'Private eyes, they're watching you...'

Mayor's Suite/City Council Chamber windows, Boston City Hall (1969, Kallmann-McKinnell-Knowles). Photo: Epicgenius.

Boston City Hall (1969, Kallmann-McKinnell-Knowles). Photo by Daderot.

...and they could indeed see your every move, if someone does happen to be watching you from the privacy of whatever room lurks behind those eyelike twin windows, while you transfix your eyes onto them in awe at their in-your-face stare at your lowly self.

City Council Chamber, Boston City Hall, in 1981. Photo by Bill Lebovich.

That classic Hall & Oates song from 1981 flashed in my mind as I noticed an online image of the two watchful windows of the City Council Chamber (left) in Boston's City Hall, which were clearly designed to enable city councilors to keep vigil on the city they're leading, reassure us that they're watching over us like angels, or remind us that "Big Brother is watching you," in George Orwell's words of warning from 1984. 

Victorian blast furnace, Shropshire, UK. Photo by David Humphreys.

That is but one example of the "two eyes" effect in worldwide architecture, as designers integrated the semblance of faces or ogling eyeballs into their buildings, whether deliberately or accidentally. They were either calculated attention-getters as business pitches for the structures, or simply sources of sunlight that just happened to have facial features. This Victorian blast furnace (right) was probably not meant to be facially comical, but we can't help seeing its elongated windows as eyes, its circular vent as a nose, its arched entry as a mouth, its chimney as a raised arm, and its gabled roof as a peaked hat.

Photo courtesy of Build Green New Homes.

In fact, I was taught to recognize eyes and faces in houses as early as third grade, courtesy of the following poem:

HOUSES

by Aileen Fisher

               Houses are faces

               (haven't you found?)

               with their hats in the air

               and their necks in the ground.

               Windows are noses,

               windows are eyes,

               and doors are the mouths

               of a suitable size.

               And the porch – or the place

               where porches begin –

               is just like a mustache

               shading the chin.

One of greater Boston's most instantly recognizable "faces" is the rounded, oddly detailed front entrance façade of the famous Harvard Lampoon Castle in Cambridge. Built in 1909 from a composite design of Dutch Gable, Flemish Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobethan and English Medieval styles by Edmund March Wheelwright (who embellished it with real imported 17th-century Delft tiles, Belgian leaded windows and a genuine Elizabethan mantelpiece), this oddball mashup of sometimes incongruous architectural details bespeaks the humor of its interior publication with a comical face, comprising a crowned bowler hat, porthole eyes with lozenge frames, a cast-iron lantern nose, a lintel-lipped (or mustached) vertical window mouth, a front door like a sideways bowtie, a front-stoop beard, and a cylindrical brick façade suggesting the contours of a ruddy, sunburned or drunkenly flushed human face. 

The façade seems to have the bug-eyed stare of someone shocked or startled in a comedy sketch, in line with the humorous slant of the stomping grounds for such pioneering humorists as Robert Benchley, Christopher Cerf, Fred Gwynne, B.J. Novak, and Conan O'Brien.

Harvard Lampoon Castle (1909, Edmund March Wheelwright), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Google Maps.

"Shocked" castle, Iceland. Photo by Ingvild Sommer.

"Shocked" stone house, Gordes, Provence, France. Photo by Celli07.

Similarly "shocked" and "startled" faces abound the world around. 

On this Icelandic castle (above), half-moon transoms, a mouth-like arched window, and "hands up" crenellations create the castle's "shock value." 

Likewise, on this stone house (left) in Gordes, Provence, France, the leaded vertical window-eyes, the off-center chimney nose, and the agape elongated window-opening mouth create a shocked expression on that façade, with the gable on the lower section adding the comical effect of a "mustache." 

"Shocked" or "glum" stone ruin, Skiathos, Greece.

"Surprised" stone house, Cyprus. Photo by Nikta Nikta.

In this stone ruin in Skiathos, Greece (above), over centuries the elements appear to have carved a shocked or glum expression out of the remains of its arched window "eyebrowed" eyes and its agape Moorish-arched doorway mouth. The dome makes a good bald head.

This stone castle in Cyprus (right) is given a "surprised" expression by its curving plaster "eyebrow" lintels and wide-open squarish grilled "eyes," its arrowslit "nose," and its grilled window "mouth" surrounded by the "lips" of a black frame and a "chin" sill.

The white house in Heidelberg, Germany (below) has a "shocked" or "sad" expression, depending on which of its window pairs you see as "eyes." The shuttered larger casement windows with the agape archway "mouth" have a look of shock, whereas the small oval windows with the arch's "pout" seem sadder.

"Shocked" or "Sad" house, Heidelberg, Germany. Photo by Luftschiffhafen.

Cartoon-face shop, Kyoto, Japan.
Photo by Didier Zylberyng. 

Scary robot-faced diner, Tokyo, Japan.
Photo by Steven L. Johnson.

Of course, some commercial buildings are deliberately built with "faces" calculated to grab your attention and attract your business to the enterprises within, such as these Japanese oddities: at left, a Kyoto clothing shop with bulging eye-windows, a sharp ventilator nose (with nostrils!) and a wide-mouthed entry; at right, a Chikara Meshi Tokyo diner with robotically staring square eyes (complete with eyeballs!), a bridged nose that appears to be an extension of a broken "hat" pediment, a toothed mouth display/message window, and a a sign and entrance in the form of a multicolored beard.

Happy house, Belarus. Photo by Tumar.

Other buildings put on a happy face — with decoration, of course, since it's harder to eke a smile than a shocked, sad or sober visage out of ordinary exterior details. An example is this charmer from Belarus, with square windows and a cosmetic smile, as if it's watching you with the intent of brightening your day as you pass by.

Smiley-face turret, Switzerland. Photo by Djenev.

Here's another smiley, this time in Switzerland: a pop-out turret with all the ingredients of a quick cheerer-upper: wide-open oval lookout windows, arched panels for raised eyebrows, acorn-like reliefs and a meniscus-like line for a smiling mouth, and a polygonal roof for a hat. How optimistic can a building get?

"Big Teeth" house, location unknown. Photo by Hydebrink.

Yes, a few houses can become accidentally happy, such as this one from parts unknown. Here, two curtained square window "eyes" and a Belgian stone-bordered planter "mouth" planted with large shrubbery "teeth" make up a rather jovial welcome home or see-you-soon.

Cuibul de Lemn hotel, Râşnov, Romania, courtesy of Google Earth.

Buildings can be sleepy, too, as the Cuibul de Lemn hotel in Râşnov, Romania, shows. No doubt a promotion of the hotel as a quiet place to get some shut-eye, it makes the most of its "closing eyebrow" windows, "nose" ventilator, and flat closed "mouth" below to visually communicate its message. Furthermore, it is a variation on...

The Eyes of Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania.

...the Eyes of Sibiu (Ochii Sibiului), a Romanian tourist attraction of houses with eyebrow dormers in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania. Originating from the 15th century as an element of Baroque architecture, the dormers give the impression of the half-shut eyes associated with the upstairs sleeping quarters behind them.

The Eyes of Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania.

According to popular legend, the Eyes of Sibiu were intended to scare the general public into thinking they were being watched from above – like true "private eyes" – though in reality these eyebrow dormers were designed as a ventilation system for attics. And with good reason: who would want to sleep in a stuffy attic or feel faint after poking around up there?

Trödel & Antik antique shop, Friedrich-Wieck-Straße, Dresden, Germany.

Especially if the attic belongs to an antique shop, like Trödel & Antik in Dresden, Germany, which certainly needs its eyebrow dormers to ventilate the fragile inventory stored up there. And these "Eyes of Sibiu" do have a way of staring you right in the face, enticing you inward to browse the collection.

Photo courtesy of Brick & Batten, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hospice de Beaune, France.

Here are a couple of eyefuls: a house showing its "shocked" reaction with arched dormers for "eyes," an arrowslit window "nose" and a wide window "mouth" (above); and L'Hospice de Beaune, France, forming eyes and nose (with nostrils) from pointed dormers and mouth from the window opening below the "nose" (right).

Now, see if you can identify the location (or at least the type of house) the following sets of "eyes" belong to:

Buford-Ward-Riches House (1875), Indianapolis.

