Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey

Tag: Fire

Dreamland

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Burned 1911

Fenice

Venice, Italy

Arson 1996

Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow, Scotland, UK Burned 2018 I was there as a student in the 90s and it was such an amazing building to work in. A bit like a castle in Macbeth, (via Mackintosh, of course), but what was fabulous about it was that we could run around in our paint spattered clothes, stretch canvases and […]

Luna Park

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Burned 1944

Milwaukee Exposition Building

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Burned 1905 I couldn’t believe this used to exist in Milwaukee. Anon. The Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Building opened in 1881 as one of Milwaukee’s most spectacular buildings. Designed by Walter Holbrook of E. Townsend Mix Architects, the structure was a myriad of arches, windows, and spires and housed such varied spaces as […]

Pleasurama

Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Closed 1998

Powerscourt House

County Wicklow, Ireland Burned 1974 I gave the submission for Powerscourt House because I would have loved to have seen the paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds that were lost to the tragic fire in 1974. In particular these paintings had once been loaned to Sir Hugh Lane at one time for an exhibition and a letter […]