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Sabino (steamer)

Le Sabino est un steamer à passagers construit en 1908. Il est l'un des deux seuls survivants de la Mosquito Fleet de la côte est américaine. Il a rejoint le musée Mystic Seaport à Mystic (Connecticut) en 1975. Il est inscrit au National Historic Landmark depuis 1992. Histoire Ce bateau à vapeur est sorti du chantier naval de W. Irving Adams de Boothbay dans le Maine, sous le nom de Tourist, le 7 mai 1908. Il a commencé sa carrière comme ferry de la Damariscotta Steamboat Co. sur la rivière Damariscotta dans l'état du Maine. En 1921, il a été vendu à la Popham Beach Steamboat Co. sur la rivière Kennebec du même État. Il prit le nom de Sabino en l'honneur d'un Indien sagamore Abénaquis du nom de Sabenoa. En 1927 le Sabino est racheté par le Cape Shore Ferry Co., société basée à Portland. Il convoie ses passagers vers les nombreuses îles de la baie de Casco dans le Golfe du Maine. Des flotteurs lui furent ajoutés dès 1928 pour assurer une meilleure stabilité en mer. Il est revendu, en 1935, à la Casco Bay Lines qui assure le même service. Après quelques années de service, il est mis en réserve de la flotte pour cause de vétusté. Il assurera quelques services réguliers de traversier à partir de 1956. En 1958, le Sabino est vendu à Red Slavit, puis à Philippe Corbin. Son nouveau propriétaire passe beaucoup de temps à sa réparation et obtient un certificat de navigation auprès de l’US Coast Guard. En 1971, il est de nouveau exploité sur le Merrimack dans le Massachusetts. En 1975, le Sabino est loué pour un an au Mystic Seaport pour savoir si un steamer peut intéresser le Museum. Devenant vite une attraction populaire, il est acheté par le Museum, et restauré à l'identique. Il assure toujours quotidiennement des sorties touristiques sur la Mystic River. En 2008, le Sabino a fêté son 100e anniversaire. Notes et références (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Sabino (steamer) » (voir la liste des auteurs). Voir aussi Articles connexes Mystic Seaport Liens externes Ressource relative à l'architecture : Registre national des lieux historiques Sabino Mosquito Fleet Portail des navires Portail des musées Portail du Connecticut Portail du Registre national des lieux historiques
Lake Mauweehoo

Lake Mauweehoo is a 31-acre man-made lake in the town of Sherman, Connecticut. It was created in 1906 to support a community of people who moved to rural Connecticut from New York City. History Lake Mauweehoo was first created in 1906 by damming Glen Brook. The area was settled by transplants from Brooklyn, New York who built a community of summer homes in the town of Sherman. They were led by Warren Hugh Wilson, a champion of the country life movement and rural living. The community went on to form the Mauweehoo Lake Association to fund the construction of the dam. Access to the lake has remained exclusive to the residents. The lake is named for Gideon Mauwee, sachem of the Schaghticoke Tribe. Ecology and hydrology Lake Mauweehoo has one outlet, Glen Brook, which drains into Squantz Pond. Lake Mauweehoo is at the beginning of the Sherman Breeding Bird Survey Route, a 25-mile route which is part of the larger North American Breeding Bird Survey. Dam The Lake Mauweehoo Dam is a combination earth embankment and stone masonry concrete dam approximately 225 feet long and 22 feet high. A stone masonry wall averaging approximately 8.5 feet wide and a 24 inch thick concrete facia on the upstream side of the masonry wall runs the full length of the dam. Earth fill lying on a 2:1 slope is on the upstream side of the above-mentioned wall and stone rubble and miscellaneous debris on a 1:1.5 slope lies on the downstream side of the wall. References
Travelers Tower

