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The Fountains of St. Peter's Square (Italian: Fontane di Piazza San Pietro) are two fountains in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, created by Carlo Maderno (1612–1614) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1667–1677) to ornament the square in front of St. Peter's Basilica. The older fountain, by Maderno, is on the north side of the square.
The district encompasses five contributing buildings associated with St. Peter's Catholic Church. They are the Gothic Revival style St. Peter's Catholic Church (1892), former St. Peter's School (1904, 1914–1915), boiler house (1905-1915), and the Colonial Revival style John Suelzer House (1911) and garage (1920s).
St. Peter's School is in Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood; it occupies the southern half of the block between 3rd and 4th Street, and Pine and Lombard Street. The main building, at 319 Lombard Street, is in the Gothic Revival style and is a part of the Society Hill Historic District . [ 15 ]
The first of the Fountains of St. Peter's Square, by Carlo Maderno, (1614) was one of the earliest Baroque fountains in Rome, made to complement the lavish Baroque façade he designed for St. Peter's Basilica behind it. It was fed by water from the Paola aqueduct, restored in 1612, whose source was 266 feet (81 m) above sea level, which meant ...
St. Peter's, the first school in Arkansas for black children to be established, [1] was established in 1889 by St. Joseph Church Pastor Monsignor John Michael "J.M." Lucey as the Colored Industrial Institute and in 1897 became St. Peter Academy, a.k.a. St. Peter High School.
Ormiston Rivers Academy (formerly St Peter's High School) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England. [1] The school was first established in 1958 as St Peter's High School. In 2011 the school became an academy and was renamed Ormiston Rivers Academy.
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In 1705, Peter the Great decreed that Protestant churches could be established in St. Petersburg. The first reference to the school is in 1709, in a letter (now in the Archive of the Russian Navy) by Admiral Cornelius Cruys to the Emperor (Peter) regarding the establishment of a Lutheran church and school at his estate, located on the site of what is now the New Hermitage on Millionnaya Street ...