Time for Church

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Really shoehorned that one into that corner in the Burg,

[healey36]

You see quite a few churches built from cut stone in Pa., which can occasionally be confused with form-stone given the precision of the block construction. This photo is interesting to me, as the stone, as I recall, is quite dark in color, yet appears light in the shot...probably an effect of the camera exposure set-up.

[chuck]

It could also be the film. It may not be panchromatic, it may be orthochromatic. While panchromatic film was developed in the early 1900's it's early adoption was limited because of cost. Even in WW2 there was a lot of ortho film used. Sometimes the ortho photo's have spectacular shifts in tones especially when trying to render greens and yellows. Yellow would appear as dark gray while green would be rendered significantly lighter.

[J. S. Bach]

Or the stone has darkened with age due weather, pollution, even may chemical changes just due to being exposed to the oxygen in the the air and/or sunlight.

[healey36]

Next time I'm up to G-burg, I'll try to remember to get a photo.

[J. S. Bach]

Still there:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.828573, ... 384!8i8192

[chuck]

or this



Photo Rufus posted is from 1900, the year the church was consecrated. My money is the original image is on orthochromatic film.

History of the church:

https://prince-of-peace-gettysburg.diocpa.org/About%20Us/history.html

Here is one of the new color pictures that I digitally desaturated.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Handsome. Dignified. Probably like the people who established and built the parish .

[E7]

Really shoehorned that one into that corner in the Burg,

Looking at Healey's early photo, it appears the church may have been there before the corner.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Next time I'm up to G-burg, I'll try to remember to get a photo.

Another shot of Gettysburg's Prince of Peace from a couple weeks back:



From the intersection of Baltimore and High Streets.

One unrelated question that someone here might know the answer - the house a couple doors to the left of the church has a white-painted "bump-out" over the front door. You see these in many old town-homes around here. Other than providing a good residential view up and down the street, what was the point of such an architectural feature (or maybe that is precisely the point)?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[chuck]

That's quite a hill!

Re the build out on the building next to the Prince of Peace church I think it's just a way of getting some additional floor space. You get a nice window with a view up and down the block and probably bench seating to enjoy the view (with additional storage under the seats) without losing any floor space. You also provide cover for the front entrance, kind of a mini porch.

Main potential draw back is that space may suffer roof leakage in that it's a) probably flat and b) water from the main roof looks like it has to wash over it.

[E7]

Re the build out on the building next to the Prince of Peace church I think it's just a way of getting some additional floor space. You get a nice window with a view up and down the block and probably bench seating to enjoy the view (with additional storage under the seats) without losing any floor space. You also provide cover for the front entrance, kind of a mini porch.

Pretty much nailed it. Called a "bay" window (recall the bay window cabooses)

"The word itself actually comes from the old French word 'baee', which means opening or hole. Bay windows are a combination of three or more windows which angle out beyond an exterior wall in a square, hexagonal or octagonal shape. Because they angle out beyond the exterior wall, this creates a compartment."