construction. December 14, 2023. (Sima Diab for The Washington Post)

     

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    the abandoned villages of hong kong —

     

     

     

    In one of the world’s most densely populated cities, abandoned villages have been reclaimed by nature

     

    By Rebecca Cairns, CNN

    Published 8:21 PM EST, Mon February 12, 2024

     

     

    Hong KongCNN — 

    Thick roots tumble across a dilapidated house, the snake-like trunks of a banyan tree framing where the front door once stood. Its walls have been hollowed by decades of typhoons, monsoons and summer humidity, now little more than loose, moss-covered stones and mortar dust. Vines tease through cracks in the foundations and fallen leaves litter the rotten floorboards.

     

    This scene wouldn’t look out of place deep in the Malaysian rainforest or the verdant foothills of India. But photographer Stefan Irvine snapped these pictures just a stone’s throw from one of the most densely populated cities in the world, a global metropolis of steely skyscrapers and gridlocked traffic.

     

    Irvine, who has lived in Hong Kong since 2002, first stumbled across the city’s abandoned villages in 2012 while visiting a friend in the New Territories, a vast area to the city’s north. 

     

     

    more:

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/13/style/hong-kong-abandoned-villages-stefan-irvine-photographer-hnk/index.html

     

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    A crumbling facade in Yung Shue Au, a remote village in Hong Kong's New Territories.

     

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    The facade of a derelict house in Mau Ping Shan Uk, a village located deep in one of the territory's country parks.

     

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    cool preserved history -- i love to visit here -- 

     

     

     

    Locke, California: The only town in the US built for Chinese people

     

    10 hours ago

    By Pam & Gary Baker

     

     

    Chinese labourers transformed central California from a swamp to an agricultural powerhouse – and built a bustling Chinese-run town once called the "Monte Carlo of California" in the process.

     

    Fifty miles south of Sacramento, a network of canals, marshes and bogs fed by rain from the Sierra Nevada mountains forms the tranquil California Delta. Over the years, waves of immigrants have settled in this fertile area along the Sacramento River, but amid the vineyards and family-owned farms dotting the area, the small town of Locke, California, holds a unique place in history as the only settlement in the US developed by Chinese people for Chinese people.

     

    Locke's narrow Main Street looks more like an alley. Weathered, centuries-old wooden buildings and houses with overhanging balconies flank each side of the road, transporting visitors to a time when this 60-person community was once a bustling Chinese hub replete with schools, a movie theatre, hotels and restaurants.

     

    Today, Locke remains the best-preserved example of the rural Chinese settlements that once dotted Northern California – and the only one where some of the town's original descendants still live and run businesses. With its former Chinese school, boarding houses, gambling halls and men's associations now preserved as museums, visiting the US' last rural Chinese town offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Chinese immigrants and their cultural influence on their new homeland.

     

     

    more:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240529-the-only-town-in-the-us-built-for-chinese-people

     

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    Unfortunately it seems that the iconic Kowloon restaurant and tiki bar in Saugus, MA is on track to be demolished to make way for two new apartment buildings with ground floor retail. The restaurant itself will move into one of the retail spaces and continue operating, but the current structure will be fully coming down.

     

     

    We've seen this story before...

     

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    2 hours ago, taestell said:

    Unfortunately it seems that the iconic Kowloon restaurant and tiki bar in Saugus, MI is on track to be demolished to make way for two new apartment buildings with ground floor retail. The restaurant itself will move into one of the retail spaces and continue operating, but the current structure will be fully coming down.

     

     

     

    Saugus, MA you mean. :-) 

     

     

    I've actually been to the Kowloon. Really interesting throw-back. Only went because I missed seeing the Kahiki. 

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    the history of the infamous north sentinal island tribe and the greater adaman and nicobar islands in the modern world —

     

     

     

    My extraordinary journey to visit the world’s last ‘Stone Age’ tribe

     

    For 60,000 years, the tribes of the Andaman Islands have lived undisturbed – but now their way of life is under threat

     

     

    more:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/07/my-extraordinary-journey-to-visit-the-last-stone-age-tribe/

     

     

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    The tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, located in a distant spot in the Indian Ocean, have been untroubled by modernity – until now Credit: Gautam Singh

     

     

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    The Great Nicobar Project is a shipping and military development plan which threatens two isolated tribes – the Jarawa (pictured here in 2002) and the Shompen  Credit: Thierry Falise

     

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    this is a sweet time capsule — some guys took a video camera on a walk around marshall street at the syracuse college campus in 1987 — they point out some development stuff ie., “this will be a friendly’s if they ever finish it.” 😂

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ-XxThybk5/?igsh=dDAzNXo1bXp2bjF3

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