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The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center

Chicago Landmark The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects 1897  This building was the first permanent structure of the city's public library system....

• library
• chicago
• illinois
• grand civic building

Frank R. Lillie House

Submitted by @Susannist

• chicago
• illinois
• lillie

Fountain of Time

Submitted by @Susannist

• taft
• fountain
• chicago
• illinois

Original Professors' Row

"ORIGINAL PROFESSORS' ROW"  BUILT IN 1903, THIS CITY BLOCK OF SEMI-ATTACHED ROW HOUSES FROM 5200 TO 5244 SOUTH GREENWOOD AVENUE IS CONSIDERED THE ORIGINAL PROFESSORS' ROW OF THE...

• professors
• chicago
• university o...
• illinois

The Obamas' First Date

"On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."   Submitted by @Susannist

• obama
• baskin robbins
• chicago
• illinois

St Paul's Club and St Paul's Square

Submitted by @caddickbrown

• luncheon club
• birmingham
• england

The Lexington Club

The Lexington Club January 31, 1997 - April 30, 2015 Here marks the site of the Lexington Club, "you friendly neighborhood dyke bar" where "every night is ladies' night", which cultivated...

• san francisco
• bay area
• california
• club
• lgbtq

John Scull

JOHN SCULL 1765 - 1828 Pioneering editor and publisher who issued first edition of Pitts-burgh Gazette, 1786. First newspaper west of Alleghenies, it became the Post-Gazette, 1927. A Berks County...

• pittslburgh
• newspaper
• scull
• post-gazette
• pennsylvania

Leif Erickson, Cambridge House

Hmmmm questionable.  ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERIKSON  BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND Submitted by @devincole

• leif erickson
• cambridge
• massachusetts

New Smethwick Pumping Station

Submitted by @caddickbrown

• smethwick
• england
• pumping

John Betts Building

Submitted by @caddickbrown

• birmingham
• england
• metal

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE

FREDERICK ROWLAND EMETT OBE (1906-1990) Locally educated, Punch  cartoonist, artist, inventor and creator of whimsical machines worked here in the 1920s. 2014 Submitted by @caddickbrown  [Location...

• birmingham
• england

Hiran Minar

This plaque stands before the entrance to the causeway by the concession stand. The Hiran Minar is the grave and monument of the beloved pet antelope of the fourth Mughal emperor...

• mughal
• seventeenth century
• pakistan
• pet
• antelope
• causeway
• water tank
• hunting resort
• jahangir
• shah jahan

Little House Wayside

Plaque at the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder TRANSCRIPTION:  LITTLE HOUSE WAYSIDE "Once upon a time . . . . . . a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin in a little gray house made of...

• little house
• wayside
• wisconsin
• pepin

Oxford Hotel

Lower Downtown  Walking Tour Oxford Hotel and Annex 1891 The Oxford Hotel, built in 1891, is Denver's oldest hotel. Bankrolled by brewer Adolph Zhang and his partners Philip Feldhauser...

• oxford hotel
• denver
• colorado
• frank e. edbrooke
• lodo

Minuteman National Park

Submitted by @coolroadtrip

• concord
• grapes
• revolutionary war
• concord
• massachusetts
• ephraim wales bull
• welch
• vineland
• juice

Knute Rockne

TO KNUTE ROCKNE  IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MAN WHOSE STANDARDS OF FAIR PLAY ARE IAN IMMORTAL INSPIRATION TO THE YOUTH OF AMERICA, AND WHOSE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREAT SPORT OF...

• forward pass
• knute rockne
• football
• sandusky
• ohio

Early Bird

IN COMMEMMORATION [sic] OF THE HISTORIC FLIGHT BY EARLY BIRD GLENN H. CURTISS  CLEVELAND - CEDAR POINT AND RETURN AUGUST 31, 1910  AWARDS TO THE EARLY BIRD BY THE SANDUSKY CHAMBER...

• early bird
• airplane
• flight
• sandusky
• ohio
• misspellings

Ginko Tree

This tree is to be forever known as the Tree of Remembrance It is placed here at personal expense to represent the natural genetic makeup of the Chinese Ginkgo Tree. This is one of the few...

• millennium park
• grand rapids
• michigan
• gingko

Pendleton House, Hiram College

Many of my favorite hours were spent here. #alwaysreadtheplaque #almamater https://t.co/e2IpD9xcbz Tweet Submitted by @LostToHistory

• hiram
• pendleton
• thorn
• frances
• ohio