Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos of buildings of any sort that are old. The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi values the aged, old, broken, imperfect.
What will you choose to share?
Guangdong, China taken in 2007
New Mexico along the Turquoise Trail
Columbus, Indiana, a grand home
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Shanghai
Outside of Melbourne
Kyoto, Japan
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I went to Kokomo Indiana’s Seiberling Mansion, known as the best example of the worst architecture. The Seiberling Mansion blends neo It’s a funky, curious mix and suggests an era and family that favored whimsy and imagination as well as comfort and luxury. Arthur LaBelle designed the house for Monroe Seiberling, a prominent and wealthy industrialist, who made a fortune in natural gas, the mansion is a combination of Neo-Jacobean and Romanesque architecture.
The Seiberling family just lived her for a few years. The mansion then was home till the 1940s before University of Indiana used it as a branch campus putting up chalkboards and moving in desks, chairs and university posters.
When the university moved to a larger facility, the mansion was left to deteriorate. Vandals took over and trashed the place. In 1972 the mansion was turned over to the county, which restored its glory and turned it into a museum.
Some interesting features include the brass hinges and door plates with Moorish embellishments, the gas fireplaces, the parquet floors of maple, oak and walnut. Admission is $4 for adults and $1 for children age 3 -12. They have two different scavenger hunts for children and a pretty good video explaining the mansion’s history. The docents on hand are welcoming and knowledgeable.
Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition 