Going The Extra Mile For Ornamentation
Last week’s post showed a police station from the 1890s, and this week’s follow up shows the faces decorating it.
Like the police station shown some weeks back, not only is this station decorated with faces carved from brownstone, each face is unique. And after doing a quick comparison with the other station, it looks like these are all different from its faces too, which means these faces weren’t even copies.
I can only imagine that someone skilled with a chisel, very possibly something steam powered, had the skill to pull off unique designs to fairly exact dimensions, and do it well enough for them to last over 120 years without much wear. Here they are.
These decorate the third story.
These faces are placed between the first story and the second story.
i wonder if they worked from design…or just let the stone workers have free reign….. coz…you know…thats a lot of different faces to be from design…couple different styles too
i would guess that was all done the hard way…by hand
Nowadays there are chainsaw sculptors here and there who are awfully good considering what they’re working with. I’m guessing the guys who worked on this station were the 19th century equivalent. Most of the decorative brownstone work you see from that time is just abstract ornamentation or stuff like ivy vines, so I’m guessing they got a kick out of the chance to do something cool.
well they did it well enough to stand the test of time…
should have hired them to build my house back in 60s…its falling appart already
anyways yeah..i’d agree they probably got a kick out of it
I wish my home had a gargoyle or a green man . . . They are very cool.