Beautiful buildings!

 

Every city looks different, and I’m constantly struck by the features that make a city unique. Many of the houses in our part of Hobart were built in the 1800’s. I notice dates on nearby houses in the 1880’s or 1850’s. Many of them are brick or wood, some are of a warm, local sandstone. What really catches my eye is the lovely metal lacework that decorates the front of the houses. Sometimes it’s just a little curve of metal lace around a door frame, or a simple metal strip at the top of the porch. On other houses it can be much more ornate and include panels of the porch railing as well. The metal lacework is always painted. I like it best when it is painted white, but some of the colorful ones can beautiful too. Sometimes a stone house will have the lacework as well. I love to see the dressed stone on the front of the houses and the rough stone as soon as you turn the corner to the side. I’ve even seen some metal trim on new apartment buildings. Roofs are mostly corrugated metal, but some have tile. Metal roofs are always painted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes the lace frames a good view.

 

 

 

The wooden trim is a rough echo of the metalwork.

 

A stone wall outside a garden.

 

Dressed stone in front, rough on the sides.

 

 

Stone and metal lace. Built in 1880. Just a couple doors down from us.

 

A stone wall is an excuse for a flower garden.