Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[D.B.Moody]

That counts. Harvard it is. Picture taken from the Lowell House Bell Tower.. I was there for my son's graduation.
You're up @tracer bullet.

 

[tracer bullet]

I've been near it (Harvard, that is), I spent a few days for work in Cambridge, but stayed near MIT and didn't even get a chance to see that.

This may be too easy. Or... maybe not. We'll see. My picture.

 

[bracconiere]

thinking texas....not quite the alamo....

 

[tracer bullet]

Right country, wrong state. The military related thought is good though.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Battery Rathbone McIndoe, Fort Berry, Marin County, CA, part of San Francisco Bay defense system of the Endicott era.

 

[tracer bullet]

That's a ton of detail! Yes it is.

 

[D.B.Moody]

That's a ton of detail! Yes it is.

That's because I took a learning journey to get the answer. I started out with a search for "abandoned coast defense gun" and got to Fort Winfield Scott, Battery Chamberlin. It looked much like the posted picture, but not quite right. Wound up learning about Endicott era guns and the batteries around San Francisco Bay. Eventually found a match. Enjoyed the trip, so thank you @tracer bullet.

Here's another gun emplacement. I took this picture in 1967.

 

[bracconiere]

damn, you'd think mike + suzanne, and doug would be a dead give away!

 

[tracer bullet]

Clearly the US, and clearly near water. River or bay? Hmm, usually these kinds of things are on the coasts. Age of that gun... pretty old, I want to say before WWII, I feel like they were... fancier. So maybe WWI or before, early 1900's very much like the structure in the picture I posted. Doesn't seem like New Orleans, but then again I've not gotten too far out of the French Quarter there.

I'm guessing... Mobile Bay.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not Mobile Bay, but U.S. is correct. The gun is older than you suggested. It was taken from a ship that was built in 1893 and put on display at this military post. It was never intended as a defense of the post, the river, or the city.
Here's an older picture that's not mine.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Just as a random place-they'd-be-using-for-ceremonial-purposes-a-century-ago:
Fort McHenry?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not Fort McHenry.
This bridge was named for the military post, but the picture is also from 1967, and the bridge was replaced in 1983 and looks nothing like this now. It's still named after the military post though.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Here's a couple more pictures. The first (not mine) from 1941 shows the gun and and the train station below. The fenced in thing at the left is a sun dial. The second was taken in 1967 with my first posted picture.

The station, which serviced the military post, was built in 1902. The gun, which was taken from a non-US ship sunk in 1898, was put in for a 1904 event in the area, but not on the post.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Jefferson Barracks, MO south of St Louis. The gun is from the Spanish cruiser Almorante Oquendo.

Interestingly, with the military post, the river, and the railroad, this clue had a very NY feel to it. Another gun from the same ship is at Palmyra along the Erie Canal.

https://www.spanamwar.com/Oquendogun.htm

 

[tracer bullet]

Nice. The 1893 was a great clue but I didn't get anywhere with it. Was going to try to solve this today if no one else did. Wow, St. Louis, I was betting it was along a coast but then again if the gun is more decoration than function, it could go anywhere.

 

[DBhomebrew]

An event in 1904 was my Rosetta Stone.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Jefferson Barracks it is. I figured that either "1904 event" or "non-US ship sunk in 1898" would do it. (Both pretty easy to Google, maybe substituting : "Spanish" for "non-US."
BTW: You can no longer just drive up to, walk around, and spray paint in that area. I don't know for sure that the gun is even still there. The sun dial can be seen, but it wasn't clear if the gun or just the place where the gun used to be is visible from where you can go. I haven't been there in years, and I couldn't see it on a Google map image. The area (Senic Circle Drive) apparently became too close to an active part of the military post. And yes, Jefferson Barracks, though decommissioned in 1946, has active military units, a VA medical center, and a national cemetery.
You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[3 Dawg Night]

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Are we in Great Britain?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Are we in Great Britain?

Negative

 

[tracer bullet]

Fort Ticonderoga, NY?

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/glitters-not-gold/
Looked up "bronze cannon red cart"* and there it was. A fun read. Must be a heck of a boom when it fires.

* I looked up Canon first, but that the camera company, haha)

 

[DBhomebrew]

Fort Ti on Lake George, it is. Textbook military architecture. A picturesque area of NY which was at one time of utmost import to global affairs and where I spent formative summers.

 

[tracer bullet]

Cool place, didn't think to see it from the air.

Here's the next one, then. My picture. Hmm just noticed it's not quite level, sorry about that.

 

[D.B.Moody]

My picture of Chillon Castle is wosre than yours. Taken through a bus window having left Montreux heading south along Lake Geneva.:

Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

 

[tracer bullet]

That's it!

My cousin lived in Lausanne for a few years and I visited twice. Beautiful place.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Like Chillon Castle, this place you'll just know if you've seen it. From 2017:

 

[DBhomebrew]

La Sagrada Família, Barcelona

 

[D.B.Moody]

It is. You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[DBhomebrew]

@D.B.Moody What's so funny, eh?