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On September 5, 1962, the 21-acre (85,000 m 2) site containing the home and the laboratory were designated the Edison National Historic Site. [2] On March 30, 2009, it was renamed Thomas Edison National Historical Park, adding "Thomas" to the title in hopes to relieve confusion between the Edison sites in West Orange and Edison, New Jersey ...
Tonawanda is a city in Erie County, New York, United States.The population was 15,129 at the 2020 census. It is at the northern edge of Erie County, south across the Erie Canal (Tonawanda Creek) from North Tonawanda, east of Grand Island, and north of Buffalo.
The Chautauqua Institution (/ ʃ ə ˈ t ɔː k w ə / shə-TAW-kwə) is a 501(c)(3) [3] nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on 2,070 acres (840 ha) in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Jamestown in the western southern tier of New York state.
Llewellyn Park is a historic gated community and census-designated place (CDP) [4] located within West Orange in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Llewellyn Park is thought to be the country's first planned residential community, and the site of the first large-scale naturalization of crocus, narcissus, and jonquils.
Miller brought the cottage from Akron, Ohio, and erected it at Chautauqua in 1875, where he entertained US President Ulysses S. Grant that summer. [4] [5] Mina Miller Edison, Miller's daughter, spent summers at the cottage with her husband, inventor Thomas Alva Edison. [5] She renovated the cottage in 1922. [6]
The homes served as housing for employees of the American Steel and Wire Company. Poured-in-place concrete houses had become popular in large-scale housing developments at the time, partly thanks to promotion by Thomas Edison ; the homes built in Donora used a newly patented construction method from the Lambie Concrete House Corporation.
New York City: Demolished in 1925 Charles Tyson Yerkes House 1896 Romanesque: RH Robertson: New York City: Demolished in 1925 George Kemp House 1876 Châteauesque: RC Jones: New York City: Demolished in 1910 William Van Duzer Lawrance House 1889 Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt: New York City: Demolished in 1937 Elbridge Thomas Garry House ...
Tonawanda (formally the Town of Tonawanda; Tuscarora: Tahnawáteh) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 72,636. [ 1 ] The town is at the north border of the county and is the northern inner ring suburb of Buffalo .