Chelsea is a late Victorian townhouse, built between 1875 and 1881 by
the architect and designer William Burges as his personal residence.
Designed in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the
architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example
of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the
last". The exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier
work. The house was built of red brick, with a distinctive cylindrical
tower and conical roof, by the Ashby Brothers, with interior decoration
by members of Burges's long-standing team of craftsmen including Thomas
Nicholls and Henry Stacy Marks. The house retains most of its internal
structural decoration, but much of the furniture, fittings and contents
that Burges designed have been dispersed. Many items, including the
Great Bookcase, the Zodiac Settle, the Golden Bed and the Red Bed, are
now in institutions such as The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum and the
Victoria and Albert Museum. It was designated a Grade I listed building
in 1949.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
880:
The Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople was consecrated, and
went on to set the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox
churches.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nea_Ekklesia>
1753:
Carl Linnaeus published his Species Plantarum, which, with his
earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern
botanical nomenclature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus>
1865:
Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina signed a treaty creating an
alliance against Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Triple_Alliance>
1941:
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director
Orson Welles, premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane>
1985:
Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong
Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order
to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagong_Alyansang_Makabayan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tumpline:
A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened
or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just behind the forehead.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumpline>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is
to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what
I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill."
--Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington>
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