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  Dear Sir: The plan proposed for taking A----d (the outlines of which are communicated in your letter, which was this moment


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id: 14742
title: Vanishing England
author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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  Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye of the old country houses that Time has spared, the cottages that that the old Saxon burgh was carried away as long ago as 1100 A.D. Hence Earl Bigot was compelled to retire inland and erect his famous picture of the place shows the church, a large cross, and houses; but [Illustration: Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye] years ago several old houses were demolished in the High Street of the plaster, a house in Queen''s Street, the old market cross, destroyed in We give views of an old building near the custom-house in merchants'' hall, and the quaint old narrow streets with gabled houses A good many picturesque old houses remain in the village, among them of the building was at one time used as a charnel-house, as in an old many old-fashioned villages and country towns, manor-houses, churches,


id: 30747
title: Seaport in Virginia George Washington''s Alexandria
author: Moore, Gay Montague
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  CHAPTER 5: George William Fairfax house, south façade. Colonels Fairfax; and from Mount Vernon, young George Washington and his [Illustration: Plan of the Town of Alexandria by George Washington. Fairfax Court House, which town promotion had brought to Alexandria. Museum of Art houses one of the great rooms from Alexandria; the St. Louis Museum another; and some interior woodwork has found its way to The fifteen-year-old George took a great liking to young Fairfax, and houses of George William Fairfax, Dr. James Craik and Dr. Elisha Cullen half acres of land in the town of Alexandria with ye houses, gardens and young family was doubtless residing in General Washington''s town house, John Harper''s property housed many of Alexandria''s important citizens. The little houses, known in Alexandria for many years as the Washington house and lot at the "bottom of his garden" on Washington Street, and


id: 21645
title: The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
author: Crawford, Mary Caroline
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  surviving old houses of New England. house at Medford, a place to which Sir Harry Frankland and his lady used The house stands on the left-hand side of the old Boston Road as you view-point than the Stark house in the little town of Dunbarton, a place mistress of this house, the Mrs. Stark who, as a girl, was Miss Sarah [Illustration: CHRIST CHURCH--PAUL REVERE HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS.] family occupant has gladly taken seats within the house, while Mrs. Jonas Clark has closed the shutters, added a new forelog, and fanned the Very few old houses retain at the present time so large a share of the examinations of witches took place here, the house being at the time the The house is now (1902) the home of Miss Rebecca Fairbanks, an old lady house, she was at the time receiving her young-lady education at the


id: 26486
title: The Dukeries
author: Gilchrist, Murray
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  Camden tells us that in his time Worksop was "noted for its great riches of the great houses, and the artificial beauties of perhaps the Hood went to an old woman''s house, and changed cloathes with her to The present house of Welbeck was built upon the site of an abbey for same name, looking as foolish as the present Duke; and Lady Mary of Sir Thomas Lucas''s eight children, in a large country house near time in the country houses of Welbeck and Bolsover. park contains four thousand acres, and in the neighbourhood of the house The great woman of Thoresby was Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who spent These are relics of Lady Mary, and were probably left at her husband''s Of Lady Mary''s life at Thoresby we find interesting pictures in her only large house left in the forest proper--a Georgian place with a fine


id: 12006
title: A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood
author: Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield)
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  and known throughout the world as the city of the Taj. Of ancient Agra little now remains except a few traces of the The next year Babar died in his garden palace at Agra The was a fragment of a palace built by Shere Shah in the Fort at Agra, of Shere Shah''s time now remaining in Agra is the half-buried mosque it was built by Shah Jahan, it took seven years to build, and cost Akbar''s court had given place to the sensual luxury of Shah Jahan''s. two-storied building on the left on entering contains Akbar''s private Jahangir''s birth, Akbar''s first care would be to build a palace it is of the same type as Akbar''s splendid palace in the Agra Fort, Akbar himself died four years after this great sermon in stone was [14] It is known that in 1575 Akbar completed a great building at


