Showing posts with label named buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label named buildings. Show all posts

Saturday, November 6, 2010

But wait there's more...

I added some more named buildings to my collection yesterday; these ones are in Newmarket. They're all the same kind of age...from the 1920s? '30s? and have the best names.
Others I found were "Sunola" and "Glenross"...



This one's called "Tihutahi."
This one is divided into two flats. I love the way the letters in the name have only been painted on the side belonging to one flat. Looks like that creeper's intruding beyond the dividing line, though. It says "Burleigh" under there.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Naming rights

I love a good named building. I mean the kind where the name is carved out of stone, or painted on, rather than on a big neon sign. When we lived in Melbourne I liked the way lots of the terrace houses had names; I collected the ones that were named after New Zealand places. The only ones I can remember now are Clyde and Kaiapoi. We lived in one called Rathdowne I think, for all of one night, before we ran away with all our belongings on the tram...but that's another story!

I think that's actually a new sign. But this one's all about the window boxes.


I love that font. Who said blue & green should never be seen without a colour in between?