My friend Peter asked me to take a photograph of some sites in Sea Cliff so that he could paint them. He grew up here, but now lives in Albany. He was particularly interested in this building that used to be a pharmacy, but is no longer. I thought I would photograph it late in the afternoon so the light of the setting sun would illuminate it in a dramatic way. On the way home from my astronomy meeting tonight, I decided to drive down Sea Cliff Avenue and take a look at the building. It stopped me in my tracks! So I got out my camera, and a tripod and did some photographs. My immediate reaction was that it looked like an Edward Hopper painting! I love the feeling of this photograph, and the light on the building. I am not done with this yet - I still want to try late afternoon on a sunny day. If I get something good, I will post it. Stay tuned!
4 comments:
Beautiful Ken ! Schoelles Pharmacy !! Always had a fondness for this building maybe because they were the sponsor of my baseball team back in the mid-70's plus it was our local drug store. Building maybe does not exist without the intervention and money of John and Rae Packard who purchased and renovated this building back to it original design somewhere around 1992. The octagon bays that you see were actually eliminated from the building when Sea Cliff was widening Sea Cliff Avenue in the early 1900’s but amazingly the Packard’s were able to get permission to re-create them – how wonderful.
Thank you so much for your post! I had no idea of the history of the octagon bays! Wow, wonderful that the village let them be restored. Thank you so much!
Gorgeous photo. Love the color! I like to read these stories about houses being restored to their original design. betsey
Wonderful that it was lovingly restored to its original design. It a beautiful building and the lighting enhances its beauty.
Joan
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