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This one is Eckel! He belongs to @lasirenacanta

I will finish Titan latter, I have a very stressing school week and once i free i will draw Titan

For now! We have Griffin Eckel! I honestly feel in love how he came out, i rather given more caracal like features to make him different from Zips as they have the same wings XD

Hope you like it!

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So viele Gedanken schweben mir noch von gestern im Kopf rum. Es war entspannt...wir haben diesen Film geguckt, bis zu dem Punkt an dem der Mann sagte “weil du mir nicht das gegeben hast was ich wollte, tue ich dir jetzt weh”....und mit einem Mal überschwemmt mich diese Flut an Erinnerungen und Gefühle. Mit einem Mal wird mit heiß und kalt gleichzeitig Mein Freund neben mir fragt noch “was ist”.. ich sage “nichts”. Wenige Augenblicke später drücke ich die Pause - Taste und antworte nur noch gebrochen “Sorry aber ich kann das gerade nicht weiter gucken”. Den Kloß in meinem Hals spüre ich nur kurz, weil die Tränen direkt aus mir herausbrechen. Mein Gesicht vergrabe ich in meine bereits krampfhaften Hände. Ich merke in Sekunden wie ich den Kontakt zu mir verliere. Er nimmt mich fest in den Arm und ich weine einfach nur. Meine Hände wandern an meine Seiten. Erst am nächsten Tag bemerke ich, dass ich sie mir wieder so tief in die Seiten gekrallt habe, dass Wunden zurück geblieben sind. Ich brauche wieder etwa eine Stunde bis ich mich beruhigen kann. Mehr oder weniger versuche ich dabei immer wieder mit Atemübungen Kontrolle über mich und meinen Körper wiederzuerlangen. So lang waren diese Bilder vor meinem inneren Auge vor Verschluss und nur mit diesem einen Satz wird in meinem Hirn eine regelrechte Flut ausgelöst. Ich sehe diesen Mann vor mir. Wie er mir näher kommt, mich bedrängt, ich mich in der Ecke der Bushaltestelle eingesperrt fühle. Hilflos. In meinen Gedanken rieche ich seinen Atem. Und mit so einer Wucht stürzt diese Welle aus all den Sequenzen über mir mit so einer Schmerzhaftigkeit ein, das ich nicht weis wie ich damit umgehen soll.  Auch jetzt habe ich keine Ahnung wie ich all diese bruchstückhaften Erinnerungen wieder einfangen und in mir wegschließen soll...

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Adam N. Schuster Residence, St. Joseph MO

An 1880s residence in the Hall Street Historic District

Built: 1881

Architect: Edmond J. Eckel (Eckel and Mann)

Address: 703 Hall Street, St. Joseph MO 64501

Growing up in St. Joseph, Missouri, in the 1960s and 70s, my main source of fascination was the city's historic architecture. A major gateway to the West during the 1800s, the town once rivaled larger cities in importance, and great fortunes were amassed there in the wholesale, outfitting, and mercantile industries.

The fortunes accumulated by "Old St. Joseph" were notoriously never invested in the city's growth; they were put into bank accounts where they preserved the power and influence of the Men Who Made St. Joseph the City Worth While (the title of a local history), while making the city a hermetically sealed place where nothing changed, and no outside influence or investment could penetrate.

It was a strange atmosphere in which to grow up, in a town where time stood still, and a conservative, repressive, and airless atmosphere prevailed.

On my many bike rides around the city as a teenager, my favorite areas were Museum Hill, just north of the downtown area, and the Hall Street historic district, just to the west. These areas displayed an opulence and a sense of past glory that hinted at St. Joseph's glorious past, yet a past that stood still, transfixed in a time warp from the turn of the 20th century.

Thanks to injections of cash, some of these mansions have been not just preserved but restored to their once-grand glory. The Adam N. Schuster house, pictured below in views from the Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) is one such mansion, a building that captured and held my interest from my teen years onward. Variously operated as a B&B and private residence, the mansion has survived into the 2020s in a good state of preservation.

In about 1985, when Linda Farber, its then owner, disposed of the property, I attended an estate sale in the house over a period of two or three weekends. Among my purchases were a painted folding screen, a pair of cast brass Chinese candelabra, a signed fan photograph by movie actress Norma Talmadge , a Royal Rudolstadt porcelain ewer, and an oil portrait of an unknown woman. These items were all disposed of years later before my move to China to begin a new life as a teacher.

The Schuster Mansion remains the most well-known local historic residence, along with the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion on Museum Hill, for many years the site of the St. Joseph Museum, and now a combination museum / events center.

Below are photographs from the HABS survey of 703 Hall Street, along with a video about the house from a Kansas City TV channel. The interiors are quite striking, and hopefully the houses' current furnishings are in keeping with its grand past.

