Do I need to offer a clue, or are you guys just busy?

Hint: there is an indirect, round-about connection to the previous location--sort of.  

So...an (ex) Dutch colony??

Further hints welcome

 

minger:

So...an (ex) Dutch colony??

Further hints welcome

I was guessing along the same line.   So it could be an (ex) British colony as well.

Checked all possibilities of former Dutch colonies in the tropics.  Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Surinam, Carribean islands, Malabar, Malaya, Southern Africa etc etc, but the architecture does not 'fit'.

Could it be Tongapatu (main island of Tonga) previously called Amsterdam ??

 

I enjoy stumping you guys, even if only for a while.

But instead of identifying a place (that will come easier later) first focus on a person. 

Who would live in such a place?  

(Hint: he's not the same nationality as below)

Well, I found it.....

It's the house of French painter Paul Gauguin, on Atuona (Marquesas Islands) French Polynesia

(I fail to understand the earlier hint you gave...)

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Only in 1 place you'll find this type of houses.  Where?  and what are they called ?

 

(Funky: I fail to understand the earlier hint you gave...)

Far away from the previous...but not always so far

I was trying to suggest that the person associated with that structure was originally not from there, as Gaugin was obviously European. Also, I was doing sort of a "six degrees of separation" in my mind, as Gaugin had once lived in Provence with Van Gogh, who was Dutch, hence the rather thin "connection" to Minger's Netherlands location. This is what happens when I try to be cryptic and instead it just becomes confusing.

As for how you finally solved it, Funky: I'm curious, what made you think of Gaugin, was it my final clue that suggested someone seeking a primitive life?

(anyone who wants to, feel free to solve his clue )

Funky's funky houses are

THE TONGKONAN OF TORAJA

http://www.batusura.de/tongkonan.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongkonan

I actually found it on Flickr first by searching for "saddle roof house", a nice Indonesian gallery here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelapa/555633866/

(OK, it's someone else's turn I think to offer a mystery pic )

seablonde:

(OK, it's someone else's turn I think to offer a mystery pic )

I'll take ya up on the offer, this one isn't too tough anyways, and appropriate for this time of year.

seablonde:

(Funky: I fail to understand the earlier hint you gave...)

Far away from the previous...but not always so far

I was trying to suggest that the person associated with that structure was originally not from there, as Gaugin was obviously European. Also, I was doing sort of a "six degrees of separation" in my mind, as Gaugin had once lived in Provence with Van Gogh, who was Dutch, hence the rather thin "connection" to Minger's Netherlands location. This is what happens when I try to be cryptic and instead it just becomes confusing.

As for how you finally solved it, Funky: I'm curious, what made you think of Gaugin, was it my final clue that suggested someone seeking a primitive life?

 

The most tenuous link(?) ever seablonde

French painter/French Polynesia...Amsterdam/Netherlands    Little ol' Europe?

I like bananas...does that make me a monkey's uncle? 

Maybe seablonde will share with us what he has been smoking....?  (LOL)

@ hobo: I see an American flag so obviously it's in the USA. That's as far as I came sofar....

 

Funky: Maybe seablonde will share with us what he has been smoking....?  (LOL)

Minger: ...does that make me a monkey's uncle?

  OK, OK, next time, I'll just put up a pic, maybe a clue with it--but no hanging from vines

As for this place, I think I recognize the mountains (I was there as a kid), but not the building 

hobo81:...this time of year

And your clue: at first I thought you meant Halloween ...

but now I realize you mean an even scarier day of the year  

 

 I think I know the answer!

 

Yup...it's the Stanley Hotel, Colorado.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlook_Hotel

How 'bout this one:

 

It's most "famous" feature never really existed...

seablonde:

And your clue: at first I thought you meant Halloween ...

but now I realize you mean an even scarier day of the year  

Not everyone's crazy like you - I meant holloween. No beer and no t.v. make Homer something somthing

justkenny:

It's most "famous" feature never really existed...

Clue suggest it's another movie location? It reminds me of John Carpenter's Vampires, and it sticks with the horror theme of the previous location - but I haven't seen that movie in ages and having difficulty tracking down images to confirm or not.

justkenny:

How 'bout this one:

 

It's most "famous" feature never really existed...

 

I was thinking about a movie-location of one of the Zorro movies.....

hobo81:

No beer and no t.v. make Homer something somthing

Clue suggest it's another movie location? It reminds me of John Carpenter's Vampires, and it sticks with the horror theme of the previous location - but I haven't seen that movie in ages and having difficulty tracking down images to confirm or not.

"Don't mind if I do!"

You're on the right track about the movie...

Taking a step back for a sec... 

The first thing I thought of when I read hobo's post was the hotel in The Shining, so I Googled it, but for some reason, Google images showed me something else, and I got sidetracked away from the right answer. I then thought those mountains looked a lot like the Black Hills of South Dakota, so I looked around for an older (reminds me of Mount Vernon style?) hotel that might be in the area, then gave up when I didn't find it. I also thought the reference to "this time of year" may have meant Election Day=Presidents=Mount Rushmore, hence my quip about a "scary day." 

Now, back to the show!  

Is it The Mission San Juan Bautista, location for a scene from

Hitchcock's Vertigo ?

And, it appears to not have the tower that appears in the movie which I saw several months ago.

This link explains the story of what happened to the missing tower 

http://www.hollisterfreelance.com/news/210308-vertigo-celebration-needs-help

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OK, someone else think of one...solving is more fun anyway  

Home to a brave man?