Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[govner1]

Roma est.

I don't know anything about the baths you mentioned.. My picture is labeled "View of Palatine Hill from the Colosseum" and is in sequence with being at the Colosseum. You made me look, and the primary thing in the picture is actually the Temple of Venus and Roma on a small hill next to the Palatine Hill.

BTW: I met my wife because I sat behind her in 9th grade Latin class more than 50 years before we visited Rome and took that picture.

Anyway, you're up @govner1.

 

[govner1]

The entrance to the forum is to the left and many concerts have been held in the “half” dome structure on the right/background.
I was lucky enough to live in Rome 69-70 and have fortunately been back reasonably often.
Next pic up tomorrow since dinner is ready.

 

[govner1]

Here you go-

 

[DBhomebrew]

Sedona?

 

[govner1]

Wow! That was quick!
Sedona it is, @DBhomebrew you're up

 

[DBhomebrew]

Wow! That was quick!
Sedona it is, @DBhomebrew you're up

Lived in Phoenix for near a decade.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[D.B.Moody]

Sand Island Light House, in the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama.
Looking for "red brick lighthouse" gets one that looks just like it, but not on a tiny island. So that took some investigating to find a twin.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Sand Island Light House, in the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama.
Looking for "red brick lighthouse" gets one that looks just like it, but not on a tiny island. So that took some investigating to find a twin.

You got it.

This light is one of the most endangered lighthouses in the USA. Erosion is erasing the little Sand Island. Some measures have been taken to prevent it such as the rocks you see, but they haven't been too effective. In 2011, a new 15 acre island built of dredged sand was completed. Less than a year later, Hurricane Isaac took care of that.

This tower was completed in 1864 to replace the 1859 tower that Fort Morgan destroyed in 1863. Union soldiers had been seen using the tower as an observatory post. The 1859 tower was itself a replacement for the first one built in 1837.

Edit: See below for more accurate info.

I took the pic in 2016 while our fishing guide was deciding where he wanted to go. On the other side of the tower I pulled up a fish that fed six hungry adults and a handful of kids.

Where to next, @D.B.Moody?!

 

[D.B.Moody]

In my investigation, I got an 1873 date for the current Sand Island Lighthouse. Built to same plan as the Currituck (North Carolina)) and Morris Island (South Carolina) lights

and another that is fully painted. The first picture is the one that came up for the "red brick lighthouse" search that started my investigation. Anyway, @DBhomebrew, what's next is another tower by water that's in need of repair:

 

[DBhomebrew]

In my investigation, I got an 1873 date for the current Sand island lighthouse.

Interesting. My info's from Wikipedia and clearly incorrect. Following their own reference to the Encyclopedia of Alabama gives info matching your dates.

Your pics aren't showing up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Interesting. My info's from Wikipedia and clearly incorrect. Following their own reference to the Encyclopedia of Alabama gives info matching your dates.

Your pics aren't showing up.

I got pictures of Currituck from googling "red brick light house" and Wikipedia on it said Sand Island was built to same plan. Wikipedia on Sand Island was poor information, but the web site for Sand Island, Alabama at Lighthousefriends.com had good info and referenced the other lighthouses built to the same plan which led me to Morris Island looking for the one in the one at Charleston. Yes, I just had to look at them all, and that's how I got the picture.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

what's next is another tower by water that's in need of repair:

Presumably photographed by a surgeon?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Urquhart, Loch Ness

 

[D.B.Moody]

Urquart Castle, Loch Ness, it is or once was. You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

I'm interested in hearing to whom @Northern_Brewer was referring. I presume you knew exactly which ruins these are.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I'm interested in hearing to whom @Northern_Brewer was referring. I presume you knew exactly which ruins these are.

Me too. I took that picture in 1988, @Northern_Brewer. Who is the surgeon?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Perhaps the most famous picture taken in that area is the "Surgeon's Photograph" of 1934, even if it wasn't all that it seemed :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster#"Surgeon's_photograph"_(1934)https://www.donttakepictures.com/dt...turns-83-the-story-of-the-surgeons-photograph
But I'm trying not to claim ones I know too quickly, I'd rather wait 24h and perhaps give a newbie the chance to claim it.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Ah, yes.

Another ruin...

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Vegetation doesn't feel right for Europe, and the architecture looks like someone has read books about French chateaux and Scottish baronial castles, but hasn't quite got it right. I'll guess eastern Canada?

The number and expanse of windows just feels wrong, so I guess glass is being made in industrial quantities by this stage, late 19th century?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Everything but Canada is really close if not spot on.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Bannerman Castle(like) munitions warehouse on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River which blew up in 1920 and sustained the current level of damage in a fire in 1969.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Bannerman Castle(like) munitions warehouse on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River which blew up in 1920 and sustained the current level of damage in a fire in 1969.

You got it. Another castle built by a Scottish [immigrant] in the [Hudson] Highlands.

Bannerman began collecting and selling scrap as a kid in the 1860s, soon graduating to any and all military surplus. By the dawn of the 20th century he had collected so much stuff including munitions at his Manhattan warehouse the city forced him to move out.

You're up @bruce_the_loon

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Here we go, should be simple and involves breaking news.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Parliament Building, Cape Town, South Africa

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Parliament Building, Cape Town, South Africa

Yep, beautiful architecture and currently on fire. You're up again DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[bruce_the_loon]

The Center Block of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Built to replace a fire-damaged previous iteration.

 

[DBhomebrew]

The Center Block of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Built to replace a fire-damaged previous iteration.

Yep! With the connection to your clue.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Another probable meeting place for the ruling class, this one lasted a lot longer than the last few posted.