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| cool historical building |
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| Catholic Church (native rock and sandstone) |
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| Riordan Mansion |
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| Pluto telescope |
A fun day in Flagstaff. Spent the morning wandering the historical part of town and cruising through some of the shops. The Catholic Church was build in 1930 in the Gothic style and the picture doesn't do it justice--it is beautiful. Ate lunch at a great Irish pub, (we seem to find those) and then headed to the Riordan Mansion.
The 13,000 square foot house was built in 1904 for two Riordan brothers who married two sisters. They had a house built with two identical sides and a meeting room in the middle they called "the cabin" where the families spent evenings together. It is a great example of Arts and Crafts architecture with log-slab siding milled at their own mill and volcanic stone from the area. It has 40 rooms, probably enough for two families!
Later in the afternoon we went to the Lowell Observatory and went on two tours. An amazing experience. The planet Pluto was discovered using the red telescope you see in the above picture and it and several others on site are still in use and working today. They are open until 9:30 pm and your ticket is good all day and you can come back at night and look through one of the telescopes. They are looking at Mars this time of year, and we planned to go back but there is a cloud cover tonight so it didn't work out. Darn.
California here we come tomorrow...............
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