Flagler Museum (Part 2)

I've had a whole week to process more pictures from our Flagler Museum meetup (see Week 16 blog post) and once again, I am very surprised at the wide variety of photo "opps" that our group found there.  So far our group posted 118 pictures and they're all pretty different.

I took quite a few shots of the front of the building... from way back in the grassy area in front to right in front of the steps. With my new wide angle lens I was able to get a large amount of the view in the shot. I think this ended up being my favorite picture of the whole building:

Another thing I didn't post last week was any pictures from the pretty little courtyard area. It has a fountain in the middle with the most odd little statue things peering into the water. I'm pretty sure everyone in our group got at least one shot of these:

The courtyard also contained quite a few different trees & plants and I did take a few pictures of them (not too many since most of them can be found elsewhere in PB County):

Another subject that's always fun to capture are the other photographers in our group.

  Oh, this room wins the prize for the most hideously decorated room in the house (in my opinion of course);

Out in the back yard is an 8,100 square foot Pavilion, which houses Henry Morrison Flagler's private railcar. This building was just amazing to take pictures of from the inside.

Close up -
That's WPB across the intracoastal

(From the museum's website... pretty interesting stuff) Flagler’s private railcar, railcar #91, exhibited in the Pavilion, was built in 1886 by the Jackson and Sharp Company of Wilmington, Delaware. A newspaper article written at the time of its delivery to Flagler heralded the railcar as “A Palace on Wheels” and went on to praise the car’s fine appointments such as its oak paneling and desk. The railcar was one of two private railcars Flagler used to survey his railroad empire. Flagler traveled by this railcar in 1912 along the Overseas Railway to Key West to celebrate the completion of the FEC Railway to Key West, a phenomenal engineering feat.  Here's the railcar itself (inside and out):

Here are a few more of the outside of the building. The first one is on the side of the building (our group shot was taken on those stairs) and the second picture is from the front, and this one is my Palm Beach County photo of the week on DPC.