Structure details

[Ray Dunakin]

Not a whole lot of action on the forum lately, so here are some interesting structure detail pics...


The rear of this old brick building in Austin, NV has an intricate, cast iron vent grill, among other things:






This cupola or skylight is kind of unusual:




Electric meter details on another Austin building:




Front of an old cabin in Belmont, NV. Flattened tin cans were used as battens:






Stone foundation of the former courthouse in Belmont, NV::

[darrylhuffman]

Thanks Ray, the interesting variations of old buildings seems endless.  But you have to take the time to seek them out and photograph them.

Thanks for sharing.

Here is a link to some old buildings I have found over the years.

http://picasaweb.google.com/darrylhuffman

Included are photos of the shack we lived in back in 1945.

Darryl Huffman

[Chuck Doan]

Great details!

[Malachi Constant]

Very nice!  Thanks, Ray ... and Darryl!  -- Dallas

[Scratchman]

Here's two photos of the brick boiler house in Evanston Wyoming..





Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[EZnKY]

What a great building!
Thanks for posting these.

[Ray Dunakin]

That boiler house is great! With some modifications, it looks like it could make a neat engine house too.

Here's a nifty brick building in Tonopah, NV:

[finescalerr]

The doors on that first structure are great. And the bricks on both structures almost look like brick paper. Maybe it's the lighting but there seems to be very little surface variation; the mortar appears almost flush with the bricks. Each structure must be a hundred years old. That speaks well of the construction crew. -- Russ

[shropshire lad]

The doors on that first structure are great. And the bricks on both structures almost look like brick paper. Maybe it's the lighting but there seems to be very little surface variation; the mortar appears almost flush with the bricks. Each structure must be a hundred years old. That speaks well of the construction crew. -- Russ

Uncle Russ ,
  Don't discount the possibility that part or all of the walls on these building could have been repointed at some time in their lives . Plus it would be interesting to know how much adverse weather the two building have had to put up with in their lives .

   Nick

[Mr Potato Head]

I don't think they get a lot of snow and or freezing temperatures in the Nevada desert!
But nothing says home like a brick house! Just ask the third Pig? 
MPH

[eTraxx]

We got frost during the night in the Saudi Arabian desert up near Iraq during Desert Shield. That was during the Winter I admit .. it didn't last long at all once the sun came up but .. it was there

[Ray Dunakin]

The elevation at Tonopah is 5850', and it's a good deal farther north than our deserts in So. Cal. Tonopah's average minimum temperature in January is a frosty 22 degrees. They do get a bit of snow as well -- 14.4" annually, between October and May.

[Ray Dunakin]

I like the design of this old store in Eureka, NV:




The Gold Dust saloon in Gold Point, NV:




Some interesting old signs on a brick building in MIna, NV:






Enjoy!

[Ray Dunakin]

I just came across this photo of an old door. The paint has peeled in a really odd way, considering the door is wood. If you modeled it just like this people would think you did it wrong!

[finescalerr]

Whoever weathered that door did it wrong. -- ssuR