#rustic architecture

Open every day, Longmire has much to offer. Stop in the Longmire Museum to talk to a ranger about current conditions or go to the National Park Inn for a warm meal. On your way between the two buildings, pause at the Transportation Exhibit. Housed inside the old Longmire service station, a series of exhibit panels explore the history of the Paradise Road and travel in the park.

The building itself is also part of the exhibit. The service station was built in 1929 and stopped selling gasoline in 1994, but still has replica historic gas pumps in front.

As one of the best surviving examples of a NPS Rustic gas station in the National Park Service, the Longmire Service Station is designated a National Historic Landmark. Have you stopped by the Transportation Exhibit while visiting Longmire?

Find more weekday activities in the park at https://go.nps.gov/AltWinterRecreation.

…surprising rustic corners in the historic center…sometimes you just need to leave a door open to discover another world…

Forest lodge, medieval castle or 30-80s memorabilia collection holder? Cannot say for sure, but Emer and I dressed up on theme (and colour) to match Château Montebello's 1930 wood hotel.

Outdoor pictures; indoor pictures HERE

My outfit Dress: second-hand Juliette et Justine Blouse: second-hand Fint Shoes: second-hand Yösuke Hat, brooch and earrings: vintage

Look at this unusual house for $350K in Bristol, Virginia.

Isn’t this nice? It’s quite a large home for $350K.

Isn’t the entrance stunning? 

Look at how beautiful the wood is inside. I love the columns.

Love how you go under the stairs, like under a bridge. Isn’t that unique?

What a great kitchen. Look at the brass rail on the bottom of the island.

Nice big powder room.

The main bd. is huge, but I’m not fond of the open bathroom. I would probably have to put up a wall. 

There are 6 large bds. like these.

There are 5.5 baths and I can’t tell if they’re part of bds. b/c they’re so huge.

Here’s a pretty room.

This home has so many features and it’s so big.

Can you believe the basement? This is a ballroom.

What a lovely hallway.

Another of those crazy big baths.

Even the garage is nice and it seems to go down to the ballroom.

Look at this driveway.

Uniquely beautiful home. I just read that the buyer is entitled to a landfill disclosure, so I looked that up and apparently it’s near a landfill that may smell or otherwise have toxicity.

Here's a piece I recently finished that's based on a sketch done late last year (image #2), which was itself very slightly modeled on a photo of an armory building (image #3). Note the apparently pyramidal form, steeply pitched roof, and staggered sequence of lunettes. As often happens, the lunettes and several other details were lost or altered during the transition to a more polished piece.

I'm continuing to experiment with the siting of these structures. The environment here is some sort of bewilderingly dense forest, with masses of stringy foliage hanging down and billowing out. Around the structure, petrified agglomerations rise up. I like the idea that the architecture was once similar to these knobby formations, and somehow evolved out of that -- the implication being that the organic is always embedded within the apparently inorganic.