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According to the listing, the two-story residence was built around 1900 for Henry D. Longwell, a well-known and successful merchant in the Danville area. Longwell moved to Danville around 1880 and ...
The building was named for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a developer and original tenant of the building, which itself was named for the U.S. Founding Father John Hancock. [10] In 2018 John Hancock Insurance, years after leaving the building, requested that its name be removed; the owner is seeking another naming rights deal. [10]
33 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. It stands on the east side of Church Street , between Thomas Street and Worth Street .
The Chartwell Mansion is a Chateauesque mansion in Bel-Air, California.Built in 1933, it is best known for its role as the Clampett family home in the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. [1]
In 1686, much of Manhattan, including the future Rockefeller Center site, was established as a "common land" of the city of New York. [1] The land remained in city ownership until 1801, when the physician David Hosack, a member of the New York elite, purchased a parcel of land in what is now Midtown for $5,000, [2] equivalent to $92,000 in 2023 dollars. [3]
1. Empire State Building, New York City. The iconic 102-story skyscraper is no longer the tallest building in the Big Apple. (That honorific goes to One World Trade Center.)
The John Ward House is a National Historic Landmark at 9 Brown Street in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.With an early construction history between 1684 and 1723, it is an excellent example of First Period architecture, and as the subject of an early 20th-century restoration by antiquarian George Francis Dow, it is an important example of the restoration techniques.
Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesCrane & Co., which was founded in 1801, has made the paper for U.S. currency since 1879. Many American businesses don't last long enough to celebrate a few years of ...