Chad W's Profile

I have my perfect vintage Eames Lounge Chair that I never, ever sit in. Instead, I curl up in my Ikea POÄNG chair. Its just so much more comfortable.

Barnes and Noble Bookstore at Inner Harbor in Baltimore is housed in the Pratt Street Power Plant, built between 1900 and 1909 and is a massive industrial structure with Neo-Classical detailing designed by the noted architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington. It served as the main source of power for the United Railways and Electric Company, a consolidation of smaller street railway systems, that influenced the provision of city-wide transportation and opened up suburban areas of Baltimore to power its electric street railway in the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Street_Power_Plant

http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2881

I particularly like the walk-through copper smoke stacks.

One of the long standing traditions of my High School, Woodstock Academy in Woodstock Connecticut, is during the week prior to graduation, the boys and girls dress up (pink and white are incouraged) and walk accross the street to the Pink House, the home to a Victorian success story or rags to riches home.

http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/roseland-cottage/roseland-cottage

We have tea in the famous Rose Garden and hear the stories of the Bowden Family and thier patronage of the school and town. My favorite was always Henry Bowden's Niece, who would entertain in the garden and wasn't above bribing local or national official by slipping money into thier palms during a delicate handshake at the turn of the century.

Roseland Cottage's picturesque landscape includes original boxwood-edged parterre gardens planted in the 1850s. The estate includes an icehouse, aviary, carriage barn, and the nation’s oldest surviving indoor bowling alley.