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The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark. [1] In 1999, The Berghoff won a James Beard Foundation Award in the "America's Classics" category, which honors legendary family-owned restaurants across the country.
The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo's Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. [1] Typical for the period, only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone.
In 1849 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert paid an official visit to the cathedral. The Book of Glasgow Cathedral: A History and Description, edited by George Eyre-Todd, is a significant collection of writings from a number of different authors on the history and other aspects of the cathedral which was printed in 1898 by Morison Brothers of 52 ...
The Glasgow Necropolis Garden Cemetery was created by the Merchants House on a hill above the cathedral in 1831. Routes curve through the landscape uphill to the 21.3-metre-high (70 ft) [144] statue of John Knox at the summit. There are two late 18th century tenements in Gallowgate. Dating from 1771 and 1780, both have been well restored.
Provand's Lordship The rear of Provand's Lordship Interior of Provand's Lordship. Provand's Lordship is a medieval historic house museum in Glasgow, Scotland, located in the Townhead area at the top of Castle Street within sight of Glasgow Cathedral and next to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.
The church, inspired by St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, [2] was built between 1739 and 1756 by Master Mason Mungo Naismith, and designed by Allan Dreghorn. [3] While construction of it was started before the nearby St Andrew's-by-the-Green, it was completed after, making it either the third or fourth oldest church in Glasgow, depending on criterion.
More immediately evident inspiration can be seen in the cathedral and necropolis episodes in Unthank, whose proximity to an urban tangle of roads is mirrored in Glasgow's real-life Townhead area. Glasgow Cathedral is yards away from the Necropolis to the east and the M8 motorway (and unfinished Inner Ring Road) to the north and west. Gray said ...
Originally erected in George Square. Re-erected across from Provand's Lordship in 1959. Re-erected in current location in 1990. [3] More images: Rev Dr Norman Macleod: Cathedral Square, Glasgow: 1881: John Mossman: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and granite: Category B: Q17811590: Cast by Cox & Son. [4] More images: James White of Overtoun ...