id: 11731
author: Hutchins, Cortelle
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  river looking for a place to found their colony, they robbed the stream along the northern shore lay Jamestown Island, the site of old James time to run up the little stream behind Jamestown Island, as the tide back, as our thoughts went back, to those old James Towne days. history, and passed far away from old James Towne. passing of many days could such interest come--could old James Towne so to draw close to the little old-time hamlet and to the scenes of hope even back in those old colonial days, our little craft would have had course gave time for a thought or two upon the famous old river part of the James by the time even this old home at Westover was built. Near the river a little way above the house, stood not only the church We met still other old-time people at the manor-house that day; but it

title:
  Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time


id: 34873
title: Historic Homes of New England
author: Northend, Mary Harrod
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  [Illustration: PLATE I.--The Old Pickering House, Salem, Mass. [Illustration: PLATE III.--Hallway, Oliver House; Living Room, Oliver their old houses, still standing on Essex Street, Salem, was built in standing next to the Old Witch House was owned originally by a Captain under President Cleveland as Secretary of War. Near Derby Street stands the house made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As in many old houses, large rooms open on either side. interspersed with fine old trees showing at the rear of the house. [Illustration: PLATE XXXIII.--Living Room, Ladd-Gilman House; Robert a treasure-house of old colonial furniture, many of the pieces having [Illustration: PLATE XL.--Dining Room, Spencer-Pierce House; Living The old home is a splendid example of the houses of that day. plainly in many old houses of that period which are found to-day in a built the house is rarely associated with it; the fine old pile is known


id: 39068
author: Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
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  For many years, until 1882, the Old State House was used for business purposes, after previous service as Town House, City Hall, Court The old house in North Square was the home of the Revere family until The new church, which was called the South Meeting House, was built on King''s Chapel, as the new church building came to be called, was known Mrs. Duston lived in the old house at Haverhill for many years after For nearly thirty years after the Revolution the stately old house was The Hasbrouck house was sold by the family to New York State in 1849. From that day the State House has been known as Independence Hall, between Church and State in the old Colony took place during the years When it was decided that a new church building was needed, Washington Two years later he led into the new house his bride,

title:
  Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable


id: 37910
title: Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches
author: Various
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  great man blazed forth on this new field! life-like represented in Leutze''s great picture,--flashed a cheering for the public good with which the life of Washington abounded, when he the times, and the struggle between the old-country associations natural he was in England, a time of life when most men have lost the power to country, from his thirtieth year to the day of his death he lived no great importance in the life of every man. John Adams died at the good age of ninety-one years, on the 4th of July, best scholars in the country, he taught for a number of years with great old place, on the erection of the court-house some twenty-five years of State, Washington determined to appoint John Quincy Adams Minister the living age, saluting for the last time a great man. the contests of his time, his position on great public questions was as


id: 39789
title: Nooks & Corners of Old New York
author: Hemstreet, Charles
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  [Sidenote: John Street Church] between Ann and Beekman Streets, facing what was then City Hall Park and new church was built at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street. The post-office building was erected on a portion of the City Hall Park. poor-house was built, the site of which is covered by the present City The building 39 and 41 Chambers Street, opposite the Court House, stands New Bowery Street was opened from the south side of Chatham Square in Greenwich Street follows the line of a road which led from the city to Broadway and Church Street, were occupied until 1857 by the buildings through the grounds of the college from Church Street to West Broadway Streets, were occupied by the buildings and grounds of the New York originally been in the New York Institute Building in City Hall Park. A new church was built at Seventh Street and Second City Hall in Wall Street, 17


id: 38130
author: Williams, Harrison
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  war-books of Major General Henry Lee, Col. John S. Virginia''s Colonial records and the records of Loudoun County. of Virginia, in whose honour the County of Loudoun was named, is of the old John Janney residence in Leesburg, later so long the home of record states, was pursuant to an order of Fairfax County Court, Loudoun "of Loudoun County and Cameron Parish" and runs to his sons John and Place for establishing the Court House of Loudoun County, it appearing town on the land of Nicholas Minor, in the county of Loudoun.... the town and county or owning land in Loudoun, it is generally held that town of Leesburg, in the county of Loudoun to the great prejudice of the Loudoun, in the Colony of Virginia, held at the Courthouse in Leesburg, John Champe was born in what was soon to become Loudoun in the year Loudoun who became Governor of Virginia in that year and whose

title:
  Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia''s Northern Neck


