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Brooklyn Public Library - New Utrecht Branch

CITY OF NEW YORK ROBERT F. WAGNER MAYOR ABE STARK PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL LAWRENCE E. GEROSA COMPTROLLER JOHN CASHMORE PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN NEW UTRECHT BRANCH BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY...

CITY OF NEW YORK ROBERT F. WAGNER MAYOR ABE STARK PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL LAWRENCE E. GEROSA COMPTROLLER JOHN CASHMORE PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN NEW UTRECHT BRANCH BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY...

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • new utrecht
  • library
  • brooklyn pub...
  • robert wagner
  • abe stark
  • 1955

HSBC (formerly the Knox Building)

HSBC FORMERLY THE KNOX BUILDING BUILT IN 1901-02, THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST BEAUX ARTS COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK CITY. IT IS DISTINGUISHED BY ITS LIMESTONE RUSTICATION AND TWO-STORY MANSARD...

HSBC FORMERLY THE KNOX BUILDING BUILT IN 1901-02, THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST BEAUX ARTS COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK CITY. IT IS DISTINGUISHED BY ITS LIMESTONE RUSTICATION AND TWO-STORY...

  • new york
  • manhattan
  • midtown
  • bryant park
  • knox building
  • hsbc
  • 1901
  • 1902
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1989

American-Standard Building

RAYMOND M. HOOD'S USE OF BLACK BRICK, TRIMMED WITH GOLDEN COLORED STONE, IN THE DESIGN OF THIS BUILDING, IS AN EARLY INSTANCE OF VIVID COLORATION ON THE SURFACE OF A SKYSCRAPER. CONSTRUCTION WAS...

RAYMOND M. HOOD'S USE OF BLACK BRICK, TRIMMED WITH GOLDEN COLORED STONE, IN THE DESIGN OF THIS BUILDING, IS AN EARLY INSTANCE OF VIVID COLORATION ON THE SURFACE OF A SKYSCRAPER. CONSTRUCTION...

  • new york
  • manhattan
  • midtown
  • raymond hood
  • 1924
  • 1962

Spring Street Park

SPRING STREET PARK Spring Street Park occupies a narrow triangle on the western edge of Sixth Avenue stretching from Spring to Broome Street. Originally a modest paved area, redesigned for public...

SPRING STREET PARK Spring Street Park occupies a narrow triangle on the western edge of Sixth Avenue stretching from Spring to Broome Street. Originally a modest paved area, redesigned for public...

  • new york
  • manhattan
  • west village
  • canal street
  • sixth avenue
  • spring street
  • 1974
  • 1997

Kabuki Springs & Spa

    Forsyth Park

    In the 1840s William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside 10 acres of wooded land at this site for the development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former...

    In the 1840s William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside 10 acres of wooded land at this site for the development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former...

    • parks

    THE GRANITE RAILWAY

    NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK THE GRANITE RAILWAY DESIGNATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1976 THIS MARKER COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GROUND BREAKING...

    NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK THE GRANITE RAILWAY DESIGNATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1976 THIS MARKER COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GROUND BREAKING...

      Shilo Inn

        Blue Star Memorial By-Way and WWI Centennial Memorial

          Mark Twain lived here

          Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

          Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

          • mark twain
          • samuel clemens

          DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE

          HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

          HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

            Daggett

              The Donner Laboratory

                Rawlins Springs

                Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member of...

                Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member...

                • gracious
                • acceptable
                • water spring

                Mount Baker Terminal

                  Historic Tumwater

                    Honor Roll South Bend

                      Pioneer tank and plane

                      In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                      In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                      • bor

                      Hero Minenko Leonid

                      In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                      In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                      • nizhny novgorod
                      • gorky
                      • ussr

                      Clifford Neal Boone and Sondra Lee Boone