Thursday some shots from a recent walk downtown in the historic district

On one of the recent nice mornings I parked down at the port and crossed the road and took a stroll around New Bedford's Historic District. Whenever I do that I imagine what it was like back in the day when many of these buildings were built and wonder how life was back then when New Bedford during the peak of whaling days was one of the richest cities in the world

I went with a mono edit for this first shot thinking back to those days

The Joseph Taber Building is a commercial structure composed of granite ashlar and built c. 1825-1840. This structure is an example of a simple, unadorned vernacular Federal style building. On the interior, the second and third floors are suspended from large trusses by wrought iron rods. Joseph Taber was a pump and blockmaker who conducted his business here from the 1830s to the 1880s. The first story was occupied by Taber as a pump and block maker's shop, and the second story was a boat builder's shop.
Now it has the Cork Restaurant