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Turret Eave

Turret Eave

Underneath the eaves of this turret, there is amazingly detailed terra-cotta and copper inlays.
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WOW THATS REALLY PRETTY.
JAVA
Sun 05-29-2005
Incredible! You'd never see a building these days with such beautiful decorative tile. The workmanship required to do it would be hard to find...
Mnementh
Fri 06-10-2005
The economy and scaricity of resources also places a key roll in the lack of buildings like this these days.
Cyrus
Tue 06-14-2005
What a treasure!

Cyrus, it's not only the things you mention in the lack of buildings that look like that. Architects seem to want simplicity instead of ornate features like these. There hasn't been a Victorian revival period as of yet.
AutumnTwin
Sat 08-20-2005
There's definitely not a lack of materials to build something like this. And that doesn't have anything to do with the economy. Hospitals aren't built like this today because its much more inexpensive to make it simple.

Think about the upkeep on this place. It probably wasn't budgeted to fix some of this stuff
John
Tue 10-11-2005
Absolutely phenomenal! No one could afford to have a building built like this anymore....it's too bad, too. Those clamshell feet on the braces are awsome, too! The clams on the tiles.....
Tony C.
Fri 11-11-2005
Beautiful, just beautiful. Craftsmen took such pride in their work in the "good old days." I wish that we could afford this type of detail in 2006!!
Scarlett77
Sat 05-13-2006
The beautiful buildings of architecture are left to decay. Let's build some cheap condos!!!
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
My god, that's amazing. What a find!
Frank-pgh
Fri 07-20-2007
And when that building is razed or renovated, you can be sure that you know exactly what will be overlooked...
CataclysmicStar
Wed 04-30-2008
Motts; Live in Weston, WV and we have an old state hospital here in town. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. It sat vacant for years, but now they are finally doing some restoration, and they also do tours. I was just wondering if you have ever been there?
Erin
Sat 07-25-2009
Yes; I managed to get the interior of the Kirkbride building before it was purchased for tours... I was a bit disappointed at the sterility of it, and enjoyed the exteriors much more.
Motts
Sun 07-26-2009
That is some FASCINATING decorative detail!
STL girl
Mon 09-06-2010
The cookie-cutter condos of the present are a sad statement in comparison. A true Victorian building was never ordinary, even painted gingerbread trim adds so much personality.
STL girl
Mon 09-06-2010

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