#foundation stone

Louis II (Dutch: Lodewijk van Male; French: Louis II de Flandre) (25 October 1330, Male – 30 January 1384, Lille), also known as Louis of Male, a member of the House of Dampierre, was Count of Flanders, Count of Nevers, and Count of Rethel from 1346 to 1384, and also Count of Artois and Count of Burgundy from 1382 until his death. He was the son of Count Louis I of Flanders and the Countess of Burgundy and Artois, Margaret I of Burgundy, the youngest daughter of the King of France, Philip V the Tall.

Daughter of King Thutmose I and wife of her half-brother, King Thutmose II, Queen Hatshepsut eventually ruled Egypt as pharaoh in her own right. This commemorative stone was placed at a construction site, probably of the temple built for her at Deir el-Bahari, one of the most beautiful monuments of ancient Egypt. It bears the queen's throne name, Maat-ka-re, as well as that of the temple's architect, Senenmut.

2022 already? Lordy, me. God, help us all. Our Lady of Lourdes catholic church and school (1950). In a curious 'Spanish Mission' style commemorating some kind of apparition that happened in France in the 19th century, complete with embedded relic. Marian cult of the magic waters. A lot of folks needed miracles post-1945. Earlwood.

1859 watercolor of the Foundation Stone by Carl Haag https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Holy-Rock--Jerusalem/779D117A33638A78

Former Methodist chapel (1892). Non-conformist style church building, saved from dereliction. Facade restored, a major extension out the back and converted to small über-lux apartments. There are no less than six foundation stones, all laid on the same day, scattered around the base of the thing. One of the very few buildings to be started or completed after the collapse of Sydney's first real estate boom in the Panic of 1890, which led to an almost decade long economic depression. Hard times. Glebe.

Foundation stone. Former Central Methodist Mission hall. Left derelict for years, now being converted to warehouse apartments. Lilyfield.

The most poignant foundation stone in all Sydney. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1882). Camperdown.

The "Doc Evatt Building", commemorating the rapid expansion of low-income social housing in the inner-west post-World War Two. This set of four three-storey plain red brick apartment buildings remains fully occupied and well maintained after 71 years. Campsie.