Cut stone
Most everyone knows that I have a thing for stones. The field stone fences of my youth that I placed more than my share of stones in are part and parcel of that. I figured that this would also be a good place to show off some of the stone monuments I grew up admiring. What follows are 2 examples of what was accomplished by the folks of the day. Many years ago during a town meeting it was decided to build a stone monument honoring the men whofought in the Civil War. A budget of $12,000.00 was appropriated for this purpose as a site had been donated on a local hill top. When itwas ultimately finished the total cost was $16,000.00 and the town father went nuts because it was $4,000.00 over budget. With that in mind this is what that $16,000.00 bought. Can you just imagine what this beauty would cost in today's dollars?
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Hi Tsula!
I really enjoy these kind of monuments. Where is this?
Hi Leona; This in a little town in Northwestern Ct. called Winsted. It was a small manufacturing town that finally got wiped out by a major flood in 1955. The town is there but all of the jobs went away with the destroyed factories and so it is now mostly a bedroom town. Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.
That is one area of the country that I yearn to explore. My family from my mom's side is from Rhode Island...not too far from Connecticut.
Good stone work is a beautiful thing to behold. Absolutely love it.
These are beautiful, Tsula! Thank you for sharing what you love with us!
Great photos tsula. A great monument. It will probably last another couple of hundred years.
In following up the Soldier's Monument, the town was noted for it's variety of churches. This little town who's major strength was in the small factories which dotted it, using the local population, as workers, was also noted for the churches there and that fact that that same population of around 7,000 people built and maintained them. First will be The United Methodist Church of which I was, and still am, a supporting member. It's main claim to fame is that the stained glass windows are Tiffany windows which are now covered with bullet proof, of all things, protective coverings because somebody decided yeas ago to take some pot shots at them. We brought a technician all the way from Switzerland to repair them. This is a very old picture of it and every single one of the trees died from the Dutch Elm disease which ravaged our town which had Elm trees on every street!
Thanks for the follow up information tsula. Interesting stuff and the photo is wonderful. To bad about the elm trees though. They look magnificent in the photo.
Thanks Kavika! One of the most impressive churches in town was the Catholic Church. Remembering that this is a town of at most 7000 people in a good year I always said and still do that this church was in fact a Cathedral and the pictures I think will bear me out.
Nice! I missed this one. Glad I found it. Thanks!
Yeah, I'm a big fan of stone work as well. Especially combined with Timber Frame and Cob.
Just outstanding. Great, great pictures, thanks! Number 4 reminds me of Switzerland.
I'll have to look for more of mine!