Travelers Tower is a 24-story, 527-foot (161 m) skyscraper in Downtown Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Travelers Tower was the seventh tallest building in the world when it was constructed in 1919, and is currently the second tallest building in Hartford. Travelers Tower is the fourth headquarters of Travelers Insurance Company. The architect of Travelers Tower was Donn Barber, who also designed the Connecticut State Library, Supreme Court Building and The Hartford Times Building. It was the tallest building in New England until Boston's Prudential Tower opened in 1964, but remained the tallest building in Connecticut until City Place I opened in 1984. The tower is actually an extension of two other buildings of which it begins at the tenth floor so it is sometimes considered to have 34 floors. At the 27th floor is an open observation deck. The top of the building has become a nesting spot for peregrine falcons, which are observed by web cameras. Due to maintenance to the tower, the web cameras have been taken offline and the nest box has been relocated to the Travelers Plaza Building. Maintenance has since been finished. References
Travelers Tower

Travelers Tower es un rascacielos de 24 pisos y 160,63 metros de altura en el centro de la ciudad de Hartford, la capital del estado de Connecticut (Estados Unidos). Fue el séptimo edificio más alto del mundo cuando se construyó en 1919​ y actualmente es el segundo más alto de Hartford.​ Es la cuarta sede de Travelers Insurance Company. El arquitecto de Travelers Tower fue Donn Barber,​ quien también diseñó la Biblioteca Estatal de Connecticut, el Edificio de la Corte Suprema y el The Hartford Times Buildin.​​ Fue el primer edificio comercial fuera de Nueva York que se elevó a más de 150 metros.​ La torre es en realidad una extensión de otros dos edificios de los cuales comienza en el décimo piso, por lo que a veces se considera que tiene 34 pisos. En el piso 27 hay una plataforma de observación abierta.​ La parte superior se ha convertido en un lugar de anidación de halcones peregrinos, que son observados por cámaras web.​ Debido al mantenimiento de la torre, las cámaras web se han desconectado y la caja nido se ha trasladado al edificio Travelers Plaza.​ Véase también Primeros rascacielos Referencias Enlaces externos «Travelers Tower» (en inglés). Emporis.
Travelers Tower

La Travelers Tower est un gratte-ciel de bureaux de 161 mètres de hauteur construit à Hartford dans le Connecticut aux États-Unis en 1919. À sa construction c'était le septième plus haut immeuble du monde et il fut le plus haut immeuble de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu’à l’ouverture de la Prudential Tower de Boston en 1964. C'est le plus ancien gratte-ciel d’Hartford. C'est actuellement le deuxième plus haut bâtiment de Hartford après la City Place I. L'immeuble a été construit dans un style néoclassique. Liens externes Ressource relative à l'architecture : The Skyscraper Center Portail des gratte-ciel Portail du Connecticut
Frederick J. Smith House

The Smith House is a work of contemporary architecture designed by Richard Meier, a well-known architect born in 1934 who led the avant-garde modern architecture movement of the 1960s. The Smith House was planned starting in 1965 and completed in 1967 in Darien, Connecticut, and overlooks the Long Island Sound from the Connecticut coast. The 2,800 square-foot home has been featured in numerous books and has won various prestigious awards. The back of the Smith House, which faces the water, has an open façade with three levels of glass enclosure, providing sweeping, waterfront views. "There is a formal layering, giving a sense of progression, as one moves across the site from the entrance road down to the shore, and the 'line of progression' determines the major site axis," Meier has written. "Perpendicular to this axis, the intersecting planes in the house respond to the rhythms of the slope, trees, rock outcroppings, and the shoreline." Shortly after the house was built, Fred and Carole Smith divorced. When Carole remarried, Meier was hired to expand the house. A 300 square-foot expansion was added to the master suite. The house was owned by the Smith's sons, Chuck Smith & Hobie Smith. In 2022, the sons sold the house privately to Thomas Majewski, a longstanding resident of the neighborhood. To give some context to the architect, Richard Meier was born in 1934, and was one of the five leading avant-garde architects in the 1960s, along with Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, and John Hejduk. The Fred I. Smith House was one of Meier's first largely-recognized works and was part of a series of single-family homes that mark a first-step in Meier's work. It won numerous prizes shortly following its construction. In 1968, one year after it was constructed, it won the AIA National Honor Award, the AIA New England Award, the AIANY Award, and the AIA National Award. Later, in 2000, it received yet another award, the Twenty-five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects. References
Casa Frederick J. Smith

