Monthly Archive: July 2022

Exterior Sandstone Carving – Howard Steamboat Museum – Jeffersonville – Indiana

Exterior Sandstone Carving - Howard Steamboat Museum - Jeffersonville - Indiana

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A sandstone carving of a woman on an exterior brick wall of the Howard mansion in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The home is the location of the Howard Steamboat Museum, which illustrates the accomplishments of the Howard Family and the Howard Ship Yards, which eventually became Jeffboat, a well known business in Jeffersonville for decades. Howard Ship Yard constructed more than 3000 boats, and its successor is the largest inland shipyard in the United States.

The mansion itself is of Victorian architectural style and is located along the waterfront of the Ohio river. Its interior stairway is a replica of the stairway of the steamboat J. M. White.

Historic Triple Whipple Wrought Iron Truss Bridge – Indiana

Historic Triple Whipple Wrought Iron Truss Bridge - Indiana

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Built in 1878 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton Ohio. The Bridge was part of the Old US Highway 50, and is now a pedestrian walking bridge, refurbished in 2009 after a long period of neglect.

Ruined Spanish Mission Bell Tower – Tumacacori – Arizona

Ruined Spanish Mission Bell Tower - Tumacacori - Arizona

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The ruined bell tower atop the historic Tumacacori Spanish Mission Church, located outside of Tubac, Arizona. The mission dates back to as early as 1691, and was founded by the Jesuit priest Father Eusebio Francisco Kino of the Franciscan order. However the present building dates back only to 1753. The name of the Church translates as “The Mission of Saint Joseph of the Rocky Flat Place”. The building is considered of Spanish Colonial architectural design and is similar in nature to other Spanish mission churches found in California and New Mexico.

The primary mission of the church was the conversion of the local Pima Indians, and more specifically the Tohono O’odham band.

The Franciscans are a monastic Christian religious order within the Catholic Church, that was founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1209.