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Victorian Architecture

This album is open to submissions by visitors. Photos should have a strong Bellefonte theme, and be of high quality.

16 files, last one added on Feb 01, 2005
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2004 Flood

Photos of Spring Creek and Talleyrand Park on the Saturday morning following Hurricane Ivan's visit in September of 2004. If you have pictures of the flood that you'd like to add, you may upload them to this Album.

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Talleyrand Park on Spring Creek1746 viewsPhoto taken in the spring, on an April morning in 2004

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Welcome To Victorian Bellefonte1119 views

Spring Creek, Talleyrand Park1504 viewsThis is the view of Spring Creek from the suspension bridge, looking upstream from the center of Talleyrand Park. Spring Creek, joined in the Park by the 15 million-per-day flow from the Big Spring, flows all the way through Pennsylvania until it joins the Susquehanna River and, eventually, these waters flow into the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Gov. Hastings Mansion981 viewsN. Allegheny St.

Daffodils in Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte 2005539 viewsThis view is of one small part of nearly 15,000 daffodils that were planted in and around Talleyrand Park by a group of volunteers in the fall of 2004. Part of "Bellefonte in Bloom: Project Daffodil", a joint effort of the Bellefonte Garden Club and the Bellefonte Area Chamber of Commerce, the 5-year plan is to plant 30,000 daffodil bulbs (at a minimum) each year. Planning is under way for the second year's effort, and interested people are urged to call the Chamber office (814-355-2917), or the project coordinators (814-353-1456) to volunteer, make a donation (tax deductible), or to inquire about obtaining free bulbs if there is a surplus this year. Future years will provide more free bulbs to individuals, businesses and community groups who agree to plant in and around Bellefonte.

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Lincoln Memorial307 views

Mini park, Jabco's looking toward raceway335 views

Blooms on Curtin Street460 views

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Courtney and Jeanne added more daffodils around the Gamble Mill. These are from the first year, but come see the rest.332 views

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Train Station149 views

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Dr. Kevin and Carol Burke home, 299 West Linn Street 774 viewsA perennial favorite is the impressive red brick Burnside/McCoy house built for Judge Thomas Burnside in 1869. A small summer house and servant’s quarters built behind the main house share the enormous landscaped lot that fills the entire block between West Linn and West Curtin Streets and is actually more easily approached from West Curtin Street. Nov 02, 2008

Molly Fisher home, 177 East Linn Street648 viewsThe five-bay Georgian-style house was built by one of the Criders—one of whom built the 1889 Crider Exchange building on North Allegheny Street. Perhaps Fountain William commissioned the house since, certainly, one of his children Burns Crider lived there for a time in the mid-nineteenth Century. Molly and Jay Fisher restored the house in the 1990s...Nov 02, 2008

Cecil and Sally Houser home, 716 North Allegheny Street600 viewsChristmas is in the air as Nativity sets fill the family room, Old World Santas, the living-room and sitting room. Snowmen occupy the first floor bedroom and Nutcrackers the kitchen of Cecil and Sally’s beautiful, meticulously kept house. Evidence of Cecil’s labors on behalf of the American Bald Eagle as a volunteer monitor for the North Central Region is on view. When Christmas is not the season, miniature lighthouses are displayed on the shelves of the family-room addition built by Robert and Delores Nellis when they lived in the house. Nov 02, 2008

Reynold’s Mansion (Joseph and Charlotte Heidt’s home), 101 West Linn Street768 viewsThe thirty-room mansion was built in 1884-85 for Major William F. Reynolds in Queen Anne-style with dashes of High Victorian Gothic, Italianate and Second Empire Baroque added by the unknown architect. Its construction of red sandstone required twenty Italian stone-masons and an army of other artisans to construct the stained-glass windows, paint the exquisite ceilings and install the hardwood floors. Nov 02, 2008

Bob and Tammi Schuster’s “Our Fair Lady” Bed-and-Breakfast, 313 East Linn Street768 viewsIn 1883, John Ardell, a Bellefonte lumberman constructed the magnificent house (the style dubbed “painted lady” by Victorians) of the finest local hardwoods, including chestnut clapboards, black walnut front door and banister-railing, poplar pocket doors with original hand-stippling and red and white oak floors.Nov 02, 2008