Florence Griswold House

.This building is located at 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Florence Griswold House

     The house at 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme Connecticut was built for David Morley in 1817.  The builder was Samuel Belcher.  It is a two story Georgian style house on a 14 acre lot.

Art Community

Old Lyme art colony

     In 1841, the house and lot were purchased for 3 thousand dollars by Captain Robert Griswold.  He bought it for his wife Helene Powers.

     Florence Griswold and her sisters and her mother converted their home into a school for girls in 1878.  This school closed 14 years later due to competition from other areas schools.

     In 1890, the house was converted into a boarding house for summer vacationers.  One of the boarders in in 1899 was landscaper painter Henry Ward Ranger.  He was able to bring several other painters to.the Griswold house to establish the old Lyme Art Colony.  Some.of the artists were Lewis Cohen, Henry Rankin Poore, Lewis Paul Dresser and William Henry Howe.  The art colony was in existence from 1899 to the 1930’s.

     In 1936, the house was converted into a museum. It features an extensive original art collection and period furniture collection.

    Outside of the house there are extensive gardens.

Victoria Bridge Montreal

Victorian Bridge Montreal

     Robert Stephenson and other British engineers were hired to build an iron tubular girder bridge across the Saint Lawrence River.  Construction took place between 1854 and 1859.  It was a single track railroad bridge.Total length of the entire bridge was 9144 feet.  Total length of the iron bridge was 6592 feet.  There were 24 approach spans 242–247 feet in length.  There was a main span of 330 feet.  Construction costs were 6 million dollars.

Victorian Bridge

     In 1897 to 1898 this tubular bridge was replaced with a new truss bridge.  The existing stone piers were reused.  New stone work was added  to upstream side to support the wider truss bridge. The single track girder bridge was replaced with a double track truss bridge.

Old Royal Bank Building Kelowna

  This building is located at 262 Bernard Avenue Kelowna British Columbia. It was built in 1910 –1911.  It is a solid 2 story commercial style building.   Architect is unknown.

Old Royal Bank Building

     The Old Royal Bank remained at this location until 1960s..  It was replaced by Montreal Trust another national financial institution.  After this, in 1981, the bank building was occupied by a restaurant operated under various names. It currently is known as Kelly O’Bryan’s.

Milton Hall Milton, Ontario

     Milton Hall

    It was built between 1855 and 1865. It is located at 251 Main Street East, Milton Ontario.  It was originally used as the town court house.  It was the town hall from.1867 to 1985.

     The architect for this 2 story building was Frank Gehry.  The style is Greek Revival.  Exterior is castellated keep style. It was built by Joseph Martin for $5000.

Zenith Building  Sarasota

  

Signage Zenith Building

  

 The Zenith Building is located  at 1390 Main Street in Sarasota. It was  was sold to WMG Development in 2023 for $24 million..  Recently, in 2025, it was announced that the building as was slated to be demolished.  It is to be replaced by an 18 story residential tower with the Waldorf Astoria name.   A five story parking structure is also  planned. The Zenith Building had been vacant for 2 years.  Also to be demolished is an adjacent 4 story parking structure and a two story office building.  The 2 story building will be replaced with a 3 story building with commercial and retail space.

2 Story office building

     The announcement was made by Jebcare Company, WMG Development and Hilton.  Current plans call for 86 private residences with 1 to 5 bedrooms and penthouses

2 story office building

     The Zenith Building was built in 1972.  The initial owner was Zenith National Insurance Company.   In 2023, the building was bought by WMG Development.

Parking Garage

Parking Garage

  Its exterior is concrete.  Style is shed.  It was designed by ODP.architects. Height is 12 stories.  Space is 111,530 square feet.   The building was an office tower.

Zenith Office Building

Zenith Office Building

Zenith Office Building

Passage from office building to Parking Garage

Ground View