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Help with an enlarged, tinted photograph/print - recognize this building?

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Bookahtoo, Aug 25, 2014.

  1. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    This print measures 15" by 20". It was in a period frame but the paper it was pasted to was heavily water damaged, so I took it out. The print isn't damaged too badly - just warped.
    Is this a famous building I should recognize?
    To me, it looks like it might be a convent school or something.

    IMG_2229.JPG
     
  2. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Definitely foreign, don't you think? Eastern European or Scandinavian would be my WAG.
     
  3. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    I don't know ... I was thinking maybe eastern Canada.
     
  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    It's a church. The crosses are on top of the roof and there's a graveyard out back. It does have something Scandinavian about it, but that could mean Upper Midwest. Tons of Swedes, Norwegians, etc immigrated up there. It's got some Romanesque elements too, so...dunno.
     
  5. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    It could be as foreign as western Canada
     
  6. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I got that it was a church. It's very heavy architecture reminiscent of northern climates. You're right about Minnesota and those places that were settled by Scandinavian immigrants. Lutheran churches always seem bulky to me.
     
  7. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I just saw an Albanian church with a similar roofline
     
  8. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    Just doesn't look very churchlike to me

    Where's the stained glass windows?

    And what's up with the suicide truck bomber barriers?
     
  9. yourturntoloveit

    yourturntoloveit Well-Known Member

    Terry, do you mean the bollards? Wonder if they ever had chain attached to keep out farm animals or runaway horse-drawn carriages?

    Lutheran churches "bulky" eh? Would that be another word for "sturdy"? ;)
     
  10. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    Although likely someplace in North America, I'm getting a Ukrainian vibe from it.
     
  11. Ladybranch

    Ladybranch Well-Known Member

    >I'm getting a Ukrainian vibe from it.<

    Ditto here. Eastern Europe feel to me. Believe there is a round rosette stained glass window over the front door. I known the steeples or whatever are not iconic "onion" shape like the typical Russian orthodox churches, but they are rounded like this "First Ukrainian Church in Canada." Click the pic for an enlargement:
    http://www.infoukes.com/culture/architecture/first_church/

    and this Roman Catholic Ukrainian church, again Canada:
    http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/mun/m014.html

    Here are some old Russian Orthodox churches with fences around them:
    This one built in the 1930s is on St. George Island off the west coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea - "part of the Pribilof group of islands":
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AGhi-kPBtlg/THU3Al8UEYI/AAAAAAAABBg/ewcoEhRabZs/s400/P1030356b.jpg

    This one is on the Kenai Peninsular of Alaska, picture taken c1900:
    https://redoubtreporter.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/churches-roc-ca-1900.jpg?w=300&h=230

    --- Susan
     
    Last edited: Aug 26, 2014
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  12. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Another reason I was thinking Canada is that we have a large population of French Canadians around here.
    It sure does look similar to a lot of the churches in your links Susan - thanks for those.
    Maybe I'll try scanning parts of it today...
     
  13. User 67

    User 67 Active Member

    It may be Russian Orthodox or Russian/Germans, lots of RGs immigrated to North and South Dakota (and Canadian plains) and the landscape is flat like the Dakotas. The floor plan is obviously a cross (does that make it a Basilica?) the knave to the left has a round stained glass.

    The bomber barriers look like stone hitching posts, I've seen some like that which are still extant that had grooves at the top or iron rings to lash to.
     
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