Schuster Residence, St. Joseph MO

Credit: I_Dig_Doug's photos on Flickr

Facade, from the HABS archive

HABS image

Tower and ornamental roof trim

Video: Schuster mansion, KC By Design

Description of the house from the HABS Report

Toni M. Prawl's 1994 dissertation on architect Edmond Jacques Eckel [E.J. Eckel (1845-1934): The Education of a Beaux-Arts Architect and His Practice in Missouri] confirms Eckel and Mann (formed 1880) as responsible for the Schuster residence's design. Of interest is the mention of Stigers and Boettner as builders. Eckel had been in partnership with Francis R. Boettner until 1979, after Lewis Snell Stigers had supposedly retired. I will need to do some fact checking on this chronology.

The following photographs are from the HABS report, Library of Congress collection.

Stained glass windows in the main entrance doors

Southwest room (parlor), first floor, showing two layers of decorative ceiling treatments

Second floor bedroom and upper stairway hall

Central bath and stair hall ceiling decoration

Schuster (1881) vs. Wyeth-Tootle (1879) mansions: Two Victorian Italianates, symmetrical and regular, with projecting porches and bay windows. They differ only in the heavier cornice and prominent roof on the Schuster, and the extra attic story on the Wyeth-Tootle, not to mention the asymmetrically-placed tower at the left, an influence of castles on the Rhine.

Here are some screencaps from the video above:

Entrance hall and stairway; the Library to the right of the entrance doors, main floor

Interestingly, I haven't located any interior photographs of the Schuster residence online, other than the HABS images. Other Hall Street interiors have been illustrated on sites such as Zillow, but not this one. If anyone knows of such images, please contact me.

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St. Joseph, Missouri, City Auditorium, 1908

The old St. Joseph, Missouri, City Auditorium, completed in 1908 and demolished in 1985, was a monumental expression of the Beaux-Arts style in the midwestern United States. Designed by a French-born architect who had trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Its design was unusual for a midwestern city at the time. It drew on both Renaissance and Baroque styles, with bold sculptural features characteristic of Beaux-Arts design.

Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845-1934), the building's architect, more than anyone else contributed to the present appearance of St. Joseph. Born June 22, 1845 in Strasbourg, Alsace, he studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1863 to 1868, studying in the Atelier Paccard and later the Atelier Vaudoyer. Eckel left France to settle in the United States, choosing an opportune moment after the Civil War.

Considering that the only two schools of architecture in the United States were still in their infancy, Eckel’s migration to the country was timely: formally educated architects were in short supply when postwar reconstruction, western expansion, and technological advancements provided tremendous building opportunities. With this awareness, Eckel intended to establish himself in Kansas City, but an altered railroad itinerary instead brought him to St. Joseph on July 3, 1869, marking the start of a career and residency that spanned sixty-five years. As the second-largest city in the state, St. Joseph was burgeoning with wealth derived from trade networks afforded by its ideal proximity to rail and river transportation; it was ripe for the proliferation of Gilded Age architecture in both public buildings and dwellings.[1]

How Eckel ended up in post-Civil War St. Joseph, Missouri, a leading outfitter for westward expansion, major stockyards center, and boasting citizens who had attained fabulous wealth in the city’s early days, is a mystery. Eckel later claimed that he was detained by a train wreck, looked over the town, and decided to make his home there. Whether the town’s French roots (it was founded by Joseph Robidoux, of French extraction and born in St. Louis) had anything to do with Eckel’s decision can’t be known. Eckel would become a prominent citizen, and St. Joseph’s appearance today has much to do with buildings designed by him, from private homes to schools, wholesale houses to public buildings. Working under local architects, Eckel eventually established himself in partnerships or individual practice.

Thanks to Toni Prawl and her dissertation E. J. Eckel (1845-1934): A Beaux-Arts Architect in Practice in Missouri,[2] we have an accurate rendering of Eckel’s life and career, as well as a catalogue raisonné of his buildings. The dissertation sheds light on an architect whose works had not previously been systematically studied.

St. Joseph City Auditorium, elevation of east facade

Among Eckel’s many civic commissions, the St. Joseph City Auditorium fully expressed Beaux-Arts design principles and grandeur. Formerly at 404-424 North 4th Street, occupying a full city block, the building featured a monumental, classical style with ornate terra cotta ornamentation. As a favored style in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the building’s Beaux-Arts or “Renaissance Revival” design was supposedly seldom found in Missouri.[3] The building, which stood vacant after 1978, was demolished in 1985.

City Auditorium perspective drawing

First efforts toward construction of a City Auditorium for St. Joseph were made in 1898; by 1902, a mass meeting resulted in the formation of a “temporary organization of the St. Joseph Convention Hall.”

The St. Joseph Auditorium Company was formed “to promote the erection and maintenance of an Auditorium or Convention Hall Building in the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, to be devoted to and used for Public entertainments, amusements, convention and public assemblies of all kinds….

Shortly thereafter, the property at 404-424 North Fourth Street was purchased from Mrs. Zeilda Forsee for the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000). Mrs. Forsee took half of the purchase price in Auditorium bonds….[4]

The structure was completed in 1908. This is a portion of the description of the building from HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) Report No. MO-1274:

The Auditorium is highly ornamented with glazed white terra-cotta; exterior walls are buff brick. The three bay entrance on the east façade is located in a shallow pavilion. The basement is ground level on the west, accessed by large doors on the west end of the north and south facades.

