Some recent edits from Walks in New Bedford and Fall River MA

Good Morning, I hope you had a good weekend, and wishing you a good week ahead.

As I tend to do, I am starting the week with a few Monochrome Edits from recent walks.

This beautiful Tudor Revival building is actually the Unitarian Memorial Church Parsonage (also historically known as the Harrop House or parts of Our Lady's Haven campus), located at 47 Center Street in Fairhaven; it was built in 1904. Designed by architect Charles Brigham and funded by Gilded Age oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers as part of the overall Unitarian Memorial Church construction project

Next up on a walk in New Bedford, I passed by the New Bedford Probate Court building was built between 1907 and 1909. Designed in the Neo-Classical architectural style, the one-story buff brick and stone building originally served as the Third District Courthouse before being converted for probate use. They sure built with style back then

On a walk in Fall River I walked by this Hiker Statue. It sits on a dedicated traffic median known as James Tansey Square,

The large stone building looming behind the monument is one of Fall River's historic 19th-century granite textile mills.

While the bronze "Hiker" sculpture itself is a duplicate of Kitson's famous 1904 design, the pedestal beneath it uniquely links directly to the local history of Fall River, it wqas Installed and dedicated in 1938. The local history is represented in the pedestal base, with the upper block supporting the statue is formed from the salvaged top of a stone column taken from the demolished Fall River Customhouse and United States Post Office, which was torn down in the early 1930s.

Now, on a recent walk, I was on the Hurricane barrier wall in Fairhaven, catching some sunrise photos. It was a bit breezy but not too bad, or so I thought. I had my camera set up on a tripod, and I thought I heard someone behind me. I turned to look and felt a gust of wind hit me, then heard a crash behind me, and let out a scream when I turned and saw my camera had been blown over and was halfway down the barrier wall; all I could see were the legs of the tripod sticking up. I climbed down and got it out, and the camera looked fine; the tripod had some scratches but also seemed ok. I took some more photos that morning but when I got home and imported them, I noticed a line across every photos and I thought I had a scratch on the lens.

I looked at it indeed, it did look like a scratch, but when I wiped it off with a cloth, the scratch seemed to go.

So later that day I took a walk in the local cemetery to do some test photos, and these next two photos are from that walk.

The good news is everything seems to be fine.

And to finish off this Ornate Headstone, which I looke dup and foudn this info

This exact grave marker is a Kneeling Angel. It was manufactured by the famous Monumental Bronze Company based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Historical catalog records from the early 1900s show that this top-tier, elaborate model was sold to families for a retail price of $825—making it an incredibly expensive luxury monument at the time, equivalent to a family spending thousands of dollars today on a plot marker

And that’s all folks

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