La Casa Smith es una obra de arquitectura moderna en Darien, en el estado de Connecticut (Estados Unidos). Fue diseñada por Richard Meier y tiene vista al estrecho de Long Island desde la costa de Connecticut.​ Se planificó a partir de 1965 y se completó en 1967. Arquitectura La parte trasera de la Casa Smith, que mira hacia el agua, tiene una fachada abierta con tres niveles de cerramiento de vidrio, que brinda vistas panorámicas frente al mar.​ "Hay una estratificación formal, que da una sensación de progresión, a medida que uno se mueve por el sitio desde el camino de entrada hasta la orilla, y la 'línea de progresión' determina el eje principal del sitio", escribió Meier. "Perpendiculares a este eje, los planos que se cruzan en la casa responden a los ritmos de la pendiente, los árboles, los afloramientos rocosos y la costa".​ Poco después de la construcción de la casa, Fred y Carole Smith se divorciaron. Cuando Carole se volvió a casar, contrataron a Meier para ampliar la casa. Se agregó una expansión de 300 pies cuadrados a la suite principal. La casa ahora es propiedad de los hijos de Smith, Chuck Smith y Hobie Smith.​ Reconocimientos La Casa Smith fue una de primeras obras ampliamente reconocidas de Meier y fue parte de una serie de viviendas unifamiliares que marcan la primera etapa de su carrera.​ Ganó numerosos premios poco después de su construcción. En 1968, un año después de su construcción, ganó el Premio Nacional de Honor AIA, el Premio AIA Nueva Inglaterra, el Premio AIANY y el Premio Nacional AIA.​ En 2000 recibió el Premio de los Veinticinco Años del Instituto Americano de Arquitectos.​ Véase también America's Favorite Architecture Referencias
Casa Smith

La Casa Smith (più frequentemente nominata Smith House, anche in ambito italiano) è una residenza nel comune di Darien (Connecticut). Fu il primo lavoro realizzato dall'architetto Richard Meier, tra il 1965 e il 1967. Struttura L'edificio, posto su tre piani, i cui superiori sono soppalcati, si fonda sul principio di base del rapporto con l'ambiente circostante, in questo caso il mare, essendo la casa posta proprio in riva, vicino a un piccolo approdo. Il fronte è completamente svuotato attraverso grandi vetrate a tutta altezza, mentre il retro è chiuso e presenta poche e piccole aperture. Il fronte, fra l'altro, è rivolto verso il mare ed è concepito per essere il luogo di ritrovo pubblico della casa, con il soggiorno a pianterreno, la sala da pranzo al primo piano e una sala giochi per i bambini sul soppalco del secondo piano. La parte posteriore dell'edificio ospita invece tutte le stanze di carattere privato, quali le camere da letto, i bagni e lo studio. In fatto di vista esterna, l'edificio è notevolmente variegato, con una continua alternanza di chiari-scuri, vetri, muri ed elementi di spicco come la scala esterna, arrotondata, e il camino emergente. Sul retro, una lunga passerella porta all'ingresso principale, posto al primo piano e non al pianterreno, che risulta, su questo prospetto, parzialmente interrato a causa del terreno molto movimentato. La passerella conduce quindi a un garage raggiungibile da una strada privata che si distacca dalla principale, posta più a nord. Il progetto utilizza esclusivamente il legno e l'acciaio, quest'ultimo riservato ai soli quattro pilastri portanti in facciata. L'unico elemento in muratura è il camino, anch'esso posto sul prospetto frontale. Negli anni successivi la villa è stata ampliata verso nord-est, inglobando nella struttura il ripostiglio-magazzino esterno elevandolo fino alla copertura e modificando alcuni particolari architettonici. Bibliografia Richard Meier, Richard Meier: houses and apartments, New York, Rizzoli 2007 Claudia Conforti, Marzia Marandola, Richard Meier, Minimum Collegamenti esterni (EN) Foto e articoli sulla Smith house, su flagparade.org.
House VI

