HI Ann, Thanks for the look. It's a brand new house, about 25 rooms I believe. It certainly invokes an old-world style. It's on the site of an 1832 farmhouse that was moved a few years ago after the 27-acre remnant of an old farm that it stood on was purchased by developers.
Although Detroit was first settled by the French in 1702, all early buildings were of a temporary nature and to the best of my knowledge, none survive. The oldest house dates from 1826. It's a three story colonial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Trowbridge_House). Bloomfield Hills, the site of the house in the photo is about 25 miles north of Detroit and is home to many lavish buildings, but none of them are very old. I believe the oldest significant house is Cranbrook House, which was designed in 1908 by Albert Kahn for the Booth family (http://housegardens.cranbrook.edu/about). Leonard Bernstein wrote the music for West Side Story on the grand piano in Cranbrook House, while visiting in spring of 1946. And that's all I know:-). On Feb 17, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > I found myself counting gables :-) > > I like it - as to the building itself, looks more like New England than > Michigan (the house) - is it actually old or just built to look it? > > Alas, another day with no snow in Manhattan > > ann > > On 2/17/2013 07:55, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> Thanks Tim. I looked at more contrast and various extended black and white >> point adjustments, but it diminished the overall effect in that the somber >> mood was broken. I prefer it this way. Defining the snow better seemed a >> poor tradeoff, but I can show you what it looks like when I'm on my work >> omputer. >> >> Paul >> On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> wrote: >> >>> The other snowpix did’t do that much for me, but that one really >>> works. Maybe crank the contrast a bit, or otherwise darken the spaces >>> between the flakes? -T >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> >>> wrote: >>>> A mansion on the shore of Vray Lake, scene through the snow in Bloomfield >>>> Hills, Michigan. >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16937276&size=lg >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
