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The house was built from 1886 to 1888 and was designed by architect Samuel Burrage Reed in the Romanesque Revival style for circus impresario James Anthony Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. [4] When it was constructed there were few other buildings in the area, and as a result, sitting as it does on an escarpment , the Bailey Mansion had a ...
Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite, daughter of a successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following year in both London and New York City.
Under Barnum's management, Stratton became a wealthy man. He owned a house in the fashionable part of New York [11] and a steam yacht, and he had a wardrobe of fine clothes. He also owned a specially adapted home on one of Connecticut's Thimble Islands. [12] When Barnum got into financial difficulty, [13] Stratton bailed him out. Later, they ...
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey dates back to 1919 as a combined circus, but go all the way back to the 19th century as separate spectacles that combined human feats of strength and agility ...
On April 5, 2009, The Washington Post reported that the National Funeral Home, a facility owned by SCI in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County, Virginia, which also acts as a centralized embalming and dressing station for embalming and body preparation for other nearby SCI-owned operations (Arlington Funeral Home, Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial ...
"I didn’t realize this was my proposal until my aunt, Anita, guided me down the aisle. In shock, I said ‘Shut up!,’ ” the future bride says
Annie Jones Elliot (July 14, 1865 – October 22, 1902) [1] was an American bearded woman, born in Virginia.She toured with showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. . Whether the cause of her condition was hirsutism or an unrelated genetic condition that affects children of both sexes and continues into adult years is
Authorities in Boston have charged a woman with murder in connection with the death of an attorney found on a houseboat in a marina over the weekend.