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Hatfield House is a Grade I listed [1] country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house, a leading example of the prodigy house, was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I. It is a prime example of ...
Built as a suburban villa in 1760, in what is now the Nicetown neighborhood of the city, Hatfield House operated as Catherine Mallon's Boarding School for Girls from 1806 to 1824. William J. Hay, who was the next owner, subsequently made major Greek Revival -style alterations, including the addition of the unusual 5-column temple portico in 1838.
Cecil demolished much of the palace and built a new house nearby. [2] The oak was located near to one of the avenues leading to the new house. [4] George III visited Hatfield House in 1800 and may have viewed the oak. [3] Victoria and Albert visited in 1846, by which time the tree was enclosed by a fence and protected by a lead covering.
Hatfield House is a 17th-century manor house in Hertfordshire, England, a prime example of Jacobean architecture. Hatfield House may also refer to: The Hatfield House, a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Hatfield House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), United States, a historic house; Hartfield House, Dumbarton, Scotland, a British Army base
The McGovern–Hatfield Amendment (alternately, Hatfield–McGovern Amendment) was a proposed amendment to an appropriations bill in 1970 during the Vietnam War that, if passed, would have required the end of United States military operations in the Republic of Vietnam by December 31, 1970 and a complete withdrawal of American forces halfway through the next year.
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An ancestral house (Vietnamese: nhà thờ họ, chữ Nôm: 茹悇𢩜 or Vietnamese: từ đường, chữ Hán: 祠堂) is a Vietnamese traditional place of worship of a clan or its branches which established by male descendants of paternal line. This type of worship place is most commonly seen in northern Vietnam as well as middle Vietnam. [1]