These "eyes" are gazing down at you from atop the Buford-Ward-Riches House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Built in 1875 in the French Second Empire style with a Mansard roof, it is known as one of only five such houses left in the city. Those "lookout" eyes certainly came in handy for watching for approaching (or encroaching) visitors, expected or not.

Horner-Terrill House (c.1875), Indianapolis, in 1932.

These "eyes" are among the extant dormers of the Horner-Terrill House, also located in Indianapolis, another of its five remaining French Second Empire homes. Built c.1875, the house is a hybrid of the asymmetrical massing, floor plan, and cornice brackets of the Italian Villa style and the French Second Empire Mansard roofs and landmark corner tower with corner porch. The tower, supplying a few other sets of lookout "eyes" (in fact, there are "eyes" all around the house – so watch out), was once crowned by a Mansard roof with ornate metal cresting, from which approachers and intruders could certainly be watched from above and afar.

Horner-Terrill House (c.1875), Indianapolis, in May 2013.

Sadly, the Horner-Terrill House is in disrepair, a victim of deferred maintenance and two aborted attempts at restoration. This isn't even the most recent image of it; it was taken 13 years ago, and recent reports indicate that the house is still standing, but it continues to deteriorate, and its rear wing has partially collapsed. Hopefully it can be restored soon, "eyes" and all.

6-8 W. 95th St. (1894, H.E.P. Hartwell), New York City.

These porthole "eyes" with astonished brows mark the twin entrances of 6-8 W. 95th St. in Manhattan, one "eye" per entry. Built in 1894 from a design by Horace Edgar Poe Hartwell for his real estate speculator brother Luther Francis Hartwell, these mirror-image townhouses blend Renaissance Revival and Spanish Baroque styles, enriched with foliate carvings around their oculi and on the railings of their stoops, making these "eyes" irresistible to stare at. (The interiors were just as irresistible, promoted in 1893 as "Artistic Boston Houses" with "marble walls, mosaic floors, fine cabinet work, Louis XVI parlors, old English foyer halls, First Empire dining rooms, nothing like them in the market.") And look: each house has its own "private eyes" at attic level, so if you pay a visit here, you can be sure that, in the words of another classic '80s number, "Somebody's watching me."

Log house, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Photo by Sergey Yakovlev.

Portholes make good door windows, too, providing a broader range of vision of who's on the other side than "magic eye" peepholes – especially with one porthole per eye! These "eyes" are on a double entry to a log house in Arkhangelsk, Russia, a splendid example of Nordic log construction that makes sure you can watch who's coming.

Carpenter Gothic house with window nose and eyes, door mouth, porch mustache.

This is but a sampling of the thousands of houses and buildings with "eyes" and "faces" that can be seen all over the world. And I'm sure you can spot some in your neighborhood, on your travels, or even in your home, if you eye – make that 'ogle' – your surroundings more prudently. 

But pay heed – somebody may be watching you!

Thank you for visiting. I welcome your comments!

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Remembering the 9/11 FDNY firefighters

FDNY rescue workers at Ground Zero. FEMA photo by Andrea Booher

FEMA photo by Bri Rodriguez

As a former blogger and proposal writer for an architecture firm specializing in fire stations, which designed 21st-century station renovations for Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Engine Companies 63, 217 and 235, I find it fitting to remember the 343 FDNY firefighters killed in the line of duty in their attempts to rescue World Trade Center attack victims on September 11, 2001, 25 years ago today.

Collapse of South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, 9:59 a.m., as
seen from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Photo by Paul Joffe.

Those brave, lost souls included three from EC 217 in Brooklyn, who perished in the South Tower's 9:59 a.m. collapse: Steven Coakley (age 36), Neil Joseph Leavey (34), and Lt. Kenneth J. Phelan, Sr. (41) "We were standing in a sea of body parts," surviving EC 217 Lt. (ret.) Thomas McGoff told the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. "Stevie Coakley and Neil Leavey were with me, and they saw people coming out of the South Tower. Meanwhile, they're standing in the collapse zone of jumpers [from the tower]. So Stevie says to me, 'I'm going to take Neil across the street and chase these people up the block. Be careful, stay together, and we'll meet you at the command post.' ... Without Stevie and Neil, we would have lost more civilians by getting hit and killed by jumpers."

