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Gravesite of Charles M. Dole

Gravesite Charles M. Dole Founder of the National ski Patrol - 1938 Proponent for the Creation of U.S.Mountain Troops - 1941 National Ski Patrol United States Army Submitted by Alan R. Reno

Gravesite Charles M. Dole Founder of the National ski Patrol - 1938 Proponent for the Creation of U.S.Mountain Troops - 1941 National Ski Patrol United States Army Submitted by Alan R. Reno

  • gravesite marker
  • paul smiths
  • ny
  • charles dole
  • us army
  • st. john's episcopal
  • national ski patrol
  • brighton
  • ny
  • alan r. reno

Ignatius Joseph Firpo

    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