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Old Westbury is a village in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The ...
Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of businessman John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958), an heir to the Phipps family fortune, in Nassau County, New York. Located at 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, the property was converted into a museum home in 1959. It is open for tours from April through October.
The old town hall continued to be used as a courthouse into the 20th century but by the 1960s the first floor was only being used as a branch of the county library. [ 7 ] An extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved converting the building for commercial use and filling in the ground floor area to create shops, was completed in ...
Trieste (/ t r i ˈ ɛ s t / tree-EST, [3] Italian: ⓘ; Slovene: Trst [tə̀ɾst, tə́ɾst]) [a] is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the regional decentralization entity of Trieste.
In the years after the Civil War, until near the turn of the century, the few stores that comprised the small village around the railroad depot, were mainly black owned. The Village moved from its agricultural setting in the late 19th century when the very wealthy began to settle and build mansions. This area is now known as Old Westbury. Post ...
1853 – Trieste Chamber of Commerce and Industry established. 1857 Austrian Southern Railway (Vienna-Trieste) begins operating. Trieste Centrale railway station opens. Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipbuilding firm in business near city. 1860 – Miramare Castle built near city for Austrian archduke Maximilian. [1]
In the period between the beginning of 1700 and 1850, Trieste was mainly an emporium and was given the status of Free Port by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in 1719. In 1740, when Empress Maria Theresa of Austria took power, one of the first measures she adopted was to extend the borders of the Free Port area to the periphery of the town, thereby merging the emporium, the port, the new city ...