"Lieutenant Kenneth Phelan embodied that spirit of selflessness," said New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin at the dedication of a red memorial street sign in Phelan's memory in his hometown of Maspeth, Queens, NY, on July 22, 2026. "On September 11th, he answered the call to serve at a neighboring firehouse that was short a member, giving his life after fourteen years of dedicated service to the FDNY."

Firefighter Steven Coakley.

Firefighter Neil Joseph Leavey.

Lt. Kenneth J. Phelan Sr.

Collapse of North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001,
10:28 a.m. Photo courtesy of Facebook.

The North Tower's 10:28 a.m. collapse vanquished the entire crew of EC 235, aka the "Monroe Six," at 206 Monroe St. in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood: Lt. Steven Bates (age 42), Nicholas Paul Chiofalo (39), Francis "Frankie" Esposito (32), Lee S. Fehling (28), Lawrence G. Veling (44), and Capt. Timothy "Timmy" Stackpole (42), along with Chief Dennis A. Cross (60), last seen entering the North Tower. "My dad was with Captain Timothy Stackpole...their bodies were found relatively close," Cross's youngest daughter, Denise Cross Feldman, told Dons Press. "On that ride to Bellevue [Morgue], the city was quiet, solemn, covered in dust, covered in debris, plastered with pictures of the missing, a slow motion movie that Hollywood can never replicate, never... 

"With every breath I took in, I felt strong like my dad. I felt special and proud that I had a dad who risked his own life each day to save the lives of others."

Chief Dennis A. Cross.

"On March 10, 2001, Timmy returned to his lieutenant's job – full duty," his widow, Tara Stackpole, told the National Fallen Firefighters Association (NFFF). "He was promoted to captain on September 6, 2001, and was in FDNY headquarters, off-duty, the morning of September 11. Of course, he responded... His remarkable story has inspired many and his love for the job has touched many firefighters across the country."

Capt. Timothy "Timmy" Stackpole.

Lt. Steven J. Bates.

Firefighter Nicholas Paul Chiofalo.

Firefighter Francis "Frankie" Esposito.

Firefighter Lee S. Fehling.

Firefighter Lawrence G. Veling.

World Trade Center firefighter requests ten more colleagues.
U.S. Navy photo by Journalist First Class Preston Keres.

Joan R. Daley of EC 63 in the Bronx died of cancer at age 55 on September 27, 2009, eight years after her part in the 9/11 rescue efforts. She was but one of the more than 600 firefighters who have passed away as a result of inhaling the many toxins the tower collapses unleashed into the air. These include asbestos, benzene, cement/drywall dust, crystalline silica, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury from office equipment and wiring.

Firefighter Joan R. Daley.

"Firefighter Daley was an amazing woman," reported the NFFF. "She was hired by the FDNY in 1982, as one of the first females in the department... She was not only a role model for women, she was a hero for those who felt they didn't belong... In 2001, when the Twin Towers fell, Firefighter Daley participated in the recovery efforts. Sadly, it was these long days that would cause her to become ill and ultimately pass away from cancer. In a career that is dominated by men, Daley broke ground until her retirement in 2009."

FDNY Firehouse Engine Company 10 on 9/11. Courtesy FDNY 10 House.

Ground Zero also highlighted what matters most when we break ground on new or renovated fire stations, designing for those who constantly put their lives on the line for public safety. This design process extends beyond quickening response time, upgrading dispatch technology, and building hardening to provent structural disaster like what happened to FDNY Station 10, across the street from the World Trade Center, on 9/11. Post-9/11

FDNY Firehouse EC 10 after reconstruction. Photo by Michael DiNatale.

advancements in fire station design and construction also encompass decontamination systems with dedicated turnout gear rooms and state-of-the-art toxin-extractor equipment washing machines. These features divide the fire station into "hot," "warm" and "cold" zones.

Decontamination room in new fire station, North Acton, MA. Photo by Maia Kennedy.

The hot zone, or Red Zone, encompasses the apparatus bays that garage firetrucks and exterior equipment storage, that is, the area with the highest contamination. The warm zone, or Yellow Zone, incorporates decon rooms, dirt and toxin extractor washing machines, showers, and specialized Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) cleaning spaces, that is, the transition area between the fire station's dirtiest and cleanest realms. 

