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The Mocambo opened on January 3, 1941, and it became an immediate success. The club's Latin American-themed decor was designed by Tony Duquette and cost $100,000 (equivalent to $2,071,493 in 2023).
The Church, sacristy, eastern half of the chapter house and cloister were all demolished. [4] At this time there were fewer than 60 inmates of the religious houses in Newcastle. The convent of Blackfriars was sold to the Mayor and burgesses of Newcastle, who then leased it to nine of the town's craft guilds, to be used as their headquarters in ...
A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.
Sea Island's main hotel, The Cloister, is located on its southwestern side along the Black Banks River. It includes restaurants, 200 rooms, a spa, tennis and squash courts, an exercise facility, and is home to the only Forbes Five Star restaurant in the state of Georgia, The Georgian Rooms.
Building work continued, with the construction of the St. Katherine's chapel (German: Katharinenkapelle), the chapter house, the church tower, a cloister, and a longhouse and a new priory. The stained glass windows of the church, which were created between 1310 and 1340, are particularly noteworthy.
An era of prosperity during the 17th century led to a brisk program of construction: In 1678 the tavern Zu den zwei Raben ("Two Ravens", the emblem of Einsiedeln Abbey) was built; from 1685 to 1696 the cloister and church tower were renovated; in 1703/04 a new refectory was designed by Johann Moosbrugger; and a house for the chaplain was ...
The former cloister is used for conferences, concerts and events. [1] The Meierhof, the old abbey's "steward's house" has been restored to the Centre for Environment and Culture Benediktbeuern with conference rooms and accommodations for guests. The grounds also include a youth hostel and a branch of the Catholic Foundation College Munich.
Quakers Friars (grid reference) is a Grade 1 Listed building in Broadmead, Bristol.Part of the former Blackfriars Priory site, it was used as a Quaker meeting house for nearly three hundred years, more recently serving as a registry office, a theatre, and a series of restaurants.