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That is a fantastically Gothic shot.

Suddenly I have a mental image of stepping out of a door onto a floor that isn't there, looking around unhappily for a couple of seconds Sylvester-style, before plunging to the bottom with a little puff of smoke, just like in the old cartoons...

On second thoughts, I'm glad it only happens in cartoons :-)

I am honored at the compliment, rich. I am a purist, and I have told people that before. So, you are absolutely correct.

Vampire, natch!

Thanks, rich. So damned sad, it is.

[heavy sigh . . . . . . . ]

I really don't know which one of you girls to smack first. :-)

Little brown bats, vampire bats, flying foxes., baseball bats...what kind, Lynne!

Twug, from what I've read about the Danvers proposals, the outer buildings are all to be demolished and the Kirkbride badly mutilated. The roof and top floor will be removed and a new roof fitted, and the wings cut right back, almost to the main building.

And they call this preservation - it's a criminal act of wanton vandalism, nothing more. I can't remember the URL of the page I saw this on but I think it may be one of the Danvers preservation groups linked from the main Danvers page of Motts' site.

I can't help thinking that if we had buildings like this in England, they'd be so well-protected that the developers wouldn't be able to paint the walls a different colour without fillingout twenty forms in triplicate. That's how strict we are here about things like this. Too damn right I say.

is Danvers on the National Register of Historic Places? And if so, what weight does this carry in planning terms?

Yeah, I thought I'd see how long you remained speechless. ;-)

It's...a...boner room? What the hell is a boner room?

Ed! How did we miss this one?
~No static!~

Awwww, gee thanks, Lynne! : )

I used one of these at the dry cleaning place I worked at for weighing comforters... And the manager's grandson.

Looks like those glass cube blocks, but it's probably just a window with a lot of smaller panes.

Or walking out into mid air...