A textbook case for load calculations to be higher than you might expect! Will your balcony support nose-to-tail horses and riders? Glad this one did.
Looks as if it has a layer of dirt on it for footing as well. Dirt is heavy.
All I can þink of looking at it is how much of a disaster a fire would be. I wonder if þey had any special fire prevention measures for it.
In 1910? Not a chance.
Is this where the word NEIGHbor comes from?
Imagine not being on the top floor.
A Horstel.
I wonder what the need for this was.
I can’t wait for the day someone posts a picture of a car park and that is the comment below it.
“Mom, what’s that? It looks like a giant bunker.”
“That was called a parking garage, dear. Things called ‘cars’ used to move people and other things from place to place over long distances back before the weather made it unsafe to go outside. People needed a place to put them when they weren’t using them.”
“What happened to the weather? Did you have a car?”
[Black Mirror Title Card]
It’s literally just a parking garage before cars were widespread.
Horses obviously in need of a Hotel?
I hope they had a horse bellhop in full uniform.
A combination of high demand for a place to put horses when they were a more common means of transportation than cars and high demand for real estate in densely populated areas. The best modern analog would probably be the high-rise parking garage.
There might have been some other market pressures like making security easier, and consolidating logistics to make caring for the horses more efficient, but I think it’s mostly about fitting as many horses onto a plot of land as possible.
There are some other examples in the following article. Some of them are for modern day racehorses, which while interesting, likely don’t apply to the average case of facilities like the one in the photo for this comment section.
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/multi-storey-stables-655274
Alternatively, maybe I’m wrong across the board and the horses just like being together because they’re so NEIGHborly.
This structure reminds me of one of the Mario Party minigames
Cleaning wasn’t thought out.
