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Designed by John B. Parkinson, the Blackstone's Department Store is rectangular in plan with 90 feet (27 m) of frontage on Broadway and 165 feet (50 m) on 9th Street, and is built of brick and stone inside a steel frame. [2] [11] The building, clad in terra cotta, features a Beaux Arts design, [10] with aspects of the design that include: [2]
Notable buildings include the former Blackstone College for Girls (1922), First National Bank, Thomas M. Dillard House, Richmond F. Dillard House, Blackstone Public School Complex, Bagley House (1911), James D. Crawley House (1903), Blackstone Baptist Church (1907), Crenshaw United Methodist Church (1903), St. Luke's Episcopal Church (1916 ...
It also includes the c. 1770s Ebenezer Hancock House (10 Marshall Street), a Federal-style wood-frame house that is the only building left in the city which was known to be owned by John Hancock. [2] The building was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1978 for its notable exterior and interiors.
Sinnoh is also characterized by its waterways with three main lakes, Verity, Acuity, and Valor, that form a triangle. Unlike the Hoenn region, however, which is mostly water routes, only 30 percent of Sinnoh's landscape comprises waterways. [25] Underneath Sinnoh's surface is the Sinnoh Underground, which is a large maze of caves and tunnels. [27]
John A. Green. On March 17, 1868, then a lonely spot in the wilderness, now the site of Stone City, Iowa, John A. Green opened the Champion quarries.For nearly fifty years, the quarries produced steadily, amounting to more than 4.5 billion dollars in sales. 1896 records indicate 1,000 men were employed among the quarries, carving 160,000 loads of stone in a single year with a market value of 3 ...
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.The park was created for the purpose of preserving, protecting, and interpreting the industrial heritage of the Blackstone River Valley and the urban, rural, and agricultural landscape of that region.
'The Black Stone') is a Syrian city just 4 km (2 mi) south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. [ 2 ] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Hajar al-Aswad had a population of 84,948 in the 2004 census, making it the 13th largest city per geographical entity in Syria.
In August 2011, the company sold a 378,298-square-foot industrial property in Grove City, Ohio for $12.4 million. [28] The company also acquired a warehouse in Tolleson, Arizona for $9.95 million. [29] In February 2012, the company sold a 3.5 million square foot portfolio in the United Kingdom to The Blackstone Group for $335 million. [30]