The structure is three stories with an arena floor of 70 feet by 150 feet. A 45 feet 6 inch by 74 feet stage was located in the north end of the arena. The construction of the stage was unique in that it was removable and had a ramp underneath it to reach the street level on the north side of the building.

The structural system consisted of reinforced concrete footings and foundation walls supporting a reinforced concrete and steel superstructure. Floors and ramps other than the arena floor are reinforced concrete. The arena floor was hardwood.

The south façade had an auxiliary entrance and balcony supported by paired brackets at the first floor level. The west façade had three fire escapes with large double leaf doors.

Ceilings are acoustical tile. The roof deck is reinforced concrete around the outer perimeter with tar and gravel. Above the arena floor, the roof is pitched with wooden rafters and sheathing, supported by steel columns and has selvedge composition roofing.

Two balconies provided fixed seating for 2,400; another 1,800 spectators could be seated on the arena floor. The balconies were accessed by a system of ramps.[5]

The first additional expense for the Auditorium was the building of a hardwood floor, making it suitable for various events, including balls, food shows, grand opera, etc.

City Auditorium under construction, postcard, no date

Section and elevation drawings

All was not well with the completed Auditorium; due to lack of funds, the building committee was never able to put in a suitable ceiling. This made the building completely unsuitable for musical events or activities when public speakers were to be heard, and destroyed its acoustical properties. This, among other circumstances, led the St. Joseph Auditorium Company to increase its indebtedness; it was eventually unable to pay its debts.[6]

First Floor Plan. Western Architect, v. 9, November 1906

The Auditorium was abandoned in 1978; it was demolished in 1985. The building survived by a few years the disastrous urban renewal program in St. Joseph of the mid- to late-1970s, which destroyed 100 buildings in the central business district and inserted pedestrian malls, in an attempt to suburbanize a dense urban area. At some point, the corner towers of the Auditorium were removed, resulting in a considerably less impressive and monumental façade.

Along with Eckel’s St. Joseph City Hall of 1927, The Auditorium expressed the rational, symmetrical, and classical elements he had learned at the Beaux-Arts in the 1860s.

St. Joseph City Hall, completed 1927, Edmond J. Eckel, architect

Beaux-Arts architecture is a grandiose, ornamental, and symmetrical style of design popular throughout the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It took its name from the École des Beaux-Arts (or “School of Fine Arts”) in France.

Beaux-Arts architects drew heavily from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, as well as the classical Greek and Roman designs that inspired those movements in the first place. Beaux-Arts structures commonly served as public buildings (such as train stations, university campuses, and courthouses) rather than private residences due to their grandiosity and costliness.[7]

Characteristic of Beaux-Arts design was an emphasis on symmetry, grandiose design, and pronounced ornamentation.[8] Eckel’s designs for both the City Auditorium and the St. Joseph City Hall follow this principle in their strictly symmetrical facades. Symmetry was often carried into the interior, in cross-axes of hallways or other spaces intersecting in the center of the building’s plan.

The Auditorium’s grandiose design expressed its character as a place for public gatherings, drawing attention to itself with prominent corner roof pavilions and a three-part, heavily sculptural “triumphal arch” entrance. The City Hall, on the other hand, is less celebratory and more restrained, with triple arched entrances on the ground floor and a colonnade above linking second and third-story windows.

The Auditorium’s central entrance arch was reminiscent of some turn-of-the20th-century Paris buildings such as the Petit Palais, which drew on the sculptural traditions of the Beaux-Arts.

The St. Joseph City Auditorium hosted events as varied as circuses, sports, concerts, and agricultural shows. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the Auditorium was the venue for professional wrestling matches. Popular wrestlers such as Harley Race, Bulldog Bob Brown, Ric Flair, Dusty Rhoads, Andre the Giant and many others were active in the Kansas City territory and would often make stops in St. Joseph.[9]

City Auditorium, 1915

North view of stage

South side seating

Interior ramps

Postcard, no date

City Auditorium with towers removed

Demolition

More photographs are available at:

Library of Congress, HABS documents

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing

St. Joseph Memory Lane:

4th Street, St Joseph Missouri, Home of Pony Express, Photos of the past and present

NOTES:

[1]  “Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845-1934),” Missouri Encyclopedia https://missouriencyclopedia.org/index.php/people/eckel-edmond-jacques

[2] Prawl, Toni M., E. J. Eckel (1845-1934): A Beaux-Arts Architect in Practice in Missouri. Dissertation presented to Faculty of Graduate School University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994.

[3] Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS MO-1274, Old City Auditorium, St. Joseph, Missouri. National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, c. 1985.

Link to the PDF document:

HABS description St. Joseph City Auditorium.pdf

[4] Ibid.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] MasterClass Staff, Beaux Arts Architecture: 7 Buildings in the Beaux Arts Style, Web page, last updated April 26, 2022. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/beaux-arts-architecture#learn-more

[8] Ibid.

[9] Photos of events held at the St. Joseph City Auditorium, including wrestling matches, are available at http://www.stjosephmemorylane.com/4thstreet/4thstreet.html

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