Thornley Chapel in Ocean Grove, NJ. Blogfinger.net © August, 2017. Paul Goldfinger photo. Built in 1889.
Re-post from 2017. Paul Goldfinger, Editor. Blogfinger.net
2017: The Thornley Chapel has been different colors over the years. The recent (2017) paint job has left it with an interesting color. We don’t know how the decision was made, but this color is making the camera sensor a little crazy. We tried it with two cameras, but the gold standard is the naked eye.
In person it seems a sort of grayish-blue. And there are different shades of the gray blue. Note the darker shade above.
What is the name of that color? Maybe it is “Alice blue.” After all, Alice Roosevelt Longworth was Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, and he visited the Grove in person twice. In 1905 the President was in the Grove for a gala event, and 12,000 people were here to greet him.
We don’t know the color. It must be Victorian. Is it too daring for a historic church? Who gets to decide? Maybe for the 21st century, this 1889 landmark is livened up a bit, although the little kids running in and out this summer supplied plenty of life.
Anyhow, I like it.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net
KATE AND ANNA McGARRIGLE:
Editor’s note: The photo below is from April, 2016, by Jean Bredin. You can compare the colors. Look at the light tan above the doors. —-PG
Around town with Jean. Refurbishing Thornley Chapel. April, 2016. © Blogfinger.net.
Some 12,000 to see Teddy R. Where did they park?
The chapel was a light tan color before this.
I have also wondered about the color… or lack of it… The sun lightens colors over time and many people make the mistake of matching the new paint colors to the the current sun bleached color making the house (or chapel) get lighter and lighter with each paint job. Maybe that’s what happened here?