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Cornell University Library, one of the leading academic research libraries in the United States, is part of the academic information infrastructure at Cornell University. At the heart of our mission is a commitment to supporting teaching, research, outreach, and learning. With that in mind, the Library is exploring Flickr as a way to make digital images from our collections available to the world at large. These images are already in the public domain and free from copyright restriction. Please feel free to leave comments and notes on individual pictures, or contact us via Flickr Mail. We'd love to hear from you!

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Nineteenth-century House

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  • Zzap07 said:
    Hey, just want to know which part of england this picture is?
  • Hans-Bernd Abel said:
    North Lodge of the University Parks, North Oxford, viewed from south. Built in 1862 by H. Wilkinson Moore. Grade II listed. Located at the northern gate of University Parks, where Banbury Road, Norham Gardens and Parks Road meet. This would have been a nice starting point for a walkabout to most of the North Oxford buildings shown in the collection of A. D. White Architectural Photographs. To the right, it's just a few steps to Wycliffe Hall at No. 54 Banbury Road, formerly named Laleham, photographed in this album from the west and southeast. Further northwards on Banbury Road, William Wilkinson built No. 60, "Shrublands", now part of Kellogg College. Even further to the right is Norham Gardens, with large residential villas, many of them later converted for accommodation or for institutional use, including No. 3 Norham Gardens shown in this album. Straight across the street were No. 31 Banbury Road, "The Firs" and the impressive "Springfield" villa at No. 33, both of them cornerstones of the site of St. Anne's College, today you find two mid-century student residences there instead. Nearby Bevington Road would pass you to some beautiful villas on Woodstock Road, but unfortunately, neither Nos. 113 and 115 nor the Italianate Walton Manor House at No. 141 survived the redevelopment era of the 1960s. Turn to the left from here and follow University Walk in south direction towards Keble College. On this section of Parks Road, there was a line of impressive Victorian houses at that time, including Nos. 17-18 (South & North Elms), now displaced by the brutalistic Holder building. But Nos. 12-13 (South & North Grove) and 14-15 (East View) still provide a glimpse of that era. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - A. Spokes Symmonds: The Changing Faces of North Oxford, Books I & II View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.

Nineteenth-century English House

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  • Hans-Bernd Abel said:
    No. 113 Woodstock Road, North Oxford, seen from southeast. Built in 1863 by W. Wilkinson for wine merchant Edwin Butler. Named "Newton Lodge", this house was located opposite St. Philip & St. James Church. One of the houses which were demolished in the late 1960s to make way for the 'Butlers' Close' apartment building. Illustrated (in the same perspective) on plates IX and X of Mr. Wilkinsons's book 'English Country Houses'. Stylistically similar to No. 31 Banbury Road by Wilkinson, i.e. it shares the same elements (e.g. bay windows, tower) using a different layout. The bay window on the left is that of the dining room, next to the drawing room behind. The kitchen is (typical for WIlkinson) not in the basement but on ground level (on the right side). Four bedrooms on the first floor, with a dressing room in the "tower" above the entrance door. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Internet Archive (archive.org) for 'English Country Houses' - Picture Oxon, photographs by P. S. Spokes and R. F. Wills

Nineteenth-century English Apartment House

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  • MyLiliesMyLo said:
    Odd that it's standing there on its own...but intriguing!
  • Hans-Bernd Abel said:
    No. 54, Banbury Road, North Oxford. "Laleham", today known as Wycliffe Hall, seen from west. Built in 1866, architect: J. Gibbs, grade II listed. This house was built for Thomas Arnold the Younger and his family, who offered tutorials there, including accomodation for his pupils at Laleham. See also the south east view of the same building in this album. The impressive entrance gate is no more directly visible today, since a dining hall (now used as a lecture room) was built in front of the fassade. The modest doorway at the north (left) side would probably lead to the student rooms. The building in the background on the right is No. 1 Norham Gardens, with its characteristic chimney in white framework. The house in the background on the left would probably be (todays) No. 4 Bradmore Road. It's still scaffolded, thus, considering the lease dates, this photograph should have been taken between 1870 and 1872. On closer inspection, people can be found in some photographs of this collection, who are watching the scenery from inside. In this picture, someone (perhaps a member of the household staff) is looking out of the basement window left of the entrance. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Oxfordshire Buildings Index, found at Oxfordshire Councils' web site - Town Plan of Oxford XXXIII.15.2 (1876), National Library of Scotland.

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