Fire station single sleeping quarters. Photo by FirePhoto.

The cold zone, or Green Zone, is the toxin-free living area: living quarters, bunk rooms, kitchens, dayrooms, break rooms, fitness rooms, offices. Cold-zone air pressure is often heightened to stop filtration of contaminants. 

Training room, Northbridge Fire Headquarters. Photo by Robbie Robinson.

New and renovated stations are also receiving single sleeping quarters, as opposed to group dormitories; larger break rooms and kitchens; larger and more apparatus bays with fortified bay doors and slab floors; backup power grids and substations; and more spacious high-tech training rooms for growing first-responder forces.

Cambridge Fire Headquarters, Cambridge, MA, in renovation. Photo by Todd Larson.

In the name of both environmental protection and firefighter health and safety, today's stations incorporate sustainable green technology, such as photovoltaic solar panels, LED lighting, and high-efficiency heating and cooling from geothermal wells. This has made some stations net-zero and fossil-fuel-free (left), reducing the carbon footprint.

My old firm practices all these new standards, and more, regularly in its public safety facility designs. The architect's post-9/11 commitment to these design principles earned him coveted admission to then New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC Design and Construction Excellence Program in 2005. 

This honor enabled the architect to redesign the aging EC 217 and EC 235 in 2009 and EC 63 in 2013. All three of these revamped fire stations were cited as outstanding examples of public safety facility design in We Build the City: New York City's Design + Construction Excellence Program (ORO Editions, 2013).

Engine Company 217, Brooklyn, NY, built 1909, renovated 2009.

EC 217 and EC 235, built respectively in 1909 and 1895 as single-bay fire stations, each received a hardy new apparatus slab floor with drainage and firetruck maintenance systems. These met FDNY standards for supporting the 90,000-pound fire vehicle that hadn't been around in the days of the horse-drawn fire wagons these stations were built for, and was certainly needed for extreme emergencies like 9/11. EC 217 was reinforced with a new concrete truck apron for structural disaster hardening and containment of toxic fumes from the new bunkrooms, restrooms and offices on the upper floor, but its historic frontage was restored.

Engine Company 235, Brooklyn, NY, built 1895, renovated 2009.

As part of its own historic restoration and structural disaster hardening, EC 235 was tuck-pointed with new mortar and crowned with a new copper roof, ensuring it an additional century of service to its old neighborhood. The service of both stations was fortified with new housewatches and gear grids with the most advanced FDNY dispatch technology, allowing firefighters quicker response.

Engine Company 63, Bronx, NY, first organized 1896, renovated 2013.

EC 63 was expanded to house three fire vehicles – Batallion 15, Engine 63, and Ladder 39 – to expand its readiness for emergencies. Structural disaster hardening was supplied with an all-new structure and façade, faced in ash-gray with a terra cotta rainscreen and inset cement board panels, contrasted with fortified red bay doors and an American flag waving on a flagpole, in remembrance of 9/11 and other firefighter tragedies, and as an expression of fortitude in the face of danger. Toxic fume containment was fully taken care of with a decontamination area on the first floor, safely separated from the new bunkrooms, lockers, restrooms, fitness center, offices, and training/study rooms on the upper level.

Ladder 39 exits EC 63 in the evening.

We Build the City described EC 63's renewal as follows: "This expansion doubles the building's size and meets Fire Department of New York guidelines – giving firefighters the room they need to perform their duties safely and effectively." 

Awards the renovation of EC 63 received include the Bronze Place 2013 National Station Style Design Award for Renovated Fire Station Design from Penton's Fire Chief Magazine, in addition to the 2014 Fire Station Design Excellence Award from the Fire Industry Education Resource Organization (F.I.E.R.O.).

FDNY rescue workers at Ground Zero. FEMA photo by Andrea Booher.

As we remember 9/11's fallen FDNY firefighters, as well as the 72 lost NYPD law enforcement officers and the 2,977 civilian victims all those brave souls endeavored to rescue, let us move forward with the most advanced fire station design and construction possible to more fully equip our first responders for earth-shaking calamities such as this.

Never Forget.

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Veling, Diane J., "Lawrence G. Veling," National Fallen Firefighters Association Role of Honor, 2002, https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/lawrence-g-veling/