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autumncottageattic · 9 months

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Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott

#scotland #Abbotsford House #the home of Sir Walter Scott #historic country house #scottish country house #library aesthetic

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frostymossgoblin · 2 months

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17th Century pub interior, Gloucestershire

#cottagecore #goblincore #cottage witch #nature aesthetic #naturecore #rural gothic #dark academia #architecture #country gothic #historic house #historic homes #english countryside #country living #countryside #wuthering heights

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hometoursandotherstuff · 5 months

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What a wonderful 1810 home/historic store in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The Clayton Store is now a second story residence, an attached studio, and a recreated country store from 1850 on the ground floor. 2bd, 1.5ba, $590K (a bargain!). Look at this place!

This is the residence on the 2nd floor.

How sweet is this kitchen?

Beautiful primary bedroom.

What great tile in the bath.

In this part of the home are the entrances to the store and studio.

The studio is up the stairs and the store (the back entrance) is straight ahead.

The studio. The current owner is a collector and a professional decorative painter.

Isn't the store fabulous? Look at this stove, the coffee grinder, the bins in front of the counter...

Here we have some squash and stuff behind the counter.

Dry goods dept.

Isn't this like living in a museum?

1.78 acres of beautiful land, too.

#historic property #old country store #old house dreams #houses #house tours #home tour

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queenlucythevaliant · 2 months

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Also for the record, the whole White Witch-enchanted food thing still would have worked regardless of when the story was set. Kids like sweets, especially magic ones that symbolize temptation. The WW2 sugar rationing is not the pivotal element here

#the ww2 aspect of narnia is interesting flavor but like. it's not really essential #lots of books are inextricably linked to their historical contexts such that they can't be properly understood without them #i honestly don't think lww is one of them #the turn of the century setting of mn is far far more important to the story proper than ww2 is for lww #bc of the role it plays in genre and the influence of lewis's childhood on the story #the evacuation of london has one (1) essential story function: it gets the kids into a strange country house and away from their parents #you'll notice it gets dropped entirely in subsequent books #it's very interesting set dressing and definitely cool to play with #but narnia is not at its heart a ww2 story #if anything it's a ww1 story #narnia #idk why but I'm feeling very salty today

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dark-country-house · 8 months

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#country house #English country house #wood paneling #fireplace #historic home

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saviourkingslut · 1 month

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not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

#le triomphe de trajan (1807) out here calling for a man's execution with this banger:#point de grace pour ce perfide; que tout sons sang coule sur un autel #(no grace for this treacherous man; let all his blood flow on an altar)#this is also annoying to me when people write historical fic and the characters treat the opera as this elitist thing #that they don't know anything about.#you know when they go to the opera reluctantly and then they have no idea what's going on on stage or who the composer is.#which is. very unlikely for anyone with the money to attend an opera in certain opera houses in the 19th c. tbqh #like im more of an expert on paris and vienna idk what it was like in london #but if you were decently (upper) middle class or nobility (esp in paris) you went regularly. this was like a whole social space too #i recently read a fanfic and one of the characters was like 'oh it's in italian. i don't know that' and the other character went like #'it's by a man called donizetti what did you expect'#(this was situated in 19th century london)#like first of all. donizetti was NOT a librettist he was a composer he did not write the text #and second of all. he worked on french operas ?? so did rossini. and spontini.#opera was an incredibly international art form. also bc productions would be performed in different countries all the time #(sometimes changed and/or translated but not necessarily)#and again like i said. this was one of THE main forms of entertainment. people were familiar with its conventions! it was well-liked!#ofc bc of the seating prices it was not very accessible to lower classes most of the time #but lbr most characters that get written into an opera scene in fiction are at the very least decently bourgeois lol #i wish people knew how to properly historicise forms of entertainment whose reputation has changed in the modern era #from what it was a century or more ago #very adjacent to people 'cancelling' old lit bc of 'bad takes' like idk how to tell you this but people thought different back then #completely different world view from what we have today. that does not make lit from that era irredeemable it is just from a diff. time #acknowledging that and reading the text critically but also still enjoying it are things that go tgt here #ok rant over (it is never over)#curry rambles

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life-spire · 1 year

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@ mariahhewines

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#travel #wanderlust #explore #estate #estates #country house #countrycore #countryside #manor #old building #historic buildings #garden #gardencore #historic homes #li_destinations #li_homedesign #house #curators on tumblr

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chaoticdesertdweller · 1 year

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Wheeling, WV c.1858

From the listing: "Come see this one-of-a-kind Renaissance Revival/Italianate brick mansion Built in 1858 this building has a rich history and is listed on the National Register of Historic places. A first-floor doorway has glass panels thought to be a rare example of Sweeney Glass. Beautiful Chandeliers and unique hard wood flooring. It was originally known as the Henry K List house. This building could be a great professional office with ample parking. If used as residential property housing 5-6 bedrooms with 3 bathrooms. It consists of a two-story square main block with an offset two-story rear wing. Property includes a riverside parcel where a dock could be added. Square Footage taken from Assessor site."

#rural america #rural gothic #historic district #historic architecture #historic landmark #american gothic #renaissance #italianate #classical revival architecture #southern architecture #in the country #real estate #1858 #old house #west virginia

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theirishaesthete · 11 months

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A Neighbourhood Replete with History

A modest village in County Laois, Aghaboe (from the Irish Achadh Bhó, meaning ‘field of cows’), has been briefly mentioned here before (see Happily Disposed in the Most Elegant Taste « The Irish Aesthete) in relation to Heywood, some 12 miles away, where a pair of mediaeval windows have been incorporated into an 18th century folly. But Aghaboe itself deserves attention, since it was once the site…