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Shadow Lawn is a historic building on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.Built in 1927 for Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company, it is one of the last large estate houses to be built before the Great Depression.
The school that would become Monmouth University was founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, a two-year junior college under Dean Edward G. Schlaefer. Created in New Jersey during the Great Depression, Monmouth Junior College was intended by Schlaefer to provide an opportunity for higher education to high school graduates in Monmouth County who could not afford to go away to college. [4]
In Beach Haven, New Jersey, it designed the Baldwin Hotel (1883, burned 1960), Holy Innocents Episcopal Church (1881–82), and a number of summer homes for company executives. In 1881, the PRR hired the firm to design its main passenger terminal at Broad and Filbert streets in Center City Philadelphia, directly west of Philadelphia City Hall.
Packard, F. R. Charter Members of the Library Company. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1942. Peterson, C. E. "The Library Hall: Home of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1790–1880." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 95 (1951): 266–85. Smith, J. J. "Notes for a History of the Library Company of Philadelphia."
However, several libraries claimed the bequest, and only after the courts decided the money was intended to found a new public library did the Free Library finally open in March 1894. Its first location was three cramped rooms in City Hall. On February 11, 1895, the library was moved to the old Concert Hall at 1217-1221 Chestnut Street.
Back in March, the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) received two books checked out by the family of music legend Morris Perelmuter King in the 1920s and were finally returned to their St ...
Frist Campus Center, Princeton, New Jersey: Coordinates: Built: 1909 [1] Architect: Henry Janeway Hardenbergh: Architectural style: Collegiate Gothic: Part of: Princeton Historic District (ID75001143 [2]) Designated CP: 27 June 1975
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