House VI, or the Frank Residence, is a significant building in Cornwall, Connecticut, designed by Peter Eisenman, completed in 1975. His second built work, this small getaway house, located on Great Hollow Road near Bird's Eye Brook in Cornwall, Connecticut (across from Mohawk Mountain Ski Area), has become famous for both its revolutionary definition of a house as much as for the physical problems of design and difficulty of use. At the time of construction, the architect was known almost exclusively as a theorist and "paper architect," promulgating a highly formalist approach to architecture he calls "postfunctionalism." Rather than form following function or an aesthetic design, the design emerged from a conceptual process, and remains pinned to that conceptual framework. Eisenman's limited construction experience meant that the entire building was poorly detailed. The tiny building took three years to build, went completely over budget, and finally had to be reconstructed in 1987, leaving only the basic structure original. The Franks, in Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response, claim that they nonetheless love living in such a poetic structure, which they inhabit with their children. Also on the property is a barn for guests and supplies that do not fit in the kitchen. Design The building is meant to be a "record of design process," where the structure that results is the methodical manipulation of a grid. To start, Eisenman created a form from the intersection of four planes, subsequently manipulating the structures again and again, until coherent spaces began to emerge. In this way, the fragmented slabs and columns lack a traditional purpose, or even a conventional modernist one. The envelope and structure of the building are just a manifestation of the changed elements of the original four slabs, with some limited modifications. The purely conceptual design meant that the architecture is strictly plastic, bearing no relationship to construction techniques or purely ornamental form. Consequently, the use of the building was intentionally ignored—not fought against. Eisenman grudgingly permitted a handful of compromises, such as a bathroom, but the staircase lacks a handrail, there is a column abutting the kitchen table, and a glass strip originally divided the bedroom, preventing the installation of a double bed. References Further reading Eisenman, Peter (1987). Houses of Cards. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505130-8. Frank, Suzanne (1994). Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-2345-5. External links Finding aid for the House VI project, Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture (digitized items) Finding aid for Peter Eisenman architectural drawings for House VI, 1972. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Accession No. 920049. Sixty-three architectural drawings in pencil, pen and marker on paper document the design development of House VI, one of Peter Eisenman's most important early polemical designs.
House at 140 and 144 Retreat Avenue

140 and 144 Retreat Avenue is a historic conjoined pair of houses in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1844 and 1851, the two houses are the only surviving reminders of the street's 19th-century streetscape. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Description and history Retreat Avenue is a historically old road, connecting Hartford and Farmington in the 17th century. Its name derives from a facility for treatment of the insane that opened in the 1820s, that now operates as The Institute of Living, just southwest of numbers 140 and 144 on the south side of the road. The institute is now part of Hartford Hospital, whose main campus stands across the street. The pair of Greek Revival houses present a marked contrast to this institutional setting. They occupy adjacent lots just east of the junction of Retreat Avenue and Essex Street. Both houses are 2+1⁄2 stories in height, and of wood-frame construction finished in clapboards. Number 140 is the more easterly of the two: it has a hip roof, and its main entrance is sheltered by a flat-roof portico with fluted Doric columns. A two-story ell extends to its rear. Number 144 stands at the street corner, and has a gabled roof with an oblong multipane window in the gable pediment. The main entrance is on the four-bay side facing Essex Street, in the center-right bay, and lacks adornment. The two buildings are joined by a single-story wood-frame hyphen near the rear of the main blocks. 144 Retreat Avenue was built in 1845 on land owned by Joseph Barnes, and was apparently built by members of the Camp family, local builders and joiners. 140 Retreat Avenue was built sometime between 1851 and 1856, when it was owned by Bogardus Beardslee, a clothier who worked downtown. Although both of the adjacent medical institutions existed at the time, the blocks of Retreat Avenue and Essex Avenue were basically residential until after World War II, when expansion pressures from the hospitals resulted in the demolition of most of the housing there for commercial hospital-related uses. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Hyde-St. John House

