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Handley Library is a historic library building located at 100 West Piccadilly Street in Winchester, Virginia, United States. Completed in 1913, construction of the Beaux-Arts style building was funded by a wealthy Pennsylvania businessman. The building serves as the main branch for Winchester's library system, the Handley Regional Library System.
Funded by Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal baron, Judge John Handley, and built by New York architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman, it is "perhaps Virginia's purest expression of the regal and florid Beaux Arts classicism." [11] It opened in August 1913. [12] 9: John Handley High School: John Handley High School
Handley Regional Library System Facebook page Friends of Handley Regional Library Archived 2016-10-21 at the Wayback Machine This article relating to a library organization, association, or consortium is a stub .
Three of the original maps were donated by the Hotchkiss family to the Handley Library: a Route Map of Gettysburg Campaign, a Sketch of the Battle of Winchester [First] and a Sketch of the Second Battle of Winchester. The Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers are available in the Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room through the Winchester-Frederick County ...
14 December – Handley Page Transport Handley Page O/400 G-EAMA crashed on take-off from Cricklewood Aerodrome on a scheduled flight from London to Paris. Two crew and two of the six passengers were killed. [6] [7] [8] 1921. 25 January – a Belgian Airco DH.4 registered O-BAIN crashed near the Valiant Sailor pub at Dover Road, in Folkestone.
Handley Library in Winchester, Virginia. Barney and Chapman was an American architecture firm based in New York, active from about 1892 through 1908. The partnership designed significant municipal buildings, churches, private estates, and an asylum complex for the state of New York.
The Central Handley Historic District is located in Handley, Fort Worth, Texas, seven miles east of downtown.The district was the commercial center of the unincorporated small town of Handley (ca. 1910 to 1951) which was subsequently annexed into the city of Fort Worth, Texas in 1946.
Handley was established in 1885 by the Texas & Pacific Railroad and named after retired Confederate Major James Madison Handley of Georgia. [1] Handley created a plantation just seven miles from the center of Fort Worth on land that was adjacent to the Sara Gray Jennings Survey of 1847, [ 2 ] and a very small community began to grow around him ...