Boston Seaport '87, 2014 & 2021
Before and after Boston's Big Dig, 1980s vs now
Sheffield Top of Fargate. Pre-1930 - 2020
Moscow, Red Square. November 1941 vs December 2021
Fort Point neighborhood in Boston, 1906 vs. now
City Hall, Pensacola 100 years apart. (c.1905-1915 vs. 2009) Now the Florida T. T. Wentworth, Jr., Florida State Museum.
The very first Golden Corral, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1980s vs 2020s.
Then and Now shared a few photos
Reconstruction of Baths of Caracalla. Then and now.
Caracalla’s Baths were not the largest in Rome— Diocletian’s were bigger —but they were by far the most luxurious. There were rooms for cold, hot... View MoreReconstruction of Baths of Caracalla. Then and now.
Caracalla’s Baths were not the largest in Rome— Diocletian’s were bigger —but they were by far the most luxurious. There were rooms for cold, hot, and warm baths, splendid ceilings, porticoes, pillared halls, gymnasiums, where the rarest marbles, the most colossal columns, the finest statues were admired by the people; even the baths were oi basalt, granite, alabaster. Here, the Romans took their baths in hot and cold pools (caldarium and frigidarium) as well as in dry or wet steam baths, and also performed gymnastics and other sports. It had pools, 2 gymnasiums, libraries, and gardens, and could accommodate more than 1.600 people.
The various needs of users were met on a total area of 33,000 sq m.ft in overwhelming architecture: huge halls with massive piers and columns, domes and half-domes, barrel vaults, and cross vaults accommodated up to 1,500- 1,600 people at once. The floors and walls were decorated with sumptuous marble as well as extravagant mosaics and frescoes. Nowhere else was such a structure built for the luxurious pursuit of leisure.
Baths of Caracalla ceased to function in 537 A.D when the Goths blocked the aqueducts and cut off the water supply. After that in 847 A.D, an earthquake brought down some parts of the building. In the Middle Ages, the ruins became a quarry for marbles and other materials (there were 100 tons of iron in the vaults alone). The baths suffered their worst damage via Pope Paul III (1534-1549), who released them as a quarry for the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Rua do Rosário in 1920 and 2015. Paraty, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
The home where the infamous Apalachin Mob meeting was raided in 1957.
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