For sure, this photograph isn’t in downtown Atlanta, since Atlanta doesn’t have a big fleet of street cars any more. Can you figure out where this photograph was taken. If so, send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
The reliable George Graf of Palmyra, Va., quickly identified the most recent Mystery, as that of Province House, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Yep, it’s one of my favorite places, and I took this photograph while on this great island last year.
George tells us: Charlottetown is named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744–1818) the wife of King George III. Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts and an amateur botanist, who helped expand Kew Gardens. George III and Charlotte had 15 children. She was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from her marriage in 1761 until the union of the two kingdoms in 1801, after which she was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1818. Both Charlottesville Va. (my residence for many years) and Charlotte N.C. (Mecklenburg County) were also named in her honor.”
Bob Foreman of Grayson also identified the photo, as did Ruthie Lachman Paul of Norcross. She adds: “The master builder and informal Architect was Isaac Smith who applied the principle of neoclassical style that was firmly in British Georgian Architecture with symmetrical facades, each with its own four columned portico. The work was completed by 1847.”
One entrant was certain the photo was Macon, Ga. city hall. While this handsome building resembles the Charlottetown structure, the Macon setting is much more open and majestic than the Charlottetown Province House, which is crowded on a square in the city.
LAGNIAPPEPerform your own musical concert on outdoor piano in P-Corners
Come play an uniquely hand-painted outdoor piano, now in position outside the main entrance to Belk at the Forum on Peachtree Parkway. It will be at this location through September 18. Atlanta-based Pianos for Peace, which is a nonprofit that provides arts to underserved communities in Atlanta, is placing almost 30 innovatively decorated pianos all over metro Atlanta for people to engage, play, hold pop-up concerts and more over the next two weeks. Each piano has been designed and hand-painted by several local and international artists. After the pianos are on display for two weeks, they will be donated to area schools, nursing homes, community centers and other organizations to help further arts education and to help patients in their healing process.
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