The Tower House in London's Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea is a late Victorian townhouse, built between 1875 and 1881 by the architect and designer William Burges as his personal residence. Designed in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work. The house was built of red brick, with a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof, by the Ashby Brothers, with interior decoration by members of Burges's long-standing team of craftsmen including Thomas Nicholls and Henry Stacy Marks. The house retains most of its internal structural decoration, but much of the furniture, fittings and contents that Burges designed have been dispersed. Many items, including the Great Bookcase, the Zodiac Settle, the Golden Bed and the Red Bed, are now in institutions such as The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
880:
The Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople was consecrated, and went on to set the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nea_Ekklesia
1753:
Carl Linnaeus published his Species Plantarum, which, with his earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern botanical nomenclature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus
1865:
Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina signed a treaty creating an alliance against Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Triple_Alliance
1941:
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
1985:
Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagong_Alyansang_Makabayan
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
tumpline: A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just behind the forehead. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumpline
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill." --Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington
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