Building Types

Il Castello ed il paese di Lari. Situato sulle colline pisane, ha avuto il suo massimo splendore come sede di Vicariato fiorentino. Il Granduca di Toscana Leopoldo II, ebbe occasione di dire :'Venni a Lari e dalla sua rocca mostrai paese vasto, la parte pi? bella di Toscana'

The page includes photographs, postcards, artifacts, and books that are related to state hospitals and there history. This site is dedicated to the many abandoned asylums in the United States. Fairfield Hills Hospital (Fairfield State Hospital), Kankakee State Hospital, Norwich Hospital (Norwich State Hospital), Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry State Hospital), Kings Park State Hospital, Buffalo State Hospital (Buffalo Psychiatric Center), Worcester State Hospital, Pennhurst Center (Pennhurst State School and Hospital), Traverse City State Hospital (Regional Psychiatric Hospital), Milledgeville State Hospital (Central State Hospital), Asylum Postcards, State Hospital Postcards, Insane Asylum Postcards, State Hospital Pin, State Hospital pins, State Hospital artifacts, Asylum Books, State Hospital books, mental health book, mentally ill books, state hospital photographs, asylum photographs

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Poorhouse Story. Extensive site concerning the history of poorhouses.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Glamis Castle, Scotland. The official site of the home of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne offers a history, illustrated tour and visitor information.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Cawdor Castle. Official site for this medieval and 17th-century castle in Nairn, Scotland, home of the Cawdor family.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Usk Castle. The Friends of Usk provide a plan and illustrated history and propose urgent works and improvements to this Norman castle in Wales.

Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, Portsmouth, Hants.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Muncaster Castle. The official site offers some photographs and visitor information on the building in the Lake District, now more country house than castle, that has been the home of the Penningtons since 1208.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - The Manteno Project. The Manteno Project, information and photographs about the history of the Manteno State Hospital (aka the Manteno Mental Health Center), in Manteno, Illinois.

The site looks at the history of the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, in Southwark, near London Bridge, one of the most important sites for medical, surgical and victorian history. It deals with medical history, history of surgery, history of mediine and the history of herbal medicine

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Simon's Suffolk Churches. County-wide overview and historical background.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - St Martin in the Fields Church. Official website for this famous church in Trafalgar Square, London, designed by James Gibbs, and consecrated in 1726.