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The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
Cherry tree in bloom in Yachounomori Garden, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, April 2009 The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Sakura usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1]: 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms).
John Calvin Owings House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was designed by architect George Franklin Barber and built in 1896. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features high multiple roofs, turrets, oriels, cresting, turned spindles, and porches.
The Jonathan Corwin House, known locally as The Witch House, is a historic house museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin (1640–1718) and is one of the few structures still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692. Corwin bought the house in 1675 when he was 35 and when the house was ...
The De Vargas Street House is a two-story adobe building; the first floor is original and the second floor was reconstructed based on the original in the 1920s. Most of the house is constructed from adobe brick, which was a Spanish colonial technology, while a few lower wall sections are puddled adobe characteristic of pre-Spanish pueblo buildings.
Samuel-Novarro House, also known as the Samuel-Novarro Residence, is a historic Mayan Revival single-family dwelling designed by Lloyd Wright in 1928. It is located at 5609 Valley Oak Dr. in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles . [ 1 ]