The Hyde-St. John House is a historic house at 25 Charter Oak Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1858, it is one of the city's least-altered examples of Italianate architecture, and it was home to prominent local attorney and city mayor William Waldo Hyde. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and is presently in commercial use. Description and history The Hyde-St. John House is located in Hartford's Sheldon-Charter Oak neighborhood, on the south side of Charter Oak Avenue, between the former Temple Beth Israel (now the Charter Oak Cultural Center), and the location of the historic Charter Oak tree. It is a three-story brick structure, basically square in shape, with a flat roof that has a prominent projecting eave supported by brackets placed on either side of the three window bays. Windows on the first two floors are set in rectangular openings with brownstone sills and lintels, while the shorter third-floor windows have rounded tops. A single-story porch extends across the front, with rounded projections in the side bays, and clustered columns mounted on moulded blocks for support. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and sidelight windows, and toppedy by a decorative rounded fanlight; there are carved wooden oak leaves in the spandrels above the fanlight. The interior features relatively unaltered original woodwork and plaster. A period two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block. The house was built in 1858. It was home to William Waldo Hyde from 1881 to 1896. Hyde was from a prominent local family, and was a principal in one of the city's oldest law firms. From 1892 to 1894 he served as Mayor of Hartford. The Waldo and Hyde families also owned other adjacent properties during this time, essentially creating a small family compound. The building underwent restoration in the 1970s, and now houses a commercial business. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Isham-Terry House

The Isham-Terry House is a historic house museum at 211 High Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built around 1854, from 1896 it was home to members of the Isham family, who restored it in the early 20th century. The family donated the property to Connecticut Landmarks in the 1970s, which now operates it has a museum, offering guided tours and facility event rentals. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Description and history The Isham-Terry House occupies a prominent and highly visible location just north of Interstate 84 outside downtown Hartford, at the northwest corner of High and Walnut Streets, and adjacent to the city's police department headquarters. It is a roughly cubical painted brick structure, two stories in height, with a low-pitch roof. A three-story tower projecting from its southwest corner adds visual prominence. The roof eaves are deep, with decorative Italianate brackets for support. Windows are on the two main floors are set in rectangular openings, with narrow oblong windows in the attic level of the main block. On the street-facing facades, the second-floor windows are topped by gabled or segmented-arch pediments with brackets on either side. The first floor of the facade facing Walnut Street is sheltered by a porch supported by slender clustered columns, with round-arch openings that have carved woodwork in the spandrels, and a low spindled balustrade. A similar porch shelters the main entrance facing High Street, and balconies on the tower share similar features. The building interior is well preserved, with lincrusta wall covering, ornate woodwork, and glass chandeliers. The house was built sometime between the 1852 purchase of land by Ebenezer Roberts, and his listing as the building's first occupant in 1856. Roberts was a directory of the Hartford National Bank, Travelers Insurance Company, and other local businesses. Construction of this house contributed to the development of Asylum Hill as a desirable and fashionable neighborhood for the city's elites, although urban renewal has resulted in demolition of nearly all of the other similar houses that once lined High Street. The house was purchased in 1896 by Dr. Oliver Isham, a descendant of the locally prominent Isham and Terry families. He lived here and operated a medical practice. In the 1970s his surviving descendants gave the property to Connecticut Landmarks for preservation. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References External links Connecticut Landmarks - Isham-Terry House
Keney Park Golf Course

Keney Park Golf Course is a public golf course located in Hartford, Connecticut and Windsor, Connecticut within Hartford's Keney Park. The first nine holes were designed by eminent golf course architect Devereux Emmet in 1927, with the remaining nine made by City of Hartford engineer Robert ”Jack” Ross in 1931. History Discussions of building a golf course in Keney Park began as early as 1916 as a means to alleviate congestion in Hartford's Goodwin Park. Goodwin Park was the city's only public golf course at the time, and there was a growing consensus that a new course would help reduce the crowds at Goodwin and improve the skill-set of Hartford players by creating a more challenging course. The course opened on October 13, 1927 at 35 cents for nine holes and 50 cents for 18. Devereux Emmet designed the first nine holes at a cost of $1,500 to the city, Hartford solicited Robert Ross, a city-engineer, to design the remaining nine holes, which premiered on August 29, 1930. In the second half of the 20th century, Keney Park entered a period of decline and mismanagement which culminated in the city terminating their existing manager and launching a comprehensive refurbishment of the course and club house with the assistance of the Connecticut PGA. Since the refurbishment, the course has received numerous accolades, such as tying for first place in Golf Inc.'s 2016 Public Course Renovation list and being rated 2017's third best public course in the state by Golfweek. Course Facilities The Keney Park Club House was designed by Smith & Bassette, a local firm based in Hartford, Connecticut. The Club House contains the pro shop and a restaurant, The Tavern at Keney Park. References External links Keney Park Golf Course The Tavern at Keney Park